Recently, in order to resolve certain issues that have been brought to the Board’s attention in the last year, and to deal with some concerns about treatment of properties that were added to the OID in 2011 and 2012, the Board has revised the OID assessment bylaw, which was last changed in 1984. For most properties, the changes to the assessment bylaw, which mainly concern land exceeding 2 acres in size where there is a pre-existing, operational alternative source of water that is used for agricultural irrigation, or for domestic supply, but not both, will have no discernible effect on land classification or invoicing. For those few properties that are affected, the new bylaw recognizes that those properties do not require OID water for both these purposes, and should be charged accordingly.
Due to the change to our assessment bylaw it is necessary for us to mail assessment notices to all property owners in the OID. These should be sent out early next week (ideally by March 30). Any objections to these assessments need to be sent to us either by email, by April 15, or by regular mail, postmarked by April 15. A Court of Revision will be held after this date to resolve any such objections.
In view of the timelines associated with this assessment process, mailing of invoices will be delayed until late in April. Because of this delay, the due date for receiving payment for invoices has been extended for this year to FRIDAY MAY 29. After this time, late interest charges will be added to all outstanding amounts owing.
Please note that water rates (tolls and/or taxes) for 2020 are unchanged from 2019 (which in turn were unchanged from 2018).