A decisive city council vote of 8-3 saw the Greater Sudbury Police Service 2023 budget of $72.7 million approved during the first day of municipal budget talks on Wednesday, which also saw them approve an almost $10-million library budget and a 4.8 per cent water/wastewater rate increase
A decisive vote of 8-3 saw city council approve the Greater Sudbury Police Service’s 2023 budget hike of 5.66 per cent during the first day of budget deliberations on Wednesday.
By exceeding this guideline, the police budget bumped the city’s projected 2023 tax levy increase from 3.7 per cent to approximately 4.1 per cent. Ward 3 Coun. Gerry Montpellier and Ward 11 Coun. Bill Leduc did not attend Wednesday’s finance and administration committee meeting in-person or virtually, so did not vote.
Citing a “significant gap” in things such as capital expenditure toward municipal roads and that city administration managed to pare their proposed budget down to 3.7 per cent despite it taking a great deal of maneuvering, he said police should have managed to do the same. “I think they can do better,” she said, adding that 3.7 per cent was a more reasonable number she believes residents would have been better able to absorb.
By the end of Wednesday night’s marathon four-and-a-half-hour budget meeting, the city’s elected officials had bumped the 2023 tax levy increase to approximately 4.5 per cent by approving a handful of business cases for service level increases.
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