Scheduling a January 2025 meeting to reduce the 2025 budget increase

Councillor Votes

Full Resolution Text

Whereas, Council at its meeting of November 18 and 19, 2024, referred the draft 2025 budget back to staff to provide further options for reductions to City services, or additional sources of revenues, whereby an All-Inclusive Rate increase of 7.0% could be achieved. Be it resolved, that a meeting be convened during the day on Monday January 20, 2025 to review draft 2025 budget options to reduce the all-inclusive rate increase and; That recommendations for the 2025 budget be considered by Council for final approval at its meeting of February 3, 2025 and; That, to facilitate the timely commencement of specific Asset Management and Capital Planning, Engineering & Capital Works, Facilities and Property Management, Information Technology Projects and Planning, Development and Urban Design projects in 2025, Council at its meeting of December 9, 2024, approve the following 2025 projects: Asset Management and Capital Planning Project Name Reference Number Project Cost Curtis Creek Watershed Improvements 16-083 $940,000 Byersville Watershed Improvements 16-088 $500,000 Brookdale Watershed Improvements 16-084 $795,000 Sanitary Sewer (Relining, Renew & Repair) $1,425,000 CCTV Inspection of Sewers $1,350,000 City Wide Stormwater Quality Master Plan Implementation 17-034 $975,000 Stormwater Utility Program Development 25-029 $350,000 Asset Management Project $350,000 Trails and Cycling Network Upgrades Program 25-026 $200,000 Transportation Facility Planning 25-014 $20,000 On-Street Parking Permit Program 25-023 $600,000 Transportation Planning Projects 19-011 $60,300 Engineering & Capital Works Project Name Reference Number Project Cost Brealey Drive - Lansdowne Street to Sherbrooke Street $10,580,000.00 Lansdowne Street Rehabilitation - Park Street to Otonabee River 17-009 $2,000,000.00 Road Surface Repair Program 25-051 $2,300,000.00 Pavement Preservation Program 22-020 $5,500,000.00 Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation 19-038 $1,100,000.00 Storm Sewer Rehabilitation Program 19-073 $1,100,000.00 Television Road over South Meade Creek 21-096 $3,000,000.00 Rotary Trail Crossing - Hunter Street East 23-046 $125,000.00 Citywide Trail Rehabilitation 19-039 $250,000.00 Municipal Snow Storage Facility ECA and Compliance 20-047 $1,000,000.00 New Traffic Control and Street Name Signs 20-086 $40,000.00 Tree Removal By-law Planting Program 22-018 $500,000 Facilities and Property Management Project Name Reference Number Project Cost Fire Station #3 Replace Interior Windows and HVAC 24-042 $225,000 Fire Station #3 Replace Exterior Windows and Alarm 24-025 $375,000 Fire Station #1 Replace Asphalt and Sidewalks 16-051 $690,000 Information Technology Project Name Reference Number Project Cost Next Generation 9-1-1 19-104 $750,000 CRM Phase 2 (City Departmental Projects 1034) 22-028 $300,000 City Technology Projects and Capital Improvements 22-030 $676,400 Planning, Development and Urban Design Project Name Project Cost Downtown Built Environmental Outdoor Patio Program $95,000 That, to ensure the continuity of funding for housing and homelessness programs, the following operating budget items in Community Services be approved at the December 9, 2024 Council meeting: Operating Budget, the Housing and Homelessness budgets included on Pages 234-235 of the 2025 Budget Highlights Book as well as the motions related to Agenda Item 9.f Homelessness Budget Recommendations, Report CSSS24-026 dated November 18, 2024. That, User Fees and Charges as set out in Part 5 of the 2025 Budget Highlights Book be approved.