16 South Peace News, Wednesday , April 22, 2020

2017 Res i den tial Mill Rate Com par i son Nampa's mill County/MD Mill Rate McLennan...... 19.0000 rate lowest, but ...... 17.4400 Girouxville...... 16.7030 Vilna...... 15.7500 Rain bow Lake...... 14.7000 is on the rise Rycroft ...... 13.3388 Vil lages and smaller ...... 11.7800 Resi den tial Berwyn ...... 11.3640 towns ex pe ri ence the most Swan Hills...... 11.2900 mill rate fluc tu a tion when set ting Man ning...... 11.2225 mill rates for taxes. With Don nel ly ...... 11.0208 comp ari son low pop u la tions and AV ER AGE ...... 10.9096 lower tax assess ment than Mayerthorpe ...... 9.5984 2017 Res i den tial Mill Rate bigger centr es, a few 9.0000 Clyde ...... busi nesses open ing or Valleyview...... 8.0000 McLennan 19.0000 ...... 7.8231 clos ing, or grants re - Girouxville 16.7030 ceived, has a huge af fect Millet ...... 7.3781 Falher 11.7800 7.2890 on mill rates. Remem ber , Fox Creek...... Berwyn 11.3640 Hythe...... 7.1830 mill rates do not reflect a Donnelly 11.0208 Wem bley...... 7.0497 to tal tax bill. They show AV ER AGE 10.9096 Wasketenau ...... 6.6920 in ter est ing trends and Nampa 5.4800 Nampa...... 5.4800 par a doxes. Nampa has 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 2018 Res i den tial Mill Rate the low est mill rate, yet the high est per cent age in - crease in three years. McLennan 19.0000 Mean while, Girouxville 2018 Res i den tial Mill Rate Com par i son Girouxville 16.1230 and Don nel ly low ered Falher 12.1550 their mill rates in the last Town/Village Mill Rate Berwyn 12.0300 AV ER AGE 10.8460 three years, yet have much McLennan ...... 19.0000 Don nel ly 8.7069 higher mill rates than Hines Creek ...... 17.1100 Nampa's. Only five of the Vilna...... 16.5000 21 se lected towns and vil - Girouxville...... 16.1230 2019 Res i den tial Mill Rate lages in our survey low- Rain bow Lake...... 14.7000 ered their mill rates the Rycroft ...... 13.3880 McLennan 19.5000 last three years. Two oth- Falher ...... 12.1550 Girouxville 16.4880 12.0300 ers had the same mill rate. Berwyn ...... Falher 12.2820 Man ning...... 11.4255 Over all, 12 of the 21 mu- AV ER AGE 11.1081 Swan Hills...... 11.2900 nic i pal gov ern ments had AV ER AGE ...... 10.8460 Berwyn 10.1870 Don nel ly 9.3627 less than a five per cent Mayerthorpe ...... 9.5984 in crease from 2017-19. Clyde ...... 9.0000 Nampa 6.3500 Don nel ly ...... 8.7096 Valleyview...... 8.5000 Hythe ...... 7.6390 Nampa tops list Wem bley ...... 7.4539 Fox Creek...... 7.4340 with high est Mil let...... 7.3781 Wasketenau ...... 6.9620 mill rate increase Beaverlodge...... 5.8927 Nampa...... 5.4800 Pop u la tion Resi den tial Mill Rate 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 of Se lected De crease/In crease Vil lage/Towns [2017-19]

Vil lage/Town POP Note: The num bers in the first column repre - sent the in crease or de crease in the mill rate. 2019 Residential Mill Rate Com par i son 186 The numbers in the second column repre - Girouxville 219 sent the per cent age in crease or de crease in the mill rate, and there fore differ in order de - Vilna 290 pending on the ac tual mill rate] Town/Vil lage Mill Rate Don nel ly 342 Hines Creek 346 County/M.D. +/- +/-% McLennan...... 19.5000 Nampa 364 Vilna ...... 17.2500 Clyde 430 Nampa +0.8700 +15.88% Berwyn 538 Beaverlodge +1.1550 +14.76% Hines Creek...... 17.1100 Rycroft 612 Hythe +1.0560 +14.70% Girouxville...... 16.4880 McLennan 701 Wem bley +0.9060 +12.85% Rain bow Lake...... 14.7000 Rain bow lake 795 Waskatenau +.8250 +12.33% Hythe 827 Man ning +1.0822 +9.64% 12.3047 Man ning...... Falher 1,047 Vilna +1.5000 +9.52% Swan Hills...... 12.2900 Man ning 1,183 Swan Hills +1.0000 +8.86% Falher ...... 12.2820 Swan Hills 1,301 Valleyview +0.5000 +6.25% Mayerthorpe +0.4427 +4.61% AV ER AGE ...... 11.1081 Mayerthorpe 1,320 Wem bley 1,516 Falher +0.5020 +4.26% Berwyn ...... 10.1870 Valleyview 1,863 Fox Creek +0.2941 +4.03% Mayerthorpe ...... 10.0411 Mil let 1,945 Mil let +.2119 +2.87% Fox Creek 1,971 McLennan +5.0000 +2.63% Rycroft ...... 10.0410 Clyde EVEN EVEN Beaverlodge 2,465 Don nel ly ...... 9.3627 Rain bow Lake EVEN EVEN 9.0000 Girouxville -0.2150 -1.29% Clyde ...... *all pop u la tion fig ures Hines Creek -0.3300 -1.89% Beaverlodge ...... 8.9781 prov ided in 2016 census. Berwyn -1.1770 -10.36% Valleyview...... 8.5000 Don nel ly -1.6581 -15.04% Rycroft -3.2978 -24.72% Hythe ...... 8.2390 Wem bley...... 7.9557 Mil let ...... 7.5900 Ed i tor's note: Fox Creek...... 7.5831 For a fair com par i son, we used towns Wasketenau...... 7.5170 and villages with sim i lar pop u la tions. Nampa...... 6.3500 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Source: Al berta Mu nic i pal Af fairs