https://www.saanichvoiceonline.ca/2013/04/01/property-tax-hike-for-central-saanich/ Your voice, your paper, online. Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:15:20 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 https://www.saanichvoiceonline.ca/2013/04/01/property-tax-hike-for-central-saanich/#comment-1923 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:10:56 +0000 https://www.saanichvoiceonline.ca/?p=2738#comment-1923 Well done and informative piece.
Too bad some of our Council thinks that buying what we can’t afford is good policy. We didn’t need the firehall, but once the decison to build it was made all talk of a new municipal hall should have been shelved for another 10 years.
Each of these giant projects should automatically be subjected to a referendum even if that means waiting until the next election. Council should be saving for these things if they want them and not building until all the money is in a fund to do so.
Responsible governance also includes not increasing taxes beyond the level of inflation every year. Look at what others are doing and how they apply “sober second thought” to their decisions.
We could be doing so much better.

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