London politicians met Wednesday in the final advance meeting of their budget committee, finding some surprise savings through a legal interpretation by Queen's Park.
As city hall looks to limit next year's tax hike, there's limited appetite to cut services either within the city hall or from agencies funded by the city
As city hall seeks savings to meet Mayor Josh Morgan’s order to cut next year’s proposed tax hike, two politicians have their own idea: Delaying or cancelling bike lane projects. Ahead of Thursday’s meeting of the budget committee, councillors Susan Stevenson and Paul Van Meerbergen are proposing a motion to have city hall staff come […]
Flush with cash, London city council is set to debate whether to offer homeowners a break on sky-high property tax increases approved throughout this term or spend it supporting social and cultural programs. City hall has posted a nearly $60-million budget surplus this year and some politicians want to use roughly $17 million of the […]
London Transit politicians may shy away from service cuts, amid construction-related delays and further declines in Fanshawe enrolment.
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.