The Faraday Record

Council

The 4 members seated on the 2022–2026 council. Each is placed here by the minutes that record them present at council, never inferred from a motion.

Council of 2022–2026 · 2018–2022

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What these columns mean

They measure different things and are not interchangeable. Moving a motion usually means sponsoring a staff report’s recommendation onto the floor. Seconding puts a motion up for debate and is often a seat convention rather than agreement. Meetings are counted against the ones each member was on the record for — not against the whole term, because members join and leave mid-term, so two members’ figures here are not comparable.

Individual positions exist for 0 of 1,010 motions — none of them — because Ontario law records names only when a member asks. Members ask on the most contentious items, so that is a deliberately skewed sample and says nothing about the rest.

Mayor

Bill Green

Deputy Mayor · seen 2022-05-04 to 2026-10-07

Of the 64 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 164 substantive and 11 procedural motions, and seconded 345. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Marg Nicholson

Mayor · seen 2022-05-04 to 2026-10-07

Of the 63 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 267 substantive and 9 procedural motions, and seconded 154. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Also on this council

Murray Bowers

Councillor · seen 2022-05-04 to 2026-10-07

Of the 63 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 265 substantive and 23 procedural motions, and seconded 227. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

John O'Donnell

Councillor · seen 2022-11-23 to 2026-10-07

Of the 54 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 255 substantive and 10 procedural motions, and seconded 221. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Every council meeting (68 meetings)

2026 — 11 meetings
CouncilOctober 7, 2026
CouncilSeptember 2, 2026
CouncilAugust 5, 2026
CouncilJune 3, 2026
CouncilMay 6, 2026
CouncilApril 1, 2026
CouncilMarch 12, 2026
CouncilMarch 4, 2026
CouncilFebruary 4, 2026
CouncilJanuary 14, 2026
CouncilJanuary 6, 2026
2025 — 16 meetings
CouncilDecember 17, 2025
CouncilDecember 3, 2025
CouncilNovember 5, 2025
CouncilOctober 27, 2025
CouncilOctober 10, 2025
CouncilOctober 1, 2025
CouncilSeptember 3, 2025
CouncilAugust 6, 2025
CouncilJune 4, 2025
CouncilMay 7, 2025
CouncilApril 7, 2025
CouncilMarch 11, 2025
CouncilMarch 5, 2025
CouncilFebruary 5, 2025
CouncilJanuary 8, 2025
CouncilJanuary 7, 2025
2024 — 17 meetings
CouncilDecember 4, 2024
CouncilNovember 20, 2024
CouncilNovember 6, 2024
CouncilOctober 17, 2024
CouncilOctober 2, 2024
CouncilSeptember 4, 2024
CouncilAugust 27, 2024
CouncilAugust 7, 2024
CouncilJune 5, 2024
CouncilMay 13, 2024
CouncilMay 1, 2024
CouncilApril 3, 2024
CouncilMarch 20, 2024
CouncilMarch 6, 2024
CouncilFebruary 7, 2024
CouncilJanuary 15, 2024
CouncilJanuary 9, 2024
2023 — 14 meetings
CouncilDecember 18, 2023
CouncilDecember 6, 2023
CouncilNovember 1, 2023
CouncilOctober 4, 2023
CouncilSeptember 20, 2023
CouncilSeptember 12, 2023
CouncilJuly 5, 2023
CouncilJune 7, 2023
CouncilMay 3, 2023
CouncilApril 5, 2023
CouncilMarch 1, 2023
CouncilFebruary 1, 2023
CouncilJanuary 11, 2023
2022 — 10 meetings
CouncilNovember 23, 2022
CouncilOctober 5, 2022
CouncilSeptember 7, 2022
CouncilAugust 10, 2022
CouncilAugust 3, 2022
CouncilJuly 6, 2022
CouncilJune 1, 2022
CouncilMay 4, 2022
Special CouncilMarch 3, 2022
CouncilMarch 2, 2022