Newmarket budget game asks you to put the town's 'money where it matters'

Yorkregion.com
Sept. 27, 2016
By Chris Simon

It’s time to play Newmarket’s budget game.

Town staff are inviting residents to participate in the second phase of the 2017 budget game, Put Your Money Where it Matters, at Old Town Hall Oct. 5. The event runs from 6 to 8 p.m.

Participants will be given a certain amount of town ‘budget bucks’. Through an interactive session that includes a working group with other members of the community, participants will identify how that money should be allocated.

Game facilitators from Panoptika Inc. - an organization that specializes in civic engagement and is offering its services free-of-charge - will be available to help run the session. Town staff will also answer questions from participants.

Town hall is at 460 Botsford St. Seats must be reserved by Sept. 30.

For more information or to reserve a spot, contact town communications officer Kate Porretta at kporretta@newmarket.ca.