Like many municipal functions, revenue mobilization is a shared responsibility, with staff and elected leaders each playing a part.

But which part?

Especially when it comes to the overall revenue strategy and harnessing new revenue streams, we've found that there's room for role definition.

Infrastructure ownership changes and challenges.

Discrepancies between Council’s verbal and financial commitments to capital projects.

Rate-setting and levy presentation refinement.

How to demonstrate the value of municipal services so that residents get an hourly reminder from their own body.

This timeline of changes in local authority to generate revenue, as well as the provincial political parties from which additions and subtractions came, contextualize movements in Ontario municipalities’ actual revenue results, 1990-2020.

An historical lens on municipalities’ current budget pressures, these tables, charts and animations can help you paint a picture fit for the most digital budget on record.