Tay Township

What Tay Township does

Tay Township (legal name: The Corporation of the Township of Tay) is a municipal government entity operating under Ontario's Municipal Act, 2001, headquartered at 450 Park Street, Victoria Harbour, Ontario. The township serves a permanent population of approximately 10,000 residents distributed across four villages — Port McNicoll, Victoria Harbour, Waubaushene, and Waverley — in north Simcoe County on the shores of Georgian Bay. Governance is provided by an elected council comprising a Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and five Councillors, with administrative operations led by a Chief Administrative Officer and supported by identified department leads (Treasury, Recreation, Mapping, Municipal Law Enforcement). The entity is publicly accountable under Canadian municipal law rather than to private shareholders.

The township's core digital platform is the tay.ca website, which functions as a unified municipal services portal integrating property tax and utility billing (water and wastewater), building permits and planning/zoning, by-law enforcement, fire department services, roads and construction, parks/recreation/culture, cemeteries, library access, and emergency planning. Supporting modules include the CivicWeb council meetings portal, an online forms system at forms.tay.ca, a community events calendar at events.tay.ca, and interactive village/trail/tourist maps. Payment processing is handled by Paymentus Corporation for online credit card transactions, with interchange of 2.5% for VISA/MasterCard credit and 1.5% for debit. Engagement channels span Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, eNewsletter, newsroom subscription, community notice boards, and electronic signage.

Revenue is generated through statutory municipal mechanisms rather than commercial pricing: property tax collection (with a 1.25%/month late-payment penalty), metered water ($3.15/m³ commercial) and wastewater ($4.35/m³ commercial) usage fees, fixed residential utility rates ($849.66/year water, $1,174.02/year wastewater), and miscellaneous fees for permits, dog licenses, and service charges. Customer segments are geographically constrained to permanent residents, visitors and tourists, businesses/developers, and seniors. The township's value proposition rests on a combination of statutory municipal service delivery and geographically unique assets: approximately 43 km of Georgian Bay shoreline, 4,000 hectares of prime farmland, an 18.5 km paved Tay Shore Trail, and proximity to Toronto (~90 minutes north).

Name

Tay Township

Legal name

The Corporation of the Township of Tay

Website

https://tay.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Tay Township is a Canadian municipal government serving ~10,000 permanent residents across four villages in north Simcoe County, Ontario. It delivers statutory municipal services — property taxation, water/wastewater utilities, building permits, fire protection, and parks/recreation — via the tay.ca digital portal.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Government Services

NAICS

Water, Sewage and Other Systems (2213), Sewage Treatment Facilities (22132), Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (925120), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241)

SIC

Water Supply (4941), Electric, Gas & Sanitary Services (4900), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration (BPAIACAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Water Supply & Wastewater Utilities Administration (BPAIACAG)

Keywords

• Municipal government services
• Property tax billing
• Water and wastewater utilities
• Building permits
• Parks and recreation

Headquarters

HQ city

Victoria Harbour

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tay Township is a municipal government entity that provides statutory local government services to approximately 10,000 permanent residents in north Simcoe County, Ontario. Its core offerings include property tax billing, water and wastewater utilities (metered residential and commercial rates), building permits and planning/zoning, by-law enforcement, fire protection and emergency planning, roads and construction maintenance, parks and recreation programs, cemetery services, canine control, and library access. Service delivery is supported through the tay.ca digital portal, online forms, the CivicWeb council meeting system, and an in-person municipal office in Victoria Harbour.

Product overview

Tay Township operates a municipal government website that serves as the primary digital platform for delivering local government services to residents. The core offering is the municipal services online portal, which integrates various service modules including property tax and utility billing, council meeting access via CivicWeb, recreation program registration, a community events calendar, and an online forms system. The township also provides interactive mapping services. This is a municipal government service platform rather than a commercial product, offering public services to approximately 10,000 permanent residents across the villages of Port McNicoll, Victoria Harbour, Waubaushene, and Waverley in north Simcoe County, Ontario.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Municipal Services Online Portal (tay.ca) Core digital platform operated by the Township that gives residents, businesses, and visitors access to municipal services, news, forms, payment processing, council information, and event listings from a single website (tay.ca).
• Property Tax and Utility Billing Service Statutory billing and collection service for property taxes and water/wastewater utilities, offered to residents and businesses with quarterly fixed rates, monthly metered commercial rates, pre-authorized payment plans, and online credit card processing through Paymentus.
• Council Meetings Portal (CivicWeb) Public-facing portal hosted on CivicWeb that provides access to agendas, minutes, and live or recorded Council and Committee meetings for transparency and civic engagement.
• Recreation Programs Registration Online registration and program information service for sports and recreation activities run by the Township, targeted at residents including youth and seniors.
• Community Events Calendar Public events calendar (events.tay.ca) that lists community festivals, recreation activities, and municipal events such as the Georgian Bay Aviators COPA 73 Northern Region Fly-In and the Kids' Fishing Derby.
• Online Forms System Centralized digital forms portal (forms.tay.ca) used by residents and businesses to submit applications and requests for building permits, dog licences, fire permits, change of address, pre-authorized payment enrolment, customer feedback, and problem reports.
• Interactive Maps Service Web-based mapping service that delivers interactive and downloadable maps of village areas, trails (including the Tay Shore Trail), tourist routes, and heritage sites for residents and visitors.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Township of Essa: Simcoe County lower-tier municipality of similar scale, providing comparable property-tax-funded services including water, wastewater, fire, recreation, and planning. Useful for benchmarking taxation rates and service breadth.
• Township of Springwater: Adjacent Simcoe County township with comparable population size, agricultural land base, and reliance on property-tax and water/wastewater revenue. Directly comparable for budget structure and infrastructure capex benchmarking.
• Township of Oro-Medonte: Simcoe County lower-tier township of similar rural/small-community character delivering the same Ontario municipal service basket — utilities, fire, roads, building permits, recreation. Useful peer for benchmarking operating costs and digital service delivery maturity.
• Township of Georgian Bay: Adjacent Muskoka District municipality sharing Tay's Georgian Bay waterfront profile and seasonal/resident service mix. Most directly comparable for shoreline-management and tourism-related municipal revenue patterns.
• Township of Tiny: Adjacent Simcoe County township also fronting Georgian Bay, with a comparable small permanent population and similar portfolio of water, wastewater, recreation, and planning services. Most directly comparable peer in geography, scale, and service mix.
• Township of Severn: Neighboring Simcoe County township offering the same core municipal services to a similar-sized permanent population. Comparable on water/wastewater utility economics and rural-service delivery model.
• Township of Clearview: Rural Ontario township in a neighboring county delivering the same standard set of municipal services. Comparable as a peer on small-scale governance and property-tax-dependent revenue model.

Broad incumbents

• County of Simcoe: Upper-tier municipality that oversees and partially funds services (social services, health, paramedics, county roads) for Tay and other Simcoe County lower-tier municipalities. Peer in governance and inter-municipal funding dynamics.
• Town of Midland: Larger urban center immediately south of Tay in southern Georgian Bay, providing an overlapping but broader service basket. Useful for understanding how Tay's growth corridor positioning fits against a higher-tier nearby municipality.

Others

• CivicWeb (by Granicus): SaaS vendor of the council-meetings and agenda-management platform that Tay operates at tay.civicweb.net. Included as an ecosystem/enabling peer representing the digital-governance infrastructure layer common across small Ontario municipalities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TayTownship
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@TayTownshipON
• Facebookfacebook.com/@TayTownshipON
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/taytownship

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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