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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things out.Older reportDetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date.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 Jocelyn in the Province's latest release, so these pages use its 2023 report. It may simply be filed late.
Read by hand. We read Jocelyn'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

Jocelyn 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, 2023 to 2023.

In 2023, the whole council cost $3,289 in pay, benefits and expenses, about $11 per home.
Pay, and benefits and expenses, for each council member by year
Member2023
Mark Henderson
Council member		$0+ $0
Greg Gilbertson
Council member		$0+ $0
Jason Kennedy
Council member		$0+ $0
Nelson Soares
Council member		$0+ $0
Albert Crowder
Council member		$940+ $0
Faye Stevens
Council member		$1,225+ $14
Janet Callahan
Council member		$1,110+ $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 Township's 2023 statement under section 284 of the Municipal Act, 2001. Members are paid at different rates for different roles and for different parts of the year, so we make no comparison between members. The 2025 statement is posted but prints each name apart from its figures, so we did not copy it.

How open is Jocelyn?

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

  • Yes
    Budgets posted online

    Budget files for 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 are posted. The 2025 and 2026 files are tables whose text layer prints some labels apart from their numbers, so we only used lines where the label and figures share a line. Source

  • Partly
    Audited financial statements

    The page says the statements are audited every year. The newest one posted is for 2023, with an auditor's report dated May 27, 2025. We did not find statements for 2024 or 2025. The 2022 statements are a scan with no readable text, so we did not use them. Source

  • Yes
    Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

    Statements for 2023 and 2025 are posted. We read the 2023 one only; the 2025 one prints each name apart from its figures, so we left its table out. Source

  • Yes
    Meeting agendas and minutes

    Agendas, agenda packages and minutes are posted on the Township's own site back to 2017. Minutes through April 29, 2026 were posted by September 2026. Source

Where the town speaks for itself

Jocelyn'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 Council has appointed an Integrity Commissioner and posts the reports, invoices and responses from a 2023 investigation on its plans and reports page. We did not use that investigation in this pack.

  2. Closed meeting investigator: Ontario Ombudsman

    The Township says the Ontario Ombudsman is its closed meeting investigator and links the Ombudsman's complaint form. We did not look for reports about the Township.