Belleville council may turn to higher-than-projected revenue from its Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) program to help it deal with a higher-than-expected budget from Hastings County.
Hastings County’s bill to the city for this year is almost $760,000 more than what was projected during Belleville’s budgeting process.
However, Hastings County collects all Provincial Offence Act revenue coming from parking and speeding tickets in Belleville and then returns a significant portion of it to the city.
On Monday (April 14), council will see that ASE speed cameras brought in almost $400,000 more in revenue than projected last year, at just over $1 million.
The speed cameras were only operational for five months.
The county is expecting close to $2.5 million in ticket revenue for this year, much higher than the $1.8 million projected by the city in the 2025 budget.
Council will be asked to approve using $620,000 in speeding ticket revenue to cover most of Hastings County’s budget increase with the rest coming from its Tax Rate Stabilization Reserve Fund.
In the past, council agreed to put any surplus money from the ASE program toward the costs of buying and renovating the building to hold The Bridge Integrated Services Hub for the vulnerable population.
