Each year, the City of Cornwall establishes a budget that supports numerous services and programs in our community.
The City's budget documents reflect how your property tax dollars will be spent in its day-to-day operations as well as act as a blueprint for setting priorities for municipal programs, services and initiatives. The budget section oversees the budget process from departmental and outside agencies submissions through to publication of the approved budget documents.
The City of Cornwall has two distinct budget documents:
General Taxation Budget
Operating Budget - An outline organized by business unit, of the City's budget for its day-to-day operations including services such as policing, land ambulance, recreation, social housing and outside agencies funded by the municipality.
Capital Budget - An outline of the City's requirement to acquire or improve land or buildings, machinery and equipment used to provide municipal services. To also assist the municipality in the development of capital infrastructure such as roads, sidewalks, solid waste diversion.
Water & Wastewater Budget
Water & Wastewater Budget - A summary of the waterworks budget which includes capital and operating components. The water and sewer budget is self sustaining whereby revenue generated from water billings, sewer surcharge and miscellaneous sources such as water/sewer connection service charges, and interest on overdue billings meet the obligations of the operating costs for water and sanitary sewer together with the related capital works to be undertaken in the current year.
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2024 Draft Operating/Capital Budget
2024 Water/Wastewater BudgetCouncil will review the 2024 Water and Wastewater Budget Submission at a Special Meeting of Council on Monday, December 4, 2023. The 2024 Water and Wastewater budget has been prepared with an overall increase of 11.66%. If approved by Council, the rates for 2024 for flat (per fixture) customers would increase by 10.61% and the rates for metered (consumptive) customers would increase by 16.36%. The 2024 Water and Wastewater budget represents the requirement to provide for the operation and maintenance of the Water Purification Plant and the water distribution system to ensure the sourcing and delivery of clean, safe, drinking water to the community. It also provides for storm water management, the operation and maintenance of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the sewer collection system (sanitary and combined) to ensure safe transportation and disposal of sewage. The 2024 capital budget includes the cost to purchase, construct, repair and renew assets that support service delivery. The 10-year capital plan supports the City’s water and wastewater objectives by balancing infrastructure renewal needs with new service improvement projects, while providing capacity for the community, and ensuring the delivery of water supply and wastewater treatment. |
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2023 Draft Operating/Capital Budget
To access the agenda and minutes for meetings click here. 2023 Water/Wastewater BudgetCouncil will review the 2023 Water and Wastewater Budget Submission at its meeting of Monday, December 5, 2022. The 2023 Water and Wastewater budget has been prepared with an overall increase of 3.50%. If approved by Council, the rates for 2023 for flat (per fixture) customers would increase by 2.99% and the rates for metered (consumptive) customers would increase by 7.89%. The 2023 Water and Wastewater budget represents the requirement to provide for the operation and maintenance of the Water Purification Plant and the water distribution system to ensure the sourcing and delivery of clean, safe, drinking water to the community. It also provides for storm water management, the operation and maintenance of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the sewer collection system (sanitary and combined) to ensure safe transportation and disposal of sewage. The 2023 capital budget includes the cost to purchase, construct, repair and renew assets that support service delivery. The 10-year capital plan supports the City’s water and wastewater objectives by balancing infrastructure renewal needs with new service improvement projects, while providing capacity for the community, and ensuring the delivery of water supply and wastewater treatment. |
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2022 Draft Operating/Capital Budget
To access the agenda and minutes for meetings click here. 2022 Water/Wastewater BudgetAt the Special Council meeting of Monday, November 29, 2021, Council approved the 2022 Water and Wastewater budget with an overall budget increase of 2.99%. The rates for 2022 for flat (per fixture) customers would increase by 1.59% and the rates for metered (consumptive) customers would increase by 10%. This change to rates will begin to address the inequality between the flat (per fixture) customers and metered (consumptive) customers, as flat (per fixture) customers have been subsidizing service costs for metered customers. The 2022 Water and Wastewater budget represents the requirement to provide for the operation and maintenance of the Water Purification Plant and the water distribution system to ensure the sourcing and delivery of clean, safe, drinking water to the community. It also provides for storm management across the City, the operation and maintenance of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the sanitary sewer collection system to ensure safe transportation and disposal of sewage. The 2022 capital budget includes the cost to purchase, construct, repair and renew assets that support service delivery. The 10-year capital plan supports the City’s water and wastewater objectives by balancing infrastructure renewal needs with new service improvement projects, while providing capacity for the community, and ensuring the delivery of water supply and wastewater treatment.
To access the agenda and minutes for meetings click here. |
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2021 Draft Operating/Capital Budget
To access the agenda and minutes for meetings click here. 2021 Property Tax CalculatorProperty taxes provide the funds needed to deliver important services and programs. Use our interactive Property Tax Calculator to find out the estimated cost of municipal services based on your own tax bill. Try the property tax calculator 2021 Water/Wastewater Budget
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At a special meeting on February 5, 2020, Cornwall City Council approved the 2020 Budget with a tax levy of $75,331,404 that supports dozens of key programs, services and amenities in the community. The budget calls for an increase of 3.06% or $76.26 in municipal taxes on the average residential property valued at $173,684.
2020 Draft Operating/Capital Budget 2020 Water/Wastewater Budget 2020 Budget Meetings
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| At a special meeting on February 28, 2019, Cornwall City Council approved the 2019 Budget with a tax levy of $73,797,487 that supports dozens of key programs, services and amenities in the community. The budget calls for an increase of 2.98% or $71.91 in municipal taxes on the average residential property valued at $169,932.
2019 Draft Operating/Capital Budget 2019 Draft Budget Book (click on section to access document)
2019 Draft Budget Presentation 2019 Water/Wastewater Budget 2019 Budget Meetings
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For more information, please contact budget@cornwall.ca.
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