See the services Amherst budgets for, the projects it plans to build, and where the money comes from.
April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026
Budgeted, not actual spending. This independent guide uses official Town documents. All amounts are Canadian dollars. A budget is a plan, not a record of what was ultimately spent.
Operating approved April 28, 2025; capital amended through June 4, 2025. This is a published report snapshot, not the final amended year-end budget.
2025/26 · OPERATING
General operating fund
Town services, mandatory provincial contributions, community support, sewage and solid waste. Water is shown separately.
$23.50M$23,502,455 budgeted
Approved April 28, 2025. These are gross budget allocations across all revenue sources, not net costs charged to property taxes.
Percentages use the full operating budget for this fund. They are not a breakdown of your individual tax bill. Rounded percentages may not add to 100%.
Operating approved April 28, 2025; capital amended through June 4, 2025 · Checked October 19, 2026.
All category amounts and funding lines reconcile exactly to their fund totals. Each percentage is the line amount divided by the selected fund’s budget; displayed percentages are rounded.
Operating spending is funded by taxes, charges, service revenues, transfers and other sources. A gross budget share cannot establish how each dollar of an individual property-tax bill is spent. No personal tax-dollar allocation is calculated.
The official “Taxes” revenue category includes uniform charges and other taxes. It is not exclusively property-tax revenue. Finance includes fiscal services, so its full amount is not administrative overhead.
Operating and capital are separate views, not amounts to add together. Capital financing includes $1,000,000 from general operating, $31,900 from sewer operating and $40,000 from water operating. Adding the budgets without eliminating internal transfers would double-count money.
General and water funds are also kept separate. Gross water revenue includes hydrant/fire-protection revenue, which includes internal payments from general operations; these are not consolidated accounts.
Capital reconciliation: $6,557,564 originally approved April 28 + $463,700 paving amendment May 26 + $2,000,000 live-fire training amendment June 4 = $9,021,264. This comprises $7,443,264 general capital and $1,578,000 water capital (report pp. 3, 25).
The supplied April capital draft including carryovers was $6,646,564, $89,000 above original adoption. The draft and its future-year plans are not used as approved project values.
Capital project financing is only available here at fund level. We do not assign draft funding sources to adopted projects. Carryover project value is not the same as the “Capital Reserve - Carry Over Items” funding source.
Named locations are quoted from project descriptions. The Amherst map conservatively matches Streets project names to named streets in the local geometry. Bubbles identify representative street locations, not verified construction limits. Unmatched projects are listed explicitly. A project budget is not a claim that work was completed at a particular address.
The Town has also approved a 2026/27 budget. This guide currently presents only the verified 2025/26 dataset; forward estimates in the 2025 packet are not substituted for adopted future-year budgets.