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

2017 Budget Presentation to Peel Regional Council November 24, 2016 by Deborah Martin-Downs Chief Administrative Officer 1

Outline • 2016 Accomplishments • 2017 Budget • Underfunded Budget Pressures 2

10 Years of Conservation Youth Corps 3

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 one of self-discovery just as much as it was discovering the outdoors.” 4

Rural Environmental Stewardship 5

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 6

Fletcher’s Creek SNAP 7

Belfountain Terrace Reconstruction 8

Land Acquisition 9

Lakeview Waterfront Connection 10

Real-time Monitoring 11

Water Quality Monitoring Spills Nutrients Salt E. coli 12

Floodline Mapping 13

Environmental Education 14

Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication - Award of Excellence 15

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) 16

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 17

Corporate Partnership – CVC and UPS 18

Budget 19

2017 Watershed Projects INPUT $2.3M ACTIVITIES OUTPUTS OUTCOMES • Watershed Health • Farms landowner • Plans and priorities for natural Reporting stewardship incentive resources protection/ restoration for programs an environmentally sustainable future • Headwaters Stewardship • Technical assistance with • Development and sharing of scientific • Natural Heritage Brampton OP and update to knowledge and innovative Systems Science NHEMS approaches • Natural Areas Inventory • Biological inventory of 1,600 • Improved understanding of aquatic • Leaders for Clean Water, acres of natural area and terrestrial features to inform Headwaters decision making and on the ground • Low Impact Development action • Credit River Water (LID) demonstration projects Management Strategy and guidance • Increased on-the-ground action by Implementation landowners to protect/enhance • Advance Greening Corporate watershed health • Peel Rural Water Quality Grounds projects • Develop and share scientific • Urban Outreach • Promote Your Green Yard knowledge for improved decision plantings • Brampton Effectiveness making Monitoring • Watershed monitoring data • Improved public awareness and analyzed and reported engagement • Peel-Caledon Natural • Changing stormwater management Heritage System with TRCA practises • CVC SNAP Brampton Action • Improving the urban and rural Plan complete landscape 20

$8.8M 2017 Peel Climate Change INPUT *Does not include $450K for EAB ACTIVITIES OUTPUTS OUTCOMES • Climate Change • Ongoing maintenance of 32 RT stream flow • Improved human health and public Vulnerability gauges, 11 RT water quality, 5 climate safety, with fewer personal property Assessment stations losses • Sustainable surface water and • Ongoing technical support to 58+ partners • Flood Forecast groundwater, healthy aquatic and for 25+ LID sites and Warning terrestrial ecosystems and protection for • Ongoing maintenance of 15 LID monitoring rare, threatened and endangered species • Real Time sites • Increased jobs, productivity and/or Water (RT) • Host “Your Green Yard” events and revenue in agriculture, commerce and Quality plantings tourism Assessment • Ongoing nursery operations to supply • Maintaining public services • Restoration 48,000 units to various planting projects • Less damage to storm and sanitary systems, dams, channel works, roads • Climate change vulnerability assessment • Education/ and crossings and mapping Conservation • Ecosystem resilience to climate change Youth Corp • Priority planting mapping tool for Peel and and management recommendations for municipalities CVC’s partners • Stormwater • 2000 Conservation Youth Corp volunteers Technologies • Identified priority planting areas for (including LID) improved ecosystem benefits • Continued support from 6000+ volunteers for programs watershed wide • Enhanced environmental literacy among residents • Ongoing landowner inquiries, site visits and • Residents with a strong sense of place, workshops held in rural watershed deep connection to their land and • 34,000 Adults, children, new Canadians appreciation for the connection between participate in education programs nature and their well-being 21

$3.1M 2017 Infrastructure Projects INPUT *Does not include $375K for Warwick ACTIVITIES OUTPUTS OUTCOMES • Infrastructure/ • On-going maintenance of dams • Enhanced tools for flood forecasting and warning Major and conservation areas Maintenance, CAs • Maintain 32 Real Time streamflow, • Improving public safety and Dams 11 water quality and 13 rainfall • Real-time Gauging • Protection of water quality and gauges Stations, Peel quantity • Update floodplain maps of • Floodline Mapping Applewood, Serson, Cooksville and • Improve operational efficiency Cawthra Creeks • Core 10 (Conservation • Update hydrology and floodplain Area Lands) maps of Mary Fix Creek Projects • Initiate plan for digital • Enforcement transformation Program 22

2017 CVC General Levy Municipal Apportionment Municipal Funders % Funding % Apportionment $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 23

2017 CVC Gross Operating Budget Funding Sources User Fees/ Chargebacks/ CA Revenues $2.4M (15%) Municipal Funding Internal $8.7M (56%) Chargebacks/ Provincial Recoveries Funding $4.3M (28%) $0.2M (1%) of which Peel Region is $8.0M 24

CVC Budget, High Level Summary Peel Portion ($000s) Levy 2016 2017 2017 Variance Funding Approved Forecast Proposed 2017 vs 2016 By Peel Budget Budget Budget $000s % General $7,673 $8,303 $8,004 $331 4.31 Levy Special $13,747 $14,934 $14,216 $469 3.41 Levy Sub-total $21,420 $23,237 $22,220 $800 3.73 Special $450 $463 $463 $13 2.89 Levy- EAB Special $0 $0 $375 $375 0 Levy- Warwick TOTAL $21,870 $23,700 $23,058 $1,188 5.43 25

2017 CVC General Levy Drivers Peel Portion ($000s) 2016 Approved General Levy Budget $ 7,673 • Personnel costs: COLA 93 • Personnel costs: annualization of new staff added in 155 2016, performance evaluations, benefit increases and 1 contract position • Increase in overall expenses (purchased services) 143 • Continue to review operational expenses to find (60) additional cost reductions (fleet, facilities, and utilities) 2017 Proposed General Levy Budget $8,004 26

2017 CVC Special Levy Drivers Peel Portion ($000s) 2016 Approved Special Levy Budget $13,747 • Personnel costs: COLA 91 • Personnel costs: Benefits increase, performance 352 evaluations and 6 additional contract FTE directly related to high priority projects • Increase in overall expenses 26 2017 Proposed Special Levy Budget $14,216 27

CVC Budget and Forecast Peel Portion $000s and % Peel 2017 2018 2019 2020 Funding Budget Forecast Forecast Forecast General Levy $8,004 $8,629 $8,985 $9,524 4.31% 7.81% 4.13% 6.00% Special Levy $14,216 $14,803 $15,650 $16,088 3.41% 4.13% 5.73% 2.79% SUBTOTAL $22,220 $23,432 $24,635 $25,612 3.73% 5.45% 5.14% 3.96% Special Levy- $463 $477 $492 $506 EAB 2.89% 3.02% 3.14% 2.85% Special Levy- $375 Warwick TOTAL $23,058 $23,909 $25,127 $26,118 5.43% 3.69% 5.09% 3.94% 28

Asset Management Warwick Nursery and Office Expansion Current Office Workspaces 29

2017 Climate Change Budget Sustain $0.7M 8% Act $2.1M 23% Invest $6.4M 69% Includes special $ for EAB 30

Underfunded Existing and Future Budget Pressures 31

Growth Pressures 32

Asset Management B elfountain Dam and Head Pond EA 33

Asset Management Accessibility Belfountain Conservation Area Cultural preservation Safety Accessibility Conceptual Visitor Centre 34

Planning for the Future Credit Valley Trail 35

Future Underfunded Budget Pressures Digital Upper Credit Land Management Plan Transformation Securement Implementation 36

Together, it’s our nature to conserve and our future to shape. 37