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Checking the Facts

Thursday, 12 June 2014 08:59

Oxford County councillors vote to review whether recent changes in provincial funding arrangements are as revenue balanced as they were set out to be.

WOODSTOCK – Oxford County is watching closely for the outcome of Thursday's provincial election.

The county wants to talk to the next Minister of Finance about making sure the municipality gets its share of provincial funds.

Ingersoll Mayor Ted Comiskey says a reduction in the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund was supposed to be offset by uploading some municipal costs to the province.

On Wednesday, councillors voted in favour of Comiskey's motion to have each municipality in Oxford review their bottom lines and see if the numbers add up when it comes to the recent changes to the funding structure.

"You take for instance that it's about $1.3 million in reduction of dollars coming down to the rural [communities] in Oxford alone – not counting Tillsonburg, Woodstock and Ingersoll. So when you talk about over a million dollars that is no longer coming into the county from the province, well where is it coming from?" Comiskey said.

"Each individual municipality has to put its information forward to the county and then the county as such has its figures already on what effects these uploading and downloadings have had over the last short while, and then we directly go to approach the Minister [of Finance] and say 'Here are the facts, you tell us how it's supposed to work.'"

Oxford County staff has been directed to put the figures together in time for the June 25 council meeting.

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