[CBBarnett]

"Intended Candidate for Mayor"? Can you not just say "for Mayor"?

This might be some cleverness around election rules - you can start campaigning before you are allow to campaign, because you're not a candidate yet?

At any rate, seems wildly overkill for municipal elections to have announcements and press conferences a year out from an election. Perhaps to combo of the province directed provincial parties to the big cities, and their the mantra of "always be running for election" with the provincial government running permanent attack ads against their opponents even though an election is like 3 years away is rubbing off on local behaviours too.

 

[lemongrab]

We know its wAy tOo RiSkY to have provincial elections during wildfire season, but if we can learn anything from the present moment is that October is also a bad time for elections because of hurricanes or something so maybe they'll bump the civic one up to January '25 to get these woke radicals out of city councils...

 

[Silence&Motion]

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"Action for today, vision for tomorrow." Sounds like an Al Gore spoof from the Simpsons:

 

[MichaelS]

City of Calgary CFO Carla Male and the director of corporate planning relieved of duties - LiveWire Calgary

On the cusp of Calgary mid-cycle budget adjustments, City CFO Carla Male, along with the city's director of corporate planning were sacked.

livewirecalgary.com

Maybe not politics per se, but relatively big news in the City organization.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

Perhaps a signal of tightening up spending.

 

[darwink]

Perhaps a signal of tightening up spending.

The budget process has been seen as chaotic. The expectations of council does not assist with that though.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Bell: Farkas seems raring to go for the Calgary mayor's job and has a poll

Jeromy Farkas, a former Calgary city councillor, edges closer to a run for city mayor and has a new poll showing he's the number one choice

calgaryherald.com

 

[trtcttc]

"However, council learned Tuesday that administration was able to bring that increase down by 0.9 per cent, by allocating a higher amount of investment income to the city’s operating budget, reviewing operating variances and leveraging other grants and funding sources."

City of Calgary draft budget proposes 3.6 per cent average tax increase

The average Calgary household worth $700,000 will see a 3.9 per cent property tax hike in 2025, but also higher user fees for various utilities.

calgaryherald.com

Sounds like they brought the tax increase down due to accounting changes, hard to not link it with the firing of the CFO who likely objected to this.

Calgary's chief financial officer and corporate planning director replaced ahead of budget adjustments

The City of Calgary has confirmed changes to its head financial officer and corporate planner, just days before yearly budget adjustment deliberations are set to start.

calgary.ctvnews.ca

 

[CalgaryTiger]

"However, council learned Tuesday that administration was able to bring that increase down by 0.9 per cent, by allocating a higher amount of investment income to the city’s operating budget, reviewing operating variances and leveraging other grants and funding sources."

City of Calgary draft budget proposes 3.6 per cent average tax increase

The average Calgary household worth $700,000 will see a 3.9 per cent property tax hike in 2025, but also higher user fees for various utilities.

calgaryherald.com

Sounds like they brought the tax increase down due to accounting changes, hard to not link it with the firing of the CFO who likely objected to this.

Calgary's chief financial officer and corporate planning director replaced ahead of budget adjustments

The City of Calgary has confirmed changes to its head financial officer and corporate planner, just days before yearly budget adjustment deliberations are set to start.

calgary.ctvnews.ca

Good on the City, council was raking them ahead of this. Credit where credit is due.