Council shuts down taxpayer-subsidized developer notices
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Do you agree with the city’s decision to collapse certain advisory boards into one, nine-member Community Vibrancy Board?
Yes
City council voted to close a loophole where taxpayers of the City of Lethbridge were paying $400 per ad to subsidize development notices which appeared in the newspaper.
Developers who wish to bring on new developments are required by the Municipal Government Act to have the notices appear on two successive weeks in print media prior to a public hearing.
This is supposed to be at their own cost and recouped as fees by the City development department when they make their applications.
Council shuts down taxpayer-subsidized developer notices
Poll
Yes
City council voted to close a loophole where taxpayers of the City of Lethbridge were paying $400 per ad to subsidize development notices which appeared in the newspaper. Developers who wish to bring on new developments are required by the Municipal Government Act to have the notices appear on two successive weeks in print media prior to a public hearing. This is supposed to be at their own cost and recouped as fees by the City development department when they make their applications. During recent debates and public hearings to reduce the amount of information the City will provide in such notices in local print media, city staff revealed they had been subsidizing the costs of these ads for up to $400 per ad.
2020 year in review: May
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Yes
By Herald on December 30, 2020.
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ALBANY – The scheme was ghoulish and nefarious.
In 2011, Joseph Carbonara, a man with a half-dozen low-level offenses on his record, played a key role in a criminal conspiracy to trick the federal government into sending out tax return checks to the dead. He paid co-conspirators to deposit the money in bank accounts in Schenectady in the name of the deceased. He later pocketed much of the loot.
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