Peeling back the years to look at Cochrane history, we find a lot of municipal council news on the front page of the May 19th, 1982 Cochrane Northland Post.
While Glackmeyer council was talking about passing a 4.5% tax increase, Cochrane council was trying to keep some money from the provincial environment ministry
It was $1,096 overpayment to the town for the ministry’s share of the trunk sewer line project.
Public library archivist Ardis Proulx-Chedore reads from the article.
“’I’ll bet a dollar they say please send us the cheque,’ Councillor Juli Karam commented. “I’ll bet they won’t even say ‘please,’ replied Councillor Jerry Leonard.”
The Ministry had originally given the town $98,270 towards the project.
GLACKMEYER MAKES CUTS TO KEEP TAX INCREASE LOW
Meanwhile, it took a lot of cutting and sacrificing to do it, but that Glackmeyer Township council managed to keep its 1982 tax increase down to 4.5%.
Proulx-Chedore reads about one cost-saving measure: cutting off a main program.
“Under the program, the township supplied a new entrance culvert to owners of new homes. ‘They’ll have to supply their own culverts,’ Reeve Raymond Genier pointed out.”
Your source for local history is the archives at the library.