How Are My Tax Dollars Spent?

As a lower-tier municipality, the Township of McNab/Braeside is responsible for services that are more loc

alized, directly impacting the residents of that specific municipality. This includes maintaining roads and sidewalks, managing local parks and recreational facilities, implementing zoning bylaws and local planning decisions, operating fire departments and policing services (through a contract with the OPP), issuing building permits and conducting inspections, collecting waste and recyclable materials and managing the landfill site, and enforcing municipal bylaws.

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The upper-tier municipality, County of Renfrew, provides services that benefit the entire region, which are typically broader in scope and more complex. This includes maintaining county roads and bridges, administering social programs, delivering public health services, coordinating emergency planning and management, promoting regional economic development initiatives, overseeing broader land use policies, and managing environmental programs such as preservation of natural resources.

Each dollar you pay in property taxes supports the above obligations. Let’s take a closer look how your tax dollars are being spent in 2026:

Sources of spending:

Aside from property taxes, the municipality also supports spending through provincial and federal government grants, use of reserve funds, and collection of user fees and other revenues.

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The below graphic shows the breakdown of our sources of spending for 2026.