The city is facing tight budgets year after year and Mayor Ivan Court is worried about the future cost of policing.
He tells CHSJ News the larger municipalities in the province are subsidising the cost of policing in unincorporated areas where the tax rate is alot lower but can no longer afford to do that with budgets tight.
Court acknowledges it will take alot of political courage on the part of any provincial government, regardless of the party in power, to increase the tax rate in local service districts to where it should be in order to pay the bill.
The cost of police and fire protection takes up over one-third of the city’s budget.
