Nelson’s 2011 budget goes back to council chambers Tuesday at 9 a.m., when city council will look at a preliminary draft. This year’s budget is expected to contain a tax increase of about three per cent.
The meeting is open to the public, and Nelson mayor John Dooley is encouraging people to sit in on the deliberations and offer their feedback.
“It’s very important people let us know what their thoughts are,” he says. “It’s not good enough to come forward after the fact and say, ‘I don’t like the tax increase.’”
So far, Dooley says only one member of the public has attended the city’s budget meetings.
Once it passes council, the draft budget is presented to the public at an open house.