The City of Surrey has released its draft five-year budget, allocating more than half of the property tax increases for 2023 to cover the costs associated with the police transition.
The city says maintaining the Mounties will cost about $235-million less over the next five years than the Surrey Police Force, but “there remains a shortfall of $116.6 million created by the transition process.”This comes about three weeks after Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said the director of police services wanted more information before deciding on the city’s plan to revert to the RCMP as its police force.
Mayor Brenda Locke, who campaigned on maintaining the RCMP, said in the news release Saturday that the policing transition “experiment” is now costing residents and businesses.
Our Society behaviour & order is becoming very expensive.
I read another source peg it at 17.5%? There was talk for a while of tax increases due to the police fiasco, but this much......yikes!
For what? What are transition costs and why do they need to be policed?
Why doesn’t the city cut some departments budgets to keep taxes same as last year. The city can’t keep relying on raising taxes always. Time for paying with what you have and not keep reaching into the cookie jar. One day soon the jar will rebel aggressively.
Thanks safesurrey2018 & Duhg McCallum for screwing taxpayers again. 🤬🤬🤬
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