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THUNDER BAY – A proposal to condense the City of Thunder Bay’s budget process is being welcomed as a path to greater efficiency, but it would also drastically slash the amount of time the public and city council have to review the document before it's approved.
"And given the number of nights we spend on it, we get into minutiae and into the kitchen sometimes." "That debate is important, but if I may, I don’t want to spend three hours debating $10,000 of picnic tables. I think that’s perhaps what Coun. Bentz wants to get away from.""Other municipalities do their budget in one night, and they’re much larger than us – it kind of blows my mind, and I’m a little envious of them,” she said. “Not to say that we should aim for one night, but somewhere close would be nice.
That would leave the spending plan in the public eye for 25 days before council’s final ratification vote, down from 34 days this year. At the same time, council approved what the city calls its administrative budget calendar, the timeline on which staff across municipal departments assemble the proposed budget that is ultimately sent to council.
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