Budget Consult Report Delivered
Prince George, B.C.- The report is in.
The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services has compiled the information gathered during the provincial budget consultation and is putting forth 58 recommendations.
The report calls on the Provincial Government to continue to work towards balanced budgets.
Here are some of the highlights of the recommendations;
Education:
Provide stable, predictable and adequate funding to enable school districts to fulfill their education goals and meet repair and maintenance needs.
Provide resources to identify and address the growing number of students with special needs and those with minimal English language skills
Increase operating grants to post secondary institutions
Finance:
Explore taxation options that would assist first time home buyers.
Continue to work towards balanced budgets
Start public consultation on how to improve the pst.
Revenue sharing:
Multi year agreements which reallocate provincial royalties to local and First Nations governments
Health:
New incentives to recruit and retain health care professionals
Promote healthy living though taxes that discourage tobacco use, sugar sweetened beverages
New pricing measures for alcohol
Social Services:
Develop a poverty reduction plan.
The report was approved unanimously by all members of the all party committee, but the recommendations are not binding on the Government as it prepares its budget for 2015.
The full report can be accessed here.
Comments
Off topic, Weather? Snowing? Where’s Friday Free For All?
Ha ha acrider55, we’ve been letting ‘er rip all week!
lol. So true. Lbear, but we have had a good week. Kicking each other in the butt. Reminds me of the Bugs Bunny show. Where Bugs Bunny has two farmers doing the square dance and hitting each other with boards and kicking each other to the square dance music.
I found it Hillbilly Hare: www .youtube .com /watch?v=m9SrXRNPRCA
Enjoy PG at it’s finest.
Just so you know, I do not think people in PG are Hillbillies at all. Just made me smile, how we could beat up on each other. Have a good day and hope you take the video in the spirit it was intended, as a bit of a laugh. Have a Great day.
The taxpayer paid for this? What a bunch of empty feel good drivel. I could have come up with all this in one rainy afternoon and at a fraction of the cost. When are we going to stop having these pointless commissions file useless reports on things the government won’t listen to anyways.
Gruntled–totally agree with you! What a load of crap; a bunch of regurgitated motherhood statements that could have just as easily come from a Grade 7 home-ec class.
It never ceases to amaze me how every level of government keeps shelling out millions to supposed “expert” consultants who simply churn their cookie-cutter template for every situation and laugh all the way to the bank.
Maybe I should do up a completely obvious, common-sense report on “Better Snow Removal” or “Improved Garbage Services” or “Helping to Reduce Hunger and Poverty” and get rich myself by selling it to a bunch of hillbilly politicians in jurisdictions all over North America.
Just a standard form letter.
Oh, and it’s Hartbilly. Not Hillbilly.
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