City of St. Catharines

2017 Operating Budget

2017 Budget Highlights

Comparison to 2016 operating budget:

City Departments before Debt Repayment: $1,041,6971.29%

City Departments including Debt Repayment: $1,501,4361.62%

All Expenditures including Outside Boards and Commissions: $1,738,2441.60%

2017 Median Home (Year 1 of 4 year Phased In Current Value Assessment) $230,000an increase of 3.60%

Estimated Impact on Median Household

2017 2016 Change

CVA $230,000 $222,000 $8,000 3.60%

City $1,424.46 $1,379.09 $45.37 3.29%Hospital 32.09 31.78 0.30 0.95%Sub-total City 1,456.55 1,410.87 45.67 3.24%

Infrastructure Levy 13.89 13.52 0.36 2.68%

Total City 1,470.43 1,424.40 46.04 3.23%

Region 1,484.55 1,449.06 35.49 2.45%School 411.70 417.36 -5.66 -1.36%

$3,366.68 $3,290.81 $75.86 2.31%

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City of St. Catharines

2017 Operating Budget

Significant Changes from 2016 Expenditure Budget

Oper BudChanges Amount %

Expenditures:

Base Budget Increase 821,223 0.76% - includes negotiated settlements plus Fire Services estimate

821,223 0.76%

Non-discretionary/Committed itemsCanine/Humane Control contract 111,357 0.10%Natural Gas - carbon tax 70,000 0.06%Fire - Firehouse software 30,936 0.03%LCS-Council webstreaming annual fee 5,000 0.00%

Subtotal 217,293 0.20%Base Budget increase with non-discretionary/committed items: 1,038,516 0.96%

Infrastructure Maintenance/Improvements Operations Equipment Allocation 50,000 0.05%Building Improvement Reserve Allocation 100,000 0.09%

Infrastructure Maintenance/ Improvements Subtotal 150,000 0.14%

Other Increases:TES StreetLighting - pole condition replacement 100,000 0.09%PBS and EDTS - Expediter position - new FTE 99,517 0.09%PRCS - Casual and Student hour increase 80,000 0.07%PBS - Project Management Contract - partial year 53,611 0.05%PRCS - Parks Master Plan - Design 35,000 0.03%PBS - Multi Municipal Inspection Solution software licences 31,000 0.03%Council - Organization Effectiveness Study 30,000 0.03%PRCS - Parks Minor Amenity Renewal Program 25,000 0.02%TES Geomatics - Survey Grade GPS replacement 25,000 0.02%CAO - Communications - Quality of Life Survey 17,000 0.02%TES City Hall - Chairs for Burgoyne Woods Room 14,000 0.01%TES - Building Repair Studies - Energy Audit 10,000 0.01%HR - Recruitment Advertising 9,000 0.01%TES Equipment Maintenance - Router, Scanners 8,000 0.01%Fire Services - Emergency Planning - EOC 7,600 0.01%PRCS - Culture - Afghanistan Plaque 5,000 0.00%

Subtotal Other Items 549,728 0.51%

Expenditure Increase 1,738,244 1.60%

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City of St. Catharines

2017 Operating Budget

Where Your City's Share of the Property Taxes Go:

Average Household (in the Urban Boundaries) $1,424.46

Annual Monthly WeeklyCost Cost Cost

Fire (Suppression, Dispatch, Prevention) 329.33 27.44 $6.33Public Works (Roads, Sidewalks, Winter 284.18 23.68 5.47 Control, Drainage etc.)Parks and Recreation (Sports Parks, Arenas, 268.08 22.34 5.16 Recreation, Trees, Passive Parks etc.)General Government 155.84 12.99 3.00Transit and Paratransit 140.88 11.74 2.71Libraries 73.64 6.14 1.42Community Planning and Development 34.47 2.87 0.66Other Expenditures 44.02 3.67 0.85Street Lighting 29.34 2.45 0.56Museum/Welland Canal Centre/Performing Arts 38.32 3.19 0.74Contributions to Capital Projects 20.23 1.69 0.39Environmental Monitoring 3.28 0.27 0.06Senior Centres 2.85 0.24 0.05

$1,424.46 $118.71 $27.40

Winter Control (Included above) $28.49 $2.37 $0.55

For each hundred dollars of taxes you pay the City

Fire Protection $23.12Public Works 19.95Parks and Recreation 18.82General Government 10.94Transit and Paratransit 9.89Libraries 5.17Community Planning and Development 2.42Other Expenditures 3.09Street Lighting 2.06Museum/Welland Canal Centre/Performing Arts Centre 2.69Contributions to Capital Projects 1.42Environmental Monitoring 0.23Senior Centres 0.20

$100.00

Winter Control $2.37

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