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Windsor city council pursues 0% tax hike, 10% cutting to offset $14 5M deficit
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Council approves 2022 budget marching orders — tax freeze and reduction options to achieve 10% cuts
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COVID-19 continues to hammer the cityâs finances, according to a city budget variance report that projects a $14.5-million deficit by yearâs end.
The budget hole is largely being dug by the city-owned Windsor-Detroit Tunnel and Windsor International Airport, which are projecting deficits of $7 million and $3.4 million, respectively. The cityâs Roseland Golf and Curling Club is also projecting a deficit, albeit a smaller one, at $300,000.
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Operations at city hall have a projected year-end deficit of $4.6 million attributed to COVID, but that will be offset by a non-COVID surplus of $800,000, bringing the net deficit to $3.8 million.
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The city department that normally collects millions of dollars in fines for such provincial offences as speeding and running red lights had anything but a normal year in pandemic-ravaged 2020.
The Provincial Offences Act department had just gotten back on its feet after a November 2019 fire forced it to evacuate its longtime location in the Westcourt Place building, and it was able to find temporary digs within city hall. Then the pandemic hit.
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Windsor city council has passed a 2.4 per cent tax increase for residential taxpayers, despite previously announcing taxes would be frozen at zero per cent.
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