Sunday Reminder / Shelley's Perspective
MAYOR MILLER Comin to the OPEN HOUSE on Sunday. READ THE POST BELOW THIS!!
TALKING, EATING, SKATING, KIDS STUFF!!!
SHELLEY'S PERSPECTIVE:
This mornings news clippings included a lambasting of City Councillors and the Mayor for arguing with the Board of Trade.
In our defense, you should know what they were proposing. The Board of Trade asks that we trim $135 million dollars of non-essential fat. Their other helpful suggestion was that we pass along to taxpayers $300 million more in user fees.
My friends, you need to know that my fellow Budget Committee members and I have worked very hard the last two months to cut $117 million of those dollars. I informed Mr. Grunwald I would be happy to go back and find the rest.
As for user fees, my feeling is that you are already paying up front in your property taxes. Smaller communities who charge $2 a bag for every bag of garbage have MUCH lower municipal taxes. They get a further tax break because you, as a Torontonian pay a large portion of their education expenses.
Mr Grunwald agrees that the Province should pay for income support programs like Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support, Ontario Drug Plan and Social Housing. Well thank you, Mr. Grunwald, because those services make up almost our entire shortfall. Pass the word along to Queen's Park that we need a five year phase-in solution to paying for income related social services with Property Taxes.
Council took great political risk earlier this year when we agreed to address the imbalance between residential and commercial property taxes by adding an average of $10 a year to each household for 5 years. We agreed to do so even before our own imbalance issue with the Province is solved in order to stop the exodus of jobs to the 905's. Your welcome, Mr. Grunwald.
If you want to talk about any of this with myself or the Mayor, or you just want to eat, drink hot chocolate and skate with us, READ THE POST BELOW!
TALKING, EATING, SKATING, KIDS STUFF!!!
SHELLEY'S PERSPECTIVE:
This mornings news clippings included a lambasting of City Councillors and the Mayor for arguing with the Board of Trade.
In our defense, you should know what they were proposing. The Board of Trade asks that we trim $135 million dollars of non-essential fat. Their other helpful suggestion was that we pass along to taxpayers $300 million more in user fees.
My friends, you need to know that my fellow Budget Committee members and I have worked very hard the last two months to cut $117 million of those dollars. I informed Mr. Grunwald I would be happy to go back and find the rest.
As for user fees, my feeling is that you are already paying up front in your property taxes. Smaller communities who charge $2 a bag for every bag of garbage have MUCH lower municipal taxes. They get a further tax break because you, as a Torontonian pay a large portion of their education expenses.
Mr Grunwald agrees that the Province should pay for income support programs like Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support, Ontario Drug Plan and Social Housing. Well thank you, Mr. Grunwald, because those services make up almost our entire shortfall. Pass the word along to Queen's Park that we need a five year phase-in solution to paying for income related social services with Property Taxes.
Council took great political risk earlier this year when we agreed to address the imbalance between residential and commercial property taxes by adding an average of $10 a year to each household for 5 years. We agreed to do so even before our own imbalance issue with the Province is solved in order to stop the exodus of jobs to the 905's. Your welcome, Mr. Grunwald.
If you want to talk about any of this with myself or the Mayor, or you just want to eat, drink hot chocolate and skate with us, READ THE POST BELOW!
posted by Ward 33 @ 4:21 PM
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