Editorial: Municipal costs need watching. Let’s start with the provincewide picture. During the decade from 2000 to 2011, municipal spending ballooned across B.C. Adjusting for inflation and population growth, local government budgets climbed 37 per cent on average. By way of comparison, provincial ministry expenditures rose 19 per cent — half as much. (Here and below, municipal figures exclude police budgets and capital projects.) Part of the explanation lies in the generous salary hikes municipalities have granted their staff — twice what provincial employees received. But it appears there has also been a significant amount of mandate creep. The largest spending lifts were for services that lie outside the traditional boundaries of local government. timescolonist/opinion/editorials/editorial-municipal-costs-need-watching-1.1466016#sthash.UmrnNhVJ.dpuf
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 06:25:28 +0000
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