City Hall

This year’s City of Greater Sudbury news included a number of highlights, including the city moving forward with a downtown arena/events centre, library/art gallery, emergency services infrastructure renewal, tackling the city’s infrastructure spending gap and city councillors behaving badly

Per a 2024-25 budget decision by city council, GOVA Transit bus fares will go up by 14% on Jan. 15, including single-ride increases from $3.50 to $4

Mayor Paul Lefebvre is pushing for the federal government to fund the College Street underpass rehabilitation project

New debt within the city’s approved 2024-27 capital budget will go toward such things as the Pioneer Manor bed redevelopment, emergency services stations and other infrastructure

The City of Greater Sudbury has released its 2023 holiday service schedule

Today’s budget deliberations saw city council vote to boost infrastructure spending, as well as public transit service hours (alongside increasing transit fare by 14 per cent)

Manager Amber Fritz said reducing people to data points in the funding decision is ‘doing an incredible disservice to members of this community’ 

Greater Sudbury Fire Services had sought city council’s go-ahead to hire eight additional full-time members, but the four-member balance has been punted to 2026 budget talks

Ward 11 Coun. Bill Leduc introduced an unsuccessful motion during today’s 2024/25 budget meeting for the city to fund the municipal supervised consumption site for another six months

The City of Greater Sudbury has mapped out its long-established infrastructure spending gap in their most in-depth report to date, breaking down the $130M annual spending shortfall