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Procedural wrangling leads to marathon session CORNWALL: From Page 5
The onl y wa y the budget could be changed was if a m end m ents were tabled after the m ain m otion to approve the bud- get was tabled, he told Kilger. After so m e tense debate, and with the m a y or inferring that he didn’t want an y - one to “sandbag” the “de m ocratic” right of council m e m bers advocate for budget changes, Clerk Helen Finn advised that the budget could be changed via the a m end- m ent process. The procedural debate was just the beginning of a drawn-out process during which councillors argued for bud- get reductions, an across the board wage freeze and even dipping into the cit y ’s budget for e m plo y ee sal- aries to co m e up with the extra $60,000 requested b y Mac- Donald. Once it was decided council would fund the extra cash for outside agencies fro m a $96,000 surplus fro m the cit y ’s 2012 bud- get, there was even m ore debate, with councillors MacDonald and Bernadette Cle m ent arguing the m one y should co m e fro m the tax base, a m ove which would have further increased this y ear’s tax hike. MacDonald said using the 2012 budget surplus which had been placed in the cit y ’s working reserve fund “sets a dangerous precedent” for the future funding of outside agencies and “devalues” their progra m s. Her argu m ent was backed b y Cle m ent. “Ulti m atel y , I’d like to see it co m e fro m the tax base,” she told fellow councillors, but added she had no proble m taking the m one y fro m the working reserves if that was the will of council. The surplus money is tax- payer money. That is money we collected last year that we didn’t use. It’s only logical we use that.”
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Cornwall city council added $60,000 to their budget for outside agencies last Wednesday after a last- m inute plea fro m Councillor Elaine MacDonald, above, on behalf of five groups and organizations. The m oney will co m e fro m last year’s $96,000 surplus that was initially tagged to bolster the city’s working reserve fund.
Councillor Andre Rivette, however, ar- gued it was m isleading to suggest the ex- tra $60,000 fro m working reserves was not taxpa y ers’ dollars. “The surplus m one y is
tone earl y in the m eeting b y advocating a staff wage freeze for 2013, argued that while people are struggling to sta y in their ho m es the cit y keeps increasing taxes with that we continue to raise taxes but we don’t see an y proactive stuff in staffing,” said Dupelle. “As a council, we are the people who hold the purse strings. We need to dig deeper,” he insisted. Councillor Denis Thibault noted the cit y is spending $3 m illion in direct taxpa y er dol- “It alarms me that we continue to raise taxes but we don’t see any proactive stuff in staffing.” Maurice Dupelle no co mm ensu- rate increase in services. “It alar m s m e
lars m ore than last y ear. “To m e, that doesn’t co m pute.”He said if his ho m e expenses were rising at the rate of the cit y ’s spending, “the bank would be knocking at the door”. Councillor Gerr y Sa m son also m ade an i m - passioned plea for seniors and single-parent fa m ilies who are losing their ho m es under the heav y burden of cit y taxes which are be- ing noticed around the province for being “wa y up there”. “We’ve got to quit hitting the taxpa y er. We’re taking ever y penn y the y have out of their pockets,” he argued. But in the end, the budget – aside fro m the a m end m ents withdraw $60,000 extra fro m reserves for outside agencies -- was passed as presented without an y further reductions to the proposed 2.88 per cent tax increase.
taxpa y er m one y . That is m one y we collected last y ear that we didn’t use. It’s onl y logical we use that.” There was also so m e senti m ent expressed dur- ing the m eeting
that the cit y cannot continue to increase taxes without affecting the cit y ’s m ost vul- nerable citizens, its poor and elderl y . Councillor Maurice Dupelle, who set the
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