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Mayor Brenda Locke warns other municipalities policed by RCMP will ‘get hit with significant costs’
Surrey has ‘surplus’ in policing budget: premier Tom Zytaruk Black Press Media
Premier David Eby said there will be no more money for the City of Surrey beyond $150 million that was promised by Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth this past summer to help the city shoulder the cost of transitioning to the Surrey Police Service from the Surrey RCMP. “There is no more money,” Eby told reporters in Victoria on Monday. “There is no more money. There is $150 million on the table Surrey hasn’t taken us up on. “They have a surplus in their policing budget, they have a surplus overall, there is no more money,” Eby said. “Having that shadow-boxing discussion about money on line items that we don’t have awareness of, don’t know what the mayor’s talking about when she says there is more costs, it’s just impossible.” But Mayor Brenda Locke maintains those “line items” can be found in the city’s Oct. 13 petition to the Supreme Court of British Columbia seeking a judicial review of Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth’s July 19 order for the city to continue with the transition to the SPS, contrary to the wishes of council’s majority. “He needs to look at the petition, it’s outlined in the petition,” Locke told Black Press Media on Tuesday (Oct. 24). “Maybe he hasn’t had a chance to look at it yet. “I find it pretty disrespectful on behalf of both the premier and his solicitor general Continued on A4
On Monday (Oct. 23), B.C. Premier David Eby said there will be no more money for the City of Surrey beyond $150 million that was promised by Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth this past summer to help the city shoulder the cost of transitioning to the Surrey Police Service from the Surrey RCMP. (Anna Burns photo)
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