Gerry, Thanks for your response. I understand budgets are very difficult time, and was surprised to learn about all the Unions and contracts that the city has is obligated to. I appreciate getting the answers and I guess in some form the “system” works. Without being overly negative, I would say that CK are very [...]

A few days ago, Bill submitted questions regarding the base budgets of our Police, Economic Development and Social Housing operations. We’ve asked each area to respond to their specific questions. Here’s the reply from Dennis Poole, our Police Chief. Referring to: Police Services Base Budget 2012. Question: Line item 9244: What are the building expenses [...]

Hi Gerry Thanks for the breakdown for average salary increases. I was hoping to see them broken down by year. Given that you have tabulated the cumulative average I suspect you can break this down by year so could you display the increases for the last five years separatel?. Comparing increases to the CPI or [...]

Hi everyone. Here’s an update on the 2012 budget process after week one of Council discussions. A total of three weeks have been scheduled. As outlined in detail in a previous post, administration tabled a draft 2012 budget that did two things: 1) Asked Council to consider a budget that would do the following: Maintain [...]

Update re responses outstanding:

John … we’re finalizing the response to your remaining question. It will be posted early next week.
Bill … Police, Economic Development and Social Housing are drafting responses to your questions. We’ll post them when they’re completed.