Ottawa budget directions: Mayor to make announcement [Video]

Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe will make an announcement today on the 2025 budget directions.

He will be joined by City Manager Wendy Stephanson and Chief Financial Officer Cyril Rogers at Ottawa City Hall at 11:30 a.m.

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The 2025 budget directions are set to be brought before the Finance and Corporate Services Committee on Sept. 16 and full city council on Sept. 18. The directions will outline how the 2025 budget will be drafted, including possible caps on increases to property taxes and other tax-supported programs.

In the last two budgets, Sutcliffe kept tax increases capped at 2.5 per cent, which was an election promise. He did not, however, make a promise for the 2025 or 2026 budgets.

This announcement comes on the heels of a month-long campaign by Sutcliffe calling on the federal and provincial …