York Region $3.5 billion operating budget unanimously approved for 2025

Newmarket – York Regional Council is committing to $3.5 billion in operating expenditures in 2025. Aligned to deliver on the Strategic Plan, this day-to-day budget is divided into three main parts: 42% for program costs, 30% for salaries and benefits and the remaining to support the Region’s Fiscal Strategy.

Organized under the three themes guiding York Region’s 2025 Budget, highlights from the operating budget include:

Investing in Safer Communities

• Improving community safety by supporting an additional 304 sworn officers and civilian staff for York Regional Police over the next two years
• Adding 74 new paramedics and support staff to ensure the Region continues to meet response time targets over the next two years
• Continuing implementation of 2024-2027 York Region Plan to Support Seniors to respond to current and emerging needs

Enabling Growth in our Communities

• Delivering 125 billion litres of clean, safe drinking water to protect public health  
• Maintaining a safe and efficient road network and transit system  
• Diverting more than 90% of managed waste from landfill  

Keeping People, Goods and Information Moving

• Continuing ridership throughout the transit system with 23.4 million trips expected in 2025
• Maintaining more than 4,400 lane kilometres of Regional roads

For additional information, please visit York.ca/budget

The Regional Municipality of York consists of nine local cities and towns and provides a variety of programs and services to over 1.25 million residents and 57,000 businesses with more than 629,000 employees. More information about the Region’s key service areas is available at york.ca/RegionalServices

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Media Contact:

Jennifer Turvey, Corporate Communications,
The Regional Municipality of York,
1-877-464-9675, Ext. 71785
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