Budget Consultation 2023

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As the City prepares the 2023 budget, it faces many of the same challenges that local businesses and members of the community are facing. There are some lingering effects as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Increased competition for skilled employees, ongoing supply chain issues, and the high level of inflation in the market all continue to be unpredictable and impact many of the operations and services the City provides. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, City operations and service delivery have been anything but normal.

While the response is constantly shifting, a certainty is that the global economics have been considerably volatile. As with the past three financial years, the City must once again make appropriate adjustments along with financial assumptions in preparing its 2023 budgets and 2023–2027 Five-Year Financial Plan. Unlike last year, the City has adapted this year’s financial planning process considering an expected move back to normal social interactions. As a result, City revenues are expected to return to near pre-pandemic levels. Changes in the social environment resulted in a 2022 Council decision to gradually increase the funding for the local RCMP complement, which is being phased in over several years.

On this page, learn more about key budget timelines and processes, view documents, infographics, videos, and ask questions of the City's finance managers.

For historical budget documents, including the City's financial statements, visit the City's budget website.

Click here for historical information on last year's 2022 Budget Consultation.

As the City prepares the 2023 budget, it faces many of the same challenges that local businesses and members of the community are facing. There are some lingering effects as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Increased competition for skilled employees, ongoing supply chain issues, and the high level of inflation in the market all continue to be unpredictable and impact many of the operations and services the City provides. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, City operations and service delivery have been anything but normal.

While the response is constantly shifting, a certainty is that the global economics have been considerably volatile. As with the past three financial years, the City must once again make appropriate adjustments along with financial assumptions in preparing its 2023 budgets and 2023–2027 Five-Year Financial Plan. Unlike last year, the City has adapted this year’s financial planning process considering an expected move back to normal social interactions. As a result, City revenues are expected to return to near pre-pandemic levels. Changes in the social environment resulted in a 2022 Council decision to gradually increase the funding for the local RCMP complement, which is being phased in over several years.

On this page, learn more about key budget timelines and processes, view documents, infographics, videos, and ask questions of the City's finance managers.

For historical budget documents, including the City's financial statements, visit the City's budget website.

Click here for historical information on last year's 2022 Budget Consultation.

Consultation has concluded

Use this area to ask a question about anything related to the provisional 2023 budget. Please be advised, questions may be responded to privately or publicly on this feed. We will strive to respond within 2 business days but have been experiencing some delays.

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    When are the residents of Brocklehurst, a Kamloops neighbourhood, going to see a sidewalk from South Hill to Fulton Place? The distance to be addressed is about 1 1/2 miles. Does one need to sit at shopping centres to acquire signatures to support this service or are more Letters to the Editors needed? I understand that there is never enough money to satisfy all the needs of the City in one budget year, but maybe, as the safety of the thousands of pedestrians who traverse this road, a specific amounts of money can be set aside each year to make an honest effort to begin construction in "X" number of years.

    Bill Lee asked 10 months ago

    Hello Mr. Lee, Thank you for your question.

    In 2022, City Council approved the Tranquille Phase III project that looks to address the aging sewer infrastructure between the South Hill going west to Crestline for 2025/26. Along with the sewer replacement and related road work, the scope of the project includes a 3 meter separated multi-use pathway along the southside of the street and a 1.5 m concrete sidewalk along the north side of the street for the entire distance. Along with this project Council has also approved the Tranquille Gateway project that is slated to begin in 2023/24 which will see similar on-street improvements along with a park on the west side of Aviation Way through the corner of Tranquille heading towards the airport. This park will also include a Memorial for Snowbird Pilot Jennifer Casey. 

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    Multi-use trail in Westsyde... Why do we have telephone poles in the middle of the trail from the Chevron on? Kamloops should sweep summit drive once a week. I use it at least three times a week on my bike. It's a safety issue. We need more bike accessible roads; Fiortune is not bikable. If you live in Valleyview or Barnhatvale, you cannot get to town on a bike. How does one go from Westsyde to Shuswap rd? I'm an avid e-biker and get very frustrated trying to get from point A to B Also lets make the trails more Bikefriendly, not montain bike friendly.

    Rikky asked 10 months ago

    Thank you for taking the time to provide the City feedback on bike facilities in Kamloops.

    The utility poles within the multi-use pathway along Westysde Road predate modern engineering guidelines that recommend minimum widths for multi-use pathways. These types of obstructions are now avoided when constructing new multi-use pathways in Kamloops such as the new section of multi-use pathway between Westmount Drive and Batchelor Hills Drive that is planned for 2023.

    Regarding connections to Shuswap Road: Providing an active transportation connection from the City’s cycling network to Shuswap Road has been a gap identified by the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure in their recent “Kamloops Area Transportation Strategy” study as both the Halston Bridge and the South Thompson Bridge are owned by the province and currently have “cyclist stop and dismount signs” along the bridge deck walkways. For more information on route planning within the City of Kamloops see the bike map link below. For information on the Kamloops Area Transportation Strategy being led by the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, please find the other link shown below.

    Kamloops Bike Map

    Kamloops Area Transportation Strategy