Langford says years of 'artificially low' taxes have contributed to budget crunch
“We have agreed to temporarily double our funds to the additional $950,000 to the Y, so we don’t immediately lose that facility for Langford residents, but this is not a long-term solution. This is just a stopgap,” said Langford Mayor Scott Goodmanson.
“We’re on the hook for $2 million a year anyway because anything that the Y can’t meet we have to cover, so there’s still 18 years. If we’re going to pay $2 million a year for 18 years and at the end of it we have nothing, why wouldn’t we try to buy the building?”Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.
“I’m not going to say they made bad decisions or anything because it was the council’s choice to keep taxes at a lower rate, artificially low over the last few years. They were using money from reserves and so forth to cover,” Goodmanson said.
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