Capital projects drive up proposed RDN budget
NANAIMO — Capital projects dominate the Regional District of Nanaimo’s (RDN) $157-million preliminary budget.
Nearly $63-million, or 40 per cent, of the budget is set aside for several capital projects, including the ongoing secondary wastewater treatment project at Hammond Bay, the Englishman River water treatment project, and several parks initiatives.
“As a government to be responsible, you’ve got to deal with capital expenditures,” said RDN Board Chair Bill Veenhof. “If you don’t, all you’re doing is putting it off to the future. When you do that you get decay of your infrastructure and you’re putting a huge tax burden on people in the future.”
Veenhof says services aren’t been compromised.