Taxes, budgets & borrowing · Mar 31, 2026
The pilot would test potential benefits across three business units, with $1 million of one-time 2026 funding and further funding considered in the next budget cycle.
City Clerk's Council and Committee Votes · reviewed Oct 29, 2026The later funded pilot is necessary to distinguish implementation of a review from the earlier scoping instruction and to attach explanations to the correct vote.
How votes are grouped: Scoping and the funded pilot are stages of the same review programme. Both remain unscored on borrowing, and neither establishes realized savings.
Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements.
Reject this pilot package.
Run the pilot, revise its scope or retain existing review arrangements.
Council approved the pilot and required phase-two findings by Q3 2027. Realized savings are not established by the approval.
adopted| Date | Person | Decision | Recorded vote | Meaning and scoring rationale | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 31, 2026 | Andre Chabot | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Andrew Yule | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Dan McLean | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | DJ Kelly | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Harrison Clark | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Jennifer Wyness | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Jeromy Farkas | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | John Pantazopoulos | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Kim Tyers | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Landon Johnston | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Mike Jamieson | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Myke Atkinson | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | No | Reject this pilot package. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Nathaniel Schmidt | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | No | Reject this pilot package. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Raj Dhaliwal | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Mar 31, 2026 | Rob Ward | Fund a three-business-unit zero-based review pilot | Yes | Approve the pilot, its initial funding and reporting requirements. This vote is explained as a specific decision and is not included in an issue spectrum. | Context / unscored |
Opposed another external budget review because he considered it duplicative of recent reviews and ongoing internal work.
Schmidt: vote explanations, May 4, 2026 · reviewed Oct 30, 2026Corrects the link to the later funded pilot that this source discusses; the earlier unanimous scoping direction was a different choice.
Sponsorship and committee appointments require an explicit source; a Yes vote alone does not establish either.