Surrey, B.C. councillors voted to pass the city’s five-year budget Monday, approving a 12.5 per cent property tax increase in the process.
The budget passed along party lines, with a split vote needed to pass a series of bylaws and amendments required to approve the plan.
The city, B.C.’s second-largest by population, has approved the highest average property tax increase among all Metro Vancouver municipalities.
According to Mayor Brenda Locke, that’s largely due to the city’s most contentious issue — the transition from the RCMP to a municipal force, which the mayor hopes to halt.
“You cannot build the kind of infrastructure that we’re planning on doing without additional dollars,” Locke said.
The mayor has
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