Wellington County Council to revisit 2021 budget to reduce tax increase

Wellington County Council are sharpening their pencils in efforts to reduce a proposed tax increase before approving the 2021 budget.

The announcement came at a special budget meeting on Monday where treasurer Ken DeHart presided over council with the numbers.

There are projecting currently a 2.5% percent tax increase to support a 4.2 % levy increase for this year.

This would increase the levy to $110 million from $105.6 million in 2020.

A 2.5% tax increase would turn into $16 more per $100,000 thousand dollars in a property owners assessment.

Council directed staff at the meeting to go back to the numbers in effort to bring the tax increase down to 1.25 percent.