Quote:
Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Councils don't automatically spend to the limit. My city's debt is about 20 per cent of our limit. There is a government-mandated limit that cannot be exceeded without provincial approval and every city has it's own internal limit that's usually much lower and us changeable by council or can be temporarily exceeded.
|
There's a provincially-mandated limit, but also a Council self-imposed limit below that. Calgary is very close to the self-imposed limit because of bullet financing of West LRT (while promised provincial payments have been behind promised schedules) and large debt accrued with water and wastewater infrastructure (partially due to inadequate developer levies between 2000-2010).