Sarnia's mayor is expressing concern the city is losing its fiscal focus.
Mike Bradley says he campaigned in the last municipal election on eliminating the municipality's debt.
He says the city's fiscal fitness plan had reduced the red ink from $97-million to $20 million just two years ago.
Mayor Bradley says he was hoping, along with the former RBC Centre debt, to have the books balanced in five or six years, now he says the timeline is 2030 or beyond.
"I'm quite concerned as we head into the start of the second part of this term that the direction is not the way of the mandate that I received from the public," says Bradley.
"I'm going to continue to challenge some of these issues because it's not good in the long term. It will accumulate and we are going to be in a real bind for the next couple of years at tax time."
Mayor Bradley says he's concerned that 20 more, what he considers non-essential employees, are being added at city hall while council has decided to eliminate two firefighting positions with two more to come.
- With files from CHOK News Director Dave Dentinger
