Reports

This report reviews school buildings in Ontario, including building condition and the state of good repair. The report also compares student enrolment and school capacity to examine the number of schools that are under and over capacity. Finally, the report provides an estimate of the cost to maintain school buildings in a state of good repair and to address capacity pressures over the next 10 years, with a comparison of the FAO’s cost estimate to the amount of funding included in the 2024 Ontario Budget.

This report examines Ontario’s municipal and provincial transit agencies’ ridership and finances, including own-source revenues, operating expenses and operating subsidies.

This report estimates provincial and municipal budgetary impacts of changing climate hazards on public infrastructure in Ontario. 

This report examines the impacts of more extreme rainfall on the long-term costs of maintaining public linear storm and wastewater infrastructure in a state of good repair.

This report examines how changes in extreme rainfall, extreme heat and freeze-thaw cycles will impact the long-term costs of maintaining public transportation infrastructure in a state of good repair.

This report estimates the impacts of changes in extreme rainfall, extreme heat and freeze-thaw cycles on the long-term costs of maintaining public buildings in a state of good repair. The report shows that these climate hazards will materially increase the cost of maintaining public buildings in Ontario, and the future severity of climate change will have a direct impact on provincial and municipal infrastructure budgets.

This report reviews the infrastructure assets owned by Ontario municipalities, assesses the condition of those assets, and estimates the cost to bring these assets into a state of good repair.

This report reviews the infrastructure assets owned by the Province, assesses the state of repair of those assets, and estimates the cost to bring the Province’s assets into a state of good repair in 2020-21 and over the next ten years.

This report supports the Standing Committee on Estimates’ review of the Ministry of Transportation’s 2019-20 Expenditure Estimates.

The FAO’s report reviews how the nuclear refurbishment plan will impact electricity ratepayers and the Province, and identifies how financial risk is allocated among ratepayers, the Province, Ontario Power Generation and Bruce Power.