Thanks to some financial help from the Community Works Fund the Quesnel Fringe Fire Protection tax hit will be lessened.
$500,000 will be allocated towards the Red Bluff Fire Hall replacement project.
Cariboo Regional District Director for Area A, Mary Sjostrom, says taxpayers in the Quesnel Fringe Fire Protection Area will see the annual taxation impact of the project go from $59.96 per $100,000 assessed value to $48.35 per $100,000 assessed value.
“It’s not big dollars but what it’s going to do will reduce the debt,” Sjostrom said, “we applied that to reduce the debt of the taxation because we have asked to borrow up $3.25 million to replace the Hall.”
The CRD said a request for proposals recently closed for architectural design services.
“I think we do have preliminary designs because we required that for costing and we’re also working on one for 150 and they are very similar as far as structure, it’s just what is the need for for each individual Fire Department. I’m told it should be late summer, to early Fall of next year that we will be completed. We’re building on the same site of the Red Bluff Fire Hall and we own that property so we don’t have to look for property as we have all that in place.”
Sjostrom noted that the new Red Bluff Fire Hall is going to be an all new Canadian steel building, so hopefully that all works out well.
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