Questions about Civic Budget Management?

Yes — Civic manages the full municipal budget lifecycle: multi-year operating budgets with line-item detail, capital budgets with project-level funding sources (levy, reserves, DC, grants, debentures), 10/25-year long-range capital forecasts, reserve and reserve fund projections, and debt capacity (ARL) calculations. Operating and capital budgets are integrated — the operating impact of capital projects automatically flows into multi-year operating budget projections.

Civic auto-generates the complete council budget document in under 60 seconds: executive summary, revenue/expenditure analysis, departmental breakdowns, capital plan, tax impact tables, fee schedule changes, reserve fund status, and charts. During council meetings, the Treasurer can model scenarios in real-time — adjusting assumptions and showing the tax impact per average residential property live on the presentation screen. Council members can access a read-only dashboard with natural language query capability.

Civic Budget Management serves municipalities from 5,000 to 500,000+ population. The platform scales from a small township with 500 GL accounts and 5 departments to an upper-tier municipality with 100,000 GL accounts, 50+ departments, and 3,000+ positions. Pricing is based on municipality size, and the implementation scope scales accordingly — from 4-week quick-start to 10-week full enterprise deployment.

Yes — Civic supports multi-year operating and capital budgets per Municipal Act s. 291. Operating budgets can span 2–4 years with year-over-year projections. Capital budgets support 10-year and 25-year planning horizons. The Multi-Year Projector extends budget trends with configurable inflation, assessment growth, and staffing assumptions — providing the long-term fiscal sustainability view councils need.