Finance and Information, Communication and Technology

You can submit a request online for any of the information or records listed in this Routine Disclosure Plan. Before submitting an application for routine access, remember:

1.  A request submitted through a Request for Routine Access must be for a reasonable quantity of records – no more than 50 pages, otherwise an Access to Information Application will be required.
2.  The records will be processed within a reasonable time frame, but no later than 30 days from the receipt of application.
3.  Routine Disclosure Plans and Requests for Routine Access apply to information created after November 2012.

Records available through active dissemination for Finance and Information, Communication and Technology include:

General records:

•  Overview of the Business Unit 
•  Contact information
•  Links to Relevant Legislation

Finance and Information, Communication and Technology-specific records:

•  Policies of the business unit 
•  Agendas and minutes
•  Results of polls or surveys completed such as the Halifax Citizen Survey
•  Audited financial statements
•  Standard and Poor’s annual rating
•  Budgets and business plans
•  Procurement information
•  Parking enforcement information
•  Taxation information
•  Community Grants Program
•  Tax Exemption for Non-Profit Organizations Program
•  Tax reform archive 
•  Shape Your City - Public engagement on the municipal budget 
•  Open Data
•  Geographic Information Services

Records available through routine access include:

General records:

•  Generic information about current benefits and hours of work
•  Current job descriptions, salary ranges or hourly rate, classification of positions
•  Employee Expense Reports for current fiscal year – either monthly totals or current year-to-date totals
•  Expenditure reports, by cost element (salaries, office supplies, training, travel, etc). for a maximum of four cost elements per year per requestor

Finance and Information, Communication and Technology-specific records:

•  Statistical reports that do not require significant amount of resources to produce
•  Cost of special or specific events held within the previous six months
•  Overtime expenditures for specific divisions – either monthly totals or current year to date total
•  Specific parts of a procurement proposal - Section 6.1.1, subsections 6.1.1.1, 6.1.1.2, 6.1.1.3, and 6.1.1.4 and Section 6.2. subsection 6.2.2

Finance and Information, Communication and Technology will continue to review information which may be provided under the Routine Access Policy and will update this Disclosure Plan accordingly.