Budget Review Committee of the Whole

That the motion BE AMENDED as follows: 6. That the three (3) FTEs for the Waste Management Info Line Services BE APPROVED as temporary employees.

That Report CSD 5-2023, dated January 12, 2023, respecting 2023 Budget-Water and Wastewater Operating Budget, Rate Setting and Requisition, BE RECEIVED and the following recommendations BE APPROVED: 1. That the 2023 Water & Wastewater net operating base budget increase of $4,219,495 (or 3.2%) for Operating plus $6,592,959 (or 5%) for Capital Financing over the 2022 operating budget BE APPROVED in accordance with the 2023 budget planning strategy; 2. That an increase of $520,988 or 0.39% over the 2022 Water & Wastewater operating budget BE APPROVED to support additional staffing resources for service delivery; Budget Review Committee of the Whole Open Session Minutes BRCOTW 2-2023 January 12, 2023 Page 6 3. That the 2023 Water Operations gross operating budget of $51,482,957 and net budget in the amount of $51,042,464 for the Water Budget, Rates and Requisition BE APPROVED; 4. That the proposed fixed water requisition shown in Appendix 3 of Report CSD 5-2023, based on 25% of the Region’s water net operating budget for the year and divided by 12 to determine the monthly charge, to be billed to each of the serviced Local Area Municipalities starting January 1, 2023, apportioned based on their previous three year’s average water supply volumes, BE APPROVED; 5. That the Region’s proposed 2023 variable water rate of $0.669 shown in Table 2 of Report CSD 5-2023, to be effective January 1, 2023 and calculated by taking 75% of the Region’s water net operating budget and dividing by th