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Policing Dollars

Friday, 21 February 2014 05:09

City council continue to review the 2014 revenue budget

The average home owner in Woodstock could pay $546 on their annual tax bill for policing.

That figure came out as part of the Woodstock Police Services $11.8 million revenue budget proposal to city council Thursday night.

Police Chief Rod Freeman says the budget projects a 3.59% increase over 2013.

"The projected increase of $409,000 is made up, 83 percent of salaries and benefits and those are contained in the working agreements between the Police Services Board and the Associations. The balance, about 17% equalling about 94, 95 thousand dollars are operation increases and a lot of those can be attributed to IT increases in terms of computer maintenance, licensing fees and so on."

"We carry our deficits from year to year and we had a deficit last year of $118,000 which in a 11 or 12 million dollar budget is not a lot of money, but it's still a deficit that we have to pay back to the taxpayers of the city so we carry that over and that was about 1 percent of the increase so the actual operation increase to our police budget that we are looking at is about 2.55%"

Freeman says the budget he presented was the fifth draft.

"The Police Service Board has put a lot of time and effort, attention into this budget , refining it down to a point where we think it is a fair request for funding and it will still allow us to operate efficiently and still protect our citizens because that's the name of the game here."

Council will vote on the budget next month.

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