City faces pandemic budget crunch
City council is sitting Monday for the first time since June, and will face the looming issue of how to make ends meet during a pandemic.
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jeather 14:13 on 2020-08-24 Permalink
Apparently you can save lots of money but just expropriating properties instead of buying them, so they’ve got that going for them.
Ian 06:15 on 2020-08-25 Permalink
I hope this doesn’t cut into the street clowns budget.
Douglas 07:41 on 2020-08-25 Permalink
Expropriating them for free. Meaning literally stealing properties from homeowners. Where is the outrage.
Dhomas 08:55 on 2020-08-25 Permalink
@Douglas it might be semantics, but none of those expropriated properties had houses built on them, so it’s a stretch to call them “homeowners”. Also, I’m glad this was brought to light as we will hopefully see some resolution now. From what I read, the fonctionnaires that performed the expropriations would have nothing to gain from them (i.e. it doesn’t smell like corruption). Let’s hope this exercise allows the municipal government to realize their mistake and put in place some checks and balances going forward.
walkerp 12:48 on 2020-08-25 Permalink
Wait until they start being allowed to expropriate clowns without approval.
Joking aside, at this point we have swung so far towards private property in these neoliberal times that I am almost okay with the city having this power.