Author: Team Grumpy Taxpayers

Commentary by Bev Highton, board member with Grumpy Taxpayer$ The Association for Responsible and Environmentally Sustainable Sewage Treatment (ARREST) formed in 2012 might be saying “we told you so.” An…

If you live in downtown Victoria and are frequently awakened in the middle of the night, you quickly learn to distinguish different emergency vehicles. Fire trucks belt out a cascading…

Council talking to taxpayers after the fact First there’s a cart. City council in Victoria is meeting April 18 (today) with plans for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd readings of…

“I think this process has gone on long enough,” Victoria Coun. Jeremy Caradonna said at the city’s committee of the whole meeting on March 14. It’s not surprising that Victoria…

Province about to reduce their role, time commitment Why on earth do city councillors think they need to work full-time and get a 25 percent wage increase? To look at…

The letter of the law was followed, but not the spirit of the law. Taxpayers are asking whether it’s good governance for city council in Victoria to all of a…

Why doesn’t the city bill the CRD for policing? A fractured policing model costing $800 million annually continues to make law enforcement in the capital region more expensive and less…

Council has given itself a 25 percent raise and city taxpayers can’t help but think it’s an early April Fools’ Day joke. Let’s get this straight for the record. Council…

We would never encourage taxpayers to toss bales of tea into the Victoria harbour at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15. But the way things are going, there’s at least…