Council financial skills training inadequate
Ninety-one local politicians have now signed off on their 2021 budget, following a year when our lives and local government was turned upside down. Pandemic budgets were balanced mostly by…
Saanich’s crumbling infrastructure a priority
BY BRUCE AND LAURIE KENNEDY When newly-minted Mayor Fred Haynes and council sit down to plan priorities for the next four years, they must focus more on renewing the aging…
** PINOCCHIO AWARD: Do Saanich taxpayers pay less per capita than the region?
“One (pleasing) data sheet from tonight’s Saanich Council meeting came from the 2018 KPMG Audit. It showed Saanich’s taxation per resident compared to the rest of the region. Historically, it…