Twas the week after budget

This episode is about the budget. Happy holidays and may your break be not filled with nightmares of watching city council debate the budget.

Ours will be.

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Budget 2022

• News Release: City Council confirms 2022 budget
• Edmonton Police Service budget increase for 2022 cut to $1M, capital budget finalized
• Edmonton city council sets 1.91 per cent tax levy increase for next year in approving $3.1-billion 2022 operating budget
• Mack's budget tweets
• Budget documents

Police Budget

• EPS promising to 'protect the jobs' of officers after 2022 budget increase is slashed
• EPS Funding Formula
• July 2020 motion
• Fall 2020 SOBA
• Coun. Aaron Paquette's subsequent motion

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