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Old Posted Aug 4, 2011, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by halifaxboyns View Post
2.92% (rounded up) is significant? It's certainly not budget crushing...if it got up to double digits before the decimal, I'd be fearful.

I've also been looking into Moncton's budget. They approved for 2011 a recreation budget of about $9.1 million, from what I could find.
It isn't crushing, but it is real money, all of that $17m is spent on rec programs and ops already. So you either have to cut something(s) or get the money from elsewhere in the budget. It's not like that budget isn't spoken for.

The stadium isn't in Moncton's budget because it isn't Moncton's, it is UdeMs. Which is party of why several councillors liked Husky as an option... because Husky would be SMU's deal.