According to the City of Thompson, the recently released bird’s eye view of municipal spending from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business misses realities here on the ground.
The report is based on statistics from 2008 through 2015, during which time Mayor Dennis Fenske said that the City took on more workers as they opened up the TRCC, introduced the CSO program and took over responsibility for the waste disposal grounds.
Mayor Fenske also said that the report also ignores the revenue that comes from the waste disposal grounds, which he said offset any increase in associated labour costs.
He added that all municipalities in Manitoba should take issue with the report as it talks about suggesting that the Province should freeze all funding to municipalities at the current rates, something that Fenske says would be catastrophic.
The report was released by the CFIB last week with the information divided into three categories; the City of Winnipeg, Cities and Towns, and Rural Municipalities.
