Year: 1936
Summary: Outlines the issues of budget management in light of city debt.
Summary: Outlines the fact that Toronto is once again operating on an unbalanced budget. Details the costs of unemployment relief and raises the question of taxation of municipally-owned utilities
Summary: Highlights the need for better balance between budget and revenue and better matching of taxation with the ability to pay.
Summary: Objection to changing the fiscal year cycle from December 31 to December 15, which is related to the plan to change the election date to mid-December.
Summary: An open letter to citizens, with hopes for a more balanced, a reduced tax burden, and vigorous planning to be made in the areas of sewage disposal, civic improvements, and slum clearances in 1936.
Year: 1935
Summary: Argues that the new budget gives more detailed information than in the past about salaries and wages but could still give the people even more detailed an account of how the budget is managed.
Summary: Highlights the fact that high direct unemployment relief payments are risking Toronto's good credit record. Suggests that those receiving unemployment relief be investigated or required to re-register, in order to determine that all those receiving relief are in fact eligible for it.
Summary: Provides budget and expenditure figures for the fiscal year 1935, and includes money spent on direct unemployment relief and debt charges. Advocates against tax increases, and calls for debts incurred by the city abbatoir to be examined.
Summary: Provides budget and expenditure figures for the fiscal year 1935. Argues that the biggest challenge pointed out in the budget is current unemployment expenditure and debt on past unemployment expenditure.
Summary: This Open Letter suggests that there are only two ways to balance the budget: increasing revenue or cutting spending.
Summary: Highlights the need for balancing the budget and for reducing tax burden in light of Depression.
Year: 1934
Summary: The budgetary troubles in light of the Depression and the need for transparency regarding the working conditions of the civic service.
Summary: Poses queries as to the effects of the Depression on the city accounts and the use of deficits to cover for lost tax revenue.
Summary: Highlghts the issue of growing deficits in the Great Depression, and argues this issue is not being fully presented to the public.
Summary: An open letter to the citizens and taxpayers of Toronto, outlining the fact that large deficits in light of the Great Depression are not presented to their full extent. Highlights some major issues in the budget including some major upcoming capital expenditures.
Summary: Analysis of problems in 1934 budget such as lack of balance and misrepresented opinion of expert consultant.
Summary: Outlines the city's deficits and credit rating coming out of the depression. Suggests that the city should lower the tax rate in order to "get off the backs" of taxpayers and businesses. Suggests cutting the wages of city workers and other ways of finding efficiencies.
Summary: Argues that the economic tides appear to be turning, but cautions that the city cannot already return to its previous expenditure levels due to lack of fiscal stability after the years of depression.
Year: 1933
Summary: Outlines the effects of the Great Depression on the citizen's ability to pay taxes and what should be done with the tax code in order to address this problem.
Summary: Argues that civic expenditure should be reduced, to accommodate the effects of the Great Depression on citizen's ability to pay taxes.
Summary: An open letter to the mayor, the board of control, and city aldermen, highlighting the fact that expenditures appear to be falling behind revenues at a growing pace.
Summary: Provides estimates of annual revenues and expenditures and their equivalent in mills.
Summary: Describes equitable means of effecting salary and wage reductions so as to increase city revenue by applying reductions on restored salary schedules.
Year: 1932
Summary: Outlines the figures related to the increase in municipal expenditure from 1916-1931, as well as figures on voter turnout and government personnel.
Summary: Tabulated comparison of expenditure for the years 1927-1932, with discussion.
Summary: Outlines the annual estimated net revenue and expenditure in the city of Toronto for the fiscal year of 1932, as outlined in the city budget.
Summary: Argues that Toronto's budget must be balanced in order to affect the future growth of the city. Tabulates objects of expenditure and population vs. voter turnout figures.
Year: 1931
Summary: Analysis of municipal expenditure on salaries and wages for the years 1927-1931.
Summary: Comparison of expenditure on community services for the years 1927-1931. Tabulated comparison of taxation revenue and other general revenue sources.
Summary: Outlines the annual estimated net revenue and expenditure in the city of Toronto as detailed in the 1931 budget.