2026 Municipal Budget

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The municipal budget is a crucial policy and planning document that highlights our municipality’s priorities for services, programs, and infrastructure. Crafting the budget involves balancing often competing priorities: delivering the level of services that residents expect and deserve, while also considering what is financially feasible.

How Your Municipal Budget Works

The video below from the Municipal Finance Officers Association of Ontario (MFOA) outlines how a typical municipal budget process works. Find out the differences between Capital and Operating budgets, revenue sources available to the Township, and information on the Provincial legislation that helps guide the budget process.

*Figures and specific services outlined in the video are for example purposes only and do not reflect the specifics of the Township of South Stormont budget.


Where do your property taxes go?

While the Township of South Stormont collects your entire property tax bill, not all funds are used for Township purposes. The Township collects property taxes on behalf of the Provincial government, which is used towards funding your selected school board, as well as the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry that support services provided by the Counties.

In 2025, 40.3% of your property tax bill stayed with the Township of South Stormont, while 45% was transferred to the United Counties and 14.7% was transferred to the Province for education.

Revenue Sources

In 2025, Taxation and Payments in Lieu will account for approximately 46.5% of the revenue generated by the Township of South Stormont. A number of other sources of revenue fund the remainder of the budget, including grants, fees and charges, reserves, investments and land sales.

The infographic below identifies each revenue source contributing to the 2025 budget, and their representative percentage.


Who does what?

We get it, there are a lot of levels of government, and it can be difficult to understand which service falls under which service provider's jurisdiction. We've provided this handy cheat sheet to help understand which services you can expect from not just the Township, but from other levels of government as well.

*Please note that the services outlined below is not an exhaustive list.



Public Participation

Below are tools you can use to join the conversation around the 2026 Budget. Take a moment to participate and share your ideas and input, or simply ask questions.

Information shared through Speak Up South Stormont will be provided to Council and senior management to help guide decisions during budget deliberations.

The municipal budget is a crucial policy and planning document that highlights our municipality’s priorities for services, programs, and infrastructure. Crafting the budget involves balancing often competing priorities: delivering the level of services that residents expect and deserve, while also considering what is financially feasible.

How Your Municipal Budget Works

The video below from the Municipal Finance Officers Association of Ontario (MFOA) outlines how a typical municipal budget process works. Find out the differences between Capital and Operating budgets, revenue sources available to the Township, and information on the Provincial legislation that helps guide the budget process.

*Figures and specific services outlined in the video are for example purposes only and do not reflect the specifics of the Township of South Stormont budget.


Where do your property taxes go?

While the Township of South Stormont collects your entire property tax bill, not all funds are used for Township purposes. The Township collects property taxes on behalf of the Provincial government, which is used towards funding your selected school board, as well as the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry that support services provided by the Counties.

In 2025, 40.3% of your property tax bill stayed with the Township of South Stormont, while 45% was transferred to the United Counties and 14.7% was transferred to the Province for education.

Revenue Sources

In 2025, Taxation and Payments in Lieu will account for approximately 46.5% of the revenue generated by the Township of South Stormont. A number of other sources of revenue fund the remainder of the budget, including grants, fees and charges, reserves, investments and land sales.

The infographic below identifies each revenue source contributing to the 2025 budget, and their representative percentage.


Who does what?

We get it, there are a lot of levels of government, and it can be difficult to understand which service falls under which service provider's jurisdiction. We've provided this handy cheat sheet to help understand which services you can expect from not just the Township, but from other levels of government as well.

*Please note that the services outlined below is not an exhaustive list.



Public Participation

Below are tools you can use to join the conversation around the 2026 Budget. Take a moment to participate and share your ideas and input, or simply ask questions.

Information shared through Speak Up South Stormont will be provided to Council and senior management to help guide decisions during budget deliberations.

Questions about the 2026 Budget?

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Page last updated: 23 Sep 2025, 12:42 PM