Budget - Asset Management and Capital Planning
The Asset Management and Capital Planning Division guides the sustainable development of our community by planning the long-term infrastructure residents and businesses rely on. The Division leverages technology to support data-informed decision making.
Staff teams in Corporate Asset Management, Geomatics/GIS, Integrated Water Resource System Management, Transportation Planning, and Climate Change work collaboratively across the corporation to assist in the delivery of effective services for the community.
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
Key Divisional Initiatives of the division include:
- Development and refinement of the Corporate Asset Management Plan
- Watershed planning and Low Impact Development
- Conveyance sewer systems performance and capacity
- Transportation Planning
- GIS Open Data Initiative and Data Governance
- Refinement of mapping/GIS/data for public use
- Coordinate Corporate Sustainability program
- Administration of Corporate and Community Climate Change Action Plans
The 2025 budget includes increased expenses due to the increase in contribution to the Climate Change Reserve, approved salary and benefit costs, and reduced recoveries of costs from capital projects. The annual contribution to the Climate Change reserve is $513,359 for 2025 ($494,089 in 2024). During the 2022 budget deliberations, Council approved indexing this contribution annually based on CPI.
The Asset Management and Capital Planning 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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500 George St. N.
Peterborough, ON
K9H 3R9
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