Editor:
When I became a councillor I soon realized Burns Lake had an infrastructure deficit and that our tax rates were lower than adjacent communities. They still are even with our tax increase.
It is like driving your car and never fixing anything. Eventually you will be stranded.
Council decided to raise taxes as you noted in last week's paper.
It is important to note that this is approximately a $64 rate increase per average household.
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