Despite Deficit, City Council Not Ready to Advocate Tax Hike
The Columbian › February 11, 2004
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Despite a bleak budget outlook, Vancouver City Council members say they aren't ready to latch onto a multimillion-dollar tax increase to rescue the city from a $3 million deficit.
Council members spent more than four hours huddled on the top floor of the Fisher's Landing Transit Center on Monday, focused almost exclusively on budget issues for the coming two years and beyond.See the full content of this document
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Despite Deficit, City Council Not Ready to Advocate Tax Hike
Councilman Dan Tonkovich repeatedly said that if council members aren't willing to cut city services, they might as well get on with discussing how to boost revenue.
No one spoke up to advocate spending cuts, which contributed to the impression that Vancouver of...See the full content of this document
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