Prepare to pay more for less.

well we all have to chip in our portion to cover the PG hotel.

Look for the propaganda tomorrow telling us what a great deal we are getting on our residential tax rate.

Council's agenda should be to quit buying property downtown, sell off what the city owns downtown to potentially generate future tax revenue, that is, provided anyone is even remotely interested in buying property downtown.

The 4.48% rate increase or $72.00 a year is based on a home value of $208,000.00. Browsing through the real estate supplement in the newspaper and looking at the home prices would hardly indicate the average price of a home in PG at $208,000.00. More smoke and mirrors from city hall.

"Prepare to pay more for less."

Is this a surprise to anyone? This pretty much sums up everything we buy... local government is no exception.

Im suprised nobody has mentioned the rates going down for major industry but up for the average citizen.

I guess my only question there is were the rates for major industry that much out of line? Was the city gauging them in the past? Could it be part of the reason other business has been so slow to move here?

fix pg city crews !and thier crew chiefs ! i know ,just need someone to dig a little

This makes me glad I don't reside within the boundries of the Ciy of Prince George. I agree with Resident I too look at the Real Estate paper and online, and you would be hard pressed to find a home in Prince George for $209,000 that the City always states is the average home price. If you do find one it would require thousand of dollars for upgrades. The City states that the average increase would be $72.00 now my calculator must be wrong because it comes up to 4.48 x $209,000 equals $93.63. Is my calculator wrong?

Resident and Retired....you are looking at the market value of homes, not the accessed value - which is the value you are taxed on. Two totally different values. My home is assessed at 149,000 but market value is around 189,000.

Sombody please take the calculator away from the newly retired person.

4.48% increase, does not mean $4.48/$1000.00 assessed value.

Trye 7.7109/1.0448 = $7.38/ 1000 was the millrate last year.

$7.71 - $7.38 = $0.33 per $1000 more this year.

$209 x $0.33 = $68.97 more.

To the Mayor and the council of our city of Prince George.

How effective do you think your cost reducing effort has been, both by administration and the action of city council? I rate the performance as being poor, very poor. Your increase is greater than the rate of inflation. You are not doing your job well.

Calculator taken away. I am still glad that I live outside the city limits. Citizens of the city are facing continued tax increases, and what do you get in return. More taxes and higher fees. poor performance by city council.

If you are living outside of the city, you should look at what your taxes are going up before you comment about the city taxes. RD taxes (in most areas) are going up more than the city.

Chuck and jive.
Bend over residents of PG, and don't make a sound. We cannot even afford the lube so its going to hurt. That does not matter because those doing the "pushing" are not feeling the results. But you will feel it stinging on the way in and the way out.

Bang on MiddleGround.

We should also not forget that the RDFFG is financed around 60% or so by the City.

Loki, have you spent time in prison?

Will my raised taxes include the cost of the future road on top of Ospika on it's way to Highway 16? Or is that in the future just like the bridge across the Fraser at the (ex) BC Rail site? Pothole free I hope.

The crossing across the Fraser will be the next step after Boundary Road across the airport. This will connect up nicely so, traffic coming from Edmonton, can go around without coming through town.

"Ring Road"

no, have you?
I just know the feeling of getting screwed, metaphorically of course.
The way things have been going with corporations holding their municipalities hostages and making the demand to pay less leaving the onus on the backs of the citizens.

As it is, 80% of all tax revenues is collected from 20% of the population. Those numbers are not accurate, they are representative of a report I saw a few months ago. I am sure "someone" can get you the accurate numbers. The point is that the wealthiest citizens and the largest corporations get away with all kinds of deductions and tax "incentives" to conduct business. The end result being that the peons pay the lions share.

"The point is that the wealthiest citizens and the largest corporations get away with all kinds of deductions and tax "incentives" to conduct business."

Life isn't fair, I'll agree with you on that. But those businesses do employ the 20% of the people who pay those taxes, if that makes you feel any better.

Well I want a f@#$%ing raise. From 8 bucks an hour to 20 to pay for all these extra taxes. Didn't city taxes just go up not 6 months ago, just about 4%? Boss man just bought a sail boat but can't give anyone a raise. I hope it sinks, with him in it.

I have a hard time swallowing any tax increases.Two years ago I called about a plugged curbside drain in front of my house.They came to unplug it shortly after,decided it was too difficult with the equipment they had,painted some pretty orange lines all over,marking gas,phone,etc.,and left.I phoned to see what was happening and to see if there was going to be any extra charge to me,and was told that there would be no extra charge,and they would be back with a large truck to unplug it.According to my neighbor,the truck showed up and worked on the drain for awhile and left.When I went out to check the drain,it was still as plugged as it ever had been when I first reported it.I phoned back and was told they would be back.To this day,it is still plugged and hasn't been touched.I also have phoned in 2009 about potholes on Eton Ave.,and was told they were on the list already.Never filled in 2009 nor in 2010.

Calculation of house value for taxation.
Increase in taxation, $72.00. Divide 72 by0.0448 equals the old tax value of $1607.14.
Divide 1608.14 by the tax rate of 7.7103 per 1000 dollars of house value.
Answer is 208.44. 208.44 times 1000 to get the house value. House is worth $208,440.00 for taxation purposes.

jakeadoo i know very well !!!! like i said take a good look into the expenduters of city workers and productivity and suprise !! a 1ft dia pot hole costs aprox 1900 bucks thank you!!! and thers more alot more !!