2025 Budget
Welcome to the Budget 2025 engagement process.
To help the District of North Saanich understand the priorities of the community it serves, we are asking residents to provide feedback on the types of services the District provides and the quality and/or quantity of these services.
Each year the District develops an annual budget outlining how tax dollars are invested to support our residents and the community.
The District has traditionally provided only those services which are most important to the community and supplemented revenues from user fees and charges to lessen the burden on the limited property tax base. As a result, the District levies lower property taxes than most other municipalities in the region.
The budget engagement process allows the District to explore with the community appropriate service levels, funding priorities and acceptable property tax rates.
The Budget 2025 engagement process includes a survey, which will be open from January 21 to February 4, 2025.
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Take Survey
This survey seeks your feedback and advice on how to direct District resources in 2025 and whether to expand service in some areas. Completing the survey takes approximately 15 minutes.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND 2024 FINANCIAL PLAN
Council sets the District’s direction through its Strategic Plan. View the 2023 - 2026 Strategic Plan here.
The District has five strategic goals:
- Protect the natural environment
- Focus on local Agriculture and support food production and systems
- Maintain a safe, inclusive, healthy, and vibrant community
- Support growth that is environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable
- Embody good governance principles of community engagement, accountability, leadership, impartiality, and transparency
Each year the District develops an annual budget outlining how tax dollars are spent and which services are provided to our residents and community. We include a five-year balanced financial plan to guide our strategic investments and departmental service plans.The operating budget outlines how property taxes and user fees are used to deliver services. The capital budget outlines how reserve funds are used to replace existing assets and improve amenities such as parks and trails, roads, underground utilities, municipal buildings, and transportation networks.
The District’s 2025 budget will be developed using the 2024 operational budget as a base. The 2024 operational budget was $23.3 million. The table below shows how those funds were allocated to different programs and activities in 2024.
Table 1. 2024 Budget Allocation by Department
*for details of each category listed above see Appendix 1 – Operating Budget Category Details.
The District’s 2024 capital budget of $7.9 million funds the replacement and renewal of municipal assets and amenities including parks, trails, roads, underground utilities, municipal vehicles, equipment and buildings. The table below shows how the capital budget was allocated to the various projects and replacement initiatives.
Table 2. 2024 Budget Allocation by Project
View the full 2024 Budget here.
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