Folks, bear in mind that since there is no provincial municipal auditor then there is no guarantee and also no way of knowing that this stormwater tax revenue will be dedicated to stormwater infrastructure. My betting is that a portion of this new revenue will go to non-related items, such as a pay increase for councillor Kyle Symptom.If the proposed stormwater utility fee will be replacing that portion of property taxes that used to fund infrastructure then the new property tax bill should show the fee as a separate line item and the regular property tax should be lower.
How is this legal ? No grandfather clause ? How about on new homes only ? Charge us more for something we bought 10-15 yrs ago ? By the way. Rain water is very clean. Very easy on filtration systems. Rain water actually helps by diluting the sewage etc before entering the filtration system… maybe we should charge you for it …
“replacing the portion of property taxes that went to funding it previously.” - Does that mean we can expect to see a reduction in our current taxes? I think we all know the answer to that. They will tell us that we will see LESS of a tax increase.
So the City no longer cleans Snow on Weekends and Holidays and Now School Buses do not run on Monday because of Snow .To the City - this is Prince George - Snow cleaning needed 24/7 in Winter.
I don't understand how housing prices can rise in a city that is losing its Major Industry Employers in the Mills. How many mills have shut down in the last 5 years. What new industry is employing these people. This tells me it's either people moving from the Lower Mainland or Okanagan because it's too expensive or it is Immigration fueling this! There is no other explanations that can warrant this increase other than of course greed of Government! These assessments need to be challenged because any person in their right mind would argue. Otherwise that value should be going down at Prince George not up.
Like Rikki bobby famously said, “if ya ain’t first, ur last”Also, “2nd place is the first loser”Rikki would not be celebrating a 3rd place finish in a tourney with 2 good teams.
Eby made shockingly sensible comments to the media today, saying Canada should built oil refineries in response to the freeing of the Venezuelan economy. Hopefully it’s not just comments to distract from the pipeline through B.C. idea…But, for once, I’m with Eby on that one!