Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Macii 2001 local a9 school taxes continued from Page a1 the municipal property tax Bill being delivered to Homes this Spring will show a two percent tax Cut this year for the second year in a Row after two years of City Hall tax think that City Hall tax Cut will lower your property tax Bill this year think Only beleaguered homeowners in Winnipeg school division will get a net Benefit from City councils two percent tax Cut by saving on their municipal taxes on a Home while paying More to the school even with the cites lowest school Jame Assiniboia homeowners will pay the school division 27 cents More than there saving from the City on a at the current rate of school tax increases and City Council Boni face and fort Garry homeowners will be paying More of their property tax Bill to the school division than to mayor Glen Murray in homeowners in River Assini Boine South and Seine Rivers nor Bert neighbourhood in the cites South end would be within or so of that 50 50 school City tax Mark next and would certainly Cross that in Only Jame Assiniboia homeowners will be spared for about another three or four if trustees continue to dip heavily into dwindling Reserve Harry Lazarenko Mynarski said Hes fed up taking the blame for higher property this is just Treyve never shown said who Long advocated forcing school Divi Sions to Send out their own separate tax were Able to find ways of cutting they could do it if they wanted they will not step on anyone wont predict education minister Drew Caldwell flatly refused this week to discuss Over hauling his convoluted funding formula until province wide property reassess ment is and wont predict if he can or will reduce educations Reliance on property taxes by his next funding announcement in january the government has committed to review it in the context of this is really All Ive got to say for eight said i dont see the Complete elimination from the property tax i dont think Drews going to have something substantive done by next said Vince Secretary treasurer of River East school which wednesday evening approved an Overall tax increase for owners of All types of that will see taxes go up on the average Home assessed at Mariani pointed out that school boards could have reduced had the doer government rolled its increase in the property tax credit into education fund Clement said the province should take the entire property tax com Bine it with higher income and eliminate school property taxes Alto Gether a move he said would be heartily applauded by older homeowners on fixed Caldwell increase in pub Lic school spending is distributed through a Complex formula that varies widely on the basis of the divisions assessment and changes in property that funding applies to Only per cent of a school divisions so the provinces Impact on the entire local school budget is Well below and anomalies owners of Homes in seven Oaks and Jame Assiniboia school divisions will pay identical City tax but the school tax Bill will be higher in seven Oaks partially because Jame Assiniboia has four Andon half times the commercial assessment base of seven because geographically huge Lakeshore school division spends More than 10 cents of every Dollar on Lakeshore students Lack the vocational music programs City children take for skyrocketing natural Gas and bus fuel costs have sucked enormous dollars out of classrooms this year and hammered local school taxes merciless Caldwell does not have a Clear plan for kindergarten to Grade said tory education critic Joy Smith fort Manitoban Are clearly upset about the raise in Caldwell appointed for Mer Deputy minister of education Glen Doit yourself property tax tally theres no precise Way to measure How much your school taxes have increased Over last year because assessment bases Are in daily flux and the assessed value of your Home May be different than it was last one method is a comparison Between How much local school tax was paid for Worth of assessed single Ami Lhome value a year and How much will be paid this heres How the increases measure up fort Garry River East Transcona Springfield Boniface seven Oaks vital Seine River Jame Assiniboia Assiniboine South Winnipeg one per cent per cent per cent per cent per cent per cent per cent per cent per cent per cent your eyes Arent deceiving you the cites share of taxes on your House has gone Down since last year a two per cent school on the other hand look look Way so you want to know How to figure out your property tax Bill there Are several Steps to the step1 the first is the assessed value of Yoila which was on a Docu ment recently sent to you by City it May not be remotely close to what you paid for your or what youd be willing to sell it for but that another then theres a delightful exercise that makes a convoluted process even More different types of property Are levied at different portions of their assessed value houses Are taxed at 45 per commercial properties 65 per Golf courses 10 per this apartment buildings have come Down from 49 per cent of their assessed value to 45 per and condominiums have been phased steadily upward so that there now also at 45 per for multiply your assessed value by and keep the number step 2 there Are three Mill which you have to add the first is the which is this second is the Mill rate of the school division in which you this is the special Levy Over which trustees have direct the third Mill rate is the least under the education support Levy esl is established by the at a uniform level throughout but is collected on your property tax its essentially the same every when most school boards talk about the school tax increase in their they express it in terms of a combined Levy the esl plus the special Levy because the increase in the esl is the combined Levy is less of an emotional and political Wallop than the jump in the special Levy Steps multiply the combined Mill rates by your portioned assessed and Divide by the taxes on a Home should be some where in the to subtract the provinces property tax credit of feel free to groan portioned assessment Homes assessed value add the three Mill rates citywide Mill rate school division Mill rate education support Levy esl total Bill portioned x total Mill rate b subtract provincial tax credit total tax amount a b tax per average Mill assessed assessed rate value value Home Home Home school divisions Winnipeg one Assiniboia Boniface Seine River Norbert fort Garry River East Springfield City Homes vital Assiniboine South seven Oaks provincial education support Levy City taxes i Brief weve got More assets affordable housing allows Manitoban More financial assets compared to those in other Canada mortgage and housing corporation according to a new financial sur vey from statistics Manito bans have a higher percentage of assets in registered saving plans such As rasps and Mutual funds than in real estate or this is because Manitoban dont spend As much on real instead of spending a lot of Money on a Large Manitoban can get it at a much lower Price than elsewhere in the said David a Chc Market Stansen Points out that an Home in Winnipeg would translate into in Calgary and in although Manitoba median net Worth Falls in the Middle the statistics Canada study suggests that while Rich families Are getting poor ones Arent get Ting Caldwell draws fire education minister Drew Cald Well took the extraordinary move this week of asking to appear at Brandon school Board to try to talk trustees out of hiring an additional assistant superintend Caldwell could not be reached but a senior aide said he was responding As la for bran Don East to complaints from constituents who opposed hiring a senior administrator when school taxes were going up per a minor car Accident prevented his appearance at the but his actions would have placed trustees in an awkward said Brandon school Board chair Man Jim i Felt we would be very uncomfortable As a to have a minis Ter telling us what we should or Murray the minister can say Hes com ing to the Board As an but he is the minister of and he cant separate the tory education critic Joy Smith fort Garry said Caldwell intended intervention in Brandon was unprecedented and totally out of for mentoring the province will spend on a mentoring program for female offenders on compared to other Manitoba has the highest violent crime rate per capita among female Over the last the number of females involved in violent crime has grown by 85 per Justice minister Gord Mackin Tosh said yesterday support pro Grams Haven kept clearly theres a Gap in program Mackintosh called which is aboriginal for her mentors will help guide Young women towards healthy choices when it comes to employment and aboriginal culture will also be a Strong about two thirds of female offenders Are we think this will reduce Crimi Nal Mackintosh he said they Are looking for about 30 about a dozen have already signed help for Foster kids a new guide Book will help Foster children understand some of the problems that come with living in the written by children who grew up in shares their experiences and tries to answer family services minister Tim Sale said its also a valuable tool for there is also an instructional video for the guide Book is called moving moving moving Hunting season expands somebody Goose is about to be the province has expanded its Spring Snow Goose Hunting season in an attempt to thin out an Ever increasing Bird this years Goose Hunting season will begin april Days earlier than last and continue until May the daily bag limit remains at 20 with a Possession limit of elec tronic Calls will be permitted Dur ing the special conservation the changes come because of significant increase in Snow geese pop for further information Check the conservation departments web site at certification fight Granny poultry is fighting a recent Manitoba labour Board decision to certify a Union at its Blum Enort the company said in a statement it has asked its lawyer to speak to the labour Board about the Granny spokesman Wayne Morri son could not be reached last the Board ruled that the United food and commercial workers Union local 832 had provided evidence of membership sup port in the opinion of the for the purposes of collective staff had voted on certification on but the ballots were never counted because the Union alleged the company had indulged in unfair labour practices during the organizing drive and went to the labour entrepreneur award a University of Manitoba student is the recipient of Cibos student entrepreneur of the year Sharath Cherian won the presented to people who run a successful business while they Are full time for his web the site offers fans and musicians a place to Dis cuss hip hop music and Access the latest Cherian shared the award with two students from the University of Western Ontario in students who own a jewelry design in Grants More than has been granted to four scientists at the University of Manitoba to support various research the funding comes from the new opportunities fund of the Canadian foundation for anthropologist Robert Nathan Lovejoy of the zoology Dagmar sve Cova in civil and geological engineering and Meiyue Wang of environmental Sci each received Grants varying from to to develop laboratories and research facilities in their the Chi new opportunities awards Are available to researchers Only during the first 18 months of their first academic appointment in Nicholls yesterday to head a commis Sion that will report by 2002 on class size and composition which potentially could Call for smaller class sizes requiring More teachers and More Caldwell will launch a series of closed door regional meetings in Thompson culminating in a forum in Winnipeg May to discuss six priorities such As improving outcomes for less successful learners and strengthening links among parents and com the Winnipeg 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