County continues push for more funding for gravel pits
by Richard Blanchard

Simcoe County is continuing to push for increases in the levy from aggregate producers to help pay for maintenance of its roads' system.

Councillors at the Corporate Services committee last week gave tentative approval to a motion which would ask the Association of Municipalities of Ontario request the increase in levies which both lower and upper tier municipalities can charge per tonne as an aggregate levy.

Despite repeated efforts to have the province increase the levy that the county can charge from the current four cents per tonne, the county has been unsuccessful in its getting a change.

"I don't know whether it will go up but we'll keep asking," said Adjala-Tosorontio mayor Doug Little who chairs the Corporate Services committee. The motion will be discussed by the full county council next week.