Sarah Marshall

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.

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Read from the "Members Absent" line in each meeting’s minutes, not inferred from a name being missing. 57 meeting(s) in this term have an attendance list that could be read. 11 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.

16 for and 2 against, across 18 recorded votes.

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.

7 substantive motions moved, across 68 meetings they could have attended.

Separately, 1 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 28 substantive and 12 procedural motions. Seconding puts a motion on the floor for debate; it is often a seat convention and is not a statement of support.

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None of this changes anything else on this page. A reporter’s summary is their compression of what was said, not the member’s own words, so nothing here is recorded as a position or compared against one. Where they are quoted directly, those words are theirs — and they are shown here rather than folded into a stance they did not write.

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They are named in this piece. It carries no direct quotation from them, so none is shown.

They are named in this piece. It carries no direct quotation from them, so none is shown.

They are named in this piece. It carries no direct quotation from them, so none is shown.

They are named in this piece. It carries no direct quotation from them, so none is shown.

They are named in this piece. It carries no direct quotation from them, so none is shown.

• 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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