Councillors, Mayor vote to take 10 percent pay cut

Lethbridge City Council began budget deliberations as the Finance Committee is preparing its 2021 to 2022 Operating Budget Review. A wide range of groups came forward making their pitch to council as to what their needs were.

That included a request by Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden for $171,190 to support the society’s operations. The Lethbridge Sport Council requested that the $55,000 new Initiative funding be extended until December 31, 2022. The Southern Alberta Art Gallery requested continuation of the increased operating funding by the city and the Southern Alberta Ethnic Association requested continued funding to help maintain operations.

Lethbridge council also unanimously approved a 10 percent pay cut for councillors and the mayor into 2021. Also no increase for 2022.

At the Finance Committee, Lethbridge Councillor Blaine Hyggen asked Police Chief Shahin Mehdizadeh if his department could handle a budget freeze for 2021 and 2022 to which Mehdizadeh agreed that his department could likely accommodate that.

Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends. 

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