Posted: Dec 16, 2020 6:57 PM CT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Speaker Devi Sharma voted against the operating budget — tightening the vote to 9 to 7 as it narrowly passed. (Darin Morash/CBC )
The 2021 budget was passed by Winnipeg's city council with a tighter margin than in recent times.
The vote was 9-7 in favour of the operating budget, and 11-5 for capital spending.
The narrow margin came from the usually understated voice of council Speaker Devi Sharma, who broke her consistent record of supporting budgets by voting "no" on the operating portion of the 2021 budget.
The Old Kildonan councillor said the structure of how the budget is pulled together and the input that's gathered for it must be "greatly improved."