The Engineering and Capital Works Division includes two sections: Engineering and Construction, and Traffic and Parking. The Division ensures the effective management and enhancement of the City’s critical infrastructure by coordinating and managing the maintenance, rehabilitation and development of the City’s infrastructure consisting of roads bridges, sidewalks, multi-use trails, streetlights, traffic signals, sewers, stormwater management systems, and parking facilities; as well as performing inspection, review and contract administration for development construction activities and capital construction programs.

The division also provides in-house engineering design and management consulting of engineers for detailed design and construction of the City’s engineering-related capital projects. The division is also responsible for the operation of on and off-street municipal parking, the King Street and Simcoe Street parking garages, operation and maintenance of traffic signals, signs and pavement markings and adult crossing guards.

Engineering and Construction

The 2025 budget includes increased expenditures for Engineering and Construction due to approved wage and benefits increases. These expenditures are offset by increased recoveries from capital projects resulting in a net decrease in the tax requirement for the division.

Traffic and Parking

The 2025 budget for Traffic and Parking includes increased expenses for approved wage and benefit increases, and increased equipment maintenance costs for on-street pay and display machines and parking garage gates. All parking enforcement revenues are included in the MLES division beginning in 2025. The budget for parking revenues has decreased to reflect actual revenues.

Recommendations

That any 2025 Engineering Overhead surplus be transferred to the Engineering Design and Inspection Reserve, subject to the overall year end position and that if actual Engineering costs exceed the 2025 Budget, funds may be drawn from the Engineering Design and Inspection Reserve.

That any unused Traffic Signal Maintenance Budget at the end of 2025 be transferred to the Traffic Signal Reserve, subject to the overall year-end position and that, if the actual Traffic Signal Maintenance costs exceed the Budget, funds may be drawn from the Traffic Signal Reserve.

Capital Budget
 

Capital budget projects in the 2025 Draft Budget include:

  • Brealey Drive - Lansdowne Street to Sherbrooke Street
  • Lansdowne Street Rehabilitation - Park Street to Otonabee River
  • Charlotte Street - Water Street to Park Street
  • Lily Lake Area Development Network Improvements
  • Lansdowne Street West - Spillsbury Drive to Clonsilla Avenue
  • Bonaccord Street improvements

Road maintenance

  • Road Surface Repair program
  • Pavement Preservation Program
  • Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation
  • Storm Sewer Rehabilitation Program

Bridges

  • Television Road Bridge over South Meade Creek

Active Transportation projects

  • Rotary Trail Crossing - Hunter Street East
  • City-wide Trail Rehabilitation
  • Trails and Cycling Network Implementation
  • Otonabee River Trail - Del Crary Park to Little Lake Cemetery

Sanitary Sewers and Storm Sewers

  • Eastern Trunk Sewer
  • Jackson Park Outfall Remediation and Erosion Control
  • Hydro One Regional Operations and Fleet Maintenance Facility Servicing

Traffic and Transportation

  • Traffic Safety Program Implementation
  • Pedestrian Crossing Program Collector Roads
  • Traffic Calming Program
  • Smart Signal Implementation
  • Red Light Camera - Automated Speed Enforcement
  • Traffic Signal Infrastructure
  • Intersection Pedestrian Safety Enhancements
  • Traffic Signal Uninterrupted Power Supply Equipment
  • New Traffic Control and Street Name Signs
Parking
  • Parking Equipment Purchases

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.

The OpenBook budget tool enhances the transparency of the City's Budget by allowing us to share financial information visually in accessible and easy to understand formats. View our budget data using charts, tables, and graphs. We hope you find this helpful.

Through our OpenBook reports, you can start at the organizational level then click on a department to go down to the division/section/service level as you explore the financial information for the City. Flip between charts, tables and graphs to display the data in a way that visualizes the information based on your preference.

In OpenBook tables, all column headers labeled as "Current Year" refer to 2025; "Previous Year" refers to 2024.

Please note: The 2025 Budget is the first year that the City has used this budget tool to enhance how it shares information with residents. We're learning how to use the new platform and will be adding features and reports as we explore the tool's capabilities.

OpenBook budget tool