I have a municipal background. Budget time is that annual opportunity to continue to review current programs and services that the government's delivering and to make sure that those are the services and programs that residents expect us to deliver and that they want their tax dollars to go to. That is the way that I'm approaching our department's budget, as well as reviewing all of our current systems and processes to ask, at each step, is this required? It's that red-tape reduction opportunity. Perhaps we've put something in, in the 1980s, and either technology's changed and we should be using that or there's an opportunity to discontinue doing that because it's been over-architected.
