{"id":147337,"date":"2023-04-04T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=147337"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:48:01","slug":"council-unanimously-agrees-to-attempt-to-cut-next-budget-by-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/council-unanimously-agrees-to-attempt-to-cut-next-budget-by-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Council unanimously agrees to attempt to cut next budget by $3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Prince Edward County's Committee of the Whole unanimously agreed to a resolution for exploring how to reduce the county\u2019s next operating budget by 10 per cent, or $3 million, compared to this year\u2019s budget which saw the tax levy increase by roughly 5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution calls for options that \u201cfocus on technological modernization, process improvements and other forms of creative solutions that minimize impact to current service delivery,\u201d in order to meet its intended reductions.<\/p>\n<p>Sophiasburgh Coun. Bill Roberts had the following to say about the resolution\u2019s rationale:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-147337-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Roberts-Voicer.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Roberts-Voicer.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Roberts-Voicer.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Prince Edward County&#8217;s Committee of the Whole unanimously agreed to a resolution for exploring how to reduce the county\u2019s next operating budget by 10 per cent, or $3 million, compared to this year\u2019s budget which saw the tax levy increase by roughly 5 per cent. The resolution calls for options that \u201cfocus on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":102711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[23809,23808,5166,23807,14241,16733,23814],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147541,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147337\/revisions\/147541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147337"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=147337"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=147337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}