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Ottawa city council has approved a $3.2-billion budget for 2016, but — for the first time since Jim Watson was elected mayor in 2010 — the final vote was not unanimous.
Five city councillors, including veterans Diane Deans and Rick Chiarelli, voted against the spending plan, which will see taxes rise by two per cent for residential property owners.
“This is your budget, Mr. Mayor, it’s not mine,” Deans pointedly told the mayor.
Earlier in the meeting, her effort to secure an additional $250,000 in one-time funding to help community groups and social service agencies from across the city meet additional demands for their service failed.
Another motion introduced by Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum, which sought to freeze transit fares in 2016, also failed.
Nussbaum was joined by two other first-term councillors, Kitchissippi’s Jeff Leiper and Somerset’s Catherine McKenney in voting against the budget.
The owner of a $375,300 urban home who paid $2,175 in municipal taxes this year now faces a $2,219 municipal tax bill– an increase of $44.
The average homeowner will pay $49 more next year for water and sewers — a six per cent increase — as well as two per cent increases to police and transit levies. The garbage collection fee will remain steady at $82.
Transit fares will rise by an average of 2.5 per cent and plans to cut dozens of early-morning and late-night bus trips will be eliminated in April.
The city banked on $37 million in savings, including $10 million in “efficiencies,” to balance the budget.
The city’s workforce will be reduced by 50 full-time equivalent positions in 2016, followed by another 150 FTE positions in 2017 and 2018, for a total of 200 over the next three years. City managers have been asked to identify those jobs over the next few months, but so far only about 15 positions have been identified.
More to come.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
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Five city councillors, including veterans Diane Deans and Rick Chiarelli, voted against the spending plan, which will see taxes rise by two per cent for residential property owners.
“This is your budget, Mr. Mayor, it’s not mine,” Deans pointedly told the mayor.
Earlier in the meeting, her effort to secure an additional $250,000 in one-time funding to help community groups and social service agencies from across the city meet additional demands for their service failed.
Another motion introduced by Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum, which sought to freeze transit fares in 2016, also failed.
Nussbaum was joined by two other first-term councillors, Kitchissippi’s Jeff Leiper and Somerset’s Catherine McKenney in voting against the budget.
The owner of a $375,300 urban home who paid $2,175 in municipal taxes this year now faces a $2,219 municipal tax bill– an increase of $44.
The average homeowner will pay $49 more next year for water and sewers — a six per cent increase — as well as two per cent increases to police and transit levies. The garbage collection fee will remain steady at $82.
Transit fares will rise by an average of 2.5 per cent and plans to cut dozens of early-morning and late-night bus trips will be eliminated in April.
The city banked on $37 million in savings, including $10 million in “efficiencies,” to balance the budget.
The city’s workforce will be reduced by 50 full-time equivalent positions in 2016, followed by another 150 FTE positions in 2017 and 2018, for a total of 200 over the next three years. City managers have been asked to identify those jobs over the next few months, but so far only about 15 positions have been identified.
More to come.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mpearson78
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