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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 - explicitly for projects the Province would typically help fund (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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Well then, by involving the citizens of Calgary this year, they weren't following existing policy were they?
And they opened up their own can of worms.