Ashley Messier builds hockey legacy with sights on PWHL, Olympics
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On Tuesday morning, a day before they start at City Hall, arguments over the City of Regina’s budget will take place in a courthouse.
A judge will hear the arguments over an application to force the city administration and city manager Niki Anderson to include an initiative to end homelessness in the draft budget, released last month.
Dan LeBlanc is a councillor and is also the lawyer for the application. Coun. Andrew Stevens and Regina resident Florence Stratton are the applicants.
“I say elected people get to run the show and the unelected city manager follows our clear direction or ought to do so. That’s the fundamental point,” explained LeBlanc.
The problem cropped up because city council voted in the summer to include the cost of a plan to end homelessness in the budget for 2023, but it wasn’t included in the draft budget.
Administration said at the time it didn’t include the plan in the recommended budget because it would cost too much.
The rest of city council has thrown its support behind Anderson, approving a motion to that effect unanimously. Because they’re involved in the suit, neither LeBlanc nor Stevens voted.
Mayor Sandra Masters has called the suit “disgusting” and Coun. Terina Nelson called it an embarrassment.
LeBlanc is hoping for a decision Tuesday, as city budget deliberations get started Wednesday morning.