True, but isn’t it the city’s responsibility to properly allot that funding? Or are you saying that the cities are underfunded by the province, which I wouldn’t be surprised by.
I don’t know if Alberta is like Ontario, but here in Ontario over the last 3 decades the province has slowly been reducing how much it transfers to cities while also offloading more expenses onto those cities.
This has resulted in:
higher house prices as cities have needed to start adding large fees to house building in-order to help balance the books (and raising property taxes is always very unpopular)
worse public transit as the provinces now expect cities to take on more of those expenses.
And likely other things too. But those are the ones always on my mind
A bunch of city funding comes from the province.
True, but isn’t it the city’s responsibility to properly allot that funding? Or are you saying that the cities are underfunded by the province, which I wouldn’t be surprised by.
I don’t know if Alberta is like Ontario, but here in Ontario over the last 3 decades the province has slowly been reducing how much it transfers to cities while also offloading more expenses onto those cities.
This has resulted in:
And likely other things too. But those are the ones always on my mind
Yeah I was getting at the fact that they’re underfunded.
The report from the city actually found they were underspending on risk analysis and mitigation, not that they were underfunded.