Annual 2020 - Municipal Report Highlights - City of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

The highlights document contains an overview of statistics, achievements for 2020 in relation to the Corporate Strategic Plan goals, financial charts and graphs, as well as the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Accumulated Surplus and Consolidated Statement of Financial Position which forms part of the City’s consolidated financial statements. [...] The Corporate Strategic Plan is founded upon and guided by the goals that the City has established through a series of forward-thinking, long-term plans, including the Council adopted trilogy of sustainability strategies (social, environmental and economic), the Official Community Plan and other City policies which establish the planning and resource context of our work. [...] Sales of goods and services primarily comprises of various user fees charged to the public for use of City programs and services such as metered water and sewer use, and recreational and cultural program fees. [...] The slight increase is for the City to keep up with standard inflationary costs to continue to provide the required level of services to the community. [...] Lastly, parks, recreation and cultural services accounts for the remaining 22.1%, which includes functions related to maintaining the City’s 5,400 acres of parks and its golf courses, providing recreational and cultural programs at the City’s community centres, and offering library services at the City’s four library branches.