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Regina city council to resume budget talks Monday for a fourth day
For a heretofore unconsidered fourth day on Monday, Regina's city councillors will come together at City Hall to debate the 2024 city budget. On Friday afternoon, the capital and operations budget and...
Dec 18, 2023 Mayor Sandra Masters says the utilities budget likely will be passed Monday, but deliberations on the capital and operations budget may not be completed. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME file photo)
Tim Reid, REAL grilled at Regina budget meeting
Regina's city council started parsing through its budget proper on Thursday afternoon, but wasn't expected to finalize things until Friday. Earlier Thursday, city councillors spent several hours askin...
Dec 14, 2023 Regina councillors spent several hours grilling Regina Exhibition Association Limited leadership Thursday during budget deliberations. REAL
was represented by (left to right) Niki Anderson, Tim Reid and Roberta Engel. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Slightly lower 2024 Regina police budget passed
After about five hours of discussion and deliberation, the Regina Police Service budget for 2024 was passed Wednesday afternoon as presented. This coming year is the second of the first two-year budge...
Dec 13, 2023 Deputy Chief Dean Rae presents the Regina Police Service budget to city council, which passed it after five hours discussion on Dec. 13, 2023. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Initial property tax increase in Regina budget talks slightly higher than proposed
City councillors in Regina will be starting from a slightly higher potential property tax increase than was first proposed when they head into 2024 budget deliberations Wednesday. The plan from admini...
Dec 12, 2023 New options on what to do about Regina Exhibition Association Limited’s funding problems have pushed the proposed mill rate increase in Regina up to 2.82 per cent from 2.2. (980 CJME file photo)
'Awful:' Sask. NDP says deficit shouldn't have been a surprise
The Saskatchewan NDP pointed to the provincial government's mid-year financial report on Monday, calling it evidence of the government's awful fiscal management, awful projections, and propensity to w...
Nov 28, 2023 Sask. NDP Finance critic Trent Wotherspoon said if the provincial government had been working more collaboratively with industry and watching and talking with producers more closely, it would have been able ot project this year's budget better. Nov. 27, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. forecasts $250M deficit in mid-year financial report
Saskatchewan's finances have taken a downturn. The province's mid-year financial report is forecasting a deficit of $250.5 million at mid-year, down $1.27 billion from budget and $736.1 million from t...
Nov 27, 2023 Finance Minister Donna Harpauer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Federal government expects $40-billion deficit this year: Freeland
The fall economic update from the federal government projected a $40-billion deficit for the current fiscal year. The update, delivered on Tuesday by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, acknowledged t...
Nov 21, 2023
Regina mayor sees both sides of proposed property tax increase
Regina Mayor Sandra Masters appears to be looking at both sides of the potential property tax and utility increases unveiled on Friday. "We know that between interest rates, inflation, grocery costs, ...
Nov 20, 2023 Regina Mayor Sandra Masters says that nobody likes tax hikes, but the city needs to increase its revenue in order to provide services. (Daniel Reech 980/CJME)
Regina taxes, utility rates going up in proposed 2024 budget
Property tax bills in Regina could be going up next year, but by less than initially expected thanks to a change in garbage collection. The City of Regina released its proposed 2024 budget on Friday, ...
Nov 17, 2023
REAL requesting almost $6 million for 2024 budget
The Regina Exhibition Association Limited (REAL) is asking for a major increase in its operating budget. The organization wants more than $5.876 million for its 2024 budget. That is more than five tim...
Nov 15, 2023 REAL CEO Tim Reid is asking for a major increase in funding from the City of Regina this year. (980 CJME file photo)
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