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Written by Citizen staff
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 |
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According to a CFIB study released Thursday, the city's spending rose at 2.89 times the rate at which inflation plus the growth the city's population climbed between 2000 and 2007, the highest among the province's municipalities with over 25,000 residents.
"Among the larger municipalities, Prince George is the worst offender when it comes to its spending increases over the past seven years or so, spending three times what population and inflation growth would suggest is reasonable," said said Laura Jones, one of the report's authors and CFIB's Western Canada vice-president.
However, she added the ratio has improved somewhat between 2006 and 2007, and markedly more so than all others.
"The bad news is that Prince George is the worst offender. The good news is that Prince George showed the most improvement," Jones continued. "Last year, when we did this report, Prince George was spending 3.6 times more than population and inflation growth.
"So there is a little bit of a silver lining."
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Where the heck does this council think the money is going to come from to pay for all their extravagence? The forest industry is in the tank, and it'll be there for awhile. All we now is for one of the big mills to close, indefinitly.
And these guys down at city all just keep handing out the cash.
STOP spending now! Put a freeze on all capital spending And that wish list? Put it in the paper shreader.