Budget Week 2024
In fall 2023, the journalists from Peterborough Currents and Arthur Newspaper teamed up to bring you a podcast covering city council’s 2024 budget deliberations.
The five-episode series walks you through the budget process and covers the key stories that surfaced as city councillors reviewed the budget line by line. We also offer analysis of some of the biggest decisions councillors made during their deliberations and what it might mean for the city.
Audio City councillors approve 2024 budget — and hike transit fares
Listen to the final episode of our podcast series on the 2024 municipal budget deliberations
Audio Why don’t these pedestrians have a sidewalk? Peterborough faces infrastructure backlog due to “funding challenges.”
Episode four of our budget podcast examines what’s in — and not in — the city’s 2024 capital budget
Audio Social assistance cuts. A money-losing airport. An empty research park. Here are some key stories from the 2024 budget deliberations.
Episode three of our 2024 budget podcast covers the November 20, 21, and 22 finance committee meetings
Audio Non-profits plead with councillors to reverse proposed cut to municipal grants. The cost to taxpayers? Less than $1 each.
Meanwhile, Chief of Police Stuart Betts makes the case for a $4.6 million boost to the police budget.
Audio Councillors to debate spending and service levels during budget talks this month
Peterborough Currents is teaming up with Arthur Newspaper to bring you a podcast about the 2024 budget process.
