{"id":7179,"date":"2024-04-22T14:55:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2024-04-22T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T22:52:07","slug":"region-of-queens-zeroes-in-on-final-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/04\/22\/region-of-queens-zeroes-in-on-final-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Region of Queens zeroes in on final budget"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Region of Queens councillors are getting closer to finalizing their 2024\/25 budget. (Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Region of Queens is getting closer to finalizing its budget for the 2024\/25 fiscal year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Councillors will go over the draft operating, capital and water utility budgets at their meeting Tuesday evening at 6<\/a>. It will give councillors a chance to make any other changes before voting on the final package.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re proposing to have a special council meeting next Monday at 9 a.m. for that final vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Councillors are coming off a 2023\/24 budget that ended up with an estimated $650,000 surplus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So far, the region is proposing a balanced budget for 24\/25, with no increases to the base tax rate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Councillors and staff have worked over the past month to avoid any tax rate increases, even as they added expenditures, such as an extra $126,772 to help the region\u2019s fire departments<\/a> pay for rising costs to replace trucks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also on Tuesday, councillors are set to discuss crosswalk safety at the three-way stop at Main and Market streets in Liverpool, as well as speed limit reductions in certain parts of Liverpool.<\/span><\/p>\n

The meeting is in council chambers on White Point Road, and it will also be livestreamed on Facebook<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Region of Queens is getting closer to finalizing its budget for the 2024\/25 fiscal year. Councillors will go over the draft operating, capital and water utility budgets at their meeting Tuesday evening at 6. It will give councillors a chance to make any other changes before voting on the final package. They\u2019re proposing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2023,1245,2024,1804,49,24,2090,2091],"class_list":["post-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2024-25-budget","tag-budget","tag-budget-meetings","tag-finance","tag-queens-county","tag-region-of-queens","tag-surplus","tag-tax-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7183,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}