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You are here: Home / Council in Brief / MRC Pontiac Council adopts its 2019 budget

December 17, 2018

MRC Pontiac Council adopts its 2019 budget

At MRC Pontiac’s regular council meeting, the new council voted unanimously to adopt the MRC’s 2018 budget. Totaling $ 6.5 million, this budget provides for a reduction in governance and administrative expenditures (-8.8%) and an increase in investments in economic development.

Maintaining the municipal shares at $ 0.14 per $ 100 of valuation, service efficiency, and the continuation of activities to relaunch the Pontiac economy were at the root of the Council’s budgetary choices in recent weeks.

PADF renewed + $600,000 of grant money for the Outaouais

Budget highlights include:

Total MRC Pontiac expenditures: $ 6.5 million
Grants and services revenues:  $ 3.2 million

  • Administration $ 1,443,403
  • Public Safety$ 19,053
  • Assessment Services $ 989,768
  • Territory Planning and Development $ 2,214,900
  • Economic Development Projects and Activities $ 800,000
  • Transportation$ 484,336
  • Renovation and Home Adaptation Programs Management $ 31,500
  • Cost of financing and capital expenses$ 368,169
  • Cost of electing a warden by universal suffrage (prorated over four years) $ 15,000
  • Maintaining municipal shares at $ 0.14 per $100 of valuation
  • Hiring of Civil Engineer (financed with recreational lease revenue surplus)
  • Decrease in the number of travels of elected officials (from 2 to 1)
  • Development of promotional tools to attract foreign investors to the Pontiac

Budget 2019 (Summary)

POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MRC PONTIAC

The Regional County Municipality (MRC) of Pontiac is governed by a Council of the Mayors of the 18 local municipalities, which since November 2017 is chaired by a warden elected at universal suffrage. As a regional government authority, the MRC Pontiac is, by law or delegation of power, responsible for:

  • Land Use Planning;
  • Property Assessment;
  • Management of intramunicipal public lands (TPI) and the Unorganized Territory (TNO) of Lac-Nilgaut;
  • Economic and Cultural Development;
  • Waste Management;
  • Watercourse Management;
  • Management of Recreational Leases, Quarries and Sand pits
  • Public Safety;
  • Territorial Marketing;
  • Sports and Leisure;
  • Property Sales for Non-payment of Taxes; and,
  • The Regional License Office.

In addition, the MRC Pontiac manages several financial assistance programs, such as the Cultural Development Agreement, RénoRégion and Home Adaptation Programs, and the Territory Development Fund (FDT).

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