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Arundel 2025 Winter Carnival
Welcome to the Arundel Winter Carnival 2025. Here’s the calendar of events:
NEW SCHEDULE : Hockey+ Season 2025 – every Tuesday from 5 pm to 6:30 pm
Hockey+ Season 2025
Our second season of Hockey+ begins on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at the Arundel municipal rink behind Town Hall. It will continue every Tuesday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
For children aged 5-17 and their parents. Please arrive 15 minutes early to put your skates on.
We look forward to seeing many of you there, and to playing a good game of recreational hockey with parents and children, girls and boys, accompanied by our new coach Finnegan Graham, member of the LRHS hockey team .
Participants must be able to skate, but don’t need any hockey experience.
During the season, we’ll be offering other ice sports, as and when you like, such as broomball or speed skating.
We’ll also adjust the meeting schedule to suit the children’s school term, either on a weekday evening such as Tuesday starting at 5 p.m., or on weekends, whichever works best for all participants. Follow us on the Hockey+ Facebook page and group.
See you at the next/first practice/ game of the season!
Organised by the Arundel Municipal Leisure and Culture Committee.
Hockey+ saison 2025
Notre deuxième saison de l’activitĂ© organisĂ©e Hockey+ dĂ©bute le mercredi, 8 janvier 2025, à la patinoire municipale d’Arundel, derrière l’hĂ´tel de ville. Elle se poursuivra tous les mardis de 17h Ă 18h30.
Pour enfants de 5-17 ans et leurs parents. Veuillez arriver 15 minutes Ă l’avance pour mettre vos patins.
Au plaisir de vous y voir nombreux et de jouer une bonne partie de hockey pour le plaisir, parents et enfants, filles et garçons, accompagnĂ©s de notre nouveau coach Finnegan Graham, membre de l’Ă©quipe de hockey LRHS.
Les participants doivent savoir patiner mais n’ont pas besoin d’avoir de l’expĂ©rience au hockey.
Au cours de la saison, nous offrirons d’autres sports de glace, selon votre choix et quand cela vous plaira, comme le ballon balais ou le patinage de vitesse.
Nous ajusterons Ă©galement le calendrier des rencontres Ă la session scolaires des jeunes, un soir de semaine tel que le mardi soir Ă compter de 17h ou le weekend, selon ce qui convient le mieux Ă l’ensemble des participants. Suivez-nous sur la page et le groupe Facebook Hockey+.
À la première/prochaine pratique/match de la saison!
OrganisĂ© par le comitĂ© municipal de loisirs et de la culture d’Arundel.
Adoption of the Municipality of Arundel’s 2025 budget and 2025-2027 triennial plan
On December 10th, 2024, Council adopted its 2025 budget and its Triennial plan for 2025-2027.
Budget 2025
In order to minimize the impact of the unprecedented 75% increase of the assessment roll in 2025 on taxpayers’ tax bills, Council is pleased to announce that it will not increase the general property tax in 2025. The general property tax rate has been reduced by 41.5%, from $0.7752/$100 to $0.4532/$100 of assessment, and the resulting budgeted revenues do not exceed the real revenues of the year 2024.
In addition, there will be a reduction of $20 per door of the residential residual materials tariff (-$40 per door of the commercial tariff), resulting from the implementation of the new Eco-entreprise Québec (EEQ) recyclable materials management regime starting January 1, 2025.
Compensations in lieu of taxes for certain immovables (exempt from the general property tax) will however increase by 4.4%, with the compensation rate remaining the same as in 2024.
As for the tariff for our first responder service, the residential tariff is increased by $10 per door (and by $20 per door for the commercial tariff), which had remained unchanged since 2019. We hope to be able to lower this tariff in January 2025, when the annual taxation by-law is adopted, and following the conclusion of a service supply agreement with new partners.
Finally, the tariff for MRC des Laurentides services will increase by $1 per file.
As a result, all tariffs will decrease by $9 per door.
Total revenues in 2025 will be 1% higher than in 2024.
The Municipality ended the year on a high note, with a free surplus of $182,614 on December 31, 2024, in addition to having used $15,374 of its surplus to balance its budget.
Special projects 2025
In particular, the Municipality intends to renew its assistance programs for medical transportation for seniors (in partnership with the Centre d’action bĂ©nĂ©vole des Laurentides CABL), for covering non-resident fees for certain out-of-territory activities, and for day camps. At the same time, we are adding a new home assistance program for seniors (the details of which have yet to be defined), as well as a renovation assistance program in partnership with the SociĂ©tĂ© d’habitation du QuĂ©bec (SHQ).
Triennial plan 2025-2027
2025 will be a year filled with major projects, including the finalization of the major rehabilitation work on Chemin de la Rouge (Phase II), as well as the renovation of the apartments and exterior cladding of the Town Hall, mainly with the help of the new TECQ 2024-2028 program. The Municipality is also planning to build a boat washing station to prevent the proliferation of invasive exotic aquatic plants, with the help of an existing grant program, as well as to redevelop the municipal garage grounds, a multi-sport field project that dates back many years, mainly with the help of a grant from the Ministry of Education.
For further details, please consult the 2025 budget presentation and the 2025-2027 triennial plan, by clicking here.
2025 Collection Calendar, new recycling instructions and Green Patrol
2025 Residual materials Collection Calendar
New recycling instructions, as of January 1, 2025
Green patrol, as of January 1, 2025
Starting January 1, 2025, an environmental awareness officer (green patrol) mandated by RIMRO to inform the public about best practices for sorting residual materials at source in your bins, will circulate throughout the territory on collection days to inspect our bins and leave notices of corrections, if necessary, on bins containing non-compliant materials. The aim is to reduce bin contamination and improve material detour and recycling, as required by EEQ.
For more information, please consult our residual materials services tab: https://arundel.ca/en/services-municipaux-2/waste-material/
In pictures – Children’s Christmas Party – December 7th, 2024, 1-4 pm
Photo review of the event – Arundel Children’s Christmas Party
December 7th, 2024, from 1:00 to 4:00
Venue : Arundel Legion Branch #192
 79, Village Street, Arundel
1:00 PM– Arts and crafts, children can create their own Christmas ornament to bring home and hang on their tree.
All materials supplied; Santa’s elves will be there to help.
1:00 to 4:00 PM– Excellent quality, face painting, with Jacinthe
1:30 to 4:00 PM– Sing along to Christmas carols and children’s songs with Neil and our beautiful star fairy, Chantal.
2:30 PM– Santa and Mrs. Clause arrive bringing gifts for all the children (gifts courtesy of Heather Hodge).
3:00 PM– Homemade Christmas desserts (courtesy of P’tites Folies to the Legion).
Organized by the Canadian Legion Branch #192 in collaboration with the Arundel Municipal Leisure and Cultural Committee
Arundel 2024 Halloween Celebrations (in photos)
A look back at Arundel’s Halloween celebrations on October 26 and October 31, 2024.
26 October, 2024
- Mask-making and pumpkin-decorating workshop
- Bazou the Ice Wizard
31 October, 2024 :
- Visit from students of the Arundel Elementary School.
- Illuminated pumpkin trail
