Saskatoon Mayoral candidate Rob Norris says he will support dropping annual property taxes to one per cent if elected in November. He says there is one thing he has heard above everything else since launching his campaign, that working families are being squeezed when it comes to property taxes. Norris says that since Charlie Clark has been on city council, property taxes have increased by over 70 per cent; and, annual property tax increases averaged around 5.3 per cent in the last four years that Don Atchison mayor.

Norris also says he would support a city-wide hiring freeze, excluding police, fire and protective services. He would introduce a motion to permanently reduce the mayor’s salary by about $15 thousand or the equivalent of ten per cent annually. He would also reduce the mayor’s communication budget by ten per cent and lower the salary of the chief of staff/executive assistant to the mayor by 10 per cent.