![](https://media1.thecoast.ca/thecoast/imager/u/blog/32307297/dsc-0559.jpg?cb=1707142948)
Halifax’s Budget Committee uses money magic to fight the trend toward using contractors.
The city’s budget process looks different this year, thanks to some changes that city council asked for when it adopted councillor Tim Outhit’s radical motion from November 2023. But some councillors are struggling with these changes, so at the start of the Budget Committee meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 31, they got an explanation about how this year’s budget is going to work…