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You are on the [cover page] of folder [Financial]City of Toronto Budget and Financial
We dip into the city's budget data as we can, with some interesting results (for example see below for some charts, and peruse recent list of top money earners at PFR).
For some background documentation, browse the "Financial" menu at the left.
Parks Forestry and Recreation's Recreation budget has been expanding rapidly...
Overall the city's budget has been increasing faster than inflation...
posted February 20, 2009
Sources: City of Toronto; CPI - Statistics Canada; see spreadsheet
... with staff costs accounting for most of that...
Expenditure by Object excluding Transfer Payments
See source spreadsheet.
There are over 50,000 full time equivalent staff at the city:
We are experimenting with presentation groupings of City programs that we hope will make the information a little easier to grasp. At over 50,602 approved full time equivalent staff positions, the city is pretty big and complex. These are staff numbers from the 2008 budget. There are 49 programs listed in the 2008 budget, which are presented in the horizontal charts below.
Major categories: General Services, Special Services, and Central Services
We define General Services as city services that are widely deployed, offered routinely to all, and comprise some of the basic practical services that keep the city going. Includes things like transit, parks, libraries, garbage pickup, water, and sewage.
Special Services are more in the nature of supportive interventions, and are directed at specific individuals or groups. Includes things like emergency services, public health, homes for the aged, and bylaw enforcement.
Central services are the centralized services which are mostly there to support the other city services. Includes Corporate services like general planning, accounting, etc.; support for the city's buildings and vehicles; and groups like City Council and the Councillor's offices. Also the impending 311 service.
See the source spreadsheet for these graphs.
Content last modified on August 05, 2010, at 08:48 PM EST