Mayor, councillors pivot on using budget surplus for tax relief: '180-degree flip'

Mayor, councillors pivot on using budget surplus for tax relief: '180-degree flip'

Just one year after city politicians forcefully shut down a similar idea, some have changed their tune on using surplus money to reduce tax increases, including during the last year of their term.

Letter: How to spend the Town of Hinton’s million dollar tax surplus?

"Would you like the money used to reduce your taxes by about 2.2% or should council add it to spending, meaning a 3.7% tax increase? Council seems to be leaning toward spending it. But what do you think?"