KDSB Budget Defeated

The Kenora District Services Board still doesn't have a 2010 budget.Municipal reps defeated a 50.8-million dollar budget Thursday, prolonging a task that started last September.

Kenora Councilor Rory McMillian says the document will lead to increased costs for his community.

The budget is 2.6-million dollars higher then the one presented in January due to additional uncontrolled costs in Land Ambulance and Ontario Works.The financial document was defeated 5-4, with reps from Dryden, Ear Falls, Ignace and Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls also opposed.

Meanwhile, Staff with the Kenora District Services Board must be thinking a climb up Mount Everest is easier then figuring out a 2010 budget that suites everyone need.

The climb could get a lot more complicated because of Provincial Legislation.

The Board defeated the fiscal document on Thursday and is not scheduled to meet again until May.

However, CAO Stain Leaf says they are required by law to submit a balanced budget to the Provincial Government by March 31.

With no current numbers in front of the Government, Leaf is also concerned that the Board may be ignored when the McGuinty Liberals present their budget later this month.