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The month of April has been proclaimed Autism Acceptance Month in the Town of Amherst.
“I encourage all of our citizens to make themselves aware of what autism is,” Mayor David Kogon said on Thursday, March 31, 2022, as he signed the proclamation on behalf of the Amherst town council.
Plan Amherst, a project to update and renew the Town of Amherst’s Municipal Planning Strategy and Land-Use Bylaw, was launched by the town on Thursday, March 31, 2022.
The 18-month-long project, led for the town by Upland Planning + Design, aims to ensure the two planning documents reflect the goals of the community.
The Amherst town council, at its Monday, March 28, 2022, meeting, set the Mandatory Provincial Contribution Area rate for the 2022-23 fiscal year at 40.2 cents per $100 of assessment.
The rate, which is the same as the previous year, provides funding for provincial services the town is mandated by the province to pay. Those services include: education ($1,643,211), correctional services ($110,753), housing ($291,411), library services ($87,299) and Property Valuation Services Corp. assessment services ($112,038).
The Amherst town council’s committee of the whole is recommending that council approve the Mandatory Contribution Area Rate for the 2022-23 fiscal year when it meets on March 28, 2022.
The committee made the decision at its March 21, 2022, meeting after receiving a staff report that indicated the rate should be set at 40.2 cents per $100 of assessment, the same as the previous year.