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Regina city councillors will sit down and log into their computers Wednesday afternoon to start discussions on the city budget for 2021.
The proposed budget from city administration was unveiled earlier this month.
It includes the smallest mill rate increase since 2009, which works out to about $4.13 extra per month for the average household. There’s also a utility increase that works out to about $4.33 extra per month for the average household.
When it was revealed, city administration said it worked hard to keep the increase as low as possible and managed to find $5 million in efficiencies which allowed it to not increase the budget for civic operations at all.
There are some specific pieces of the budget councillors will have to discuss, including updates to the Winter Maintenance policy, and the Regina Police Service’s budget.
The police budget includes an approximately $4-million increase after a year which saw demonstrations against police overreach across North America and a call for rethinking how police and social programs are funded.
There are several people on the agenda Wednesday to speak specifically about the police increase, some of whom are concerned about it.
The meeting on Wednesday is to begin at 1 p.m. In past years, budget deliberations have been known to go late into the night and even carry over to a second day.