Providing Feedback on Langley City’s 2026 Budget

Earlier this week, I posted about Langley City’s proposed 2026 budget and noted that there are opportunities to provide feedback.

As a first step, I invite you to learn about the budget in the following posts:

• First Look: Langley City’s 2026 Budget
• A first look at Langley City's proposed 2026 $28.8m Capital Projects Plan
• 2026 Proposed Langley City Budget Additions - Public Safety, Infrastructure, Pool

You can then head over to Let’s Chat, Langley City! You can learn more about the budget and fill out a survey about the proposed budget. The survey is open until December 2nd.

The City is also holding an in-person open house where you can talk informally with City staff about the proposed budget, share any feedback, and ask questions.

The open house will be on:
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Langley City Hall

You can also formally provide your feedback at the following Langley City Council meeting:
Monday, December 1, 2025
Starts at 7:00 PM
Council Chambers
Langley City Hall

November 17 Council Notes: Improving Outcomes for Young People, Zoning Bylaw

On Monday, Langley City Council received a presentation from Dr. Patrick Thomas from Project Black Feather. Project Black Feather is a joint program between the City, Township, and Langley School District to reduce the likelihood of young people going down a dangerous path of gang and gun violence. This program was funded by the federal government’s Building Safer Communities Fund. This program uses various clinical interventions to help improve the outcomes for young people. Now, many programs offer interventions, but this program is unique in that it tracked and quantified changes for people who were part of the program. The following slide from the presentation showed the various aspects that the program addressed.

Slide showing Project Black Feather Epigenetic Stacked Interventions. Select the slide to enlarge.

The program to date has helped over 400 young people, with over 150 experiencing positive changes, including addiction recovery and reduction in gang-affiliated behaviour. A full report on this program will be released in a month or so, with more details. Federal funding for this program is coming to an end. When some members of Langley City Council were in Ottawa this fall, we flagged this with MP Taleeb Noormohamed, who is chair of the Liberals' Pacific Caucus. We will be following up, as this is a program the federal government should continue funding.

Council also received an update from Superintendent Dosange of the Langley RCMP Detachment. We know that providing positive after-school activities for young people helps improve outcomes. He outlined some of the activities their youth section of the Detachment has hosted, including hockey programs in partnership with the Canucks, and their partnership with the Langley School District.

As I posted about earlier, Council is going through the process of adopting a new zoning bylaw with associated updates to our Official Community Plan. On Monday, people had the opportunity to provide formal feedback. We received one email from a resident expressing concern about a proposed change allowing RV parking in people's front driveways during the summer. This is already happening in our community. A couple attended the public hearing and asked a question about flexibility in siting carriage homes on people’s properties.

2026 Proposed Langley City Budget Additions - Public Safety, Infrastructure, Pool

Over the past month or so, Langley City Council has been reviewing the proposed 2026-2030 Financial Plan, which includes a base level of service, proposed enhancements to services and infrastructure investments, as well as the proposed one-time capital projects for 2026.

As I mentioned earlier, maintaining the same services as today would require a 3.57% or approximately $1.6 million property tax increase. As our population grows, we need to increase services to keep up with demand; otherwise, service actually declines.

For example, if eight people eat one piece of pie, they get a lot more than if 16 people try to eat the same pie. If we want people to have the same amount of pie, we need to bake another pie. This is why service level enhancements are important.

Every year, City senior management provides a list of potential enhancements. Rarely do all the proposed enhancements make their way into the final approved budget.

Last night, Council gave first and second reading to the 2026 - 2030 Financial plan with the following service level enhancements:

2 Additional Firefighters - $400,000
2 Additional RCMP Officers - $320,000
Extending Al Anderson Pool to Open April 13 - $68,900
Increasing the Annual Amount Contributed to Capital Projects - $224,000

These enhancements total $944,000, representing a 2.25% increase in property taxes.

In total, the proposed 2026 budget will include a $2.54 million or 5.82% property tax increase.

The 2026 budget is bare-bones with increased investment in public safety and the basics.

If you would like to provide feedback on the budget, please visit Let's Chat, Langley City! There will also be an in-person open house next week. For more information, please visit the 2026 Financial Plan webpage.

Council still needs to hold a formal public hearing on the budget, and consider third reading and final adoption of the budget over the next month.

The History of Langley City: Part 2

In the last episode, we explored how Langley Prairie was built on connection — from the portage routes of the First Peoples to railway lines and the ambitions of early settlers.

However, it wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine for Langley Prairie property owners; they felt ignored by the Langley Council of the day, which refused to invest in basic infrastructure for their community, like sidewalks, sewer lines, and streetlights. One bold vote forever changed the map in the 1950s.

This is the story of how Langley Prairie became Langley City and its fight to have a voice.