iPG needs to get with the program and attract business to PG. Working on hiring people for existing business is a waste of my taxpayer dollars. Employers can hire their own employees without using my tax dollars to do so.

Well slinky, is the $2M per year that iPG spends really keeping you up at night?

Out of the $160M City’s annual budget, $2M goes to promoting the City. That’s roughly 1.3% of total spending. For the average homeowner in PG who pays about about $3,500 in property taxes and city utilities that represents about $45/year. OMG look out, it’s spending gone totally out of control.

I for one think there are bigger fish to fry than iPG. Face it you will never agree with everything the City does.

mwk- if you are senior on a limited income – $45 is not something to sneeze at!!!

What ‘real’ benefit has IPG given to the residents of Prince George over the years? It seems as though every year they come up with another reason for their existence, a new web site or something pops up and then fades into obscurity after failing.

$2 million may only be a very small part of the city’s overall budget but it would go a long way to help with the repairs the four seasons pool needs or help with the aging infrastructure that needs to be repaired / replaced. Both something that would benefit many, many more people than IPG have or ever could benefit.

That 45 bucks would look a lot better in my pocket rather then being spent on some political boondoggle.

Is someone out there going to address the 50 million dollars we currently spend on wages for city employees? Heck, we have 5 human resource managers taking in over half a million a year all totaled.

oldman1 you must be kidding. Even a senior on a limited income……$45 a year isn’t even 1 dollar per week.

I bet you spend more money on kleenex!!

That is something to sneeze at…….

And axman….”political boondoggle”. Wow, I heard some real whoppers in my day, but Burger King has nothing on you. A City is spending money promoting a better image and the pros of living in PG. How much did the federal conservatives waste on the G20 summit? Probably closer to a Billion dollars last time I checked. Or the senators lining their pockets in personal travel, renovations etc. That I believe rates someone calling it a boondoggle.

iPG is at least trying to better our community. I for one don’t see much of a “boondoggle” here.

$45 a year doesn’t sound like much but when you add in all the hidden taxes pensioners are saddled with it soon adds up. If you were a car salesman you would not say $45 a year but .12cents a day. It has a much smoother ring to it

boon·dog·gle
noun \ˈbün-ˌdä-gəl, -ˌdȯ-\

an expensive and wasteful project usually paid for with public money

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Sums up IPG quite nicely.

Things are looking up at city hall now. CUPE now runs city council as well as everything else?

mwk- looks like you are not a senior and more like an employee of IPG.

I find nwk is a little arragant and hopefully more in touch wit reality if they ever set tax rates.

Remember folks, the address for the PAC society is the exact same address as IPG. So obviously the one poster on here that supports IPG doesn’t care about money and especially not your money.

Sure they care about your money. They would gladly collect and decide to spend it. ID you under estimate how important our money is to them, so much so if you do not give it to them, they can legally take your home.

Only 2 million per year you say? Isn’t the rainwater tax designed to come up with 3.8 million for infastructure repair? So two years of IPG and we could do away with the rainwater garbage and fix some sewer and water lines. I think good infastructure will bring more people to town than a website blowing sunshine up their azz…

mwk – 2million dollars keeps me up at night when I think of how much better it could be spent. On your basis $45 per household, I’d prefer mine go to infrastructure. Since when is 2million dollars nothing? Feds wasted money on G20 summit is an apples and orange comparison to PG wasting money.

PAC society is at same address as IPG? One would think since one of their barriers to proceeding with a PAC is an annual operating budget, one million from IPG cutbacks would about do it.

Is the Chamber of Commerce funded by its members only?