How would you spend your 2025 property tax dollars?

The City is inviting residents and property owners to share their budget priorities and learn more about how their taxes are used in its Budget Simulator.

Share your budget priorities

Share what services and programs are important to you by adjusting funding and service levels in our Budget Simulator. Just like the City’s, your budget will need to be balanced in order to be submitted!

Share your priorities now:

online at oshawa.ca/MyBudget; or,
on paper at Service Oshawa (located at City Hall, 50 Centre St. S.) during regular business hours.

An online and paper version of the Simulator will also be available at the Shape Oshawa event on Wednesday, May 1 at the Oshawa Centre. Visit staff in front of Old Navy between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.!

Balanced budgets can be submitted until Friday, June 7. All individual responses will be anonymous and only used to summarize overall feedback received from the public. Feedback will be shared with members of Council and considered in the development of the 2025 Mayor’s Budget.

2025 Budget Process

The 2025 City Budget will be delivered to Council and made available online for public review on Friday, November 1. Members of the public are welcome to watch the meeting online via webstream or in person in Council Chambers beginning at 9:30 a.m.

A Special Council Meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m., Friday, November 8 to hear public delegations on the 2025 City Budget. To submit correspondence or an in-person delegation request regarding a matter that appears on a published agenda, your request must be submitted to Legislative Services by 4 p.m. on the business day prior to the meeting. Requests to delegate electronically must be submitted by noon on the business day prior to the meeting.

For more information and to stay up-to-date on the 2025 City Budget process, visit the Budget webpage and follow #OshBudget on X (formerly known as Twitter).

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