The City of Saskatoon’s 2020 Report on Service, Savings and Sustainability looks at how teams worked together, and apart, in 2020, during the pandemic. In the report, the city was looking to find new ways to deliver services while focusing on finding savings and reducing our impact on the environment.
An estimated $850K in operational savings were identified through a combination of one-time overall and annual savings.
Saskatoon Land generated $43.7 million in sales and leasing revenues. Financial returns from Land Development operations stay in Saskatoon and are allocated for use in capital projects that would otherwise be funded through property taxes or borrowing.
Grant funding approvals totaled $69.8 million through a combination of federal and provincial programs.

Celene Anger, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer says, “Even with the challenges of 2020, the City moved forward on several major projects including the approval of our Official Community Plan and nationally recognized Green Infrastructure Strategy.” Anger says, from making the switch to LED streetlights, to adding GPS to the fleet of vehicles, to innovative ways found to administer the civic election during the pandemic, every efficiency gained and savings achieved were especially important within a year where COVID-19 greatly impacted our civic finances.
The report will be presented to the Governance and Priorities Committee of City Council on Monday.