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New Online Tool Provides Data For Dryden Taxpayers

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Taxpayers can now see how their dollars are being spent in the City of Dryden.

The City has launched two new online portals including a Municipal Dashboard and a City Strategic Plan Dashboard, to improve communication with residents.

Residents can see data on municipal service areas, while the other dashboard tracks the city’s progress on achieving six strategic goals.

CAO Roger Nesbitt says the online portals are convenient for residents.

“Residents can go in whenever they want and right at their fingertips they can look at this performance data that covers actually 18 service areas and there’s over a 100 performance indicators.”

Nesbitt explains by providing accessibility to this data it promotes transparency and accountability in municipal government with residents, but it’s also a great tool for city staff.

“Our staff can now have trending data with the press of a button. It really helps with our decision making, better data definitely makes for better decisions. So it’s not just an externa;l communications tool, it’s good use for our staff as well.”

Nesbitt adds it’s important you know how the city works for you.

Residents are encouraged to check out the new dashboards and contact the city if you have any questions.

You can access the City of Dryden website here.

Direct Dashboard Links:

Municipal Dashboard

Strategic Plan Dashboard

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Federal Challenge Issued For A Balanced Budget Plan

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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on all of the federal political party leaders to let Canadians know where they stand on the issue of a balanced budget.

Paige MacPherson says the Liberals ran on the promise to have a balanced budget and then promptly broke that promise.

“Failure by the Trudeau government to honour its promise to balance the budget will result in an additional $100 billion in federal debt added by 2024. It means taxpayers are on the hook for debt interest payments costing $24 billion for this year.”

MacPherson says the Grits have been on a major pre-election spending spree this summer and people need to realize where that money is coming from.

MacPherson says “We do see federal government ministers coming to the region and doing just that, trying to buy votes with our own money and that is unfortunate because it’s maybe not going to be us who will be paying for it, it will be our kids because of the amount of debt they are wracking up.”

The Federation is challenging all leaders to tell the public how they are planning to balance the books.