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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Cowboy89;
One thing you will see in the upcoming 2009-2011 City budget is that there are mechanisms in place to keep the budget from coming under strain from the overall Canadian economic slowdown. I work close to the peeps in charge, and, paraphrased, planning for a three-year budget will help override the need to scale back on services and projects.
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That paraphrase is really just paying lip service to the politically senstitive issue of ramping up spending with difficult times ahead. Refusal of Zero-based budgeting shows where the politicians stand on issues of the purse. It would be hard to imagine a world where bureaucrats would support it either as they would be the ones who would constantly have to fight for their own funding levels year after year.