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Tax payment deferral plan available

By Pepper Parr March 5th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON It started out with; Direct the Chief Financial Officer to implement a 2021 COVID-19 property tax […]

What were the individual Councillor contributions to the 2021 budget ?

Iamonaco, the city's Public Involvement Coordinator may want to say something about CLOSED council sessions - maybe?

By Pepper Parr March 4th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON OPINION Once the decision is made to settle on just what the tax rate for a year […]

Official: tax increase over 2020 budget will be 4.14% - 18.99 per $100,000 of assessment.

By Pepper Parr March 3rd 2021 BURLINGTON, ON It is now official. Council voted for a tax levy of $182,276,388 which will mean a […]

Standing committee settles on a tax levy for the operations budget - not the 3.99% the Mayor vowed to deliver.

By Pepper Parr February 25th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON They wrapped it up. We now know what the tax levy is going to be for […]

Council returns to budget deliberations and immediately goes into a CLOSED session

By Pepper Parr February 25th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON Updated on February 25th: 11:07 am A day off doesn’t seem to have changed a thing. No […]

Public did not get a chance to hear about the proposal that could have reduced $1.46 million from the budget

Councillor Stolte looking for a response to her motion - put forward last April

By Pepper Parr February 24th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON Just what was the hullabaloo all about? It was about a possible $1,466,000 savings that had […]

Council wasn't able to get to that magic 3.99% tax increase on Tuesday - they will try again on Thursday

By Pepper Parr February 23rd, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON It was late; 9:45 pm. They had been going at it since 9:30 in the morning. […]

A Confidential Issue on the City Operating Budget ? Why?

By Pepper Parr February 19th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON Have you ever seen something like this before? BAR forms (Budget Action Requests) are documents Councillors […]

Council and Staff are in agreement on 27 changes to the budget - Stolte doesn't hop on that band wagon - asks for a 10% cut in the Council payroll

By Pepper Parr February 18th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON They are referred to as BAR (Budget Action Request), forms that each Council member can submit […]

Not once, not twice - but three times. Councillor holds three Zoom meetings

By Pepper Parr February 12th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON The Communications people at City Hall provide a service that amounts to a listing of events […]

Damoff to hold on -line Town Hall on federal budget - February 11th

By Pepper Parr January 29th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON Oakville North-Burlington MP Pam Damoff in full election mode Pam Damoff, the MP for Oakville North […]

Finance department provides a budget simulation tool - figure out how you would send the money

By Staff January 27th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON During February City Councillors will be debating the Operations budget which threatens to come in at more […]

Council gets draft Operations budget - along with a lot of detailed data in a graphic format

By Pepper Parr January 22, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON Council heard just what the city is up against as they prepare to craft the Operations […]

Mayor will direct Staff to find savings that bring the proposed 4.99% tax increase down to 3.99%

By Pepper Parr January 20th 2021 BURLINGTON, ON Mayor Meed Ward doesn’t like the look of 4.99% tax increase and has advised her council […]

First view of the 2020-2021 budget calls for a 4.99% tax increase

By Pepper Parr January 20th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON A picture is worth 1000 words. What is a chart worth? The chart below is from […]

Councillor said the public trusts us - Muir points to her false logic

By Pepper Parr January 19th, 2021 BURLINGTON, ON When the Corporate Services, Strategy, Risk and Accountability Committee was ready to adjourn last week after […]