THE City of Regina proposed its 2025 budget, which could reach a significant cost for residents.
The city administration has presented recommendations for an increase in the rate of public services by 5.82% and an increase in the factory rate by 8.5% – the highest in recent history.
Combined, they could cost the median household of $ 320 per year.
According to City Director Niki Anderson, increases can no longer be avoided.
“For many years, our city has played catch -up, increases in mill levels are historically kept below what is necessary to respond to the growing commandments of our community,” said Niki Anderson.
On the 8.5% increase, 1.9% concerns city administration.
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According to the administration of the city, a higher mill rate will make it easier and safer for residents to move. Key investments include the revitalization of 11th avenue, the increase in the park’s lighting and the replacement of the public transport fleet.
The administration offers investments of around $ 96 million for the Régina road network. It also offers $ 59 million for Regina’s public transport system.
This is something that the city is pushed back and they say that it can no longer wait.
“By trying to remember this cost, we realized that he was influenced over time,” said Daren Anderson. “We are starting to get a turnover over time, then use external sources to do some of these things.”
The rate of public services would finance the replacement of Regina’s aging water infrastructure.
“We have an underground infrastructure dated that we ensure that the long -term viable remains,” said Daren Anderson, the financial director.
The municipal council will deliberate the proposed budget from March 17th. And although this year’s city council votes, Niki Anderson said that these figures more reflected the decisions of the previous council.
“Much of this budget is things they have inherited,” she said. “(We) are talking about planning, but a large part is really the financial snapshot of things already promised.”
One of these 2025 budgetary investments includes the highly requested interior aquatic installation.
The versatile installation is delivered with an investment offered of $ 27 million in 2025. The new installation should open its doors in 2028. It will replace the current Lawson Aquatic Center, which is almost 50 years old and the city said that “at the end of its lifespan”.
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