City Council Preparing for Budget Deliberations

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 04:30 AM

Prince George, B.C. - A week from today, Prince George City Council will begin budget deliberations. Right now, city taxpayers are looking at a base increase of 3.4% simply to maintain existing services.

At Monday night's Committee of the Whole meeting, Manager of Financial Services, Sandra Stibrany, said there are a number of proposed project enhancements that council will have to consider. They include air quality improvement initiatives, transit expansion, and a request from PG Fire Rescue to hire more staff.

The total value of the enhancement requests so far is $680,000, but it will likely grow, as Stibrany says the list that council received Monday night is not yet complete.

Budget deliberations are scheduled to begin February 4th at City Hall.

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Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 04:30 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: diplomat on January 28 2009 7:52 AM

"Right now, city taxpayers are looking at a base increase of 3.4% simply to maintain existing services."

And what was the rate of inflation last year and what is it at present? Anybody remember what was promised during the November 2008 municipal election campaign?

Posted by: MrPG on January 28 2009 8:57 AM

Yes, "lowest taxes possible". Many people interpreted this as a promise to freeze taxes, but obviously, this is not the case.

Posted by: He speaks on January 28 2009 8:57 AM

No increase, deal with a little less service.

The mills are asking their workers to share hours. Why doen't the city do this too. Every one has to take one day off each month, unpaid. This is done on rotation.

Posted by: MrPG on January 28 2009 9:00 AM

We should just forget about putting money towards anything involving air quality improvement. The current committees and task forces have done nothing and don't have enough power to take care of the real source of the issue.

Posted by: polar7018 on January 28 2009 9:17 AM

yes, give it up with this air quality thing.just wasting our money.

Posted by: Shellshadow on January 28 2009 9:30 AM

Give up on the trails, art centre and winter olympics. Now is not the time to be spending money on what we want. What we need has been put on the back burner to make room for nice things as well. lol