Proposed HRM Budget 2013/2014
Halifax Regional Council unanimously approved the 2013/2014 HRM Operating and Project budgets for the Halifax Regional Municipality on April 30, 2013. The $823 million gross operating and $165 million gross project budgets include a tax rate decrease of one per cent for the commercial general rate, no increase to the transit tax rate, and a nominal increase of one per cent for the residential general rate, to accommodate the removal of area rates to provide sidewalk snow clearing in all HRM urban communities.
Over the next year, citizens will see a significant investment in transit technology along with new and expanded bus and ferry services, extension of HRM sidewalk snow clearing to all urban communities, street and sidewalk repairs, funding for specialized police investigations, increased access to youth programming, and public engagement opportunities on the Regional Plan, Solid Waste Resource Management Strategy, and the next strategic plan for Metro Transit.
The general rates of taxation will be set at:
| Residental Property tax rates |
Commercial Property tax rates |
Transit tax rates |
| $0.668 for the urban area |
$3.054 for the urban area |
$0.051 for the Regional Transportation tax rate |
| $0.635 for the suburban area |
$3.054 for the suburban area |
$0.105 for the Local Transit tax rate |
| $0.629 for the rural area |
$2.691 for the rural area |
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For information on the extension of the sidewalk snowplowing services for urban areas, please click here.
HRM Proposed Budget Books 2013/2014
To view the budget books in magazine format, please click on the book covers. In addition, the various sections of the books are outlined in the charts below and available in PDF format.
  
Budget book information by section in PDF format.
For a breakdown of the sections within Appendix 1, please click on the links below:
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