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City of Kitchener 2025 Budget

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In 2023 the City launched its 2023-2026 Strategic Plan. Unprecedented community consultation and collaboration led to the plan's development. The plan serves as the foundation for the city’s strategies, actions and initiatives. It also ensures the alignment of projects and work conducted across the corporation.

The strategic plan guides many of the investments that we will include in budgets from 2023 to 2026. We will make future investments under the five goal areas within the strategic plan:

  • Building a Connected City Together
  • Cultivating a Green City Together
  • Creating an Economically-Thriving City Together
  • Fostering a Caring City Together
  • Stewarding a Better City Together

For example, the 2024 budget advanced key priorities from the 2023-2026 Strategic Plan. To find out more about these and other investments, read the 2024 budget.

As we look forward to the 2025 budget, we’d like to take a moment for a quick pulse check. Tell us how we’re doing in advancing our shared community priorities. Your feedback will help us continue the dialogue that began with the development of the 2023-2026 strategic goals.

Read the budget

The budget documents are now available. To learn about our financial situation going into the new year and about service delivery in 2025, check out our 2025 budget summary

You can also read these related documents:

Please note: Appendix F – Final Budget Day, will be available in December.

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In 2023 the City launched its 2023-2026 Strategic Plan. Unprecedented community consultation and collaboration led to the plan's development. The plan serves as the foundation for the city’s strategies, actions and initiatives. It also ensures the alignment of projects and work conducted across the corporation.

The strategic plan guides many of the investments that we will include in budgets from 2023 to 2026. We will make future investments under the five goal areas within the strategic plan:

  • Building a Connected City Together
  • Cultivating a Green City Together
  • Creating an Economically-Thriving City Together
  • Fostering a Caring City Together
  • Stewarding a Better City Together

For example, the 2024 budget advanced key priorities from the 2023-2026 Strategic Plan. To find out more about these and other investments, read the 2024 budget.

As we look forward to the 2025 budget, we’d like to take a moment for a quick pulse check. Tell us how we’re doing in advancing our shared community priorities. Your feedback will help us continue the dialogue that began with the development of the 2023-2026 strategic goals.

Read the budget

The budget documents are now available. To learn about our financial situation going into the new year and about service delivery in 2025, check out our 2025 budget summary

You can also read these related documents:

Please note: Appendix F – Final Budget Day, will be available in December.

Stay Informed

Subscribe for updates and be the first to know about news and information about this project. Add your email to the Stay Informed box on this page and click ‘Subscribe’.

  • Kitchener adopts budget that invests in infrastructure, delivers value

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    The City of Kitchener adopted its 2025 budget, authorizing a plan that will deliver City services, invest in infrastructure and advance strategic priorities. The property tax rate increase of 3.9 per cent works out to $49 a year for the average Kitchener home, continuing Kitchener’s trend of delivering one of the lowest property tax rates among large Ontario cities.

    The budget ensures that the core services that Kitchener residents rely on will be sustainably funded to meet the needs of a growing city, including a new library branch in southwest Kitchener. The budget invests in infrastructure and facilities across Kitchener, such as the new Kitchener indoor recreation complex located at Schlegel Park. The budget also invests in the shared community priorities outlined in the 2023-2026 Strategic Plan, including $56 million in federal and provincial funding to advance housing initiatives.

    “Today’s budget balances affordability, service demands, and responding to growth-related pressures,” said Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic. “Kitchener is a model of efficient, effective and sustainable local government in Ontario, where we plan for the needs of a growing community, while also making incremental long-term investments into our facilities, programs and services for the future.”

    For the average home in Kitchener, the rate increases for the 2025 budget are:  

    • property taxes: 3.9 per cent or $49 annually 
    • water utility: 4.9 per cent or $23 annually 
    • sanitary sewer utility: 6.9 per cent or $41 annually 
    • stormwater utility: 7.4 per cent or $18 annually 

    The 2025 budget represents a combined annual increase of $131 for the average household, based on the average assessed value of $326,000 and annual water consumption of 170m3. 

    “I’m happy to see a budget that includes a new library and strategic investments across the city can still deliver a modest tax rate increase,” said Ward 1 Councillor and Chair of the Finance and Corporate Services Committee Chair, Scott Davey. “We’re on a steady course with our infrastructure investments – slow and steady wins the race.” 

    During the past 10 years, Kitchener’s tax rate increases have averaged 2.47 per cent, below Ontario inflation which has averaged 2.64 per cent during that same timeframe.

    To read the full 2025 budget, visit kitchener.ca/budget.   

  • Deadline extended to Nov. 26

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    Thank you to everyone who took the time to answer the Budget 2025 pulse-check survey so far. If you have not yet had the chance to do so, we have extended the deadline to Tuesday, Nov. 26.

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  • Survey closes Nov. 20

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    Thank you to everyone who has answered our pulse-check survey so far. The last day to take the survey is Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024

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Page last updated: 13 Dec 2024, 09:07 AM