Moncton OK's budget that holds tax rate steady

Shane Magee · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 1:55 PM EST | Last Updated: November 6

Moncton assembly formed a bid of unanimous votes Thursday greeting to o.k. the city's 2026 budget.

Councillors voted to o.k. a $236 cardinal operating budget, a $92 cardinal superior fund and a $47.8 cardinal inferior budget.

Jacques Doucet, the city's wide manager of concern services, told reporters it was a affirmative budget.

The fund holds the taxation complaint for astir of the metropolis astatine $1.3614 per $100 of assessed value.

Areas amalgamated with the metropolis successful 2023 volition spot the taxation complaint held astatine $0.9908 per $100 of assessment.

"By maintaining the taxation rate, on with the provincial appraisal freeze, means that astir residents and commercialized businesses successful our metropolis volition not spot an summation successful spot taxes for the pursuing year," Doucet said.

"We were capable to bash that [and] besides put successful galore strategical areas successful our city."

Deputy Mayor Paulette Thériault, the city's acting politician since Dawn Arnold's assignment to the legislature successful March, appeared to choke up aft the fund was approved. She said it was her last fund due to the fact that she's not moving again successful the outpouring election.

She told reporters she was blessed with the budget.

"The citizens are going done truthful much," Thériault said. "If we tin astatine slightest clasp the taxation rate, that's a bully thing."

The operating fund adds firefighters, the archetypal important summation successful staffing levels successful decades, to code recommendations from a reappraisal of the occurrence department.

Paulette Thériault, the acting mayor, said the fund would beryllium her past connected assembly arsenic she won't beryllium moving again. (Shane Magee/CBC)

The superior fund includes wealth to regenerate Codiac Transpo buses, rebuild St. George Street betwixt Gordon and Cameron streets arsenic portion of a multi-phase plan, physique a caller east-west thoroughfare successful the Humphreys Brook country from Durelle Street to Harrisville Boulevard, and plan enactment to grow the Codiac Transpo garage.

The fund besides includes $500,000 to acquisition onshore for a parkland successful the Vision Lands, which is an undeveloped portion of the metropolis betwixt Wheeler Boulevard and the Trans-Canada Highway.

On Thursday, councillors voted to boost spending by $250,000 to $750,000 for postulation calming connected metropolis streets. The wealth adjacent twelvemonth volition travel from a assembly contingency fund.

City unit said the programme that adds things similar velocity bumps oregon raised crosswalks to dilatory drivers has been popular. René Lagacé, the city's manager of engineering, said the $500,000 that was budgeted would spot tiny sections of agelong roads, specified arsenic Ryan Street and Highlandview Drive, done successful 2026.

Lagacé said the summation Coun. Paul Richard sought would let much to beryllium done adjacent year.

"We person to dilatory immoderate radical down, they’re flying down our street," Richard said erstwhile proposing the increase.

The fund includes $1 cardinal for the archetypal signifier of progressive proscription projects on the Morton and Connaught avenues corridor. It's an country wherever cyclists person been deed by drivers, and advocates privation improved.

Councillors voted Tuesday to cull the Codiac Regional Policing Authority's petition to adhd 15 much officers successful 2026. The magnitude Moncton volition walk connected policing volition inactive emergence to $43 cardinal due to the fact that of different rising costs.

Dozens of RCMP positions vacant

Councillors were told Tuesday that portion 17 officers were approved to beryllium added successful 2025, lone 14 of the roles had been filled truthful acold and that those officers had already been moving astatine Codiac successful different roles. That created 14 vacancies wrong Codiac that inactive request to beryllium filled.

Codiac RCMP Supt. Benoit Jolette said the unit that polices Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview has astir 30 vacant positions.

On Wednesday, Riverview municipality assembly debated its budget, which would besides clasp the taxation complaint astatine $1.3826 per $100 of assessed value. The municipality plans a $43 cardinal operating fund and a superior fund of $43.5 million. The municipality is expected to ratify the fund Nov. 10.

Andrew LeBlanc, the town's mayor, posted connected Facebook that the fund has zero caller RCMP officers, similar Moncton, due to the fact that requested transgression information hadn't been provided.

The policing authorization "chose not to honour the request," LeBlanc posted.

"The RCMP themselves stated they tin lone warrant 4 caller officers based connected colonisation maturation and truthful without a concern lawsuit oregon interaction data, we are not prepared to manus implicit much payer dollars erstwhile we can't amusement that the concern volition little the transgression complaint of what interaction it volition have."

Dieppe's fund besides doesn't see the 15 officers the policing authorization requested. Dieppe assembly is expected to ballot connected its fund Nov. 24.