To bring the tax increase down the needed 23 per cent, or 1.5 percentage points, would mean finding $13 million in savings.
City council will meet as a budget committee to work on Mayor Josh Morgan's order to bring the 2026 tax hike to below five per cent.
Mayor Josh Morgan's pledge to keep the final tax hike of his four-year term below five per cent may not be easy to keep without some potentially painful cuts by city council – especially if they don't target police spending, one expert says.
Josh Morgan plans to use his relatively new "strong mayor" powers to rein in the property-tax hike Londoners will face in 2026, the final year of his term, he said in his State of the City address on Thursday.
There has been no shortage of issues for Mayor Josh Morgan to tackle, from housing and homelessness, to an exploding population, and property tax hikes
A city council committee has given its endorsement to reducing the minimum ceiling height in London to barely more than six feet to align with Ontario’s building code. Councillors voted 3-1 in favour of the tweak to London’s property standards bylaw, reducing the minimum headroom in a home by 10
Watch your head London, the city and the province aren't looking to raise the roof.
Its official, property taxes will be increasing in the new year by over seven per cent â marginally lower than what was forecast in late October to help fund London's $1.4 billion spending plan.
Downtown London's business district will get some extra money for street cleaning and graffiti removal, but not for property damage or enhancing security
Rachel Gilbert spoke with Jack Moulton about city council getting ready to put the finishing touches on London's $1.4B budget for 2025.
City politicians voted unanimously Wednesday to give some overnight shelter beds for the homeless a financial lifeline until new federal funding can be arranged.
A number of local agencies for London's vulnerable residents are going to bat for a cleaning program cut from the latest budget.