‘City Council’ Archives
Toronto Councillors Donations and Trip to Vienna ?
Image via Wikipedia On April 15, 2010 City Council approved a 5% reduction in the office expense budget of each Councillor until Nov. 30, 2010. This is because 2010 is an election year so each councillor now has an office expense budget of $46,241. If you examine the expenses in the last quarter you can notice questionable expenses. [...]
Toronto’s Next Mayor
Out of the twenty-six candidates running for the position of Toronto’s next Mayor, six of the candidates had the first debate at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough. Another debate which was a three hour live debate took place on CP24 on May 18 2010 which included the same six candidates of the first debate even though there are [...]
Toronto Mayor in 2010
Who do you have in your mind? Who do you think can make a difference for the city of Toronto? Who is the mayor you have in mind? That’s right. It’s that time again, where we elect our new mayor for Toronto after seven years. In order to consider which mayor would make Toronto a better city we need to know each of the candidates running for the [...]
Toronto Public Library Ignores City Guideline !
Although the City’s guideline for the 2010 Operating Budget requires a 5% reduction from the 2009 Approved Budget, the 2010 recommended budget increase for TPL is 1.8%. In January 18th, 2010, the Toronto Library Board did not endorse all of the recommended reduction options totaling $2.423 million. The 2010 Approved Capital Budget and [...]
Canada’s National Debt Hits $500 Billion
Over the next 5 years Canadian federal government will be adding another $170 billion to the deficit so the share of this debt for each of us will be $15,000. We are living in uncertain times and faced with budget shortfalls in many areas we should be questioning every dollar spend by our government. For instance, the Children Aid Society [...]
Ontario’s New 13% Harmonized Sales Tax – What It Will Mean To You
Next summer (2010) the Ontario Government is set to put into force its new harmonized GST/PST sales tax which will apply a 13% sales tax to everything we purchase. Things That Were Not Subject To The Current 8% PST Will Be Now Taxed As a result, things that were not previously taxed under the current Ontario Provincial Sales Tax (PST) will be [...]
The City of Toronto Cut Budget
The city of Toronto aims to cut 10% or $343 M from its operating budget over the next couple of years. Thank goodness we have a law in place that doesn't allow Toronto and other municipalities to run in red otherwise we would be in no better shape than Ontario province which has a record deficit of $24.7 B. The estimated fiscal shortfall [...]
Toronto Operating Budget Facts
This is based on Property Tax of $2,336 for an average house with an assessed value of $387,680 Police Service and Board $582 TTC $257 Fire Services $242 Toronto Employment and Social Services [...]
Toronto – City Renumeration and Expenses
Here is some interesting data from city of Toronto remuneration and expenses report: Toronto Mayor has an Office budget of $2,599,400 that includes $2,306,345.54 for staff salaries and benefits (equivalent to 23 full time staff). That would mean ~$100,000 per staff member ! Pam McConnell, ward No. 28 has spend over $11,873 on [...]
Are we spending our tax dollars wisely?
"...Brentwood Library Renovation/Expansion project required an increase of $1.739 million ($1.739 million debt) to reflect rising construction costs estimates." "TORONTO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Ontario's government said on Thursday it will run a record budget deficit of C$24.7 billion ..." What do you think, are we spending our tax dollars [...]
