Saskatoon's city hall has entered crisis mode over the budgetary effects of inflation, while the library seems to exist in a distinct world.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Saskatchewan cities with less accountability than Saskatoon will likely be faced with the same sort of pressures when their preliminary budgets are released later this year. Since Saskatoon is the province’s largest city with the largest tax base, increases elsewhere could be far worse.
But there’s indications from across the country, notably Toronto and Vancouver, that inflation and the pandemic have created fiscal craters at city halls. Major projects have also risen by astronomical amounts.on its website this month about its new central branch project.Article content Despite the eight per cent rise in the preliminary construction price tag, the project is expected to proceed on time and within the $134-million budget.what sort of voodooThree companies have now been invited to bid on the contract to build the new library; the deadline is next month. We’ll then find out if a private company believes it can build the library within the budget.
But the contrast between the crisis at city hall and the calm at the library suggest different economic galaxies, not just different worlds. Maybe the multiverse is involved somehow.
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