City’s next budget in limbo after proposed $2B plan fails to win councillors’ support

The city council is at an impasse over its proposed 2014 budget, which was rejected by a majority of councillors during a vote last Thursday.

As a result, the proposed 2014 budget of $2,055,467,116 for the Georgetown district was not presented to the Local Government Ministry in keeping with a November 15 deadline.

On Friday, Chairman and Overseer of the council’s Finance Committee Junior Garrett informed Junior Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker that the budget had not been passed. He also said that a majority of Georgetown’s councillors, along with Mayor Hamilton Green,