Heading into Tuesday night’s budget meeting, Woolwich councillors had a 7.8 per cent target for this year’s tax increase. By the end of the evening, there had been no change, meaning residents face the prospect of paying another $100 on the township portion of their property taxes.
The 2026 budget calls for a 6.8 per cent jump in the base tax levy, plus another one per cent special infrastructure levy.
The document calls for total operating expenditures of $31,548,471, up from $29,162,252 in the 2025 budget, an increase of 8.2 per cent. In 2022, for instance, that number was $22,053,610, an increase of 43 per cent in just four years.
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