Regina City Councillor Warns of Tax Hike
Wade Murray Expects Single-Digit Increase
A member of Regina City Council is dropping an early hint that property tax will be going up.
Only six percent of businesses who responded to the Regina Chamber of Commerce annual survey say the city should raise the mill rate if needed to balance the budget -- 34 percent recommend looking for efficiencies.
City councillor Wade Murray says the city is indeed doing that, but a small tax hike appears inevitable.
"I wouldn't say that we're going to see a zero," Murray said. "I don't see that in the books personally, and that's just based on my gut feeling, the way we're rolling into things.
"But I really don't see any really significant double-digit numbers either."
Murray says the city is working to find efficiencies, with some success, but faces escalating costs.
He says this is just the first of the expected input from community groups and the public, and it will all be taken into account.
Comments
Spend less before you charge
Spend less before you charge us more.
You should do a show where government workers call in and tell us about all the wastfull spending that goes on at there jobs. I bet in half an hour you could save millions.
They could start by not
They could start by not having city employees plough the streets at midnight on Xmas Eve every year. I'm not kidding. Two years in a row I saw slow ploughs out at Mindnight Christmas Eve even though it hadn't snowed for days. One year it was behind the east Superstore and the other year it was in Winnipeg Street north. What did that triple overtime cost us?
Snow plowing
Pretty sure Christmas Eve isn't a statutory Holiday so perhaps they're getting it done before the actual holiday days start.... also I bet christmas eve in the evening is lower traffic so an easier time to remove snow after all of the christmas shopping traffic the week prior. Just a couple of thoughts on that.
As Xmas eve strike midnight,
As Xmas eve strike midnight, it becomes December 25th, a statutory Holiday. The plough operators were working after midnight, therefore the morning of December 25.