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Originally Posted by Bunk
Council does have an existing policy to automatically take up tax room when it comes along to use for debt relief or capital projects (that's why it was taken in April). This was an exercise in asking citizens what to do with it - because it was the largest amount of money from tax room yet ($42m in 2011 - building the 4 rec centres and central library and $10.2m in 2012) Council wanted to test that policy with the 'give it back' option.
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Yup, and even though the public votes leaned towards the return of the money iirc, the city decided to make up another reason to keep the money.
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