Sep 16 2025 - Clr Rashovich Imagines A Diminished City

This is how the 2026 Regina budget wound up with Appendix M13: a 14 page list of cuts to every aspect of city business. At the Sep 16 2025 special budget meeting, ward 2 councillor proposed finding out what would happen if instead of an annual mill rate increase, the city had a five percent mill rate decrease. This video collects Rashovich's initial pitch, all the discussion on the request that followed and ends on the council vote.

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0:00 Any other questions?
0:16 What it would have looked like if we, I don't know, had a 5% reduction?
0:54 So I was thinking more a 5% reduction overall.
1:51 Okay. So, I'll just maybe ask Mr. Anderson to comment on that.
6:07 Let's let's take a uh five minute recess just to get this. Or, sorry, 15.
7:46 Councillor Mancinelli, go ahead.
8:50 What kind of money does it cost to put these forecasts together?
12:15 Okay, that's… uh… kind of… $100,000? I'm like… wow.
13:02 I can answer that if I can go back to speaking.
13:05 Point number one is the job that administration does every year.
13:29 We've all talked about the zeros and how they affected our job as councillors today
13:32 by having zero budgets a decade and a decade and a half ago.
14:35 I'm just going to go to the acting city manager.
15:10 We can do that work. The results are going to be stark.
15:38 I don't want anybody to smack their head and go, "Oh, wow. Who asked for that?"
15:45: Councillor Tsiklis…
15:51 Our homeowners are facing stark decisions…
16:02 Councillor Flores, go ahead.
17:31 Dave has a point of clarification.
19:23 60 or so million dollars, we're not going to find that by cutting pens.
22:08 We're voting on point number two.