Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Infrastructure the key word in budget talks

Budget committee makes decisions on the majority of the budget over the weekend

Budget committee met on the weekend to
discuss the operating and capital budgets.
Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald

By Lisa Goudy

As budget deliberations entered into the first capital budget item on Saturday, it took just over one minute for infrastructure to be brought up.

"We should only have one focus here and that is our infrastructure requirements that are way beyond our capacity," said Coun. Brian Swanson. "We have way too much expenditures. We should be stripping out everything that isn't road, water lines, bridges."

It started when he made a motion to change the capital innovative housing project - which was to provide a source of funding for the municipal portion of the federal and provincial housing programs - from its proposed funding level of $75,000 in 2016 to $0.

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