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COVID-19: Lethbridge City Council looking at property tax options

A special meeting of Lethbridge City Council will take place in three weeks to discuss tax issues related to COVID-19.

On Monday (Apr. 20), Councillors gave first reading to the 2020 Property Tax and Special Tax Bylaw

They also passed a motion to hold a special meeting on May 11th to provide second and third readings.

Two weeks ago, both Economic Development and the Chamber of Commerce had asked Council what it could do in terms of deferring property taxes.

Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman says the Alberta government is cancelling the planned increase on the education portion of property taxes and has allowed a deferral for non-residential customers only.

He says there is nothing else from the province, so the only other options would be to levy city taxes as planned or any deferrals at the local level would have to be at the expense of remaining taxpayers.

The Mayor notes Council will have to look at all this very carefully before making any decisions.

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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