"The bagpipes, Dan? or the tobacco pipes? or the pipes on all the football goalposts in the city?' "ALL OF THEM"

Haha! Dried out Timbits for snackies? Homemade wine?

Surely the discussion should be about why Conservatives are so comfortable joining the ranks of the Liberals?

And we get recess! Council will be back at it tomorrow at 9am. Thanks for following everybody! #yqrcc

Admin says updated mill rate increase is 11.26% #yqrcc

Vote on Froh's motion for money to go annually to the Asset Revitalization & General Fund reserves: passes 10 to 1. Rashovich votes against. (* waiting for Rashovich to say he voted wrong … no?) #yqrcc

Zachidniak says she'll support this motion, says reserves are important. Notes if you need an offset you can pass this now & get offsets later — b/c she tried to do both at the same time and "you all didn't like that". #yqrcc

Staff is going to give us a mill rate update. Admin says point 1 ($1.32mil to General Fund) will increase mill rate by 0.4% and point 2 ($1.01mil to Asset Revitalization) will raise mill rate by 0.3%. Which means, MY MATH WAS SPOT ON! bsky.app/profile/pdci... #YQRCC

Oh… froh's motion is to put money for 5 years to both reserves. CFO says this is in line w/ getting them to the minimum for those two reserves. Bezo says he will support this but says, ominously, there is a lot more to reserves than this. #yqrcc

Bezo says that he thinks fixing reserves is a bigger lift than this. B/c that's how he talks. #yqrcc

Rashovich says they have to make some cuts before he'd support this. But this is happening now, councillor. #yqrcc

I thought we'd get a mill rate impact from staff But my guess allocating is $2.32mil a year to reserves would add ~0.7% to the mill rate? Not sure though. (I'm working off 1 mill rate increase being about $3.3million in revenue.) #yqrcc

Mancinelli: This is on the mill rate to save to reserves? CFO: Yes this would go on the mill rate. #yqrcc

Froh is moving his next 2 amendments as a block. • allocate $1.32mil for 5yrs to General Fund Reserve • allocate $1.01mil for 10yrs to Asset Revitalization This WILL have an impact on the mill rate. #yqrcc

Vote on Froh's first amendment: unanimous. Don't worry. This had 0 impact on the mill rate. #yqrcc

Tsiklis asks if he can move to vote (he can). Zachidniak says she needs one minute to finish reading the motion before she can vote on it. #yqrcc

Council has gone in camera to sort out Froh's first (of five) amendments. We're technically only in minute 11 of budget day 3. #yqrcc

Froh says that he worked w/ admin on this. Zachidniak's concern w/ Froh's first amendment but says that there's a lot in it and it doesn't all seem related to this budget. #yqrcc

There is also stuff in here to get an updated list in Feb of projects approved for debt and projects that still need it. #yqrcc

Froh's first motion removes items from debt projections that haven't been approved by council. This would mean that admin wouldn't even consider things like a baseball stadium until this council approves it. #yqrcc

oh great another friendly amendment bezo wants EDR's "economist" (no such thing) would contribute froh says maybe adjust EDR UMA not this motion. #yqrcc

Zachidniak still has time: "Well, that was interesting. We got a security improvement. BUt also a fare increase. So I voted against the reductions in my own motion to try to offset that [fare increase] but folks didn't want that." #yqrcc

Mayor asks for mill rate update. Admin: The updated mill rate will be 10.55%. So Zachidniak's transit motion brought the mill rate down to from 10.73% And you're still getting that 10% fare increase. #yqrcc

The Saskatchewan Health Authority says it is nearing completion of its internal review after a video was shared online of a First Nations man being wheeled out of a Prince Albert hospital and then left in the snow. SHA has met with PAGC officials to discuss what happened. www.aptnnews.ca?p=281472

Yes. Exactly. And he's willing to pay for it! #yqrcc

The fiscal hawk wants a person that doesn’t exist from a department that doesn’t do anything to help

That was so dumb. #yqrcc

Froh is also changing his vote to against. Rashovich to yes. so… it's a wash. So on this pic. Froh & Rashovich voted backward. Froh voted against. Rashovich for. You can hear the clerk sigh huge then say, "The result is the same." #yqrcc

Admin says that reduction to the mill rate will be .38% if the reductions pass. #yqrcc Reductions pass 6 to 5. Rashovich voted wrong. Sheepishly he says he meant to vote yes. #yqrcc

Now vote on number 3 alone — ending the 10% fare increase. Vote yes and there's no fare increase. Vote no & there WILL BE a fare increase. [This really isn't that difficult. ] FAILS. Tsiklis, Bezo, Mancinelli, Burton, Radons & Rashovich vote for a fare increase. #yqrcc

First vote on 1 & 2 together (safety enhancements & peace officers): passes 7 to 4. Bezo, Tsiklis, Burton, Rashovich vote against. #yqrcc

MANCINELLI clarifies that if he wants the fare increase to go through he votes no on 3. #yqrcc

Having 3 separate votes First vote on enhanced safety & peace officers (adds 0.21% to mill) Then vote on getting rid of the fare increase (adds .17% to the mill rate) Then voting on all the reductions (decrease mill rate .38% if passes) #yqrcc

Vote on Zachidniak's transit amendment will be smashed to bits and voted in pieces. Staff will be giving updates on what happens to the mill rate as things pass or don't pass. #yqrcc

Zachidniak asks if they could vote on enhancements separately from reductions. "Please support this. I worked really hard to make this happen." #yqrcc

Zachidniak: We can get no fare increase and some enhancements — not all — but enhancements that are satisfactory to staff. #yqrcc

And they're good!

Zachidniak: The police did not say they can do this. They said they could go on the bus when they have time. #yqrcc

Good points!

The cops are the buses but the only route is to cells.

And they won't get cops on the buses. Just fewer buses. #yqrcc

“We need to cut routes to put more cops on the bus!”

You know these guys who're saying the cops should do this also want to cut transit service. #yqrcc

Flores: This amendment was well crafted & a lot of work went into it. #yqrcc

Flores: This is experts in admin working w/ staff & a councillor to advise on what they need. They have more information about what is needed in the field. If the cost of tasking police is 2x, they will be asking for more money. #yqrcc

Yes, they will. They'll pat themselves on the back and ask for more.

Flores: If we now task police with this, will they come back with an even more increased in future to cover bus security. I don't want to find that out. #yqrcc

Admin: RPS was in agreement that it would be a good first step to go with peace officers before going with police. #yqrcc

Flores: What would the cost be of police taking this on? Admin: We spoke w/ police about that. We did pricing. Almost double with police doing this. #yqrcc

Councillors making up scenarios to make their preconceptions seem like data. #yqrcc