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Calgary Faces $3.5 Million Budget Deficit For 2010-2011

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Calgary, Alberta (AHN) – Like its mother province Alberta that is reeling from the impact of the recession and the global economic crisis from late 2008, Calgary is also suffering financially. The city approved its 2010-11 budget with an expected $13.5 million budget deficit.

The gap is not expected to be closed despite approval a day before by the city council of a tax increase a little below five percent for next fiscal year. It would cost Calgarians $54 more on their residential property tax bill.

Despite the tighter budget, Alberta municipalities are even hiking their spending at 1.6 times above their population rate and inflation growth. In the case of Calgary, its spending increase will be by 1.4 percent.

Calgary Mayor Dave Bronconnier said in a statement, “This is the tightest budget that we have had to delivery in years. It comes with layoffs. It also comes with some program changes, yet we have preserved our key priority areas of public safety, mobility and environmental protection.”

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017106049

Calgary, Alberta (AHN) – Like its mother province Alberta that is reeling from the impact of the recession and the global economic crisis from late 2008, Calgary is also suffering financially. The city approved its 2010-11 budget with an expected $13.5 million budget deficit.

The gap is not expected to be closed despite approval a day before by the city council of a tax increase a little below five percent for next fiscal year. It would cost Calgarians $54 more on their residential property tax bill.

Despite the tighter budget, Alberta municipalities are even hiking their spending at 1.6 times above their population rate and inflation growth. In the case of Calgary, its spending increase will be by 1.4 percent.

Calgary Mayor Dave Bronconnier said in a statement, “This is the tightest budget that we have had to delivery in years. It comes with layoffs. It also comes with some program changes, yet we have preserved our key priority areas of public safety, mobility and environmental protection.”

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017106049

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Calgary mayor wants more funds for snow removal

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CALGARY – After his 11-kilometre morning commute to City Hall took an hour longer than normal today, Mayor Dave Bronconnier said Calgary needs a bigger fleet to handle wintry roads.
The mayor said he’ll push for a “few extra million dollars” for snow removal when council adjusts the 2010 budget next month. But in a year where council already has to cut deeply to balance its finances, he wouldn’t say whether that money should come from additional service cuts elsewhere, or additioanl property taxes.
Despite perennial surveys saying Calgarians want better snow-removal service but don’t want to pay more for it, Bronconnier said the “cost is well worth the additional benefit.
“Even if it’s (to save) 10, 15, 20 minutes of your commute time, I look at that at money well invested,” he told reporters after giving the new U.S. Ambassador to Canada a white-hat welcome.
Commuting delays mean losses for business, and parents often have to pay penalties for arriving late at daycares, the mayor said.
He credited the city’s more than 70 salting and grading trucks for hitting the road by 4 a.m. “The repoonse is adequate for the material and personnel we have,” he said.
Next month, aldermen will debate a 2010 budget that features a property-tax increase of 6.1 per cent, although officials are trying to lower that to 5.3 per cent, the level of last year’s hike.
Neither figure includes money for better winter-road clearing.
Bronconnier again floated the idea of sub-contracting private trucks, a potentially costly initiative in a city that doesn’t see as much snow as others in Canada.
Right now, some drivers can barely even get out of their own communities, he said. It took the mayor about 40 minutes just to clear out of his neighbourhood.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Mayor+more+funds+snow+removal/2097346/story.html

CALGARY – After his 11-kilometre morning commute to City Hall took an hour longer than normal today, Mayor Dave Bronconnier said Calgary needs a bigger fleet to handle wintry roads.

The mayor said he’ll push for a “few extra million dollars” for snow removal when council adjusts the 2010 budget next month. But in a year where council already has to cut deeply to balance its finances, he wouldn’t say whether that money should come from additional service cuts elsewhere, or additioanl property taxes.

Despite perennial surveys saying Calgarians want better snow-removal service but don’t want to pay more for it, Bronconnier said the “cost is well worth the additional benefit.

“Even if it’s (to save) 10, 15, 20 minutes of your commute time, I look at that at money well invested,” he told reporters after giving the new U.S. Ambassador to Canada a white-hat welcome.

Commuting delays mean losses for business, and parents often have to pay penalties for arriving late at daycares, the mayor said.

He credited the city’s more than 70 salting and grading trucks for hitting the road by 4 a.m. “The repoonse is adequate for the material and personnel we have,” he said.

Next month, aldermen will debate a 2010 budget that features a property-tax increase of 6.1 per cent, although officials are trying to lower that to 5.3 per cent, the level of last year’s hike.

Neither figure includes money for better winter-road clearing.

Bronconnier again floated the idea of sub-contracting private trucks, a potentially costly initiative in a city that doesn’t see as much snow as others in Canada.

Right now, some drivers can barely even get out of their own communities, he said. It took the mayor about 40 minutes just to clear out of his neighbourhood.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Mayor+more+funds+snow+removal/2097346/story.html

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