Regina city council passes 2023 budget – Regina | 24CA News
After three intense days of funds deliberations, Regina metropolis council has handed the town’s 2023 working funds. However, that didn’t occur with out a vital discount being made to the 2023 mill price enhance.
A movement from councillors Lori Bresciani and Bob Hawkins was handed that can cut back the speed from the projected 4.66 per cent to three.67 per cent.
The enhance will now be $6.85 a month for the typical dwelling valued at $315,000.
The new price leads to metropolis administration having to search out decreased expenditures to the tune of $2.9 million.
Regina’s ongoing homelessness concern additionally dominated a lot of the dialogue Friday.
Things acquired heated with Coun. Andrew Stevens shifting a movement that might take the proposed 0.5 mill price enhance for recreation and transfer it to a everlasting supportive housing grant.
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“It’s important to me that my kid has a playground to play on but it’s more important to me that she not stumble upon someone who died of a fentanyl overdose in a park near our house,” Ward 6 Coun. Dan LeBlanc mentioned.
“If I have to choose between recreation and shelter I’m going to choose shelter,” Ward 8 Coun. Shanon Zachidniak mentioned.
Stevens’ movement was finally voted down.
No new amendments concerning funding homelessness had been handed into the funds.
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It is the primary multi-year funds for Regina, protecting 2023 and 2024.
Budget discussions had been sidetracked in the previous few weeks by controversy as two metropolis councillors, Stevens and LeBlanc, took metropolis supervisor Niki Anderson to courtroom, alleging that the town didn’t embrace funding to deal with homelessness within the operational funds.
“Instead of working together as council this has been a total, total mess,” Jason Mancinelli, Ward 9 councillor, mentioned.
Regina Mayor Sandra Masters mentioned the town is doing “more than ever” to deal with the problem.
“I resent the fact that there is no acknowledgment from my council colleagues that we are doing an extraordinary amount, more than has ever been done before. To say that we can just throw folks into houses is wrong-headed, erroneous and complete misinformation,” Masters mentioned.
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