Approved / final operating totals
These totals use approved prior-year figures recovered from the next budget book where possible. For 2026, the City’s final budget book is the source; its summary table still labels the 2026 column “Requested Budget,” so that source label is retained in the warehouse.
Reported gross operating expenditures. The department view below preserves the City’s organizational structure for that year and is not yet a normalized service comparison.
Where is the growth actually showing up?
These series follow stable municipal services rather than department names. The trend measure is the City’s Net Requirement Before Indirect Revenues, recovered from approved prior-year columns and the final 2026 budget. For major 2026 services, the explorer also shows the bridge from that measure to Net Tax Levy.
Police Services
High comparabilityTrend measure: the City’s “Net Requirement Before Indirect Revenues” — the amount left after direct service revenues, before allocated indirect revenue is applied. It is not the same thing as the final Net Tax Levy attributed to the service.
This bridge comes from the City’s 2026 taxpayer-allocation table. It shows why a service-trend figure should not be described as the amount ultimately funded by property taxes.
Open official 2026 table ↗Change over each defensible comparison window
Most series begin in 2022. Where City reorganizations prevent an honest five-year comparison, the starting year moves forward rather than manufacturing a bridge.
| Service | Start | 2026 | Change | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Police Services 2022 → 2026 | 2022$28.0M | $41.3M | +$13.3M | +47.6% |
Capital Financing Costs 2022 → 2026 | 2022$30.7M | $41.3M | +$10.6M | +34.6% |
Social Services 2022 → 2026 | 2022$11.7M | $16.7M | +$5.0M | +43.1% |
Public Works (post-reorganization) 2023 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2023$9.3M | $13.7M | +$4.3M | +46.3% |
Fire Services 2022 → 2026 | 2022$17.8M | $21.1M | +$3.3M | +18.3% |
Environmental Services 2022 → 2026 | 2022$6.6M | $9.3M | +$2.7M | +40.7% |
Peterborough County/City Paramedics 2022 → 2026 | 2022$5.4M | $7.8M | +$2.4M | +44.1% |
Peterborough Public Library 2022 → 2026 | 2022$3.2M | $4.4M | +$1.3M | +39.7% |
Engineering & Capital Works 2024 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2024$3.9M | $4.9M | +$1000K | +25.8% |
Public Health 2022 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2022$1.3M | $2.0M | +$664K | +49.4% |
Planning, Development & Urban Design 2023 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2023$2.1M | $2.7M | +$634K | +30.7% |
Facilities & Property Management 2024 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2024$2.0M | $2.4M | +$447K | +22.6% |
Asset Management & Capital Planning 2024 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2024$2.3M | $2.6M | +$339K | +14.9% |
People & Culture 2025 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2025$2.1M | $2.5M | +$323K | +15.2% |
Transit 2022 → 2026 | 2022$12.7M | $12.9M | +$234K | +1.8% |
Economic Development (in-house) 2025 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2025$935K | $1.1M | +$196K | +21.0% |
Strategic Communications & Service Peterborough 2025 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2025$1.2M | $1.3M | +$147K | +12.2% |
Fairhaven 2022 → 2026 | 2022$1.6M | $1.7M | +$103K | +6.5% |
Legal Services 2024 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2024$881K | $839K | -$42K | -4.8% |
Financial Services & Corporate Sponsorship 2024 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2024$2.2M | $2.1M | -$60K | -2.7% |
Peterborough Airport 2022 → 2026 | 2022$2.3M | $2.2M | -$118K | -5.1% |
Recreation, Parks & Cultural Services 2023 → 2026 Scope note applies | 2023$7.7M | $7.1M | -$664K | -8.6% |
A reported jump that needs decomposition, not a headline.
The Public Works total rises sharply in the 2025 approved presentation, but the component structure changes at the same time. This view separates the clean year-over-year comparisons from the structural break and identifies the snow-plowing change that can be sourced directly.
| Net requirement component | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yard | $0 | $0 | $2.59M | $2.91M |
| Winter Control | $4.57M | $4.84M | $3.65M | $3.92M |
| Surface Services | $2.63M | $2.71M | $4.82M | $4.74M |
| Forestry / Parks & Forestry | $1.85M | $2.03M | $1.98M | $2.07M |
| Urban Forest | $294K | $136K | $5K | $18K |
| Total Public Works net requirement | $9.34M | $9.72M | $13.04M | $13.66M |
Source-line component sums differ from the published Public Works total by $1 in 2023 and $1 in 2024. The dashboard preserves the published total and treats those immaterial differences as source-level rounding/extraction variance rather than silently changing a line item.
The accounting presentation changes materially.
The Yard line moves from essentially a fully recovered activity in 2024 to a $2.59M net requirement in the 2025 approved figures. Winter Control falls while Surface Services rises sharply at the same time. That pattern is consistent with changed allocation/recovery treatment, so the full +$3.32M is not labelled as organic service growth.
Municipal-lot snow plowing moved in-house.
The City's service-delivery report identifies $473K of existing municipal-lot budget transferred into Public Works, plus $432K of additional 2025 staff/material/operating cost. Including the initial 2024 amount, the report describes an annualized incremental operating increase of about $500K.
The transferred budget is a classification move, not new City-wide spending. This known change explains only part of the 2025 Public Works structural break.
Gross operating totals, taxation revenue and source-reported department structures are in the warehouse.
Stable five-year services plus qualified component series for Public Works, Recreation/Parks/Culture, IPGM and corporate administration where shorter windows are more defensible.
The major reorganization families are now exposed component-by-component with explicit start years. Full-term aggregate department claims remain intentionally withheld where scopes changed.