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Budget Talks Resume at City Hall Today

By 250 News

Monday, February 09, 2009 04:20 AM

Prince George, B.C. – It’s back to budget talks at Prince George City Hall today. 
Community Services (formerly known as Leisure Services) will present its budget for 2009 and put forth a request for two enhancements.
The overall Community Services budget is projected to be about $13 million, which is about 1/10th  of the City’s entire annual budget.
The enhancement requests would see the City contribute $259,000 to the Highland Community Centre, making the old school a recreation and day care centre.
 The other enhancement calls for a $42 thousand dollar contribution to the Nordic Centre Biathlon Facility on Otway Road.
The full City budget for 2009 was prepared with a 3.4% increase in taxation ($2,273,033) a further $700 thousand from construction permits and fees, a projected $2.785 million from gaming, and $1.3 million from traffic fine revenue to keep services at current levels.
There are two budget sessions set for today, the first will start at 4:30 and go until 6:00 p.m. then Council returns at 7:00 for the second session. Both sessions will start with public input.

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Comment Posted by: Shellshadow on February 9 2009 8:40 AM
Work within the current budget! Show that you have the know how you claimed to have at election time!!! DO NOT take what ever tax breaks we got from the federal and provincial governments!! Lower the assessments....looks real bad when the market has fallen and the assessments havent. STOP SPENDING like money is growing on all the bug killed trees. Does this help???? Hope so because everyone in this city feels exactly like this!!!!
Comment Posted by: dirtcheap on February 9 2009 12:02 PM
All levels of Government are the same,tell you what you want to hear until elected,then guess what.We need some accountability.If they don't live up to election promises we should have another vote,and the cost of the election comes out of their big fat retirement fund.