Windsor Treasurer Onorio Colucci, Mayor Drew Dilkens and CAO Helga Reidel discuss the 2016 draft budget, November 30, 2015. (Photo by Mike Vlasveld)Windsor Treasurer Onorio Colucci, Mayor Drew Dilkens and CAO Helga Reidel discuss the 2016 draft budget, November 30, 2015. (Photo by Mike Vlasveld)
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Difficult City Budget Deliberations Today

Windsor City Council will start budget deliberations this afternoon hoping to achieve a 0% tax increase for the eighth year in a row.

As it stands the budget comes in with a 1.75% tax levy increase but it's Mayor Drew Dilkens' goal to bring it down to zero. Council will need to find around $3.3-million to cut from the budget.

"There will be some tough choices that need to be made and cuts that need to be made to get to zero but there is a path to get to zero, so it will be an interesting discussion," says Dilkens.

Dilkens says if achieved this will likely be the last year of a tax freeze.

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