Broadcast Centre reporter James Peters tweeted the above very understandable sentiment from the council budget meeting this morning. Indeed, the meeting was messy, but it was also robust. Almost every budget item on today's agenda was discussed and every councillor had a lot to say. I think in the final city budget meeting of any given year, of any meeting, the tone and tenor was entirely appropriate. We are living under the paradigm of fiscal restraint and greater involvement. In the end, largely through the work of city hall's assistant finance director Doug Stewart and other city staffers, we were able to get the city tax increase from a 5.7% number a couple of weeks ago to 1.92% today. This exercise in decreasing the tax rate happens every year but I can't help but feel we have a new vigour about it right now.
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