budget

You will have several opportunities in the coming weeks to inform the City’s draft budget for 2022. From Wednesday, October 13 to Thursday, October 28, Councillors have organized virtual consultation sessions for residents to share comments and provide input on what the City’s priorities should be and where to find potential savings. ...

_ (press release) _ Today, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) tabled the 2017 Draft Operating and Capital Budge t with the Ottawa Police Services Board.  The projected 2017 net operating budget for the OPS will be $285.9 million on a gross operating budget of $320. ...

City Council approved the second budget of its term today, which limits the property tax increase to 2 per cent, protects front-line services and invests in community priorities.  “The 2016 budget will allow us to continue to make progress on priorities such as light rail transit, affordable housing and economic development,” said Mayor Jim Watson. ...

The Ottawa Cultural Alliance today acknowledged and thanked the City of Ottawa for the 1.5% inflationary increase in the City’s cultural funding and for investments made to date in A Renewed Action Plan for Arts, Heritage and Culture (2013-2018) but is disappointed that the City is unable to make any additional investments in the City’s six-year Action Plan in its 2016 budget. ...

The Ottawa Public Library Board has approved the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) 2016 draft operating and capital budget. The complete budget envelope is $45.362M which includes funding for both operating and capital expenses. On the operations side, the 2016 budget maintains existing services at current levels across the City. ...

Ottawa City Council tabled a balanced draft budget today, which would allow the City of Ottawa to keep life affordable for families and invest in community priorities.  The draft budget proposes to continue record investments in active transportation, affordable housing and economic development. ...

Ottawa residents will have several opportunities in the coming weeks to take part in pre-budget consultations in advance of the City of Ottawa Budget 2016. These opportunities are in addition to Mayor Jim Watson’s telephone town hall held in June and the budget2016@ottawa. ...

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has approved an $856.0 million budget for school year 2015-2016.  The 2015-2016 budget represents the first year of a three year plan to more closely align spending with Ministry of Education funding levels. The largest component of the budget is $630 million, allocated to instruction, followed by $90. ...

Residents are invited to a one-hour budget primer session on June 24, offering a look at how the City of Ottawa spends and how the annual municipal budget is put together.  City Treasurer Marian Simulik and Deputy City Treasurer Isabelle Jasmin will lead the session, which will consist of an overview of the budget process followed by a question-and-answer period. ...

Mayor Jim Watson invites residents to call into a pre-budget Tele-Town Hall on Thursday, June 25. Residents will be able to ask questions and share their views before City staff begins developing the draft Budget 2016, which will tabled later this fall. ...