It was with interest what I read about the 2025 budget presentation given by Ms. Prince.
There are a couple of points that I felt show how misguided administration is and how we the taxpayers are constantly asked to pay their bills. She mentioned that since 2018 we have not kept up with the averages.
So, what did administration do since 2018? As an example, I did look at the sunshine list and in 2018 there were 38 people on this list which included the police. If you remove the police from the list then administration had 13 people making over $100K per year.
Now in 2024 the administration has 29 people on the list, so they surely know how to increase our tax burden. As I mentioned before, why do we have a deputy CAO and no other town does? In my business world that means that the CAO can’t do her job and other CAO’s can. When is the council going to act to stop this waste and learn how to save money for the taxpayers.
The next item I noticed was that our CAO stated that the MPAC which is the assessment of the property values will not be done in 2025. So, if you read between the lines, they are hoping to have an excuse to increase taxes even more due to the higher assessment. Please go the MPAC website and you will find that a reassessment does not mean the property tax has to go up.
There are many more items on how administration is wasting money and nothing will change until we change council which are just doing what administration tells them to do.
—Holger Kretschmann
Amherstburg
Concerns over 2025 budget presentation
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