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Sept 7 Highlights
Council adopted the following guiding principles for 2017 Business Plan and Budget:
- Maintain core programs and services to residents with any related tax levy increase limited to the rate of inflation
- Continued focus on community safety through the dedicated multiyear funding plan
- Priority focus on customer service and systems development
- Continued transitional cost reductions and funding strategies
- Provision for COLA and collective agreement obligations, with consideration of the 2016 market compensation review
- Provision for new growth related facility operating costs
- Increased funding for asset management renewal and replacement
- Targeted temporary use of working capital reserve to fund growth related program and service initiatives with the requirement that the reserve be replenished once supplementary taxes are received
