Budget - Court Services
Court Services is responsible for administration, courtroom support and municipal prosecution of the Provincial Offences Act (POA) offences as well as municipal bylaws within the City and County of Peterborough. The POA office ensures compliance with the Act, the Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Inter-municipal Service Agreement.
The $1,692,491 budgeted revenues for Court Services is comprised of Gross Budgeted Revenues of $1,849,000 less the County’s share of Court Services Revenues, $156,509.
The number of charges issued is the primary driver of the POA Court system, however, the Court has no influence on the number of charges filed by enforcement agencies. The number of charges fluctuates and the composition of the dollar value of the charges impacts the revenue generated. POA revenues are only realized by the payment of fines.
Staff continue to pursue collections initiatives with the goal of increasing fine revenue. Net revenues are divided between the City and County of Peterborough based on the prior year's relative weighted assessment. Based on the 2024 figures, the County's share for 2025 is 55.3% and the City's share is 44.7%.
Defaulted fines include any fine where the defendant has failed to pay the amount imposed upon conviction by the due date. A fine is considered defaulted when it remains unpaid 15 days past the due date. Once in default, the City will start collection activity that may include Final Notices, orders to suspend driver's licenses and plate denials, addition of defaulted fines to tax rolls and legal proceedings.
The 2025 budget includes increased expenditures for approved salary and benefits and inflationary increases in other expenses, however these increases are offset by decreased collection fees, court operations costs and court interpreter costs.
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.
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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