AVICC Resolution: Modernize the Municipal Police Cost Sharing Formulas

WHEREAS inflation, burnout, rising equipment costs, and an increased number of officers have made the existing cost sharing formula outdated, the new and unexpected rapid growth from the Province’s housing bills (Bill 44 – 2023 Housing Statutes (Residential Development) Amendment Act and Bill 47 – 2023 Housing Statues (Transit-Oriented Areas) Amendment Act) will dramatically escalate policing costs;

AND WHEREAS Bill 46 – 2023 Housing Statutes (Financing Tools) Amendment Act that broadens the scope of infrastructure eligible to be funded through Development Cost Charges to now include police facilities is insufficient to address the already over-capacity police facilities;

Therefore be it resolved that the Province modernize the municipal police cost sharing formulas with the following revisions:

From municipalities with populations of:
- less than 5,000 contributing 30%
- 5,000 to less than 15,000 contributing 70%; and
- 15,000 or more contributing 90%
To municipalities with populations of:
- less than 5,000 contributing 30%
- 5,000 to less than 10,000 contributing 50%;
- 10,000 to less than 20,000 contributing 70%;
- 20,000 to less than 40,000 contributing 80%; and
- 40,000 or more contributing 90%;

And be it further resolved that the above modernization be effective before the 2026 federal census.