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Have Your Say - Call for Climate Action in the City of Edmonton Budget!

  • Apr 13
  • 2 min read

Hi First name,

 

The City of Edmonton is planning their 2027-2030 Budget and they are looking for citizen feedback.  CJE is calling as many people as possible to respond with the message to redirect police funding to actual good public services and climate action initiatives! 


Year after year, the largest single budget item is Edmonton Police Services (with their budget reaching over 628 million in 2026). For comparison Edmonton Public Library has a budget of 75 million, and as a bonus they don’t have a history of murder, violence and brutality. 


We would love to see the city drastically reduce police funding and instead put that money towards reliable public transit, affordable housing, active transportation infrastructure, harm reduction initiatives and climate action incentives. While this is complicated by the funding formula policy which sets the police budget every year, city council has tied their own hands on this, and could untie them at any time. 


What can I do?


There are three parts to the Budget Engagement - a Balance the Budget Tool where you can adjust the budget and submit your responses, a What Matters to You Survey with questions about your budget priorities and in person engagement sessions in each ward (and just a tip for the Balance the Budget Tool: the climate funding is hidden in the Economic Development & Planning section)


Of course there are limitations to each of these engagement methods (some of the framing of the survey questions have us shaking our heads), but council needs to hear the call for police funding to be redirected to public transit, affordable housing, active transportation infrastructure, climate action incentives, and really any other public services that don’t surveil their critics relentlessly, murder people like Mathios Arkangelo and spend public money on luxury flying SUV’s. 


The budget discussions and council approval will happen in the fall so keep an eye out for some ‘Speaking at Council’ training sessions around then! 


In solidarity, 

CJE 


PS

Here are a few articles to read if you aren’t sure why a climate group is talking about police.

 
 
 

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