Not the full picture. Built from public records, which leave things out.Read by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date. Check the sources, and tell us if you spot a mistake. What this site can't tell you Read by hand. We read North Glengarry's own documents for this site in October 2026; the Sources page lists which ones. The comparisons with other places still come from the Province's yearly reports.
A clear, checkable guide to North Glengarry's budget, taxes and council decisions. A township in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry counties in eastern Ontario, with a mayor, a deputy mayor, a councillor at large and four ward councillors. Every figure links back to the public record.
$450,000expected insurance money counted in 2024 that the auditor says should not have been
An audit ends with an opinion on whether the statements are fair. A "qualified" opinion means the auditor found a problem that makes it say "fair, except for" something. For 2025 the auditor's draft report names two problems in the 2024 numbers. The Township had not yet recorded the future cost of closing its landfills and removing asbestos and ammonia from buildings. And it had counted $450,000 of expected insurance money as a receivable (money owed to it) when the rules did not allow that. The Township's finance staff say the first problem is now fixed and that 2026 should get a clean opinion. They do not say what the insurance amount was for.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 2 sources
$5,686,930reserves and reserve funds at the end of 2025 in the draft audited statements, against $7,965,503 a year earlier
Reserves are savings that council sets aside for later costs. In March 2026 the treasurer told council the 2025 ending balance was $7,890,273.91 after a net decrease of only $75,227.98. The draft audited statements put "Reserves and reserve funds - total" at $5,686,930 at the end of 2025, down from $7,965,503. The gap, worked out by us, is about $2.2 million. The statements say the "working funds" reserve went negative, to $(433,347), mainly because of the new landfill and building cleanup rule, and that this is an accounting adjustment and not cash spent. The March report promised a later report on combining reserves after the audit. We did not find it in the 2026 agendas up to September 28.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 2 sources
$6,713,728undiscounted cost of closing and monitoring the landfills, spread between 2026 and 2128
In 2025 the Township started recording what it will cost to close and watch over its four landfills, and to remove asbestos and ammonia from buildings. The draft statements show a landfill amount of $5,006,410 (a present-value figure) and say the undiscounted cost, meaning the total of future payments with no adjustment for time, is $6,713,728, spread between 2026 and 2128. A further $587,100 is for asbestos and ammonia, with no timeline. The Township says this is an accounting requirement and not an immediate cash cost. The waste management reserve, the money set aside for this kind of cost, was $1,204,903 at the end of 2025.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 3 sources
$1,214,017principal due in 2027, against $588,932 in 2026
The audited statements show municipal debt of $9,420,733 at the end of 2025. The scheduled principal repayments are uneven: $588,932 in 2026, $1,214,017 in 2027, $936,718 in 2028, $411,034 in 2029 and $1,010,570 in 2030. The 2026 budget says debt payments of $850,242 in 2025 become $944,791 in 2026 as new loans for a tandem truck and breathing apparatus are added, and that the Township's yearly limit set by the Province is $2,427,793. The budget adds that the Township "has sufficient debt capacity left". It does not explain the uneven repayment years.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 2 sources
$18,782,374.00lowest of four construction bids, plus HST, awarded March 23, 2026
The Township won provincial funding of $28,543,000 to upgrade and expand the Alexandria lagoon (its sewage treatment ponds). The budget says the Township will pay 27% of the project. In March 2026 council awarded construction to the lowest of four bids at $18,782,374.00 plus HST, and was told the Township's share would be paid from wastewater reserves and debenture borrowing. The Township's first-quarter report says the first provincial payment, $7,135,750.00, arrived in the first quarter of 2026. We could not find a published total project cost, so we cannot say how many dollars 27% is.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 3 sources
$1,364,930.002026 sludge-removal extension, plus HST, approved without a new bid
Before the lagoon can be rebuilt, built-up sludge has to be cleaned out. The Township hired a firm through a competitive process in 2023. Council extended that contract in June 2025 for an estimated $1,030,937.00. In March 2026 it approved a further extension of $1,364,930.00 plus HST, as a single-source purchase, meaning no other firm was asked to bid. Together the two extensions come to $2,395,867.00 (worked out by us). The Township's staff report gives four reasons for this: continuity, savings on setting up again, the timing of the main construction and the firm's equipment.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 1 source
Towns keep savings (called reserves) to pay for new trucks, roof repairs and surprises. North Glengarry had $8.0M saved at the end of 2024, up from $6.2M in 2019. That is 60% of one year's spending. Only 16 of 90 similar towns had less, compared with what they spend.
Found automatically from the town's financial reports · 2 sources
5.46%increase in the Township's 2026 levy, to $7,536,593
The levy is the amount of property tax the Township itself must raise. The 2026 budget sets it at $7,536,593, up $390,395 or 5.46% from $7,146,198 in 2025. The Township's own explanation is that property values used for tax have stayed frozen at 2016 levels, so the usual yearly growth in assessment, which it says averaged over $200,000 per year, is not arriving. It also notes the United Counties raised its own levy 6%. Provincial grants moved both ways: the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund rose by $217,200 and the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund fell by just over $74,000. The budget's own list of changes is printed in a table that does not read in order, so we could not tell which item drove how much.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 3 sources
154 pagesthe agenda package that holds the draft 2025 audited statements
The Township's budgets page says it lists reports from the Treasury Department or the Township's independent auditors, but the page text we saved shows no reports under that sentence. We found the draft 2025 audited statements only inside the September 14, 2026 agenda package, which is 154 PDF pages, and the 2025 council pay statement only inside the March 23, 2026 package of 299 pages (both page counts are by our count of the PDF files). We did not find either on its own page. The Township does publish its budgets and its agendas and minutes, with videos, which is a strength.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 2 sources
North Glengarry spent about $334 per home on garbage, dump and recycling in 2024. The typical similar town spent $150. Only 6 of 90 similar towns spent more.
Found automatically from the town's financial reports · 1 source
2024 tax year · North Glengarry, Ontario
Your tax bill, worked out.
Enter your home's assessed value to see roughly what you pay in property tax each year, who gets it, and what North Glengarry's share pays for.
Ontario still uses property values from January 1, 2016 for tax, so your assessed value is probably well below what your home would sell for today.
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It is on your property assessment notice from MPAC, and on your tax bill. We filled in the typical value in North Glengarry.
An estimate. It uses the residential tax rate, and splits North Glengarry's share by what each service cost in 2024 after its own fees and grants (for example, water bills pay for much of a water system). Real bills also depend on your property class, local charges and any rebates.
How North Glengarry's share of the bill compares with similar towns
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