Was there any doubt?

Where is the money going
Oh ya we hired air sniffers.

We need to boost city concil out , never mind upping our taxes again and again.

Once again the curbside garbage cans are saving us millions! When can I expect my tax rebate Dan?

How many of the City's services are self sufficient and which ones are they?

Will a PAC be self sufficient? What about all the other entertainment and sports venues and all the clubs and interest groups who line up every year for hundreds of thousands of dollars of hand outs from the City?

It's just that we can't do without water and sewer and we can't opt out of the garbage pickup. We are a captive audience so we are being targeted over and over.

How about designating some of the millions of dollars that the City receives annually from gambling revenues and use it to help pay for sewer, water, garbage pick up and snow removal?

The City's revenue bag seems to have a gaping hole in the bottom.

Is there a more mismanaged City, bearing an unreasonably high ratio of overcompensated civic employees, anywhere in the province?

The City could save some face if they could come out with some sort of brief report detailing facts and figures about the garbage system and answering a few questions.

- Is the new automated system saving us money once the system becomes 'self-sufficient' as promised? Yes or no.
- If it is saving us money, how much?

Hello? Communications Manager? How about a little communication?

Sure would like to get that credit for changing the collection system.

I don't see our wages increasing at the same incremental amount our taxes go up.

I am OK with going with out all of the services. The city can not do everything for everybody. We need to suffer a bit, and I don't mind it, because I think we as citizens of this country, may have gotten a little bit too reliant on big brother.
In the famous words of JFK, "It is not what this country can do for you, It is what you can do for this country." Don't think that problem the states are having is going to stop on the dotted line.

There is going to be a lot of people wondering what hit them shortly. Me included. Its not going to be because of the olympics, nope its just that we have been living a sheltered life believing that it would get better. We need to look at what we can do to stop spending money we don't have. In our homes, at our work, in the city, province and feds. We can not stop the olympics, but we need to make the right choices.

Thats what I think of this council...GARBAGE!

Between the regional district and our city hall they raised the taxes last year to the tune of 15%. They raised them around 12% the year before. Then we have this thing called compounding. Now we look forward to another increase. How much more can the middle class endure? We have three levels of government over spending and sucking us dry. When are the sheeples going to wake up? We are looking at over 50% of our wages now going towards the pigs at the trough called government. The cost of living is continuously increasing and the amount of poor and government employees living off of the backs of the working stiff is becoming out of control. WAKE UP! The provincial government is going to break BC over the Olympics and implement the HST. The increase on the backs of the working people has varied but I see it at the very least around 1,000.00 a year per household. Not only that but our provincial government is handing over the responsibility of taxing us to the Federal government. This is against our constitutional rights people!! Look it up and learn your rights quickly because they are slowly passing bills which make our constitution pretty much useless. You can call me a fear monger or anything else which helps you to ignore the realities of our present situation but it will not change them. IMO Our province will be close to 10 billion dollars in debt when and if the true costs of the Olympics and gross spending come to light. It is time for Canadians to stand up TOGETHER and put a stop to it before it is too late. It may already be too late.

maybe the city council should fund a watchdog on the city council. They seem to fund everything else.

The downtown business association was proud of the candidates they ran in the last city election lead by C. Green. Maybe it is time we let them know how the rest of like their choices and boycot the downtime. Money talks BS walks.

Wow.. I was trying to laugh at this councils massive incompetance..but how can I with each new decision they make steals more money out of my pocket.. This council is just pathetic..disgustingly pathetic

Caring Soul, where did you get the 10 billion dollar info, or is this a fabricated number.

I think the mayor and its councillors need to get a better understanding of what the people want, today. not 12 months ago.

Otherwise, its time to clean out your desk, Dan.

I think I will drill for my own water on my property. To hell with the city, I will take my garbage to the regional district dump site on the Hart myself, just charge me for the septic.

Interesting. So all of the real world business experience elected to council hasn't managed to turn the ship around overnight? I wonder why that is? Perhaps:

- Real world business experience is irrelevant when it comes to running a city
- Running a city is more complex than what many of our new councillors thought it would be
- The common belief that business leaders can make "the hard decisions" is really just a myth or urban legend

Something has obviously changed since the campaigns and now. Maybe Ben could have some of the councillors on his show to try and reconcile their campaign promises to the reality of what were faced with now. That would be interesting radio :)

"Hello? Communications Manager? How about a little communication?"

This implies that the Communications Manager was actually hired to communicate with the citizens of PG. I don't think we should hold our breath on that one! LOL

No more increases in sewer, water and garbage rates!
It is time to start reducing the cost of government in Prince George, not increasing the cost of services and increasing taxes again.
The cost of government in Prince George is becoming a cost beyond the ability of the property owners to support. It is time to trim the fat and stop the handouts to organizations that cannot support themselves.
Property owners of Prince George....wake up and start fighting for a more efficient, leaner, open and accountable administration.
It is time for Mayor Rogers and several members of council to resign because of their dishonesty during the last civic election. They are not acting in the interests of the taxpayers of Prince George.

I'd like to opt out of my garbage pickup deal. How about it, Dan? Charter of Rights and all. Under Freedom of Association. Meaning I don't wish to associate with my garbage pickup man. Well? If not I think the City of PG owes me a few bucks for storing city property on my private property. If I voluntarily surrender my garbage can to the city works yard,get a receipt, and have no garbage picked up, can I still be charged for garbage pickup? Can you say taxation with no representation on the garbage dept? Have to pay for what I don't receive? Hmmm?

Maybe the symphony and other groups should be self sufficient....

Enough is enough, let's start living within our means. Make a gall darned budget and freakin' stick to it. I am sick and freakin' tired of giving my hard earned dollars to every level of government. I think it is time for a revolution, and oust every form of government. They are not doing the job they were elected to. In fact elections are just freakin' bull crap any ways. Government does not represent the people any more, just freakin' special interest groups, and their buddies. And let's not get started on health care, making people wait until they die is maybe saving money, but it is criel and unusual punishment. It is not even inflicted on prisoners, because of the bleeding heart freakin' Liberals. Okay I'm done for now, but I'll be back.

Should be cruel, not criel.

Hespoke:

If you read my post again you will see that I said IMO (In my opinion). Therefor the 10 billion dollars is what I believe our debt will be soon. It is already blossomed to almost 5 billion so to me 5 more is an easy goal to achieve the way the spending spree is going.