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Kristina Tesser Derksen
Town Councillor · Ward 1 · served 2022-11-15 to 2025-05-26 [the Town declared this seat vacant on 2025-05-26]
10substantive motions movedof 47 council meetings they were in office for
3procedural motions movedcounted separately, and never added to the above
4substantive motions secondedseconding is often a seat convention, not agreement
5items put on the agenda themselvesthe clearest signal of initiative in the minutes
5–0recorded votes, for–againstrecorded votes are rare and a skewed sample
67 of the 68 council meetings held so far have been read (2022-12-12 to 2026-09-14). The Town has not yet published minutes for the meeting of 14 September 2026; nothing from it is on this site yet, and it is checked every night. Of those read, 4 have no minutes published by the Town, so they contribute nothing to the counts below. A further 13 have minutes carrying no numbered resolutions — Council Workshops, mostly — so they add nothing to the motion counts, though their attendance is recorded. Committee of Adjustment meetings are not included: that is a separate appointed body councillors do not sit on.
Meetings the minutes record them as absent from [4 meetings]
Read from the "Members Absent" line in each meeting’s minutes, not inferred from a name being missing. 40 meeting(s) in this term have an attendance list that could be read. 7 have not been checked yet, and nothing is claimed about those.
No attendance rate is published, here or anywhere on this site. The denominator cannot be established honestly from this source, and a rate is the form of the figure most likely to be repeated without it.
A notice of motion is a member raising their own item, rather than moving that a staff report be adopted. This is the clearest signal of initiative in the record.
2024-05-13
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) minutes
2024-01-29
Proactive Enforcement Campaign for Illegal Trucking Operations minutes
This is about 3% of all business. Under Ontario law individual positions are written down only when a member requests a recorded vote, and members request them on the most contentious items. Everything else passed on a voice vote and is recorded simply as carried, with no way to know who supported it. These votes are therefore a skewed sample, not a voting record.
Date
Position
Motion
2024-03-25
For
THAT Report DS-019-24(Council, 25 Mar 2024), be received for information. Res. 040-24 · Carried · minutes
2024-03-25
For
THAT the motion be amended to include the following: AND THAT the Council of the Town of Milton reaffirms its opposition to the Campbellville Quarry Application and requests… Res. 041-24 · Carried · minutes
2023-12-04
For
THAT a new capital project be added to the 2024 Budget for a Stop Sign Beacon Pilot Project, with a funding of $72,512 provided from the Studies and Other Non Growth Capital… Res. 161-23 · Carried · minutes
2023-12-04
For
THAT a Senior Transportation Planning Technologist (1.0 FTE) be added to the 2024 Operating Budget with funding from the tax levy of $155,055. Res. 162-23 · Carried · minutes
2023-12-04
For
THAT a Platoon Chief (1.0 FTE) be added to the 2024 Operating Budget with funding from the tax levy of $186,723. Res. 163-23 · Carried · minutes
What they put forward
10 substantive motions moved, across 47 meetings they could have attended.
Separately, 3 procedural motions — approving the consent agenda, receiving reports for information, waiving the rules. Those run the meeting rather than decide anything, so they are counted apart and never added to the figure above.
They also seconded 4 substantive and 0 procedural motions. Seconding puts a motion on the floor for debate; it is often a seat convention and is not a statement of support.
Substantive motions moved (10)
2025-01-27 · Res. 010-25 · Carried
WHEREAS current provincial-municipal fiscal arrangements are undermining Ontario’s economic prosperity and quality of life; AND WHEREAS nearly a third of municipal spending in Ontario is for services in areas of provincial responsibility and expenditures are outpacing provincial contributions by nearly $4 billion a year; minutes
2024-06-03 · Res. 092-24 · Carried
WHEREAS the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) assumed ownership of Units 202 and 203 at 410 Bronte Street South in the Town of Milton (‘the units’) on June 15, 2022; AND WHEREAS ISKCON qualifies as being exempt from taxation as a place of worship in accordance with Section 3(3) of the Assessment Act; minutes
2024-03-25 · Res. 041-24 · Carried
THAT the motion be amended to include the following: AND THAT the Council of the Town of Milton reaffirms its opposition to the Campbellville Quarry Application and requests the Premier to honour his promise to stop the quarry and reprocessing facility through whatever action is necessary; minutes
2024-03-04 · Res. 027-24 · Carried
THAT Council defer consideration of the main motion to the March 25, 2024 Council meeting. * T his recommendation varies from the recommendation contained in Staff Report CORS-006-24(Council, 4 Mar 2024). minutes
2023-12-04 · Res. 164-23 · Lost
THAT the transfer from the Tax Stabilization Reserve to the 2024 Operating Budget be reduced by $750,000 with an equivalent increase in the net tax levy in order to fund the related on-going expenses. minutes
2023-11-13 · Res. 158-23 · Carried
WHEREAS , through its School Crossing Guards Policy, the Town of Milton currently uses specific warrants to determine the installing or removal of crossing guards at pedestrian crosswalks, crossovers, and high pedestrian areas, such as intersections around schools; minutes
2023-06-19 · Res. 101-23 · Carried
WHEREAS Section 107 of the Municipal Act, 2001 allows municipalities to provide grants on such terms as the Council considers appropriate for purposes that Council considers to be in the interests of the municipality. AND WHEREAS the Downtown Milton Business Improvement Area (DMBIA) has hosted a winter street festival in downtown Milton (Holidayfest) for over five years, and the Tiger Jeet Singh… minutes
2023-05-29 · Res. 093-2023 · Carried
WHEREAS Section 107 of the Municipal Act, 2001 allows municipalities to provide grants on such terms as the Council considers appropriate for purposes that Council considers to be in the interests of the municipality; AND WHEREAS the Destination Campbellville Community Association (DCCA) is a non-profit community organization that was formed with a vision of making Campbellville and… minutes
2023-01-23 · Res. 009-23 · Carried
BE IT RESOLVED: THAT the Town provide an additional $38,281 in direct funding to the Downtown BIA to support events in 2023 (as described in more detail on page 57 of the 2023 Proposed Budget Strategic Overview) with funding provided from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Proceeds Reserve. minutes
2022-12-19 · Res. 139-22 · Carried
BE IT RESOLVED THAT Councillors Best and Malboeuf be appointed to the Milton Hydro Holding Board of Directors. minutes
In the record
Meetings attended
not published — the minutes record presence only
Conflicts of interest declared
0
Office
Town Councillor
Ward
Ward 1
In the news
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What this does not measure
Committee work, delegations to Council, constituency casework and anything discussed in closed session. Committee of Adjustment meetings are excluded entirely: that is a separate appointed body that councillors do not sit on.
Seconding is frequently a seat convention rather than a signal of support, so it is reported separately and never read as agreement or as passivity.
How each member voted. Under the Ontario Municipal Act, individual positions are recorded only when a member requests a recorded vote, and the minutes otherwise read simply “Carried”. That has happened on 18 resolutions across 10 of 121 meetings, out of 637 resolutions in all.
Motions moved at meetings whose minutes are not yet published or parsed.
A councillor who moves few motions may be doing a great deal that these minutes never capture. This page is a record of one specific thing, not an assessment of a person.
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