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Amilcar promised details would come at the Feb. 9 meeting of council’s transit commission. In the interim, community groups are sounding alarm bells over “massive transit cuts.” Now he’s in office, and that’s not in the draft budget. This isn’t actually a surprise because council endorsed a revised approach back in December. Instead of a 10-per-cent fee cut across the board, staff would instead bring forward options for free or low-cost kids’ activities like skating and swimming or increased recreation subsidies for low-income families.
It wasn’t enough to soothe all of Ottawa’s council. At a meeting in December, chief financial officer Cyril Rogers reassured some questioning councillors that the draft budget would contain information about the potential impacts of Bill 23 and “risk mitigations” the city would employ in response. The mayor had some words of warning in his budget speech about what happens if the province doesn’t: “significant budget pressures in 2024 and beyond.”
In an interview last week, Sutcliffe said there were no positions eliminated for this year’s budget, excluding normal course-of-business decisions by city management, and a senior-leadership initiated “organizational alignment” that led to two departments being merged and one general manager job being declared redundant.Article content
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