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Not the full picture. Built from public records, which leave things out.Older reportDetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date.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
An older report. We have no 2024 report for Head, Clara and Maria in the Province's latest release, so these pages use its 2023 report. It may simply be filed late.
Read by hand. We read Head, Clara and Maria'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

Head, Clara and Maria is run by an elected council of 5 people. They set the budget, approve big purchases and hire the senior staff who run the town day to day.

Current council

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

What council is paid

Every year the town 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, 2025 to 2025.

In 2025, the whole council cost $45,318 in pay, benefits and expenses, about $128 per home. The mayor's pay went up 0% from 2025 to 2025; prices went up 0% over the same years.
Pay, and benefits and expenses, for each council member by year
Member2025
Debbi Grills
Mayor		$10,368+ $0
Chris Dowser
Councillor		$9,093+ $521
Fran Kelly-Chamberlain
Councillor		$8,326+ $0
Karen LeClerc
Councillor		$8,658+ $0
Rachel Richer
Councillor		$8,351+ $0

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 town to town; the note below says what this town’s statement includes. Some members take the town’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 town's statement. From the Council Statement of Remuneration and Expenses for 2025 (Municipal Act, 2001, s. 284), in the March 24, 2026 Council agenda package. "Pay" is honorariums; "other" is expenses. The statement says honorariums also include 2024 shortfalls. The newest earlier statement we found is the 2019 report, which gives a single total ($26,246.66), so no table is given for earlier years.

How open is Head, Clara and Maria?

What a resident can find online without asking, as of October 13, 2026.

  • Partly
    Budgets posted online

    The budget page lists one file, the 2022 Budget Report (a proposed budget dated February 11, 2022). The adopted 2026 budget (Bylaw 2026-09) is inside the June 18, 2026 Council agenda package, not on the budget page. Source

  • Partly
    Audited financial statements

    The newest audited statements posted are for 2022 (opinion dated May 18, 2023, clean: "present fairly"). We did not find 2023, 2024 or 2025 statements on the page when we looked on October 13, 2026. The 2022 and 2021 statements are scanned images with no searchable text. Source

  • Partly
    Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

    The Annual Council Expense Reports page lists 2018 and 2019 only. The statement for 2025 is in the March 24, 2026 Council agenda package. Source

  • Yes
    Meeting agendas and minutes

    Agenda packages for 2025 and 2026 are posted as PDFs, and each package carries the minutes of the earlier meetings. Source

How to raise a concern

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

  1. Integrity Commissioner

    The Township has an Integrity Commissioner who reports to Council, and a report from that office was on the Council agenda for March 24, 2026. We have not used it in this pack. We did not find a page that collects the Township's Integrity Commissioner reports.