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A clear, checkable guide to Sundridge's budget, taxes and council decisions. A small village in the District of Parry Sound, with a mayor and four councillors who are all elected at large. Every figure links back to the public record.
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$4,477per home on long-term debt, 2025
Sundridge spent about $4,477 per home on long-term debt in 2025. The typical similar town spent $595. Only 2 of 32 similar towns spent more.
Found automatically from the town's financial reports · 1 source
-18.3%change in property tax revenue needed from Sundridge under one rate, before any savings (consultant's estimate)
The councils of the Village of Sundridge and the Townships of Strong and Joly are studying whether to join into one municipality. A consultant's report for their restructuring committee used 2024 figures. If one tax rate were used everywhere and nothing were saved, it says the money raised from property taxes would fall 18.3% in Sundridge and 16.6% in Joly, and rise 16.5% in Strong. With the savings it expects over time, Sundridge would be down 32.6% and Strong up 7.0%. These are changes in the total raised in each place (property taxes only), not in one house's bill. The Village's own page says residents will not vote on a merger.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 4 sources
$106,000 vs $174,000council savings in the consultant's report vs the staff report
Two documents estimate what a merger would save. The consultant's report says council would save $106,000 a year and total savings would be $111,430 in the short term and $462,930 a year in the long term. A staff report dated August 10, 2026 says council would save $174,000, and that total savings would be over $500,000. The two use different years and methods, and the staff report's tables are pictures we could not read, so we cannot say how each total was built.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 3 sources
$650,000highest estimated one-time cost of a merger, in the consultant's report
The consultant says one-time costs of a merger could be between $450,000 and $650,000. The biggest items are a new official plan and zoning by-law ($200,000 to $300,000) and incentives for staff to leave ($500,000 to $600,000), less $250,000 from selling an unused office. The report notes the province paid one-time costs of the forced mergers of 1995 to 2000 but says it is not clear it would do so now. The staff report's mock budget assumes all one-time costs have already been paid.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 2 sources
$587,408Sundridge share of the fire department in the 2025 budget, of which $367,668 comes from the fire reserve
The fire department is shared with the Township of Strong. In the 2025 budget schedule, "Sundridge Share of Fire Department" goes from $210,647.00 in the 2024 column to $587,408.00 in 2025. The same page shows a "Transfer From Fire Reserve" of $367,668.00 in 2025. A reserve is money the Village has set aside in past years. Taking the reserve transfer off, the amount left is $219,740 (worked out by us).
Found by reading the town's own documents · 1 source
$2,169,846to be raised from municipal property taxes in 2025, up from $1,992,304 in the 2024 budget
The levy is the amount the Village asks property owners to pay for its own services (schools are separate). The 2025 budget schedule raises it from $1,992,304.00 to $2,169,846.00, about 8.9% more (worked out by us). By-law 2025-019, passed April 23, 2025, uses the $2,169,846 figure. The same schedule shows less money from two road grants: "PROV GOV'T GRANTS - OCIF FORMULA FUNDING" goes from $371,454.00 to $167,085.00 and "NORDS Funding" from $222,574.00 to $68,465.00. Planned road capital spending also falls, from $605,000.00 to $233,186.00.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 2 sources
+56%roads and snow, 2019 to 2025
Sundridge spent $414K on roads and snow in 2019 and $646K in 2025. Prices only went up about 21% in that time. Only 6 of 32 similar towns had faster growth here.
Found automatically from the town's financial reports · 3 sources
$261,849policing in the 2025 budget, against $199,927 in the 2024 column
In the 2025 budget schedule, "Policing - OTHER TRANSFERS" goes from $199,927.00 to $261,849.00, about 31% more (worked out by us). It is one of the larger single lines in the schedule's general expenses. The schedule does not say what changed.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 1 source
2024the newest year of audited statements we found posted
The Village's budgets and financial reporting page lists audited statements for 2020 to 2024. We did not find 2025 statements on the page we read on October 7, 2026. The auditor's reports on the earlier statements are dated September 13, 2023 (for 2022), October 23, 2024 (for 2023) and September 10, 2025 (for 2024). The 2024 report says the 2023 statements were audited by another auditor.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 3 sources
$246,716operating deficit for 2023, against a budgeted surplus of $8,121
A deficit means a year's costs were more than its revenue. For 2023 the Village budgeted an operating surplus of $8,121 and recorded a deficit of $246,716. Government transfers came in at $772,207 against a budget of $1,215,499, and purchases of capital assets (things like roads and equipment) were $173,493 against a budgeted $757,255. The 2024 statements show a surplus of $536,073 against a budgeted $365,202.
Found by reading the town's own documents · 2 sources
$476per home on garbage, dump and recycling, 2025
Sundridge spent about $476 per home on garbage, dump and recycling in 2025. The typical similar town spent $267. Only 2 of 32 similar towns spent more.
Found automatically from the town's financial reports · 1 source
A property tax bill in Sundridge pays for the town and schools. Only part of it goes to the town, and that part is what Sundridge council controls.
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