Do you feel you pay too much in property taxes and utility fees to city hall?
Do you want to give kudos to a valuable city service that you want to see
maintained? Are you simply just interested in what the community spending
priorities are? The next couple of weeks offer a great chance to provide
constructive input to the 2010 city budget. On
February 9th 2010, at 7pm, at the Sports Action Lounge at Interior Savings
Centre, city council will be hosting a public budget consultation.
It's a great opportunity to learn more about community spending priorities and
the taxes / fees we pay.
If you can't make that meeting and would still like to provide input into the budget or get more information, there are a couple a different ways to do so. First, you can contact Sally Edwards, City Hall's Director of Finance, who can be reached at 250 828 3413 or at sedwards@kamloops.ca. Second, you can also contact Mayor Peter Milobar at 250 828 3495 or at mayor@kamloops.ca. Third, you can contact your favourite city councillor(s) - their contact info available at http://www.kamloops.ca/mayor/
Comprehensive information on the city financials is available in the city "budget book", formally known as the 2010-2014 Financial Plan. The introduction to this book - section A - is really well presented this year and provides a good overview. The other sections of the book go into more detail. The budget book can be picked up at city hall front desk or downloaded from http://www.kamloops.ca/
The February 9th public consultation meeting comes towards the end of the city
budget planning process. In July 2009, the process started off with city hall's
senior staff approving budget timelines and guidelines. All city departments
are asked to look at the previous year's revenue and expenditures and to submit
projections for the 2010 budget. Then, senior city staff goes through the
projections at least twice before the discussion comes to city council. City
council are given a list of supplemental budget items to discuss. The public
consultation is held, and then council meets one more time on specific
budget matter
If you can't make that meeting and would still like to provide input into the budget or get more information, there are a couple a different ways to do so. First, you can contact Sally Edwards, City Hall's Director of Finance, who can be reached at 250 828 3413 or at sedwards@kamloops.ca. Second, you can also contact Mayor Peter Milobar at 250 828 3495 or at mayor@kamloops.ca. Third, you can contact your favourite city councillor(s) - their contact info available at http://www.kamloops.ca/mayor/
Comprehensive information on the city financials is available in the city "budget book", formally known as the 2010-2014 Financial Plan. The introduction to this book - section A - is really well presented this year and provides a good overview. The other sections of the book go into more detail. The budget book can be picked up at city hall front desk or downloaded from http://www.kamloops.ca/
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