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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by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date.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 Brampton'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

Brampton is run by an elected council of 11 people. They set the budget, approve big purchases and hire the senior staff who run the city day to day.

Current council

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

What council is paid

Every year the city has to publish what each council member was paid, and what was spent on their benefits and expenses. These are the totals from those statements, 2024 to 2025.

In 2025, the whole council cost $2,229,585 in pay, benefits and expenses, about $11 per home. The mayor's pay went up 1% from 2024 to 2025; prices went up 2% over the same years.
Pay, and benefits and expenses, for each council member by year
Member20252024
Patrick Brown
Mayor		$155,656+ $223,720$154,312+ $342,721
Rowena Santos
Regional Councillor, Wards 1 & 5		$99,217+ $103,402$98,066+ $90,745
Paul Vicente
Regional Councillor, Wards 1 & 5		$99,217+ $63,912$98,066+ $72,823
Michael Palleschi
Regional Councillor, Wards 2 & 6		$99,217+ $59,077$98,066+ $55,183
Navjit Kaur Brar
Regional Councillor, Wards 2 & 6		$99,217+ $59,984$98,066+ $62,313
Martin Medeiros
Regional Councillor, Wards 3 & 4		$92,054+ $84,932$98,066+ $83,547
Dennis Keenan
Regional Councillor, Wards 3 & 4		$99,217+ $67,659$98,066+ $57,620
Pat Fortini
Regional Councillor, Wards 7 & 8		$99,217+ $64,086$98,066+ $57,637
Gurpartap Singh Toor
Regional Councillor, Wards 9 & 10		$99,217+ $99,016$98,066+ $101,997
Rod Power
City Councillor, Wards 7 & 8		$99,217+ $72,950$98,066+ $71,649
Harkirat Singh
City Councillor, Wards 9 & 10, and Deputy Mayor		$99,217+ $190,185$98,066+ $178,501

Top number: pay. Second number: benefits and expenses together, such as health cover, mileage, conferences and training. Exactly what goes in it differs a little from city to city; the note below says what this city’s statement includes. Some members take the city’s health plan and some do not, so a higher second number is not a problem by itself. The statements give only totals; the receipts behind them can be requested from the clerk.

Each year links to the city's statement. Municipal Act s. 284 statements (Appendix A) published by the city for 2025 and 2024. "pay" is the elected official’s salary. "other" is the printed total minus the salary and minus the salaries and benefits of the member’s office staff: it adds elected-official benefits (including the car allowance), business office expenses and professional development, community sponsorship, phone and internet, corporate representation (conferences) and other corporate-paid expenses. The Mayor’s figure includes the Mayor’s office costs the statement lists under "Business Office Expenses". Citizen committee members listed in Appendix B are private individuals and are left out. Gael Miles was appointed on August 31, 2026 and is not in these statements. Pat Fortini resigned on August 25, 2026.

How open is Brampton?

What a resident can find online without asking, as of October 3, 2026.

  • Yes
    Budgets posted online

    The adopted 2026 and 2025 budgets are posted as full documents (842 and 806 pages), with highlights, and a budget archive back to 2016. Source

  • Yes
    Audited financial statements

    The 2025 Financial Report carries a clean opinion ("present fairly") from KPMG LLP dated June 24, 2026. Annual reports and Financial Information Returns are posted back to 2003. Source

  • Yes
    Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

    Yearly statements for 2025 and earlier are posted, along with monthly expense statements for each member and transaction-level detail for corporate-paid conferences. Source

  • Partly
    Meeting agendas, minutes and reports

    Agendas and minutes since about 2020 sit in the eSCRIBE portal. The portal home page opens, but every document download returned a "verifying your browser" page to our automated reader, so we could not read agendas, minutes or the Internal Audit full reports. We did not try to get around it. Council meetings are livestreamed. Source

  • Partly
    Recorded votes

    The page text says it was last updated for the April 5, 2023 meeting, but the list behind it holds 429 recorded votes, the latest for a December 1, 2025 meeting (added February 19, 2026). The page text does not match the list. Source

  • Yes
    Conflict of interest registry

    A Disclosure of Interest Registry is posted for 2022–2026 as a list (108 entries, the latest for a July 28, 2026 committee meeting), with the 2018–2022 registry as a PDF. We did not read the entries. Source

  • Partly
    Integrity Commissioner reports

    Reports back to 2011 are listed. The 2022 to 2024-02 reports open on brampton.ca; the 2023, 2024 and 2025 annual reports and several others link to the agenda portal. We read the 2022 periodic report, the 2023 annual report and report 2024-02. Source

  • Yes
    Lobbyist registry

    A registry exists (by-law effective January 1, 2016; new online tool from October 31, 2022). We did not open the registry’s search, which returned "not found" at the address the city links. Source

  • Partly
    Internal Audit reports

    The city’s audit reports page lists reports from 2003 to December 2025, with a summary of findings for each. The full reports are in the agenda portal. Source

Where the city speaks for itself

Brampton'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.

Ask for the records

Anyone can ask the city for its records under Ontario's Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA). You do not have to say why. Here is how it works, and the wording for the records that would answer the questions on this site.

  1. Send the request in writing to the city clerk (the freedom of information coordinator), on the city’s form or in a letter, with the $5 application fee.
  2. Describe the records, not the answer you want. Dates, departments and the kind of record (a list, invoices, emails) make a request quicker and cheaper.
  3. The city has 45 business days to answer (the law changed in 2026; older guides say 30 days). It can charge for search time and copies, but must send an estimate first if the fees will be over $25.
  4. Some parts can be held back, such as legal advice or personal information about other people. The city must say which part of the law it relied on.
  5. If you are refused, or the fees seem too high, you can appeal to the Information and Privacy Commissioner within 30 business days of the city’s decision.

The city's request form (on its Forms page) · The law · Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

  • Reconciliation of the Mayor’s office statements

    The 2024 and 2025 Appendix A statements and the Mayor’s Office Expense Statement give different budget, actual and remaining figures. Related question: Why do the city’s two statements on the Mayor’s office spending show different results for 2024 and 2025?.

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    I request, under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Please provide any reconciliation or explanation of the difference between the Mayor’s "Budget Remaining" in Appendix A of the 2024 and 2025 Statements of Remuneration and Expenses and the "Remaining Budget" in the Mayor’s Office Expense Statement for 2024 and 2025, and the approved budget for each account.

  • Breakdown of taxes receivable

    Taxes receivable grew from 64,702 to 200,603 thousand dollars between 2021 and 2025 and we found no explanation. Related question: Why has the share of property tax billed but not yet paid more than doubled since 2021?.

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    I request, under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Please provide the most recent staff report or analysis on the growth in taxes receivable since 2021, including a breakdown by property class, by age (current, one year overdue, two years or more) and by whether the amount is under appeal or on a payment plan.

  • Repayment of the $19,476,000 internal loan

    The 2026 budget used a one-time "short-term internal loan" from the Strategic Reserve and does not give a repayment date. Related question: The 2026 city tax increase is 0%, but a one-time $19,476,000 move from a reserve helped get there. When and how is it paid back?.

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    I request, under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Please provide the repayment schedule, interest rate and funding source for the $19,476,000 "Internal Loan from Strategic Reserve Fund" in the 2026 operating budget (Resolution C043-2026), and the 2027 operating forecast presented to council.

  • Cost of taking over Peel’s roads

    The budget gives two dates for the roads transfer and no yearly cost. Related question: Peel’s roads are moving to Brampton. Which date is right, and what will 600 more lane kilometres cost?.

    Show the request wordingHide the wording
    I request, under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Please provide the financial analysis, staff reports and agreements with the Region of Peel estimating the annual operating and capital cost, funding and effective date for Brampton taking over regional roads, including lane kilometres and the winter maintenance contract.

  • Management responses to the Transit Revenue Audit

    The full audit report and management responses sit in the Audit Committee agenda, which our reader could not open. Related question: Internal Audit found Transit’s fare records double-counted $770,048.55 and could not check a growing share of payments. What has been fixed?.

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    I request, under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Please provide the Transit Revenue Audit Report 2025, management’s response and action plan with dates, and any later status report showing which recommendations have been completed.

  • Outcomes of Integrity Commissioner complaints open in 2022

    The 2023 annual report says the Commissioner cannot confirm how four 2022 complaints ended. Related question: What was the outcome of the complaints about councillors that were open in 2022, and why were people sent a complaint form three months later?.

    Show the request wordingHide the wording
    I request, under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Please provide any disposition letter or report summarising how the four complaints transferred to the interim Integrity Commissioner in April 2022, and council referrals C058-2022 and C154-2022, were concluded, with personal information removed.

The wording is a starting point, not legal advice. Narrow the dates if the city says a request is too broad or too costly.

How to raise a concern

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

  1. Integrity Commissioner

    Looks into complaints that a council member broke the Code of Conduct. The city’s pages name the current Commissioner, who is an outside appointee rather than city staff. The city’s list of reports includes annual reports for 2023, 2024 and 2025; the 2024 and 2025 reports sit in the city’s agenda portal, which our reader could not open.

  2. Audit Committee and Internal Audit

    A committee of five councillors and one citizen member oversees accounting, reporting and audit. Internal Audit publishes its reports on the city’s website; the full reports and management responses are in the agenda portal.

  3. Ombudsman

    Brampton has no municipal ombudsman of its own. The Ontario Ombudsman acts as Brampton’s ombudsman. The city’s page says council "has not yet made a decision".

  4. Lobbyist Registrar

    The city keeps a lobbyist registry (since January 1, 2016) and a gift registry. The city’s page names the same outside appointee as Lobbyist Registrar.

  5. Closed Meeting Investigator

    The city’s page describes a closed meeting investigator process and links to Local Authority Services Ltd. (LAS).