Quesnel city council started preliminary budget planning at last Monday’s council meeting.
Issues arising included the consolidation of certain surplus accounts into the general capital budget.
Since some surplus accounts are very restricted in their usage, emptying them into the general capital budget would increase its usage and free up the monies to be spent on other projects.
Two surplus accounts tentatively being consolidated are those for a gymnastics facility as well as funds set aside for a dike project.
Finance manager Kari Bolton explained just because these funds may be consolidated into the general capital reserve account does not mean the projects are scrapped.
The dike project surplus account is currently sitting with $444,223 and the gymnastics project surplus account has $207,666.