Other Costs

Other costs increased by 11% or some $88 million. The majority of these expenses have a support relationship to the salary increases noted above. Major components of this increase relate to: accommodation ($18 million), transportation and communication ($12 million), professional and special services ($20 million), transfer payments ($1 million), repair and maintenance ($5 million), equipment purchases ($8 million), amortization of capital assets ($6 million), equipment and other rentals ($2 million) and loss on disposal of capital assets ($15 million); and a decrease in non-tax revenue of $8 million—for a total of $95 million. These were offset by decreases in materials and supplies ($6 million); and other services and expenses (a total of $1.6 million – comprising other services, $822 thousand; advertising, $327 thousand; utilities, $51 thousand; and other expenses, $376 thousand).

Date modified:

2003-10-29