City of Ottawa should draft 2023 budget with a 2 to 2.5 per cent tax hike, report recommends

And the first budget for the new term of council will include proposed efficiencies and mitigation measures to address COVID-19 and inflationary pressures, including a pause on discretionary spending and deferring capital projects.

The 2022 city of Ottawa budget under former Mayor Jim Watson included a 3 per cent hike in property taxes. "The current external economic conditions and supply chain pressures have resulted in unprecedented inflationary pressures impacting all City Services," Stephanson said. "Since 2020, COVID-19 resulted in significant financial challenges for the City, challenges never faced before. While the City implemented financial mitigations to close the gaps, funding was received from senior levels of government to fund the COVID-19 deficits through the Safe Restart Agreement and other government funding up until 2022," Stephanson said.

Mitigation measures to address possible COVID-19 expenditures include deferring capital projects, a discretionary spending pause, further efficiencies and possible one-time reductions in expenditures.

The same people who will complain that they don't want property taxes to increase are the same people who will bitch & complain that they don't want service cuts, efficiencies or job losses. The only way to prevent tax increases is through service cuts, efficiencies & job losses.

The only option should be to eliminate wasteful spending. Enough with tax increases.

_MarkSutcliffe not even a minute in the office and your hands are in the citizens pockets. Ottawa

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Here come the cuts to our services, as predicted during the election - voters made a big mistake electing the wrong mayor

I did not ask :)

With inflation factored, in 2.5% tax hike, will mean a cut is in services.

Why not 0%

Asked by whom?

Even tho no one wants to admit it we are in recession. Money has to come from some where our federal government keeps giving it away

Whaaaaat? I thought our illustrious new mayor with his golden ideas such as stopping new road construction and building apartments on top of Best Buy would've led us into some sort of golden age?

Is this the same staff that advised the previous council on the LRT?🤔🤦‍♂️

Another transit fare hike when you will also be asking for big transit cost reductions means riders pay more for less. We cannot rebuild ridership by degrading service.

Deferred Capital Projects cost more later. Consider if some planned projects like road widening should just be cancelled, rather than deferred.

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