The Plante administration is considering the possibility of “giving up certain activities” currently carried out by the City of Montreal, in a tight budgetary context.
Executive committee chairman Luc Rabouin told city council on Tuesday that tough choices were inevitable as he prepares the 2025 budget for adoption this fall.
“We review each program one by one to ensure that we are able to optimize, change our ways of doing things and sometimes give up certain activities,” said Mr. Rabouin. “We have to intervene in new problems, there may be some that we will have to give up. Those are the decisions we have to make.”
We must limit our spending, we must limit tax increases and we must make choices. Difficult choices in the current context.
Luc Rabouin, President of the Executive Committee of the City of Montreal
Questioned by The Press After the city council meeting, Valérie Plante and Luc Rabouin refused to give concrete examples of activities that Montreal could give up. “People are asking us to make choices. Each borough must look at what it is doing and make choices,” said Mr. Rabouin.
The president of Valérie Plante’s executive committee was reacting to an opposition motion demanding better funding for Montreal’s boroughs. These boroughs are expected to see their budget increase by only 1% in 2025.
“We do not wish [couper les services]”If the administration insists on suffocating the boroughs, that’s what will happen,” said Montreal North Mayor Christine Black.
In addition to Mme Black, the motion was supported by the mayors of Outremont, Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Saint-Laurent, Saint-Léonard, Anjou and LaSalle.