Board administrator Mike Serr said council had initially approved a 2023 budget of $157.6 million for the Surrey Police Service, but later slashed that total by 70 per cent, to around $48 million, to support Locke’s campaign promise to scrap the municipal force and maintain Surrey’s RCMP detachment.

According to Serr, the SPS and city subsequently worked together and agreed on a $75 million budget to carry the department through 2023, but that Locke “refused to provide formal approval of the agreed to budget, and is now misrepresenting this as ‘overspending.’”

I’m not sure how this can be characterized as anything but the mayor being amazingly incompetent. Kinda curious who Surrey will elect next.