CBRM surplus spending includes big-ticket items, infrastructure..

Cape Breton Regional Municipality ended its last fiscal year with a big surplus and council has decided to spend about two-thirds of it on some big-ticket items, infrastructure repairs and multiple celebrations of CBRM's 30th anniversary. During a special meeting Tuesday, council was told the surplus as of March 31 was $4.1 million. Councillors agreed to put $1.4 million into reserve accounts for the future and made plans to spend the rest on a wide range of items. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cbrm-surplus-spending-includes-infrastructure-anniversary-1.7597309

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Raymond Mac Donald Follow Me
Ever see a kid who on Sunday afterrnoon has some leftover allowance?They run to the local corner store to spend it.That's what our uninformed council KINDA did on Tuesday.I say KINDA cus we had no surplus.Folks have to ignore the finance/accounting HOCUS POCUS and keep it simple.....there's no surplus when you are up to your eyeballs in debt.Clarke took a page out of Trump's handbook and proposed a BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL with everything lncluding the kitchen sink.This put pressure on council to vote for it cus they liked some stuff but they also didn't like some stuff.So not only that,they didn't have time to read it as it was given to them a few hours before the meeting.They voted 10 to 2 to pass it with one staying out of it.To proceed with a constructive/credible vote it should have been delayed to give council time to read all the proposal and items should have been voted on separately.Like the fantasy Barbusci Container Port,make believe new library and the Doucet Heartbreak Hotel to name a few things they were duped again.We gotta be a little more careful who we vote in to council to represent us cus they are failing us time and time again,especially when you have seasoned senior administrators who will shamelessly pull the wool over their eyes.

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