Petition To Stop Annex Spending

Suspend ALL Building Until After

The Next Civic Election This Fall

An online petition to have this city council suspend the decision to spend $15.7 million to build a new annex for city staff invites Nanaimo taxpayers to make their wishes known to this council.

The petition declares that this City Council of Nanaimo has lost the confidence of the taxpayers of Nanaimo with their decision to spend $9 million more than what is required to provide a new building for city staff.

This decision was made in secret and as of yet, the taxpayers of Nanaimo do not even know which councillors supported this waste of money. The petition demands that city council immediately suspend all building projects until a new council is elected this fall. In the meantime, $9 million should be applied to the reduction of city property taxes.

The petition reads:

We, the undersigned believe that the current Nanaimo City Council also known as the 24th City Council of the City of Nanaimo has lost the confidence of the taxpayers in the city of Nanaimo.

Therefore we petition this council to instruct staff to suspend all plans to construct a new city hall annex at a cost of $15.7 million and immediately reduce city tax increases by an amount to reflect a $9 million reduction in spending. This would leave $6.7 million in reserve to fund the renovation of the existing annex, should the new city council choose to proceed with that project.

We agree that the decision to build any new city owned buildings be immediately suspended until after the next civic election in the fall of 2011.

You can add your name to this petition by clicking HERE.