Tag: London budget
Mayor, city councillors start long path to $13M in cuts, savings – or both
To bring the tax increase down the needed 23 per cent, or 1.5 percentage points, would mean finding $13 million in savings.
How can Mayor Josh Morgan rein in London’s runaway property-tax hikes?
City council will meet as a budget committee to work on Mayor Josh Morgan’s order to bring the 2026 tax hike to below five per cent.
ANALYSIS: Mayor Josh Morgan’s tax pledge may not be easy to keep
Mayor Josh Morgan’s pledge to keep the final tax hike of his four-year term below five per cent may not be easy to keep without some potentially painful cuts by city council – especially if they don’t target police spending, one expert says.
‘State’ speech: Mayor Josh Morgan pledges restraint in term’s final city budget
Josh Morgan plans to use his relatively new “strong mayor” powers to rein in the property-tax hike Londoners will face in 2026, the final year of his term, he said in his State of the City address on Thursday.
Q+A: Mayor Josh Morgan looks ahead to London’s 2025 challenges
There has been no shortage of issues for Mayor Josh Morgan to tackle, from housing and homelessness, to an exploding population, and property tax hikes