Today on the show a conversation about municipal budgets -- what goes into the thinking and the planning process. How do you balance the budget to get more for your buck, balancing essential expenses, recreational activities and places but also having taxe levels tolerable?

GUESTS - Miles Russell, civil engineering technologist with Happy City; Rigel Penman, Happy City’s head of community partnership; Mike Doyle, mayor of Harbour Main-Chapel’s Cove-Lakeview; Danny Breen, mayor of St. John’s. Triffie Parsons, town clerk/manager Hare Bay; Connie Reid, President of Professional Municipal administrators and town manager of Reidville; Jordan Brown, mayor of Labrador City