City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

ENGINEERING

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Finalized and implemented a Single- Use Item and Plastic Packaging Strategy including pertinent bylaws to ban the commercial provision and distribution of plastic checkout bags, and foam cups and take-out impacts that these items have on litter in our streets, the environment and decrease landfill waste; • Reduced processing time for reviewing land development off-site servicing drawings by 10% over 2019; containers. The bylaws will help reduce and eliminate the negative • The Surrey Biofuel Facility produced approximately 70,000 gigajoules of RNG in 2020 which will reduce both community and corporate Green House Gas (“GHG”) emissions and generate offset credits the City can use to become carbon neutral; • Completion of an Annual Capital Program of $100M through 19 construction tenders; Finalization and signing of the Compensation Agreement (CA) and Supportive Policies Agreement (SPA) as well as advancing other required agreements for the Surrey-Langley- SkyTrain along Fraser Highway; • Reached an agreement with TransLink to incorporate the widening of Fraser Highway from 138 St to 148 St into the delivery of the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain; • ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & LIVELIHOODS

• Received Council approval to increase the number of land development projects able to use surety bonds as an alternate form of security for Servicing Agreements which reduces developers’ fees and encourages freed -up working capital to be reinvested in additional development activities in the City; • Entered into a five-year lease with a subsidiary of Warner Bros., at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds, for use of City -owned properties as the Superman & Lois Smallville set; • Received award for Outstanding Dedication to Recycling & Waste Management from BUILD magazine; • Enhanced the GIS and capital project planning process to improve access to information about the City’s capital projects for the public and staff; • Completed the construction of the Compressed Natural Gas (“CNG”) station at the Operations Centre which provides ability to continue to expand the use of CNG in the fleet and add dedicated CNG vehicles to the fleet where appropriate; and • Supported an ongoing Metro Vancouver investment of over $300M of capital works including significant trunk watermain to support City and regional growth and post disaster water security.

City of Surrey | 2021—2025 Financial Plan | General Operating Fund | Engineering

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