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* 1. What is your primary source for information regarding the City's budget?

Property taxes are essential revenue streams collected and distributed among municipalities, regions, and local school boards. Approximately 26% of the property tax that you pay goes to the City of Richmond Hill, while the rest goes to York Region and school boards.

That means, 26 percent of your property taxes pay for city services such as fire protection, public libraries, parks and playgrounds, recycling, organics and waste pick-up, snow and windrow clearing, local roads and land planning.

Approximately 52 percent of your property taxes pay for your Regional services such as public health, social services, children’s services, policing, paramedical services and regional roads such as Bayview Avenue and Leslie Street.

With the remaining, 22 percent of your property taxes used to fund school boards to provide elementary and secondary school education.

In addition to property taxes, water, wastewater and stormwater management services are fully funded by water and stormwater billings.

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* 2. In 2024, a home assessed at the average $1,146,000 value paid property taxes in the amount of $2,296.42 to Richmond Hill, with the remainder of the bill going to York Region and school boards. Based on your experience, do services provided by the City of Richmond Hill represent good value for the property taxes that you pay?

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* 3. Below is a list of services provided by the City of Richmond Hill. Please indicate if you feel the service levels should be enhanced, maintained or reduced.

  Enhance Maintain Reduce
Fire and Emergency Services
Recreation Facilities, Programs and Events
Library
Parks and Trails Maintenance
Waste Collection
Roads and Winter Maintenance
Access Richmond Hill (customer service centre)
Services provided through City’s investments in information technology (e.g. website, payment portals, online forms)
By-law Enforcement
Land-use Planning and Development Services (e.g., review zoning and development applications, building permits, and parks planning)
Water and Wastewater services
Stormwater Management (storm ponds and storm sewers)
Investments in future renewal of City assets (e.g. road infrastructure, parks and playgrounds, and buildings)

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* 4. The City strives to find efficiencies in our business operations and find additional avenues to generate new revenue.

As a last resort, the property tax rate may have to increase to maintain the same service levels. The alternative is to lower service levels to maintain the same property tax rate. To pay for new or expanded services, additional property tax rate increases or new user fees may be needed. Based on your experience, please choose one of the following options:

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* 5. The property tax increase in 2024 on the City’s portion of the tax bill was $95.28 (equal to $7.94 per month) for the average single-detached residential property assessed at $1,146,000. Would you agree this is

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* 6. Although the City’s infrastructure such as parks, buildings and watermains are currently in good or very good condition, with the cost of repairs and materials increasing, Richmond Hill will face significant costs to maintain them in the same condition over the next ten years.

What approach should the City take for their eventual repair or replacement:

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* 7. To continue to provide services, Richmond Hill needs to invest in infrastructure to support these services. Below is a list of City assets and infrastructure. Please rank the following in order of your priority:

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* 8. Please select one of the options below:

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* 9. What is the age of the person completing the survey?

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* 10. To show you are a real person and not a robot, please select the duck from the images below:

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