Let's work together to shape our spending priorities.

Whether you rent, own or are here just for a season, it’s important to hear from you, on how we can make the best financial decisions for everyone.

Local governments support citizens in their daily life. The RMOW provides essential services like clean water, road maintenance, wastewater management, stormwater management, and police and fire services to ensure your safety and well-being. We also strive to enhance your quality of life by maintaining parks, offering recreational programs, operating the library, and providing safe and sustainable transportation options.

When it comes to budgeting and prioritizing, we focus on three main areas:

• operations;
• capital projects; and
• utilities (water and sewer).

We fund these areas through property taxes, fees and charges, and/or contributions from reserves. Unlike the provincial or federal governments, local governments in BC cannot run a deficit; we have to balance our budgets each year

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) collects revenues from property taxes and fees and charges to provide programs and services, as well as manage infrastructure such as roads, water and sewer, facilities and parks and trails on behalf of the resort community. Managing infrastructure also includes creating long-term plans to guide the appropriate project expenditures to allow Whistler’s infrastructure to continue to provide a high level of service for residents and visitors into the future.

The proposed project budget balances replacement and renewal spending on existing assets with the introduction of new assets and project work.

The draft projects list includes $38.5 million in proposed projects. This amount is roughly in-line with the volume of work planned in budgets from the recent past.

Of the $38.5 million total project budget:

• $18.4 million relates to Utilities spending (Water, Sewer, Solid Waste); and
• $2.6Mm relates to the Municipal and Regional District Tax (MRDT) spending

Want the full proposed Projects Budget breakdown?

View the proposed Projects Budget staff report

View the proposed Projects Budget list

Watch the staff presentation to Committee of the Whole

Check out how we propose to spend your tax dollars on municipal operations in 2025.

The operating budget accounts for the day-to-day expenses such as:

• Maintenance of assets and infrastructure
• Salaries, wages, and employee benefits
• RCMP and Fire Rescue services
• Transit services
• Debt repayments on past capital projects
• Materials and supplies
• Contracted services
• Lease costs
• Contributions to reserves/reserve funds for future expenses and asset management.

Want the full Operations budget presentation and breakdown?

View the proposed Operations Budget staff report

View the proposed Operation budget overview by department

View the full Committee of the Whole presentation video

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