Sutcliffe Prepares Ottawa For Big Tax Increase
For what it is worth, here’s your agent’s take on the “fairness” campaign Mayor Mark Sutcliffe continues to conduct to get more money out of the federal and provincial governments.
More money? The feds have said no. Local senior MPP Lisa Macleod didn’t sound very supporter in a post on X yesterday.
So it appears Sutcliffe has lost his fight in short order. Still, below is a new X post in his campaign.
That said, he will continue to lobby for that money until the mayor says he tried and failed to get help from the senior levels of government.
So he’s very sorry but Ottawans will get a huge tax increase. Right from ex-mayor Jim Watson’s playbook.
Once again Sutcliffe is getting killed in the comments on this X post. Ottawans see through this ploy. It’s obvious from the comments.
Any massive tax increase will come as the result of poor civic fiscal policy and terrible project management. It’s painfully obvious.
Sutcliffe isn’t fooling anyone. Here’s another installment on his “fairness” campaign below.
Good luck getting support from the feds and province after this ploy. He has just alienated both those governments. This is very misguided:
As your Mayor, I have always believed in a fair and collaborative approach to governance. Our city is facing a significant financial crisis, one that threatens our ability to maintain essential services and future projects. And the root of this challenge lies in how our city is… pic.twitter.com/g70incQsgG
— Mark Sutcliffe (@_MarkSutcliffe) August 11, 2024
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He is the very worst mayor Ottawa ever had. He really did it. Why did we need a “night mayor” there is money spent and wasn’t needed. Time to fire the so-called night mayor, and you have screwed up so bad the city will never be as it was before you came along. I bet that this city may declare bankruptcy because of you. I hate to think of what you have done to your personal finances. Do the city a BIG favor and leave NOW and take all those city councillors with you. Then maybe we will be able to find someone with REAL experience to run this city. Believe me none of us will miss you. And oh don’t forget to take that night mayor with you.
Mark,
Add up the cost of Lansdowne 2.0; the legal settlements you’ve just agreed to with LRT contractors; the cost overruns at the LRT as well as other similar unbudgetted expenditures and tell me how close that total comes to the amount you’re claiming the City has in a “funding crisis”. Do they match or is your spending the larger nunber?
In addition, has this so-called “funding crisis” only emerged in the last few weeks? Why have residents not been made aware of it earlier? For example, did you and other members of council know or ought you to have known this was coming when you created, debated and passed the 2024 budget?
People are just not buying it. You and your fellow councillors along with previous councils have grossly mismanaged the City and now can’t hide it any more. Why not just be honest about it? You’d get more sympathy that way rather than trying to foist the results of your mismanagement onto others.
Speaking of which, did you just find out recently about the supposed underpayment of their obligations by the other levels of government? If so, we have a problem that’s a magnitude of greatness larger than we knew. How did this sneak up on you if you have a firm hand on the city’s finances?
The Feds gave Ottawa enough $ to buy e-buses, and then the price changed and they had to buy less. Price didn’t include infrastructure. Montreal budgeted $756M, Ottawa around $250M. Then they decided that they had to buy similar buses from different manufacturers which significantly increased the support costs, 2x the parts, training, support contracts, etc. Then the electrical distribution cost and supply challenges plus the 2 giant generators which of course come with their own maintenance contracts. I think it was the e-buses that really broke their back revealing their financial ineptitude. Each new city worker, after an e-card and employment costs, runs around $250K per year, forever, and the city has been creating around a hundred of new positions, from garbage police, bylaw, unoccupied
home tax staff. And so on. Every new program comes with many more staff. They have to cut back on staff and programs