Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Preliminary budget proposes 2.52 per cent tax increase

Coun. Dawn Luhning speaks about salaries and the
consumer price index in the proposed 2014 operating
budget at the Nov. 25, 2013 council meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


City administration is proposing a 2.52 per cent mill rate increase in the 2014 preliminary operating budget.

At Monday's regular council meeting, council heard a presentation of the 2014 operating budget estimates from members of city administration. The estimates were referred to budget committee for further review.

“We’re presenting it to council so that over the appointed days, council can review and ask questions and help us, because we have not made adjustments to revenue other than the revenue that drove us down,” said city manager Matt Noble to council, referring to the revenue sharing from the provincial government.

“To a large degree that is because council sets the level of service, so we’ll be looking for (council's) input to say what the level of service (they) are willing to provide to the community (will be, whether) supporting the increases or decreases depending upon the case,” said Noble.

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