City Hall Watcher #9: Council approves a kinda sorta maybe balanced budget

Budget 2019 special! Property taxes stubbornly refuse to go up, Mike Layton achieves wastewater dream, new conflict of interest tracker & more!

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After about six weeks of meetings and consultations and newsletters, Toronto Council voted to approve their 2019 budget last Thursday.

The budget was adopted by a majority of councillors with only a handful of tiny changes from the draft version supported by the Budget Committee and Mayor John Tory’s Executive Committee.

Let’s t…