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Winnipeggers say City should push for funding transfers, focus on essential services: Probe

 

Winnipeggers appear strongly opposed to hiking property taxes and say, instead, that the City of Winnipeg should look to higher levels of government for funding support and reduce its spending on less-essential services, a poll recently commissioned by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce says.

The Probe Research poll of 600 Winnipeggers found 88% of respondents favoured looking to provincial or federal governments for revenues to fund city programs and services, and 81% favoured a services review, so Winnipeg can focus on those services considered more essential.

Also, 58% said the City should hike business taxes, which is at odds with Winnipeg’s current practice; 5% strongly agreed and 25% somewhat agreed that property taxes should increase.

When asked which of the options – pushing for greater transfers; service review/reduce spending; tax increases – should be pursued as a strategy, the most popular was the service review.

“We believe that there is a lot of value in the feedback Winnipeggers are sending on the City’s dilemma – it simply doesn’t have the capacity to raise the revenues required for all the demands it faces,” MHCA President Chris Lorenc said.

“A service review is always good management practice, but the fact is that owning 50% of the public infrastructure means a municipality, especially larger cities, simply cannot alone afford to maintain or construct these assets.”

That requires a new fiscal deal with provincial and federal governments, he said. Currently, cost-shared infrastructure programs look to split project costs equally, which doesn’t recognize that cities only collect about 8 cents of every tax dollar.

The survey results are accurate ±4.0%.

Chair’s Gala

November 18, 2022
RBC Convention Centre

Close to 650pp attended from both industry, government and stakeholder partners.  It was the closing of Nicole Chabot’s two year term as Chair.  Dennis Cruise of Bituminex Paving was welcomed as the new Chair.

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2022 Heavy Santa

December 16, 2022
David Livingstone School

This event was made possible through fundraising at the MHCA Chair’s Gala and Spring Mixer.

104 goodie bags and presents were prepared for the grades 1-4 students at David Livingstone School. 

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Awards Breakfast & Annual General Meeting

November 18, 2022
RBC Convention Centre

Manitoba Transportation & Infrastructure (MTI) Award Winner

  • Grading – Strilkiwski Contracting Ltd.: PTH 6 Grahamdale
  • Paving – Coco Paving o/a Russell Redi-Mix: Bituminous Reconstruction PTH 83
  • Urban Works – Coco Paving o/a Russell Redi-Mix: Bituminous Reconstruction PA 634 and Bituminous Pavement PTH 5
  • Special Projects – Mekhana Development Corp/Arnason Industries Ltd: Theresa Point Airport
  • Major Structures – D. Steele Construction: Bridge Replacement over the Red River Floodway on PTH 59N
  • Minor Structures – Moncrief Construction Ltd.: Reinforced concrete box culvert on PTH 5
  • Water Management – Brunet Ltd.: Flood response, Morris ring dike closure

200 members and guests gathered to hear greetings from Premier Heather Stefanson and the newly elected Mayor of Winnipeg, Scott Gillingham. Hon. Doyle Piwniuk, Minister, Manitoba Infrastructure, handed out the MTI Awards.

31 companies were recognized for their milestone membership commitments.

Matthew Neziol, of Bayview Construction, received the Safety Leader Award.

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