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Not the full picture. Built from public records, which leave things out.Read by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date. Check the sources, and tell us if you spot a mistake. What this site can't tell you
Read by hand. We read Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh's own documents for this site in October 2026; the Sources page lists which ones. The comparisons with other places still come from the Province's yearly reports.

Council

Who decides, and how you can hold them to account

Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh is run by an elected council of 7 people. They set the budget, approve big purchases and hire the senior staff who run the town day to day.

Current council

  • MayorGlen McNeil
  • Deputy MayorBill Vanstone
  • CouncillorWayne Forster
  • CouncillorAnita Snobelen
  • CouncillorEvan Hickey
  • CouncillorCurtis Blake
  • CouncillorJennifer Miltenburg

Names and official email addresses from the town's council page. None of the members lists a public social media account there.

How open is Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh?

What a resident can find online without asking, as of October 7, 2026.

  • Yes
    Budgets posted online

    The Treasury page posts the 2026 budget book, the 2026 budget highlights, and budgets back to 2021. The books show the prior year's budget and actual next to the new budget. Source

  • Yes
    Audited financial statements

    Statements are posted for 2017 to 2024. The 2024 statements carry a clean opinion ("present fairly") from Seebach & Company dated October 21, 2025. We did not find 2025 statements on the page when we read it on October 7, 2026. Source

  • Unknown
    Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

    We did not find a yearly statement of council remuneration and expenses on the Treasury or Council pages. It may be elsewhere on the site or in the meeting portal. The yearly budget does show a Council section (wages, conferences, training) with budget and actual for each line. Source

  • Unknown
    Meeting agendas and minutes

    The Township says all regular, public and special meetings of council are live streamed, and that agendas and minutes are posted on its Agendas & Minutes page. The list there loads inside the page rather than as ordinary links, so we did not read any minutes or agendas. Source

  • Yes
    Conflict of interest registry

    Declarations by current members are posted from 2023 to 2026. For the previous council the page says to contact the Clerk. Source

Where the town speaks for itself

Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh's official channels, as linked from its own website. Council members may also post on their own pages; we link only to official municipal channels.

How to raise a concern

From the gentlest step to the most serious. Start at the top.

  1. Integrity Commissioner

    The Township says it has appointed an Integrity Commissioner (a lawyer from the firm Aird & Berlis) to look at complaints that a council member broke the Code of Conduct. It posts one Integrity Commissioner report, on a 2023 application under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act. We did not open that report.

  2. Closed meeting investigator

    The Township says the same lawyer is its closed meeting investigator, who looks at complaints that council met in private when it should not have. We did not find any reports from this role.

  3. Public disclosure registry (conflict of interest declarations)

    The Township posts the declarations of interest filed by current members, listed by year from 2023 to 2026.