Local councils belonging to Lower Trent Conservation will see the a proposed 2009 budget soon.
Lower Trent Conservation’s board of directors approved a draft budget for distribution to member municipalities for comment.
Overall, the budget, totalling 3.54 million dollars, is less then 1 percent higher then last years.
However, the increase in levies to the municipalities is averaging 3 and a half percent, with the total local levy being 658 thousand dollars, up from 636 thousand in 2007.
