Budget 2022

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Proposed Financial Plan and Budget

The City is committed to being fiscally responsible and achieving financial sustainability. This is difficult when the City is seeing decreased revenues and increased expenses as a result of numerous external factors (i.e. slower than anticipated COVID-19 revenue recovery, reduction in capital grant funding, inflationary costs, etc.).

If this continues, higher than historical tax increases are needed to maintain current City services. It is not possible to maintain current services with modest tax increases; change is inevitable. This upcoming process for the 2022 Budget will prompt difficult conversations and hard choices to ensure long-term sustainably.

The City needs to ensure the provision of programs and services most valued by our community. We are engaging the community to provide input to City Council to help inform decision-making based on community priorities and the financial realities of our City.

Service levels currently provided have been captured in broad categories to start, with some opportunity to provide more specific input further along the survey. Please provide your input on which you believe should have service levels increased, which should be maintained, and which should be reduced.


Proposed Financial Plan and Budget

The City is committed to being fiscally responsible and achieving financial sustainability. This is difficult when the City is seeing decreased revenues and increased expenses as a result of numerous external factors (i.e. slower than anticipated COVID-19 revenue recovery, reduction in capital grant funding, inflationary costs, etc.).

If this continues, higher than historical tax increases are needed to maintain current City services. It is not possible to maintain current services with modest tax increases; change is inevitable. This upcoming process for the 2022 Budget will prompt difficult conversations and hard choices to ensure long-term sustainably.

The City needs to ensure the provision of programs and services most valued by our community. We are engaging the community to provide input to City Council to help inform decision-making based on community priorities and the financial realities of our City.

Service levels currently provided have been captured in broad categories to start, with some opportunity to provide more specific input further along the survey. Please provide your input on which you believe should have service levels increased, which should be maintained, and which should be reduced.

Consultation has concluded

  • What We Heard

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    Cultivate the Conversation – What we Heard Report

    Thank you to everyone who was involved in reviewing or providing input into this year’s budget survey. Public input is one important factor in helping inform Council decision-making.



    There were 146 residents who completed the survey. Below is the age breakdown of those who completed the survey:



    Service areas were captured in 8 broad categories and all participants were asked if they believed the City should maintain, reduce, or increase spending in those areas. If the respondent selected maintain, they were taken to the next category. If the responded selected reduce or increase, there was a follow-up question where they were asked to prioritize more specific areas of that category. For every category, the majority of respondents supported maintaining existing spending/service levels.

    Council will review the detailed findings from the survey and consider the input gathered from other public and stakeholder engagement sessions to help inform decision-making. Deliberations will begin on December 2, 2021 and they are scheduled for final approval on December 21, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://stalbert.ca/cosa/finance/business-plans-budget/2022-budget/.