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Originally Posted by ken0042
Or to flip that around, take the found money and use it to fund a project that previously we had no idea how we were going to come up with the cash.
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Well the thing is I agree with a SE LRT and think we should have this. So maybe I'm just being picky. But about six months ago the line was "we have this cash and need to figure out where to spend it." To the chagrin of council, and rightly or wrongly, Rick Bell championed giving it back. Survey after survey showed that was what citizens favoured. Then the flooding happened and we heard that the money was needed there. Now we are past that I guess, and we are locked in with the city keeping the money all of a sudden.
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
I don't follow how 2015 could be a 12-15% increase, isn't the 2014 budget technically an increase of ~5% (I was following from home a little with a sick kid yesterday) that is "washed out" by giving the $52M back? So the increase for 2014 is there regardless, why would it need to increase by such a dramatic amount for 2015?
It was a long day yesterday, please educate me.  |
Well what I read is that with the increase it was a 5% increase after the rebate, but it would take a few days to tally everything? I'm not sure as I wasn't there and was following along while doing other things.
That 12-15% is Chabots number in the Bell column. I have no idea if its accurate, I'm just saying if it is, there are going to be a lot of upset voters.