Gordon A. Krantz

Partial record. Covers 113 of 119 meetings (2022-10-27 to 2026-07-30). Counts below are of what has been parsed, not of the whole term — the remaining 6 meetings have no published minutes yet or failed to parse.

Originally recruited as a part-time firefighter, Gordon A. Krantz has been serving the Milton community continuously since 1960. In 2010 Mayor Krantz celebrated 50 years of continuous service with the Corporation of the Town of Milton and on December 1st, 2020 he celebrated 40 years as Mayor of the Town of Milton. Elected as a Local Councillor to Milton Town Council in 1965 and as Mayor and Head of Milton Town Council in 1980, Mayor Krantz has guided Milton through more than three decades of preparing for and managing growth. As one of the most respected and the longest continuously serving Mayors in Canada, his leadership, vision, and commitment has positioned Milton to being one of the most educated, diverse and blossoming communities with distinction of being “Canada’s Fastest Growing Community”. Mayor Krantz has also been an essential contributor to the Region of Halton’s growth plan, by serving on the Regional Municipality of Halton Town Council since 1980, Conservation Halton Board of Directors since 1973, Niagara Escarpment Commission, and various Ad-Hoc and Standing Committees. Mayor Krantz is a founding member and strong supporter of the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance and has an active role attracting investment to the Town of Milton. Mayor Krantz has shaped Milton’s future with significant projects such as the restoration of Town Hall Facility, Milton Leisure Centre, 401 Industrial Park, Mill Pond Restoration, Rotary Park redevelopment, Milton Centre for the Arts, the Milton Sports Centre and the Velodrome to name a few. A lifelong resident of Milton, Gord’s personal experiences include owning and operating his own business Krantz Fuels (1961-1980); part-time firefighting (1960-1980); Prosperity One Credit Union Board of Directors since 1971, and membership with the Royal Canadian Legion since 1958. Mayor Krantz and his wife Olive have one son and one daughter, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Portrait and biography published by the Town of Milton — source page.

Present at 55 of 57 council meetings (96%) where attendance was recorded in the minutes.

Committee of Adjustment meetings are excluded: councillors do not sit on that body. Some minutes do not record attendance at all, which is why the denominator is smaller than the total number of meetings.

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.

11 for and 7 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.

The Mayor chairs Council and by convention does not move or second motions. A zero here describes the role, not the person, and should not be read as inactivity.

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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.

“It was suggested if we supported what we have today with OLG everybody, including me, were going to go to hell in a handbasket for being part of gambling,”

Gordon A. Krantz, quoted in this piece. Their words, not a summary written here — read it at InsideHalton / Milton Champion.

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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 — across the whole term that happened twice, so the minutes almost always read simply “Carried”.
• 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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