City Hall Looks to Generate Finances

June 16, 2009

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Common council will put together a committee to work with city staff in examining revenue generating options for the city. The city's commissioner of finance Greg Yeomans says the result of cutting costs to balance the budget is false economics that leads to increased spending in the future.
Yeomans says cities also need to force provinces to do their job and look after social programs, so that cities can do their job and look after infrastructure. He says Saint John spends far too much money on social programs when there are other more basic needs to be met.