Jan 2010

Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie has approved the Portage Regional Recreation Authority (PRRA) budget and is moving ahead with its interim budget.

It approved the PRRA budget for 2010 at council meeting on Tuesday.

For 2010, the PRRA budget is $1,598,820. The RM’s share of the costs is 25 per cent or $399,705. Therefore, the RM will be paying about $45,000 each month for a period of nine months to the PRRA, according to the agreement. The City of Portage contributes 75 per cent or $1,199,115 of the total cost.

At Tuesday’s meeting, councillors also approved the RM of Portage’s interim $2.017 million provisional operating budget for 2010, for Jan. 1 to April 30.

The 2009 interim budget was $1.920 million for the same period. The RM usually has its regular budget passed by the end of April so the interim budget covers that period until the final budget is in place, as required by the Manitoba Municipal Act.

“It is interim, so it can change,” Reeve Toby Trimble said after the meeting.

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