Oliver Pools News Today

  EDMONTON -- The Eastglen Leisure Centre, the Scona and Oliver Pools and the Tipton and Oliver arenas will not be closed, even as Edmonton councillors scrape through the budget to deliver a zero-per cent property tax increase next year. Council voted unanimously to keep the facilities open Wednesday night. Their closures would have together freed up nearly $1.2 million for 2021 and had been proposed as one of nearly 100 budget reduction strategies earlier in the month. Julie Kusiek, pres...

  EDMONTON -- For the first time in more than 20 years, property taxes in Edmonton are not going up. City council completed budget deliberations on Friday and approved the freeze for 2021. "Im pleased to say that today, city council passed a budget that strikes the right balance between finding efficiencies during these trying economic times while also ensuring that were supporting economic recovery and protecting key city services and infrastructure," Mayor Don Iveson said. The city has ...