Mayor Spearman touches on growth, drug-related challenges, and a big 2019 in State of the City address
LETHBRIDGE – A packed crowd at the Sandman Hotel on Mayor Magrath Drive huddled in early on Tuesday, Jan. 15, to listen to Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman give his yearly State of the City address where he touched on a number of topics from the previous year as well as what’s to come in 2019.
Spearman spoke about finances in the city, the work that was done in the 2019-2021 Operating Budget to try and keep taxes as low as possible while funding initiatives the community deemed important, as well as the growth and the development taking place in Lethbridge.
“In talking to the business community about working together, we’ve received a lot of input from them over the past year around what’s working and what’s not working. We want to make sure that we address those, and we’ve tried to do that through our budget priorities. The budget priorities were to keep taxes down and make sure we fund community safety and security, and we did that,” Spearman said.
One particular point of emphasis was the continuing growth the Lethbridge Airport is seeing since the City of Lethbridge took ownership of it from Lethbridge County back in July.