The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says she won't support a provisional budget request for the city's police force, calling a $91-million increase in funding "extraordinarily excessive."

Brenda Locke, who strongly opposed the city's transition from the RCMP to its own municipal police, says that the budget for the Surrey Police Service (SPS) would necessitate an 18-per-cent property tax hike if it were approved.

Locke says Surrey taxpayers cannot afford the provisional 2026 budget request of more than $330 million from the provincially appointed Surrey Police Board that was released on Tuesday night.

The Surrey Police Board said in a statement , in response to Locke's statements, that it hopes the mayor and council reconsider the proposed budget.

It added that it had expected the municipal g

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