2024-2028 Financial Planning Calendar

Year	Month	Purpose	Who	Date
2023	June	Approval of Financial Planning (FP) calendar	Council	June 20
	July	Detailed FP Review – General Gov’t Services	Committee of the Whole	July 11
	September	Detailed FP Review – Protective Services	Committee of the Whole	September 12
	October	Detailed FP Review – Transportation Services Fleet and equipment replacement plan review	Committee of the Whole	October 10
	November	Detailed FP Review – Development Services Financial policies review Consideration of Council proposed initiatives and Strategic Plan implications Discussion of financial planning targets	Committee of the Whole	November 14
2024	January	Detailed FP Review – Environmental, Parks and Recreation Services	Committee of the Whole	January 9
	February	Draft 2024-2028 Financial Plan Workshop Package	Distribution to Council	February 5
	February	Budget workshops: Introduction and overview Consideration of proposed non-core/capital items Presentation of service plans Consideration of reserve transfers	Committee of the Whole Special Committee of the Whole If required	February 13 – 7 pm February 14 – 6 pm February 15 – 6 pm February 20 – 6 pm
	March	Proposed 2024-2028 Financial Plan publication and launch of online Citizen Budget engagement tool	Distribution to Council and website	March 11
	March	Consideration of grant-in-aid applications	Committee of the Whole	March 12
	March	Approval of grants-in-aid	Council	March 19
	March	Online Citizen Budget engagement tool intake closed	Staff	March 31
	April	Consideration of results from online Citizen Budget engagement tool Presentation of consolidated financial plan for approval in principle Consideration of tax rate options	Committee of the Whole	April 9
	April	First three readings of financial plan bylaw	Council	April 16
	May	Adoption of financial plan bylaw First three readings of tax rates bylaw	Council	May 7
	May	Adoption of tax rates bylaw	Council (Special meeting)	May 14
	May	Information about financial plan, taxes and user fees included with tax notice mail out and on website	Staff	May

All Council and Committee of the Whole sessions will be webcast and will include opportunities to address comments from the public.