Current and Previous Budgets
City services impact your life every day. Each time you visit a recreation centre, have your garbage or recycling picked up, drink clean water from the tap, ride Medicine Hat Transit or have emergency services rush to your aid – you are using a City of Medicine Hat service.
That’s why the City’s budget is so important – it’s about setting our collective goals and building a great city. It determines the level of service provided to Medicine Hat residents and guides decisions on what City infrastructure will be purchased, built and repaired. As the City is limited by the amount of resources available, the Budget helps determine which projects and services have the highest priority and greatest impact on the community while advancing Council's priorities.
The budget is a financial plan that describes how much money the City will raise and spend. In Medicine Hat, it is separated into three segments:
- municipal tax-supported
- utility rate-supported, and
- commodity-based (COMCO)
City staff puts forward a proposed budget for deliberation and consideration by City Council. The approval of the budget directly impacts the City’s services, programs and infrastructure.
2023 and 2024 budget
City Council passed the 2023 and 2024 budgets on December 19, 2022.
Property taxes are used to fund services like emergency services (Police, Fire Protection, and 911), road maintenance and snow clearing, parks and swimming pools, public transit, and much more.
2023 and 2024 Municipal Tax-Supported and Invest Medicine Hat budget
The rate-supported budget ensures the City can build, maintain, replace, administer, and operate infrastructure to deliver the five utility services:
- Water
- Sewer
- Solid waste (garbage and recycling)
- Electric distribution
- Gas distribution
The COMCO budget covers the finances related to the production (or generation) of our commodity-based business (electricity, oil and natural gas).
Past budgets
Open past City of Medicine Hat municipal budgets and energy and utility budgets.