The Vancouver park board will ask Mayor Ken Sim to reduce his expectation that the board cut $15 million from its budget.

Last month, Sim directed city staff to cut spending by $120 million in order to have a zero increase in property taxes next year. This includes an expected $15 million to be cut from the park board budget, that is dependant on city approval.

This prompted commissioner Brennan Bastyovanszky to draft a special motion asking that the cut be reduced to $9.6 million, that is in line with the eight per cent of city spending devoted to the parks board.

“The park board requests that city council reduce the 2026 budget reduction target assigned to the park board to reflect the park board’s share of the municipal tax base and thereby be limited to eight per cent of the total

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