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The City of Ottawa has an extra $3.25 million in the bank that it wants to spend on homelessness initiatives and new technology for long-term care homes.
The city says it recouped the money from the province through a “reconciliation of social assistance costs” going back to 2014, attributed to the Social Assistance Management System. The provincial welfare case management software had a botched rollout.
In a first-quarter budget report published Tuesday, the city proposes to spend $2.25 million of the extra money on initiatives in the 10-year housing and homelessness plan. The report says more details on the proposed spending will be coming.
The other $1 million would fund “equipment replacement and technology upgrades” for long-term care, but the report has no details.
Councillors will soon discuss the state of the city’s four long-term care homes. The auditor general is scheduled to release his audit of long-term care services during an audit committee meeting Monday, followed on the same day by the release of an independent review of the city’s long-term care homes during a community and protective services committee meeting.
The city is in a decent financial position going into the second quarter, judging by the first-quarter results. The spending, generally, is tracking below budget and the net result is a $7.1-million surplus for the three months. That includes most tax-supported departments and the areas funded by water and sewer bills.
However, two of the larger city budgets, OC Transpo and Ottawa police, aren’t part of the first-quarter update for the finance and economic development committee. Similar budget reports will go to the transit commission, police services board, library board and public health board.
Other spending areas supported by property taxes collectively ended the first quarter with an $8.4-million surplus, while the rate-supported budget had a deficit of $1.2 million.
In the rate budget, the wastewater division had $1.8 million deficit in the first quarter. The city says it ended legal claims related to the basement floods of 2009, impacting the budget.
The finance and economic development committee is scheduled to discuss the first-quarter budget results during a meeting next Tuesday.
jwilling@postmedia.com
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The city says it recouped the money from the province through a “reconciliation of social assistance costs” going back to 2014, attributed to the Social Assistance Management System. The provincial welfare case management software had a botched rollout.
In a first-quarter budget report published Tuesday, the city proposes to spend $2.25 million of the extra money on initiatives in the 10-year housing and homelessness plan. The report says more details on the proposed spending will be coming.
The other $1 million would fund “equipment replacement and technology upgrades” for long-term care, but the report has no details.
Councillors will soon discuss the state of the city’s four long-term care homes. The auditor general is scheduled to release his audit of long-term care services during an audit committee meeting Monday, followed on the same day by the release of an independent review of the city’s long-term care homes during a community and protective services committee meeting.
The city is in a decent financial position going into the second quarter, judging by the first-quarter results. The spending, generally, is tracking below budget and the net result is a $7.1-million surplus for the three months. That includes most tax-supported departments and the areas funded by water and sewer bills.
However, two of the larger city budgets, OC Transpo and Ottawa police, aren’t part of the first-quarter update for the finance and economic development committee. Similar budget reports will go to the transit commission, police services board, library board and public health board.
Other spending areas supported by property taxes collectively ended the first quarter with an $8.4-million surplus, while the rate-supported budget had a deficit of $1.2 million.
In the rate budget, the wastewater division had $1.8 million deficit in the first quarter. The city says it ended legal claims related to the basement floods of 2009, impacting the budget.
The finance and economic development committee is scheduled to discuss the first-quarter budget results during a meeting next Tuesday.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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