The congratulations have started
Deputy Mayor Spooner is ecstatic, he now has a budget of only a 2.7% increase. Whoopdidoo, what has really happened is that the Province has given Cobourg over $300,000 dollars for infrastructure, thereby freeing up 3 tax points. So who has done the heavy lifting? Department heads always contain items in their budgets that they can sacrifice for the greater good.
What we really need is a zero percent budget and if we didn't have to pay for an unneeded Seniors Centre we could have had one. Although I believe that 0% in the minds of all Councillors really means inflation or 3%. What should really be happening is that the "captured assessment" increases to revenue should be offsetting the inflation rate and therefore keeping the tax rate to zero not being spent to achieve the phony zero increase which is really a 3% increase.
What we really need is a zero percent budget and if we didn't have to pay for an unneeded Seniors Centre we could have had one. Although I believe that 0% in the minds of all Councillors really means inflation or 3%. What should really be happening is that the "captured assessment" increases to revenue should be offsetting the inflation rate and therefore keeping the tax rate to zero not being spent to achieve the phony zero increase which is really a 3% increase.
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