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Note the Fan
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Increased user fees: Cemetery, Airport
Ferry, City Transit fares, plus cuts at Civic Center ‘We’ll do less
with less’ The worst part of
the budget presentation was that nothing included from last year – which
makes it harder to criticise/ understand --- |
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Budget --- I
found the paper work opaque |
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And
the ‘discussion’ was mind numbing --- after 2 hours ‘they’ voted as I had
predicted at beginning of meeting – Thorkelson, Ashley and Kinney siding with
home owners and Business clique siding with their interests --- so 4 to 3 for
putting increased taxes on homeowners – using some pretty dubious rationales’
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Here is from
last years budget |
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Hey
about 50% of it uses same words etc |
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Quick
comparison |
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Here
I have pasted 2009 Budget onto this years Over
all it does what was promised – minimal increases etc I
will work this up later in week |
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The
significance of this escaped me |
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Nice
new drafting software gives pretty pictures – signifying? |
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A little
Humor in a long boring meeting |
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Councillor
Ashley spotted the spelling error immediately – ‘it must be the teacher in
me’ |
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In the
background lurks Ridley and Watson |
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Councillor
Thorkelson – always the optimist --- would like to think City might sell
Ridley by this summer – thus saving Civic Center from being closed in 4 weeks
of August etc --- the ‘good’ news is that present budget squeeze not being caused
by Ridley as this $$ presumably coming from other funds and not the current
operating funds etc More
later |
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Gordon Payne left the council
chambers when this Development Permit being discussed
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Because of its
price tag had to be brought to Council according to Planner – more later |
Created by LG on
Feb 1, 2006
Last updated on Tuesday, April 13, 2010