Prince George city council to consider 7.23% tax increase next week

City council will be facing a proposed 7.23 per cent tax increase on Monday, as they begin deliberations on the 2023 city budget.

Each percentage point of tax increase equals a roughly $23 per year increase in property taxes for a typical single-detached house in Prince George, according to the report. A 7.23 per cent increase would result in an average $166.29 Increase for a typical home, while a 8.17 per cent increase would result in an average $187.91 increase.

The proposed addition of four additional uniformed RCMP officers, and two municipal police support staff, would increase the city’s budget by $1.02 million in 2023. In December, city council received a consultants’ report saying city needs 19 additional uniformed police officers, 10 additional civilian support staff, an unknown number of additional data entry personnel and a “peer navigator” based in the Prince George Public Library, over the next five years.

The additional positions include the equivalent of 9.5 full-time positions to operate the Canfor Leisure Pool, one heavy-duty mechanic for the city’s fleet operations, one cybersecurity position for the city’s IT department, one project estimator for the city’s capital projects department and two additional staff in the Fire Operations Communications Centre .

If city council approved using the last of the Safe Restart funding this year, it would reduce the proposed property tax increase by 2.4 per cent to 4.83 per cent for 2023. However, the money is a one-time funding source and wouldn’t be available in 2024 to offset the increase again.

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