\u0022The $4.5 billion 2023 draft budget tabled at council on Wednesday largely follows the priorities that Mark Sutcliffe identified during his successful campaign for mayor last fall, and as such shouldn’t rattle too many cages that weren’t already shaking.\u0022
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“My goal is to deliver a budget that achieves the commitments that I made during the election campaign,” he said on Wednesday, “including both priority spending and a specific tax increase, commitments that were supported by a majority of Ottawa voters. But in keeping with my goal to bring change to city government, my goal is to pass this budget through collaboration and consensus.”
“That is not something that I that I support outwardly,” he said, “because I do see a demand and, as you mentioned, when you talk to our membership, they’re over-tasked.”Among the welcome new funding announced Wednesday is $5 million to support the implementation of the city’s climate change master plan, which hopes to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change over the next three decades.
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