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Kelowna aims to keep 2020 tax increases below four per cent

Kelowna aims to keep 2020 tax increases below four per cent | iNFOnews.ca
Kelowna City Hall Photographer: Rob Munro

A 3.9 per cent Kelowna tax hike is being recommended to city council by staff.

Council will go through its provisional budget discussions on Dec. 10 to review staff’s recommendations.

The increase is made up of a 2.08 per cent general tax increase and another 1.82 per cent specifically for infrastructure improvements.

The higher tax rate is projected to cost the owner of the average single-detached home an extra $81 per year, states a city news release.

The tax increases includes funding for seven new RCMP officers.

Council can vary the budget next week but the final tax rate won’t officially be set until next spring.

The budget document is available here.

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Rob Munro

Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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