Jon Lorenc

“OUR city isn’t [insert name of a much more livable & successful city here].”

Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that you’re not that city.

That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses.

The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?

Every single community group would get $100K with no questions. I would build benches for bus stops and fund block parties for every single street in Cathedral.

Like, wouldn't that be more fun than a single baseball stadium?? I would want to make Regina the coolest, weirdest place I could imagine

I don't know what it says about me, but if I was suddenly a million/billionaire, I would spend my money on building tool libraries, co-op kitchens, weird housing, and libraries. Who needs a yacht when you could create a spray art park, or a test kitchen in the community centre?

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A promotional text message from SaskTel starting with the line "Travel worry-free in the U.S.!".

Hey SaskTel I don't think the roaming rates are what I'm worried about.

Gawrsh! US emissions rising? China's falling? What are Sask's good ol'boys going to do when they can't say "But what about China??!?!" any more?

Rain in November rain in December rain in January aaaaaaaaaaaaa

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I miss Tramps

Every single one of the councillors that ran on municipale inefficiencies are not talking through their amendments with city admin beforehand, creating huge time/money wastes. THEY are the inefficiencies! "efficiency vampire" councillors.
#yqrcc #thecstandsforcircus

Since we are talking about transportation plans from the 80s, I'm pretty sure the road network plans for Cathedral included cutting off 13th from Lewvan and possibly removing north-south access from Sask Drive. Is that going to happen too? 🤪

Attendance isn't rising on a deteriorating pool that's hanging on by the skin of it's teeth. You don't say.

That's everyday.

YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene The QCIB presents... Soothing Sounds #1: Your low mill rates in action

here… an hour of the watermain outside my house after the first break
it was fixed and then a few days later it blew somewhere else nearby #yqrcc
youtu.be/KFwsPIvdzkQ?...

My analogy is that budget deliberations just follow induced demand. Council will use all available time, regardless of if the conversation is efficient or productive.

It's not just a hypocrisy. It's a ridiculous, foolish hypocrisy.

But also very revealing. Shows how Certain Types Of Councillors are easily suckered by Certain Types of empty business sophistry. #yqrcc

You know what would make it easier to redirect what EDR is doing? Absorbing them into the city. This idea that council needs to micromanage an outside org because they have no clue what they are doing but they should remain autonomous is frankly ludicrous.

CFO: Neglecting asset maintenance & draining reserves is not prudent. Finding more efficiencies to offset these capital cost is not possible. #yqrcc

I've repeated this at nauseum. So has city administration. But choosing the political expediency of no mill rate increases or mill rate increases below inflation only pushes the bill down the road. It doesn't make the need for money disappear.

So much "something has to change. Pick one thing to cut." in regards to transit. Where was this sort of talk in the police budget debate?

Here's the graph series from Deloitte where it shows that out of every $1 of city taxes 33% goes to the city police. #yqrcc

According to Deloitte, while our police spending is far above the average vs the comparator cities, our property tax per capita is the second lowest in the group. #yqrcc

From the #YQR city budget package.

Yeah it included plans for wider sidewalks on Sask Drive (didn't specify how much wider) but also included an additional car lane in each direction on the Cathedral portion. I think there was also a bike path north of the tracks? Been a while since I reviewed the plan.

It’s common sense to proactively address/mitigate climate change.

It’s common sense to reduce pollution, emissions and particulates in cities.

It’s common sense to proactively cool cities, quiet cities, clean cities.

It’s common sense to move more people in less space and with lower public costs.

Oh, yeah, a loophole to impose bad policy, what a great idea.

#YQRcc

Members of council that say they are "fiscal hawks" but overlook, ignore or even demand inefficient land-use are simply liars. Property tax is how we fund our city and where we can actually find "efficiencies". To ignore this and instead cut amenities shows that you were never serious. #yqrcc

Parking is a cost center. It does not house people nor does it employ people. The city makes it's money on property tax. Increasing the amount of low tax yield land in our city over alternatives while we are having trouble paying for existing infrastructure is simply financial sabotage. #yqrcc