Referendum approves borrowing - barely

Well, it seems that , with very poor turnout at the referendum polls, the majority of the residents who voted approved the borrowing of up to $ 16 million to build a new firehall.

As I said in earlier blogs and comments, I do not believe the replacement firehall will actually cost $ 16 million, and I hope it will end up being $ 12 million or less for the entire project. As noted previously, we do not yet have final design of the firehall or the geo-technical data needed regarding the site for pile driving, etc. that will be required. We have a draft design and preliminary geo-tech, but without the funding referendum, we did not wish to move this project forward, and spend large amounts from our current operating/capital budgets, until we knew if this project had the ability to move forward.

We now have that ability as approved by the voters, and we can get on with finalizing the design and moving this long overdue project forward !

Finally...