Kamloops Voter Asks:
What are the most important changes to the budget that you'd like to see?
Taxpayers (rightly) want to know how their tax dollars are spent and what their dollar to service value ratio is year-to-year. The only way to find this out is by reviewing what constitutes core services. Core reviews have gained in popularity across BC over the last 10 years or so, with Penticton leading the way. This kind of review comes down to asking three questions: What is government's (You might want to use City’s business, most people do not think of city council as government but reserve that for the provincial and federal governments) business? How are we going to do it? And how can we do it better? I believe the first step in finding out where we can spend less lies in answering these three questions. It might not result in a cut in spending but it may revise things that aren’t serving us well so we can focus our attention on what we can do better.