Medicine Hat 2025-26 budget deliberations get underway
Deliberations for the City of Medicine Hat’s next two-year budget got underway at council’s committee-of-the-whole meeting Tuesday as staff introduced the broad concepts to the city’s elected representatives.
The theme of the budget is “balancing the needs of today with the requirements of tomorrow”. Council is required to approve a budget by December.
Accounting supervisor Aaron Hoimyr said some of the main challenges that Medicine Hat faces include high inflation, aging infrastructure, stagnant population growth and declining revenues.