The municipalities, forced to share the costs of policing since 200, are again complaining about the budgeting process — though for different reasons.
Victoria and Esquimalt’s unhappy marriage over the cost of policing may be nearing an end after more than 20 years, but it hasn’t made this year’s budgeting process any less frustrating for all sides.
“And that appeal very often goes in favour of the police board,” Alto said. “It is a charade in the sense that it seems patently unreasonable to expect a municipal council, even though it has a very large and deep reserve of expertise, to be able to bring that expertise in any meaningful way to an assessment of police services.”
Esquimalt council has also suggested the department could do without funding for the seven personnel along with program cuts in a recommendation that would trim just over $1.3 million from the budget. “We continually go into this situation every year where the board is proposing a budget for two very different communities and there is no satisfaction to be had.”
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