Author: Team Grumpy Taxpayers

City of Langford has released the 2022 financial disclosures of mayor and council as required as required by the provincial Financial Disclosure Act. The legislation is designed to prevent and…

REVISED JAN. 6, 2022 Are you getting good value for your property tax dollar? It’s early January and that can mean only one thing, it’s the start of tax season…

Group questions $580,000 severance package for former Saanich CAO, Times Colinist, Dec. 28, 2021. FOI request: CAO eligible for $579,760 in severance While accolades may be deserved for its award-winning…

Nothing gets the blood boiling more than having our electoral faith broken by misbehaving councillors or regional directors. What do Sooke taxpayers do when a councillor has missed 30 per…

Is Greater Victoria ready for a catastrophic event? BY GEORGE BARNHART, BOARD MEMBER, GRUMPY TAXPAYER$ If Santa is still making a list, we hope he checks it twice and adds…

A free-spending and weary city council is proposing an over-ambitious $361.8 Million consolidated budget in the last year of their term. Rather than ‘setting the table for the future’, as…

27 per cent of major roads in poor or fair condition, 34 per cent of local roads in poor or fair condition Council should allocate more funds in the proposed…

A reconciliation tax quickly escalates to millions annually, proposal must go to fall 2022 referendum It won’t take long before the city’s proposed reconciliation tax for Songhees and Esquimalt First…

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the Times Colonist story (Nov. 5, 2021) ‘View Royal Council could add two seats“, it’s reported following public push back an expansion of council was rejected in…