Budget - People and Culture
The People and Culture (P&C) division partners across the organization to provide human resources strategies and programs that help build a municipality that provides efficient municipal service delivery and a motivated, adaptable, and fiscally responsible workforce which promotes customer service excellence.
As a core service to all departments, a portion of P&C expenses are allocated to divisions whose operating costs can be partially recovered from other funding sources.
Interactive Budget
Explore the City's budget using the interactive OpenBook feature, including expenses by department and division as well as a breakdown of what a typical residential property taxpayer pays per $100,000 of assessment.
The full budget information is available in the Draft 2025 Budget book.
Highlights
The 2025 requested level of funding includes approved salary and benefit increases including the annualized cost of positions approved in the 2024 budget, as well as increased corporate-wide training to support succession planning. The People and Culture Division has requested new staff positions not included in the budget. These requests can be found in Section 4 Staffing Requests not included in the Draft 2025 Budget.
OpenBook Budget tool instructions
Use our interactive OpenBook budget tool to view a breakdown of what a residential taxpayer pays for each municipal services.
The Where Your Tax Dollars Go feature shows how much a residential taxpayer pays per $100,000 of assessment. It starts at the City Department level then you can click on each department to view the cost for services within that department. For example:
- Click on Municipal Operations and it goes to the service/division level, where you can see the typical residential taxpayer pays $85.41 per $100,000 of assessment, or 5.22% of the municipal tax dollar for that service
- Click on Outside Organizations at the top level of the tool and it breaks it down to individual outside organizations that receive City funding, showing that the typical residential taxpayer pays $300.42 per $100,000 of assessment, or 18.36% of the municipal tax dollar for that service
See where your municipal tax dollar goes for municipal services. Explore the OpenBook budget tool.
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