Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Where does my tax dollars go in the Crowsnest Pass

A while back a number of local residents wanted to know what some of the costs were for different services that we provide in the Crowsnest Pass. All of these numbers were for 2009 unless otherwise stated.

1/Spring Clean up-$105,241.43
Which is made up of the following
Wages and Benefits $69,133.05
Postage and Copying $643.26
Tipping Fees $28,985.12
Fuel 216 trips @ $30 per trip $6,480

2/Toxic Roundup-$6,435.41
Advertising $499.60
Contract costs $5,935.81

3/Snow Removal-$202,584
Wages $179,518
Benefits $23,066
We do not track equipment costs and fuel

4/Fire Departments-$327,000
This was the average amount for the last three years

5/Rum Runner Days-$46,072
Police $10,000
Traffic $6,572
Events $22,500
Garbage $7,000

The total of the above comes to $748,436.84
If anybody has any comments about the above please either post them or send me an email, any other questions about costs of various programs or services let me know I would be glad to get the answers for you.

This does not include any municipal wage cost.

6/Summer Games-$61,104

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For snow removal and spring cleanup aren't wages and benefits already being paid to the workers?

Crowsnest Pass Home said...

You are correct, but what this tells you is what portion of there time was allocated to cleanup.
The point is here does the taxpayer want those kind of dollars allocated to cleanup.
If those workers were not doing that work they would be doing other work.
During the spring and summer we traditionaly hire six casuals to catch up the work our guys are not doing either due to cleanup or vacations.
Would you need as many casuals if we were not doing cleanup?