City council has approved the lowest property tax increase of Mayor John Tory’s tenure, despite hundreds of millions of dollars of ongoing financial pressures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Council voted 20-3 in favour of an inflation-based, 0.7 per cent residential tax hike during a special meeting on Thursday.
That Tory, he’s got the city runnin like a top!
GOLDSTEIN: Toronto’s tree department should be chopped down
In the carefully-controlled language of Toronto Auditor General Beverly Romeo-Beehler, city property taxpayers are “still not receiving value for money for tree maintenance services” and “a culture shift is needed” in the department.
Another way to put it would be that the goldbrickers in this department, including workers and the managers who are supposed to be supervising them, are ripping us off for millions of dollars every year by “actually working on trees” an average of 3.5 hours out of their eight-hour day.
