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title: "Metro Vancouver board votes 89 to 36 to defer its 2027 budget"
description: "The Metro Vancouver board voted Friday to hand its 2027 budget decision to the incoming board, which includes the new mayors and councils elected on October 17."
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last_updated: "2026-10-30T21:56:38.309Z"
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The Metro Vancouver board voted 89 to 36 on Friday to defer its 2027 budget and five-year financial plan to the incoming board, the Vancouver Sun reported. The outgoing board held its final meeting on October 30, 2026, and the budget will now go to the new mayors and councils elected on October 17.

The deferral means the budget will be decided at the new board's first meeting, on November 27, 2026, Daily Hive reported. The incoming board will include [Pete Fry](/candidates/pete-fry), Vancouver's mayor-elect, alongside the newly elected councils from 13 of the region's 21 municipalities.

## What the budget would mean

Daily Hive reported that the proposed budget would raise the average Metro Vancouver household cost for regional services from $897 to $914 per year, a $17 increase. Metro Vancouver delivers drinking water, sewage treatment, waste disposal, regional parks, and affordable housing programs. Member municipalities pass the regional cost to property owners through annual tax bills.

## Why the board chose to defer

Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West, who supported the deferral, said the new board deserved the chance to review the budget, ask questions, make adjustments, and vote on it, the Vancouver Sun reported. Thirteen of Metro Vancouver's 21 municipalities elected new mayors on October 17, including Vancouver, Surrey, Richmond, Coquitlam, Delta, and both Langleys.

Those incoming mayors had argued in the days before the meeting that the outgoing board should not set next year's financial direction. Pete Fry was among those who had publicly called for the delay.

## Hurley defended the budget

Metro Vancouver Chair Mike Hurley, also the mayor of Burnaby, opened the meeting by arguing the board should complete its work, the Vancouver Sun reported. The deferral motion still carried 89 to 36.

The new board meets for the first time on November 27. Vancouver residents can follow how Pete Fry votes on the deferred budget at his page on this site.

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