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title: "Metro Vancouver board will vote on 2027 budget Friday, rejecting McCallum's cancellation call"
description: "Surrey's mayor-elect Doug McCallum asked Metro Vancouver to cancel its October 30 meeting. The regional body confirmed the 2027 budget vote will proceed."
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last_updated: "2026-10-28T19:53:34.017Z"
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Metro Vancouver confirmed on October 27 that it will vote on its 2027 budget at its October 30 board meeting, after Surrey mayor-elect [Doug McCallum](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/doug-mccallum) called on the regional body to cancel the meeting and wait for newly elected councils to take their seats.

The Vancouver Sun reported that a Metro Vancouver spokesperson said the 2027 budget and five-year financial plan would be considered and voted on this Friday as scheduled. The spokesperson said the budget is approved in October to give member municipalities enough time to prepare their own financial plans and meet legislative requirements.

## McCallum's call to cancel

McCallum asked Metro Vancouver board chair Mike Hurley and the directors to cancel the October 30 meeting, according to both the Vancouver Sun and the Indo-Canadian Voice.

McCallum said 13 of Metro Vancouver's 21 mayors were not re-elected in this month's municipal elections, including in Vancouver, Surrey, Richmond, Coquitlam, Delta, and both Langleys. Those municipalities are home to more than 2.1 million people and hold 114 of 145 weighted votes on the Metro Vancouver Board. Surrey alone holds 29 of those votes.

"I am calling on the Board chair and the directors to cancel Friday's meeting," McCallum told the Indo-Canadian Voice. "If something truly cannot wait four weeks, deal with that one item and leave everything else for the Board the voters chose. Nothing in 1,190 pages is more urgent than that."

McCallum said the law gives the board until March 31 to adopt its financial plan, and the next regular meeting is November 27, by which time every new council across the region will have been sworn in and will have named its directors.

## What is at stake in Friday's vote

The October 30 agenda runs to 1,190 pages across Metro Vancouver's four boards, according to the Vancouver Sun. The main item is the 2027 budget and five-year financial plan, which sets what every household in the region pays for regional water, sewer, garbage and parks. The Vancouver Sun reported that combined cost already runs to nearly $900 a year for the average household.

McCallum said Surrey's 29 board votes should not be cast by anyone other than the directors the newly elected Surrey council will choose.

"This is not about any individual director," McCallum told the Indo-Canadian Voice. "It is about respect for the voters. Surrey holds 29 votes on that Board, and not one of them should be cast on next year's budget by anyone other than the directors chosen by the council Surrey elected on October 17."

Metro Vancouver did not indicate it would delay the vote, and the board meets on the last Friday of every month regardless of the election cycle.

Surrey residents can follow the new council's decisions at the promise tracker at [/bc/surrey-2026/tracker](/bc/surrey-2026/tracker), which will record votes and promises once the new council is sworn in beginning next week.

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