EDMONTON – Edmonton should finally nail down funding for the $1.8-billion southeast LRT route next year and construction might start in 2015, Mayor Stephen Mandel says.
“I’m quite confident that we have all the tools in place … We have to take a chance at the same time, as we took on the north line (to NAIT),” he said this week during a year-end interview.
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With so many people approaching council with their hands out this budget, some councillors are feeling the pressure to hold the line at a proposed 5.5% tax hike.
“Right now we have over $20 million in requests from different community groups — and these asks run the gamut,” said Coun. Kim Krushell, listing several projects that will come up for debate including funding for the Jerry Forbes Centre and the Art Gallery of Alberta.
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