Low taxes during COVID and an ever-growing city are two reasons cited by Langford staff for a 12.41 per cent property tax increase.
A group of concerned Langford residents have printed signs and placed them through the city to protest the property tax increase.
“In the past, there was never any fat on the budget, so we’re starting there with no fat on the budget, a lean machine, the city was very efficient,” Szpak said. “It’s still that but now we are at a tipping point for growth. There are some some needs that have emerged, so it is a bit of a perfect storm.”Council had asked the city’s department of finance to come back with suggestions on how to cut the budget increase for the year to 9.9 per cent.
“But that being said, I see this increase as something that we need to do. It’s time to invest in ourselves as a community whether it’s police for safety require for safety, staffing just to maintain service levels. These are things that our community expects.” “2022 ‘Cop to Pop’ ratio is 1:763 with an authorized strength of 61,” the budget documents say. “Budget as proposed includes funding for 4 additional officers to maintain current service levels and working towards 1:750.”
“And with moving to six, we’ll be phasing in the reopening of station two from three to either four or five years. Which means that we won’t have that station fully staffed for potentially up to another five years.”
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