Dorval taxpayers will see negligible increase

Dorval property owners can breathe easy in 2019: Their taxes are going up a measly one tenth of one per cent.

That represents pocket change — a tiny increase of $2.74 — for the average home valued at $392,104.

“This balanced budget of $128,200,000 has the objective of improving the quality of service to Dorval citizens and of ensuring an efficient management of various services provided to the community,” city officials said in a statement.

Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau said the city has minimized taxation increases, in part, by spreading values of properties over a three-year period. Dorval is in the third year of a triennial assessment roll, for 2017 to 2019.

“The city of Dorval took advantage of its right to spread the values of the assessment roll deposited in September 2016 for the 2017 property taxation,” Rouleau said.

Dorval adopted its 2019 budget at a council meeting on Dec. 12.

“The council’s objective was to use the spreading of values of the properties over a three-year period to lessen the impact of the increase of these values due in part to the vitality of the real estate market on the residential values, to facilitate the progressive integration of the values, and to minimize its impact on taxation,” Rouleau said.

The average value of a single-family home in Dorval in 2017 was $376,670. In 2019, it will climb to $392,104, representing an increase of $15,434 or 4.1 per cent, the mayor said.

Projects listed in the 2019-21 triennial budget amount to $58.2 million. In 2019, the city plans to invest $23.8 million in work projects.

Dorval will see more than $128 million in revenues for the next budget forecast. But the city is on the hook for a $72 million payment to the Montreal Agglomeration.

The agglo payment climbed from $67.7 million in 2018.