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by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date.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

Kincardine is run by an elected council of 9 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.

How open is Kincardine?

What a resident can find online without asking, as of October 5, 2026.

  • Yes
    Budgets posted online

    The 2026 final budget document (deemed adopted December 18, 2025), a 2026 operating budget summary and a 2026 capital budget summary are posted on one page. Source

  • Yes
    Audited financial statements

    Statements for 2025 back to 2017 are posted. The 2025 statements carry a clean opinion ("present fairly") from KPMG LLP dated June 22, 2026. The 2024 opinion is dated June 20, 2025. Source

  • Yes
    Council pay and expenses statements

    The treasurer's statements for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are posted as PDFs. We could not read the tables in them reliably (the columns come out scrambled), so no pay figures are in this pack. Source

  • Unknown
    Meeting agendas and minutes

    The Municipality's calendar of agendas and minutes is on events.kincardine.ca. That site refused our plain request (HTTP 403, "blocked due to security reasons"). We did not try to get around it, so we do not know how current the minutes are. Source

Where the town speaks for itself

Kincardine'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 Municipality says it has appointed Principles Integrity as Integrity Commissioner, and gives a contact at Aird & Berlis LLP and a complaint form. We did not find any Integrity Commissioner reports on the pages we read.

  2. Declaration of Interest Registry

    The Municipality posts a registry of council members' declarations of interest for 2022 to 2026 as a PDF, and an online form to make a declaration.