Wawa Municipal Council's approved this year's operating budget.
In their meeting this week, Council approved a series of by-laws to implement the budget presented exactly one month ago, which CAO/Treasurer Maury O'Neill says is roughly in line with past years.
She had warned when the budget was presented that it will become more difficult to maintain low levy increases in coming years amid rising costs - such as municipal insurance premiums, employees salaries and benefits, materials, and equipment replacement costs - while provincial grants are decreasing, though - before the budget was passed - O'Neill noted there appears to be an $850,000 surplus from 2020 - audit confirmation's still pending - with plans to use about $306,000 of that to help fund infrastructure projects this year, to avoid an additional tax burden.
Council approved the capital budget three months ago.