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Ken Mansell Of course we expect to take less for more. Cancelling the spring clean-up and giving a grace period at the dump is OK, another free trip come fall is necessary. Coun. McKee cannot support taxpayer funding for groups like service clubs. Service clubs don't get financial support, they give it back. Our Lions Club operates the Handi-Van with no tax dollars, whereas city transit costs well over $300,000 a year. We need analysis of the true costs of mega projects, i.e. the Wallace Ave. culverts cost nearly a million and the water treatment plant $500,000 a year to operate, about $15 to build. The taxpayer's expectation of municipal government has to change also.
