I think Don Braids frustration mirrors that of a lot of Calgary residents. It's an ever increasing level of costs and a little bit of a tone deaf mentality. There is a lot of waste that could be cut and costs reduced yet they are not. EVERYBODY has been looking at ways of saving on expenses and cutting in their day to day budget, and by cuts, I mean actual cuts.
The city talks about cuts but doesn't actual do anything. Reducing a scheduled increase to some random departments budget is not a cut.
Looking at the new single use plastics bylaw, if you order a soup at a restaurant and go to eat it, find out there is no spoon, the only idiot in this scenario is you. Not the employee who can't ask you if you want a spoon, or a napkin, not the six figured salaried team of employee's + large benefit package who came up with this stupid concept. Only you!! As for something as obvious as a higher budget for road cleaning and snow removal for a winter city, no, we don't have that luxury.
This is a city council that has some members and a city administration that was patting it's self on the back for reducing red tape on expanded patios in Calgary during Covid. Completely forgetting just how hard and how much of a process it was and still is to literally put a park bench in front of a business for people to sit down.
This is what we get for massive increases in taxes?
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