What are everyone's thoughts on Ken Sims' "task force" to save money?

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Sims is a joke. I can't with this city

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Tell us how you really feel…

Every major city is undertaking a similar study - Vancouver’s is weird in the sense that it’s volunteers. Most cities raise money through some sort of business civic non-profit to engage a professional services firm to conduct the review. All cities are facing similar issues. Declining downtown core, stagnating revenue, sticky costs (salaries/pensions/unions), etc. They’re all facing significant budget deficits.

Scoping out major departments like police makes no sense either - unless they were previously recently studied.

All in all, disappointing as unlike other major cities, Vancouver’s is just for optics.

I think police and a few others (healthcare/education) should be carved out because we don’t need these cut/paired back.

Park Board should 100% be in the scope though.

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Makes sense. 10% property tax increase is crazy for anyone.

Might as well figure out if there are ways to optimize our spending.

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