Building the 2024 Budget

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Each fall, the RMOW prepares its annual and five-year budgets to manage day-to-day services, operations, projects, and infrastructure investments.

Public input is an important component to developing the budget, as it’s helps the RMOW to understand community priorities, needs and aspirations.

How to provide input

  1. Know the Budget 2024 key dates
  2. Browse through the Budget 2024 Documents
  3. Watch the staff presentation from the 'Building the Budget Fireside Mingle'
  4. Ask a question or provide your budget ideas/thoughts below

‘Building the 2024 Budget’ Fireside Mingle Presentation by RMOW Whistler

Upcoming Budget events

‘Building the 2024 Budget’ Fireside mingle and budget presentation
Thursday, November 9
Whistler Public Library

Lunchtime session: 11:30am to 1:30pm
Mingle with staff and Council, ask your questions and provide comment on the proposed budget

Evening session: 4:30pm to 6:30pm (Free childcare available onsite)
Mingle with staff and Council, ask your questions and provide comment on the proposed budget, then hear a budget presentation at 5:30 p.m.

Each fall, the RMOW prepares its annual and five-year budgets to manage day-to-day services, operations, projects, and infrastructure investments.

Public input is an important component to developing the budget, as it’s helps the RMOW to understand community priorities, needs and aspirations.

How to provide input

  1. Know the Budget 2024 key dates
  2. Browse through the Budget 2024 Documents
  3. Watch the staff presentation from the 'Building the Budget Fireside Mingle'
  4. Ask a question or provide your budget ideas/thoughts below

‘Building the 2024 Budget’ Fireside Mingle Presentation by RMOW Whistler

Upcoming Budget events

‘Building the 2024 Budget’ Fireside mingle and budget presentation
Thursday, November 9
Whistler Public Library

Lunchtime session: 11:30am to 1:30pm
Mingle with staff and Council, ask your questions and provide comment on the proposed budget

Evening session: 4:30pm to 6:30pm (Free childcare available onsite)
Mingle with staff and Council, ask your questions and provide comment on the proposed budget, then hear a budget presentation at 5:30 p.m.

Ask your 2024 Budget questions here

Do you have a question about the 2024 Budget? Ask us and our team will respond in one to three business days. 

Note: Ideas that do not contribute to a safe and respectful space for others, or are unrelated to this topic, will be removed. Please review our moderation policy. Do not include any personal information about yourself or others.

By submitting your question, you consent to your screen name and question being collected by Bang the Table, which stores data on a server located in Canada and provides it to the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW). This collection of your personal information is under the authority of Section 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for the purpose of gathering feedback on the RMOW budget. The personal information collected includes your screen name and opinions. Your response will be made public once reviewed and may be included in future reports to Council. Your personal information will be stored securely by the RMOW and deleted one year after the completion of the project. If you have questions about how your personal information is being collected, used or shared please contact privacy@whistler.ca

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    Too many house sit empty in our community every year, wasting valuable resources to maintain. Instead of increasing property taxes, can the muni implement a tax on empty houses that will instead accommodate the 8.18% proposed property tax increase?

    Concerned long time resident asked 22 days ago

    Thanks for your question and interest in the 2024 Budget!  As a municipality, the RMOW does not have the authority to introduce new types of taxes on properties. In this way we are different from Vancouver, for example, which has its own Charter and its own rules. 

    Under existing municipal legislation (as set by the Province of BC), the RMOW must apply the same property tax mill rate against the assessed value of each property in a particular property class. Property classes include Residential, Business/Commercial, Recreation, etc., and are determined by BC Assessment based on usage and zoning.

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    Interest rates are at a recent history high and climbing. There are more commercial loans coming due in the next two years than in recent history. Significantly high number of residential mortgages coming due in the next two years as well. With payments for businesses and residential property owners jumping by thousands a month, is now the time for similarly unprecedented cost increases? Should we spending on things like climate change that we have little potential influence do it’s “global” nature? Can we not slow spending instead of constantly increase costs on the constituents? We are going to lose businesses in this community in the next two years no matter what. Residents too. But tax increases will expedite and increase volume.

    Jonathan Reedy asked 25 days ago

    Thank you for your question!  

    With respect to tax increases, we hear you.  Our principles for developing the 2024 proposed budget were: responsible stewardship, efficient delivery of core services and increasing our resilience.  

    With the RMOW’s aging infrastructure and many years of under-collecting and under-investing in long term asset management we are now in a position of having to reprioritize renewal and replacement projects with limited financial resources.  Without this work being completed, we will likely see continued service disruptions and ultimately failure of infrastructure that will cost far more in the long run. 

    As for climate change, we agree that it is a global challenge but it’s impact is felt locally. This means that it is important for all of us to invest in climate adaptation now, to avoid the much more costly impact of climate change in the future. For 2024, a large portion of the climate adaptation related budget is proposed for wildfire mitigation work. Much of this work is supported by grant funding. Wildfires are identified as the largest climate change related risk and vulnerability for Whistler. Given the recent devastating wildfire season, this work is more important than ever to make our community resilient and help save lives in the event of wildfire.  

    For a more detailed explanation of proposed expenditures and revenues for 2024, we encourage you to watch the staff presentation from the Fireside Mingle event.

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