The 2025 budget positions Milton to invest in the community and organization, while having immediate and future community impact. Using the areas of focus within the 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, the following 2025 highlights demonstrate investment in our community.
Invest in people
- Addition of new staff in Fire Services to achieve full urban coverage.
- Investment in new staffing resources in priority areas including information technology and economic development.
Innovate in technology and process
- Investments in the digitization of various internal and external services.
- Continued progress towards next-generation 911 emergency communications and dispatch services.
- Continued upgrades to networking, infrastructure, power, and communications across all Town facilities.
Quality facilities and amenities
- Construction of new Bowes Neighborhood Park in the Boyne area
- Conversion of multi-use courts in Coates Neighbourhood Park North to pickleball courts and in Bristol Park to lit pickleball courts
- Addition of cricket batting cages at Optimist Park
- Redevelopment of various parks including Melanie Park and Watson Park
- Planned improvements for various recreation facilities including:
- Leisure Centre gymnasium
- Milton Sports Centre pool and arenas
- Mattamy National Cycling Centre cycling track
- FirstOntario Arts Centre various upgrades
- Library Beaty Branch updates
Connected transit and mobility
- Investment in transit including introduction of Sunday service and extended service to 10:30 p.m. on weekdays, as well as the purchase of buses to expand service in the Boyne and Derry Green areas.
- Road construction including urbanization of Nipissing Road, rehabilitation of Ontario Street, Appleby Line and Milburough Line, and replacement of the Fourth Line Nassagaweya Bridge.
- Continued maintenance of existing road network through the annual asphalt overlay and expanded asphalt programs.
- Active transportation investments including construction of the Boyne pedestrian railway crossing and new Boyne area trails.
- Ongoing focus on traffic and road safety with new pedestrian crossovers, raised crosswalks and 40 km/h neighborhoods in various locations, the Automated Speed Enforcement program and road safety strategy.
Planned Community Growth
- Investment in compliance programs for Additional Residential Units (ARUs) and to address illegal land use.
- Development of Municipal Parking Strategy.
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