What matters most to you and your household?

Use the budget tool to show your support for services that are most important to you. After accounting for fixed and variable costs—like debt payments, insurance, and essential services—Council must decide whether to invest in other priorities. Currently, it costs an additional 6% each year to deliver services at the current level.

This year, a new long-term financial plan is being developed to take into account the impact of rising costs, tariffs and the cost of maintaining all City assets.

Discretionary choices, such as expanding programs or launching new initiatives, must be balanced against what taxpayers are willing to pay. The goal is to invest wisely without pushing the annual tax increase beyond what residents can support. Your input will help shape how Council invests in these discretionary choices to ultimately decide the level of the tax supported budget.

Jump In and tell us your priorities to meet the needs of our growing community.

Your Say:

• Choose your priorities and spend up to the total budget shown, $1.6 million. This represents a 1% increase to the tax levy.
• These options would be in addition to the base budget, which was a 6.2% increase in 2025. In other words, if you spend the total budget, it would mean a 7% tax levy increase next year.
• If you wish to leave the 2026 Budget as equal to the 2025 Budget, please choose "No Change from 2025" option for $1 and submit your response.
  

If you have other ideas on how we should prioritize spending, please leave a comment in the box below.

Thank you for your input. It will be taken into consideration when preparing the draft Budget.