02-09-2020, 10:35 PM
(02-09-2020, 01:09 AM)the_councillor Wrote: Let me put the logic another way... or better yet, put you in the decision-making place where council lives.
Simplifying capital/operating expenditures for the moment to make them applicable to this situation-- the budget we just approved had somewhere around 1.5 million in funds we could use to be progressive. We invested largely in affordable housing, climate change, cycling and improving city-tree-maintenance. Citywide snow clearing (at the Ottawa level) would be in the range of 6 million every year (plus inflation)... my napkin-math est. This means if we started allocating ALL disposable funds now, and did nothing else... we could roll out the service sometime in 2024.
Excuse me for taking this off track ... but based on what I heard, the affordable housing "investment" was something like $150K. Which achieves something fairly close to nothing. If we are going to be serious about solving the affordable housing issue, just like the snow removal issue, we will need to spend some real money.