That with respect to Report C2024-1097, the following amendment be adopted: That a new Recommendation be inserted, as follows, and that all Recommendations be renumbered accordingly if necessary: With respect to the Calgary Police Service: a. Reduce the 2025 base expenditures and net budget for the Calgary Police Service by $4,000,000 representative of the operating variance, as identified by Calgary Police Commission in Attachment 3 of Report C2024-0859 from September 16th, 2024 for the Community Safety Investment Framework, and increase the 2025 and 2026 base expenditures and net budget for the Community Strategies service by $4,000,000, to support the Community Safety Investment Framework, an oversubscribed program that receives $39,000,000 in requests with only $8,000,000 to distribute; and
Motion C2024-1097 bundles three council directions: 1) re-create a Finance and Budget Committee to do detailed reviews of operating budgets and oversee service planning each four-year term, 2) reverse the 2023 transit fare freeze so fare changes can resume and move $3,000,000 into the Primary Transit Network, and 3) ask the provincial government to waive Section 358.1 of the Municipal Government Act to avoid shifting tax burden between residential and non‑residential property classes.
These steps increase council oversight of how money and services are planned, could restart changes to transit fares while directing new funds to transit network improvements, and seek temporary provincial relief to prevent tax-class shifts while assessment values rebalance.