02-13-2024, 07:17 AM
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#2561
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Kevin J Johnston to the rescue!!!
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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02-13-2024, 07:18 AM
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#2562
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Kevin J Johnston to the rescue!!!
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That's Mayor-Elect Kevin J Johnston to you.
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02-13-2024, 08:23 AM
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#2563
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by GGG
Godnek has shown in articles that she doesn’t understand municipal taxes so I wouldn’t be surprised if Sharp doesn’t either. I bet most people don’t understand it.
I got in an argument with several people here that mill rate was a ridiculous rate to evaluate the level of taxation between cities after a Herald article was doing that.
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Sharp was a long-time city employee before running for office. She absolutely knows this.
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02-13-2024, 08:29 AM
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#2564
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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Originally Posted by The Fisher Account
Sharp was a long-time city employee before running for office. She absolutely knows this.
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Then she is a political weasel
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It’s not just $16 a month . . . it’s $16 a month plus your assessment going up plus the cost of groceries and everything else,” she says.
“I’m getting calls and emails from constituents who say this isn’t $16 a month, it’s $90 or $120 a month.”
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She is either ignorant or deliberately inflaming the debate as the 90 or 120 a month people increased would have happened due to relative property value changes rather than the tax increase.
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02-13-2024, 08:57 AM
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#2565
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
I'm not sure what to make of this, but I've seen Sonya Sharp quoted in a couple of articles mentioning "assessments going up" as a concern from a taxpayers' point of view. I'm wondering if she knows how the market value assessment + mill rate system actually works? The city can't simply increase the amount they pull in by increasing the assessments. She knows that, right?
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...fighting-taxes |
She’s going after votes. She knows the voters don’t understand how it works so if she says things that are correct they’ll think she’s lying.
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02-13-2024, 09:37 AM
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#2566
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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F--k it, time to vote for Davison.
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GO FLAMES GO.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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02-13-2024, 09:56 AM
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#2567
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
F--k it, time to vote for Davison.
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Heck yeah, after all he brought us the Jeff Davison Innovation Parking Lot!
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02-13-2024, 10:13 AM
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#2568
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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I'll take it, it's the least offensive thing I can think of at this point. It would be nice to have a boring council and a boring mayor instead of every other time they do something prompting an exasperated "oh ferf-cksake...".
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GO FLAMES GO.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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02-13-2024, 10:15 AM
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#2569
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Need an entire council of the Neutral Planet people from Futurama.
"I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
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02-13-2024, 10:17 AM
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#2570
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People pushing paper, doing minor tax rate adjustments, minor tweaking of legislation, listening to qualified and educated experts on city building and having public town halls is about all the action anyone should expect from Council.
Please, just get to work.
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02-13-2024, 10:19 AM
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#2571
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
Need an entire council of the Neutral Planet people from Futurama.
"I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
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This AI thing can't come soon enough. I am ready to be ruled by a machine, it can't be any worse than people, can it?
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02-13-2024, 10:23 AM
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#2572
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
This AI thing can't come soon enough. I am ready to be ruled by a machine, it can't be any worse than people, can it?
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I guess it depends how much of a Flames fan you are - because I don't think there's any way a logical AI running the City makes the decision to build the new arena. Only people can do "fun" things like that.
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02-13-2024, 10:27 AM
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#2573
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Originally Posted by sleepingmoose
I guess it depends how much of a Flames fan you are - because I don't think there's any way a logical AI running the City makes the decision to build the new arena. Only people can do "fun" things like that.
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Cool. The NHL is an embarrassment, the league a money grabbing disaster, and shoveling tax dollars at them wasn't really high on my list of priorities anyway.
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02-13-2024, 10:28 AM
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#2574
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Cool. The NHL is an embarrassment, the league a money grabbing disaster, and shoveling tax dollars at them wasn't really high on my list of priorities anyway.
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"No Fun Fuzz".
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02-13-2024, 01:57 PM
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#2575
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Heck yeah, after all he brought us the Jeff Davison Innovation Parking Lot!
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Totally underrated in the prog-rock world but I never understood the name of their band.
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02-13-2024, 01:58 PM
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#2576
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Monster Storm
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
"No Fun Fuzz".
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Former Fuzz was Fun.
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02-13-2024, 02:40 PM
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#2577
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My face is a bum!
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Need an entire council of the Neutral Planet people from Futurama.
"I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
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02-15-2024, 01:17 PM
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#2578
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Interesting analysis of the proposed blanket rezoning that has so many people worried. Would love to hear expert take away on this, Willem Klumpenhouwer is pretty level headed so I think it is worth looking at.
https://moreneighbourscalgary.substa...utm_medium=web
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02-15-2024, 01:23 PM
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#2579
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TorqueDog
It would be nice to have a boring council and a boring mayor instead of every other time they do something prompting an exasperated "oh ferf-cksake...".
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Time for an Al Duerr comeback?
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02-15-2024, 01:30 PM
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#2580
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Table 5
Time for an Al Duerr comeback?
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The lost decade of city building...
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