Thunder Bay is facing an infrastructure deficit of over $20 million.
That according to Budget Chair and At-Large councillor Mark Bentz as deliberations into the 2021 operating and capital budgets start next Tuesday.
“We are at a shortfall of over twenty million dollars per budget in terms of taking care of the infrastructure we own,” stresses Bentz. “Roads, facilities, all of these things that are not being either maintained properly, or that capital reserves are being created for their eventual replacement.”
Early projects of the gap were expected to be $22.3 million.
The Capital Budget does call for an increase of $1.3 million in spending in 2021, which Bentz says is progress moving forward.
