Amherstburg officials spent the majority of their time over the weekend explaining the 2018 budget.
During a two hour public engagement session on Saturday, residents attending the Libro Centre to review the draft budget, had a lot of questions about the budget process.
Mayor Aldo DiCarlo says residents needed explanations on the tax rate system.
He says the town is trying to be more open and accountable with its budget process but in some cases, it is creating more questions.
"I think what is coming out of a lot of this transparency is more questions and more need to educate I guess," he says. "What we have control over in our budgets and how much more we can and can't do in making it available for the residents."
DiCarlo says the town is adding more man hours, by making some part time jobs into full time, in its building department and residents wanted to know why.
"The numbers have dwindled and we never really replaced them so in that respect we have been processing way more than humanly possible at times with a much lower compliment than another other municipalities and it finally caught up to us."
In some cases the town has transferred one job to another,converted some part-time to full-time and it has gone with some contract positions instead of full-time permanent according to DiCarlo.
The town is looking at a 2.4% tax increase which includes a levy to pay for some road construction projects.
Town council will deliberate the budget Tuesday, November 28, Wednesday November 29 and Thursday, November 30 if needed.
DiCarlo expects the budget will be finalized in early December.
--With files from AM800's Gord Bacon