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Shortfall: Lethbridge short nearly $1 million in revenue after Budget 2019

The City of Lethbridge is now expecting to lose around $1 million in provincial revenue after last week’s Alberta budget.

Mayor Chris Spearman tells our radio station that shortfall won’t be in any one specific area. He notes that is going to force the City to look at ways of trying to make that up.

He says that shortfall takes into account a reduction in traffic fine revenue received and a drop in grants in lieu from the province.

“We may have to reduce services in some areas,” says Spearman. “We will be looking at our operational costs for the City of Lethbridge in light of the budget. We will see in what areas we could reduce services with the least impact on citizens.”

The mayor notes the police budget should not be impacted here at all because of the UCP government’s budget because traffic fine money goes into general revenues in Lethbridge. It’s different in Calgary and Edmonton, however where that traffic fine revenue goes directly into the police budgets in those cities.

Reviews are being done right now with a report coming back to City Council on November 18th.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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