2025-2029 Surrey Financial Plan

CORPORATE SERVICES

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & LIVELIHOODS

Received four national and one provincial awards which positioned the City as a safe, desirable and engaging workplace:  WorkSafeBC Certificate of Recognition (“COR”)  Excellence Awardee of the Canada's Safest Public Sector/Non-Profit Employer Award 2024  Excellence Awardee of the Canada’s Safest Employer for Young Workers Award 2024  Canada’s Top Employers for Young People for 2024  Canada’s Greenest Employers for 2024

ECOSYSTEMS

• The City's Digital Transformation initiatives reduced printing by 41% since 2020. The City's printers' "Avoidance and Energy Savings" features reduced paper consumption by 1.47 million sheets, equating to 27 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions avoided, 170 trees saved, and $21,000 in costs avoided; • Corporate Records securely shredded and recycled 75.97 metric tonnes of paper, with the following environmental benefits: 2,010 trees preserved, 526 trash bags avoided from the landfill, 3,182 bathtubs of water preserved, enough electricity to power 1,007 residential refrigerators saved and the equivalent of 89 gas powered cars removed from the road this year; and

• Civic Facilities completed lighting retrofits in seven facilities, replacing 3,354 linear fluorescent lamps with TLEDs and 83 parking pole lamps with LEDs. These projects will result in annual savings that are equivalent to $59,200 in utility cost savings. The City also received significant rebates from BC Hydro for these retrofits, totaling approximately $85,000; and $36,000 from Fortis BC for upgrading two aged boilers to high-efficiency models.

City of Surrey | 2025—2029 Financial Plan | General Operating Fund | Corporate Services

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