2017 Budget Presentation to Peel Regional Council November 24, 2016 - - PDF document

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to Peel Regional Council November 24, 2016 by Deborah Martin-Downs Chief Administrative Officer

2017 Budget Presentation

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Outline

• 2016 Accomplishments
• 2017 Budget
• Underfunded Budget Pressures

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10 Years of Conservation Youth Corps

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10 Years of Conservation Youth Corps

“Due in large part to CYC, I realized that I want to pursue environmental engineering in my post- secondary studies. My CYC journey was

• ne of self-discovery

just as much as it was discovering the

• utdoors.”

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Rural Environmental Stewardship

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The Hertzbergs – Caledon Environmental Stewards

We feel honoured to be stewards of this property for the time we are here, and would like to pass on a healthy piece of nature for the next generation

• Pat Hertzberg

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Fletcher’s Creek SNAP

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Belfountain Terrace Reconstruction

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Land Acquisition

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Lakeview Waterfront Connection

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Real-time Monitoring

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Spills Nutrients Salt

Water Quality Monitoring

• E. coli

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Floodline Mapping

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Environmental Education

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Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication - Award of Excellence

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Volunteers

We learned how forests play a pivotal role in maintaining the environment. We’ll definitely continue to be strong champions of Rattray Marsh.

• Muaz Nasir (CivicMuslims)

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Volunteers

"It was cool that you could plant a tree and then go back and see it the next year or year after.”

• Ethan, volunteer tree

planter

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Corporate Partnership – CVC and UPS

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Budget

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2017 Watershed Projects

INPUT ACTIVITIES

• Watershed Health

Reporting

• Headwaters Stewardship
• Natural Heritage

Systems Science

• Natural Areas Inventory
• Leaders for Clean Water,

Headwaters

• Credit River Water

Management Strategy Implementation

• Peel Rural Water Quality
• Urban Outreach
• Brampton Effectiveness

Monitoring

OUTPUTS OUTCOMES $2.3M

• Farms landowner

stewardship incentive programs

• Technical assistance with

Brampton OP and update to NHEMS

• Biological inventory of 1,600

acres of natural area

• Low Impact Development

(LID) demonstration projects and guidance

• Advance Greening Corporate

Grounds projects

• Promote Your Green Yard

plantings

• Watershed monitoring data

analyzed and reported

• Peel-Caledon Natural

Heritage System with TRCA

• CVC SNAP Brampton Action

Plan complete

• Plans and priorities for natural

resources protection/ restoration for an environmentally sustainable future

• Development and sharing of scientific

knowledge and innovative approaches

• Improved understanding of aquatic

and terrestrial features to inform decision making and on the ground action

• Increased on-the-ground action by

landowners to protect/enhance watershed health

• Develop and share scientific

knowledge for improved decision making

• Improved public awareness and

engagement

• Changing stormwater management

practises

• Improving the urban and rural

landscape

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• Climate Change

Vulnerability Assessment

• Flood Forecast

and Warning

• Real Time

Water (RT) Quality Assessment

• Restoration
• Education/

Conservation Youth Corp

• Stormwater

Technologies (including LID)

2017 Peel Climate Change

INPUT $8.8M

*Does not include $450K for EAB

• Ongoing maintenance of 32 RT stream flow

gauges, 11 RT water quality, 5 climate stations

• Ongoing technical support to 58+ partners

for 25+ LID sites

• Ongoing maintenance of 15 LID monitoring

sites

• Host “Your Green Yard” events and

plantings

• Ongoing nursery operations to supply

48,000 units to various planting projects

• Climate change vulnerability assessment

and mapping

• Priority planting mapping tool for Peel and

municipalities

• 2000 Conservation Youth Corp volunteers
• Continued support from 6000+ volunteers

for programs watershed wide

• Ongoing landowner inquiries, site visits and

workshops held in rural watershed

• 34,000 Adults, children, new Canadians

participate in education programs

• Improved human health and public

safety, with fewer personal property losses

• Sustainable surface water and

groundwater, healthy aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and protection for rare, threatened and endangered species

• Increased jobs, productivity and/or

revenue in agriculture, commerce and tourism

• Maintaining public services
• Less damage to storm and sanitary

systems, dams, channel works, roads and crossings

• Ecosystem resilience to climate change

and management recommendations for CVC’s partners

• Identified priority planting areas for

improved ecosystem benefits

• Enhanced environmental literacy among

residents

• Residents with a strong sense of place,

deep connection to their land and appreciation for the connection between nature and their well-being

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• Infrastructure/

Major Maintenance, CAs and Dams

• Real-time Gauging

Stations, Peel

• Floodline Mapping
• Core 10

(Conservation Area Lands) Projects

• Enforcement

Program

2017 Infrastructure Projects

INPUT $3.1M

*Does not include $375K for Warwick

• On-going maintenance of dams

and conservation areas

• Maintain 32 Real Time streamflow,

11 water quality and 13 rainfall gauges

• Update floodplain maps of

Applewood, Serson, Cooksville and Cawthra Creeks

• Update hydrology and floodplain

maps of Mary Fix Creek

• Initiate plan for digital

transformation

• Enhanced tools for flood forecasting

and warning

• Improving public safety
• Protection of water quality and

quantity

• Improve operational efficiency

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2017 CVC General Levy

Municipal Apportionment

Municipal Funders % Apportionment Funding $000s % Change Region of Peel 91.6746 $8,004 4.31 Halton Region 4.9550 $433 4.45 Township of Amaranth 0.0112 $1 5.49 Township of East Garafraxa 0.0578 $5 7.23 Town of Erin 0.6673 $58 4.53 Town of Mono 0.1132 $10 10.42 Town of Orangeville 2.5208 $220 4.90

TOTAL 100 $8,731 4.34

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2017 CVC Gross Operating Budget

Funding Sources

• f which Peel Region is $8.0M

Municipal Funding $8.7M (56%) Provincial Funding $0.2M (1%) Internal Chargebacks/ Recoveries $4.3M (28%) User Fees/ Chargebacks/ CA Revenues $2.4M (15%)

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CVC Budget, High Level Summary

Peel Portion ($000s)

Levy Funding By Peel 2016 Approved Budget 2017 Forecast 2017 Proposed Budget Variance 2017 vs 2016 Budget $000s % General Levy $7,673 $8,303 $8,004 $331 4.31 Special Levy $13,747 $14,934 $14,216 $469 3.41 Sub-total $21,420 $23,237 $22,220 $800 3.73 Special Levy- EAB $450 $463 $463 $13 2.89 Special Levy- Warwick $0 $0 $375 $375 TOTAL $21,870 $23,700 $23,058 $1,188 5.43

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2017 CVC General Levy Drivers

Peel Portion ($000s)

2016 Approved General Levy Budget $ 7,673

• Personnel costs: COLA
• Personnel costs: annualization of new staff added in

2016, performance evaluations, benefit increases and 1 contract position

• Increase in overall expenses (purchased services)
• Continue to review operational expenses to find

additional cost reductions (fleet, facilities, and utilities) 93 155 143 (60)

2017 Proposed General Levy Budget $8,004

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2017 CVC Special Levy Drivers

Peel Portion ($000s)

2016 Approved Special Levy Budget $13,747

• Personnel costs: COLA
• Personnel costs: Benefits increase, performance

evaluations and 6 additional contract FTE directly related to high priority projects

• Increase in overall expenses

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2017 Proposed Special Levy Budget $14,216

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CVC Budget and Forecast

Peel Portion $000s and %

Peel Funding 2017 Budget 2018 Forecast 2019 Forecast 2020 Forecast General Levy $8,004 4.31% $8,629 7.81% $8,985 4.13% $9,524 6.00% Special Levy $14,216 3.41% $14,803 4.13% $15,650 5.73% $16,088 2.79% SUBTOTAL $22,220 3.73% $23,432 5.45% $24,635 5.14% $25,612 3.96% Special Levy- EAB $463 2.89% $477 3.02% $492 3.14% $506 2.85% Special Levy- Warwick $375 TOTAL $23,058 5.43% $23,909 3.69% $25,127 5.09% $26,118 3.94%

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Warwick Nursery and Office Expansion

Asset Management

Workspaces Current Office

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2017 Climate Change Budget

Invest

$6.4M 69%

Act

$2.1M 23%

Sustain

$0.7M 8%

Includes special $ for EAB

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Underfunded Existing and Future Budget Pressures

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Growth Pressures

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Asset Management

Belfountain Dam and Head Pond EA

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Asset Management

Accessibility Accessibility Safety Conceptual Visitor Centre

Belfountain Conservation Area

Cultural preservation

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Credit Valley Trail Planning for the Future

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Digital Transformation Land Securement

Future Underfunded Budget Pressures

Upper Credit Management Plan Implementation

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Together, it’s our nature to conserve and our future to shape.