The Village of Boyle council adopted a balanced budget for 2011 last Wednesday.
The budget estimates that the village will take in just under $4.3 million in revenue, with $1.2 million coming from taxation, which is up 5.7 per cent from last year.
Connection to the Aspen regional water system resulted in a noticeable increase to the budget — $369,327 more than last year — at $809,393.
"The municipal portion of taxes will stay about the same, " said Mayor Don Radmanovich.
Village of Boyle CAO Charlie Ashbey reported to council last Wednesday that the idea of using the village 's old water pipeline to extend the Aspen regional water line to Grassland, has hit a snag.
Ashbey said Chad Maki from Associated Engineering could not find registration for the right of way for the old water line.
"We had an engineer check one property and he couldn 't find registration on it, " Ashbey said.
If the registration cannot be found, it could make reusing the line difficult, he explained.
"They thought if it was a registered right of way, that it would be expedient to use it for the Grassland line, " Ashbey said. "If it 's not registered, they would have to go through the whole process of negotiating it, so it might not be as attractive for them. "
It isn 't uncommon for old right of ways to be unregistered, Ashbey said.
"That line was done in the 60s, so it might not have been registered, " he said.
"I guess that would impact whether they choose to use that route, so there will be further discussion on that. "
Terry Smith with the Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) told Boyle council about their programs and services last Wednesday.
The FCSS has completed a three-year business plan, which identifies their principal goals, services and future plans.
"Our programs and services are fundamentally two groups, " Smith said.
The FCSS offers counseling to keep families together and keep kids in school; and community programs and services like babysitting safety and seniors ' advocacy.
"The partnership between the three summer villages, the Town of Athabasca, the County of Athabasca and Boyle invest collectively a couple of hundred thousand dollars to FCSS to provide programs and services, " said Smith.
The overall budget of FCSS is around $1 million.
"So we actually bring in several hundred thousand more by partnership with the provincial government and Children Services, to invest in the community and to bring more services, " said Smith.
The FCSS is planning to bring some more services to Boyle like the ones they have been running in Athabasca.
"In the Village of Boyle, we wanted to reach out with our mentorship program like the one in Athabasca, " Smith said, adding that they are running one later this year in Boyle.
Another service the FCSS wants to bring to Boyle is the seniors ' advocate. It has come to Boyle in the past, but Smith said they want to do it on a regular basis.
"So now (the) seniors ' advocate is here two days a month, " he said.
Smith explained that the seniors ' advocate has done things like bringing in a pharmacist to talk about drug interaction, and the police to talk about identity theft.
"We 've heard from the seniors, 'This is right for us, ' " said Smith.
Another successful workshop the FCSS had in Boyle was the Ladies Beware workshop.
"It was a session with about 26 ladies that came, " said Smith. "Sonny Kim from the RCMP detachment came in to talk about ladies protecting themselves. "
Smith said the workshop got a lot of positive feedback.
