Five Calgary city councillors are proposing a slew of changes to the city's proposed budget, which currently includes an overall property tax increase of 3.6 per cent.
WATCH ABOVE : Global Calgary’s city hall reporter Adam MacVicar joins Global News Morning Calgary to discuss the challenges facing city council heading into budget deliberations and what is being prioritized.A group of five Calgary city councillors are planning to bring forward a slew of changes during this week’s budget deliberations in an effort to reduce the proposed overall property tax increase of 3.6 per cent.
If approved, Sharp believes the list of changes could result in a reduction of $70 million in operating spending and another $4 million in capital investments. However, the amendments have not yet been made public. “We don’t direct how the organization is structured, we can certainly provide our perspectives,” Gondek told reporters. “To eliminate an entire position or to combine offices, that’s absolutely an operational decision of the chief administrative officer.”
According to the news release, Chabot and Wong will introduce an amendment to eliminate a planned one per cent tax shift from non-residential to residential properties “to reduce the tax burden on homeowners.”“While we may solve a problem on one hand, we’re creating a problem on the residential side and I don’t want to create that problem,” Wong said. “We can solve the non-residential problem in other ways.”The release said Coun.
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