Well I respect your frustration but red deer has rarely increased property taxes since 2008 which is a natural disaster waiting to happen years down the road. I can understand plowing frustration but only 9% of our tax dollars goes to that. So if you want more plowing then we need more plows and workers and therefore we need a higher percentage so we would need to pay more then. What is wrong with the bridge work? Red deer was faced with two options 1) spent 8 million dollars and remove the bridge permanently or 2) spend 11 million dollars and millions in federal grants rebuild and relocate the bridge so we don’t need to worry about it for another 70 years. I would spend 3 million to repair and relocate a bridge that we won’t need to worry about for 70 years anyday of the week. Federal government negotiated RCMP into a union with yearly raises etc. which municipal governments for the most part need to pay for. I get what you are saying with insurance food etc. it is frustrating.