For the fourth consecutive year Clearwater County will see a zero per cent tax increase.

During council’s meeting on April 26, Council adopted the 2022 Tax Rate Bylaw reflecting a zero per cent municipal tax rate increase for all assessment classes.

Clearwater County Reeve, Daryl Lougheed noted, “We are very fortunate to be in a financial situation where we held a zero per cent tax increase for four years in a row. I’m pleased to see this council put fiscal responsibility as a top priority and with that in mind, we are ensuring that our residents are not seeing a municipal tax portion increase along with other costs of inflation,” added Lougheed.

Council members also discussed how the provincial school requisition has increased by $305,425. However, officials say this has been offset by past years collection of $805,354 credit, thereby decreasing the school requisition by about $500,000.

Clearwater officials also said, the senior’s foundation operating requisition has increased by $35,909, in addition to also requisitioning $454,538 for capital items intended to move forward in 2022. Officials noted, this number is quite large, but by spreading it out over the overall assessment of Clearwater County, it won’t be a significant increase to individual tax bills.