Charlottetown council approves $181M in spending for 2025-26

Thinh Nguyen · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 31, 2025 2:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Charlottetown council approved some its superior and operational budgets for the coming fiscal twelvemonth successful a unanimous ballot Monday.

Coun. Terry Bernard, interim seat of the lasting committee connected concern and administration, presented the 2025-26 fund during a noon assembly meeting.

The fiscal program includes $70.3 cardinal for superior spending — $60.7 cardinal from the metropolis and $9.6 cardinal successful spouse backing — portion much than $110 cardinal is allocated for operating expenses, including h2o and sewer services.

The $181 cardinal successful full spending marks a 7.7 per cent summation from past year's $168-million, though the metropolis is inactive forecasting a balanced budget.

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Under the operating budget, the city's constabulary and occurrence departments volition person $22.4 million, with the bulk of that backing directed to Charlottetown Police Services.

Water and sewer inferior rates volition emergence by 2.2 per cent to assistance support infrastructure and screen higher operational costs. The metropolis said that translates to an summation of astir $14.41 per year, oregon astir 4 cents per time for the mean household.

Property taxation rates volition stay unchanged.

Some different cardinal investments include:

• Transit expansion: $2 cardinal toward purchasing 7 caller transit buses and readying for 4 electrical minibuses.
• Fire section upgrades: $3.2 cardinal for the last design, tract enactment and pre-construction of a caller occurrence station, arsenic good arsenic the acquisition of a caller occurrence engine. The metropolis volition besides prosecute 2 further platoon chiefs adjacent year.
• Policing: Investment successful superior instrumentality including exertion to let the force to support gait with emerging transgression trends. The superior fund allocates $640,000 to Charlottetown Police Services.
• Recreation and sports facilities: $6.87 cardinal for a caller artificial turf field, upgrades to Elmer J. MacFadyen Memorial Rink and Cody Banks Arena, and finishing enactment astatine the caller Simmons Sports Centre.
• Eastlink Centre upgrades: $3 cardinal for repairs, renovations and engineering plan work.
• Bell Aliant Centre: $6.3 cardinal for assorted repairs and the archetypal signifier of replacing refrigeration and dehumidification systems.
• Infrastructure and nationalist spaces: $30 cardinal for spot maintenance, brownfield redevelopment, and repairs/upgrades to parkades, sidewalks, thoroughfare surfaces, postulation lights and postulation signs.
• Water strategy improvements: $6.9 cardinal for h2o organisation upgrades and wellfield protection.

"This fund presents a dependable fiscal program for our city, ensuring our residents person the services and programs they request and merit portion maintaining our beardown fiscal presumption and keeping america connected the way of sustained and strategical growth," Bernard said during the meeting.