RDNO Office (Image Credit: Liam Verster / Vernon Matters Staff)

By Liam Verster

$191.3M Budget

RDNO Financial Plan approved, property taxes increasing by 1.4%  

Mar 19, 2026 | 11:23 AM

The Regional District of North Okanagan has adopted its 2026 Financial Plan.

The plan calls for a property tax increase of 1.4 per cent, which will have a range of impacts on property owners depending on a various factors such as:

• The municipality or electoral area in which the property is located, in combination with the regional district services that jurisdiction participates in and budget changes to those services
• The property’s change in assessed value relative to the average assessment change of the same property classification within its municipality or electoral area
• The change in assessed value of the property’s municipality or electoral area relative to the change in other municipalities and electoral areas 
• Any regional district local area services that the property is located within and the budget changes of those services

Under the financial plan, the RDNO’s 2026 budget was set at $191.3-million, and increase of $56.7-million from the year before.

The RDNO’s operating budget for 2026 was set at $66-million, while the capital budget was set at $119.1-million. The operating budget was up from $65.6-million in 2025, while the capital budget nearly doubled from 2025’s $62.1-million.

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The RDNO noted a number of major capital projects were included within the budget including construction of the Greater Vernon Cultural Centre and the Mission Hill Water Treatment Plant Filtration Project; universal water metering for the Mable Lake Water and Whitevale Water systems; completion of the new transfer station at the Armstrong/Spallumcheen landfill; purchasing sewer system infrastructure for Silver Star; replacing almost two kilometres of water lines in the Greater Vernon Water system; construction a new section of the Grey Canal Trail through the Frind Winer development; and working with the Splatsin First Nation and Columbia Shuswap Regional District on the Shuswap North Okanagan Rail Trail project.

The budget underwent final readings and was given approval at the RDNO Board of Directors meeting Wednesday, March 18.