The province has given Surrey a 4 p.m. deadline to accept its offer of police transition funding. Meanwhile, the city has released a budget projecting a 7 per cent tax hike.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.WATCH: B.C.'s public safety minister has imposed a 4 p.m. deadline for Surrey to finalize a funding deal on policing. Keith Baldrey has the latest on that, also the city has released its Surrey draft budget, which doesn’t include the Surrey Police Service.
That budget, however, is predicated on the city keeping the RCMP. Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke, who campaigned on scrapping the police transition, is currently spearheading a court challenge of the province’s directive that it complete the switch to the SPS. “If we are mandated to continue with the police transition, we are facing an increased cost of a half a billion dollars or more over the next decade, compared to the cost of the RCMP,” she said.
Locke alleged that anticipated costs from the SPS transition had forced council to pause a variety of planned capital projects, including a welcome centre, a pool for Whaley and a redevelopment of the Cloverdale Fairgrounds.She further suggested taxpayers could face a property tax hike in the ballpark of 12 per cent in 2025 if the transition goes ahead.Surrey Coun. Linda Annis, an opponent of the mayor on the policing file, questioned Locke’s numbers on the transition costs.
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