CENTRE WELLINGTON – Centre Wellington property owners are looking at a proposed 3.49 per cent increase to next year’s tax bill.
This works out to an additional $50 for the township’s portion of the property tax bill on a home assessed at $393,972, according to Centre Wellington’s 2025 draft budget book released on Friday.
The township’s portion is one of three on Wellington County tax bills with 57 per cent going to the upper-tier County of Wellington, 12 per cent to education and 31 per cent to the township.
The budget said the most significant impacts to the tax rate are wages and benefits increase, increase in spending on the tax increment equivalent grant and increase in parking enforcement spending which was previously reflected in the capital budget because it was a pilot program.
It also includes more than $48 million in capital spending with a majority going towards public works.
The largest spend is $17.9 million towards the new operations facility, followed by the reconstruction of Colborne Street from Beatty Line to 95 metres west of Frederick Campbell Street at over $5 million.
Also proposed for capital works is:
- $3.25 million for the St. David Street North project
- $3.3 million for the third phase of Colborne Street between John and Wilson Crescent, $2.5 million on Hill Street East between Herrick Street and Gartshore Street
- $1.3 million for water meter modernization and replacement
- $1.2 million for the Fergus wastewater treatment plant administration building expansion
- $1.1 million Fourth Line bridge replacement
- $1.1 million of work on Second Line between 500 metres north of Wellington Road 18 to Wellington Road 19
Budget deliberations will be held at meetings on Dec. 3 and Dec. 5 with budget approval expected at the Dec. 16 meeting.
