The Village of Haines Junction has posted its 2025 Audited Financial Statements, giving residents a chance to see how public money was managed last year. The document was published to the village website on June 30, 2026, as a downloadable file.
These annual audits are a routine step under Yukon’s Municipal Act, providing a clear picture of the community’s finances. The statements cover everything from tax and grant revenues to spending on services like utilities, infrastructure, and administration. An outside firm, Metrix Group LLP of Edmonton, prepared the audit under Canadian public sector accounting rules.
Haines Junction, home to roughly 700 to 1,000 residents at the crossroads of the Alaska and Haines highways, operates with 13 full-time staff and some seasonal workers. Mayor Diane Strand and the four-member council oversee a budget that leans heavily on Yukon government block funding—nearly $2 million a year—plus local taxes and user fees like water and sewer charges. The 2022 audit, the last full set of figures available, showed an accumulated surplus of about $42.4 million and annual revenues of $3.7 million against $2.6 million in expenses.
Strand, who won a January 2025 by-election to replace a mayor who resigned shortly after the October 2024 vote, now leads a council that includes councillors Debbie Busche, Sydney Mackinnon, Bruce Sundbo, and Rob Moore. The audited statements offer a formal review of how the village’s mix of territorial grants, tax dollars, and fees was spent in the year that ended December 31, 2025.
Residents can view the full document on the village’s notices page, where it will remain posted as a public record.
