Council

Who decides, and how you can hold them to account

Marathon 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

• MayorRick Dumas
• CouncillorDavid Giuliano
• CouncillorRay Lake
• CouncillorGregory Vallance
• CouncillorTodd Wheeler

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

• Partly
  Budgets posted online

  The finance page links the 2026 budget as a PDF. The file is five pages and each page is a picture with no text in it, so we could not read any figure from it and used none. We did not find the 2025 budget or earlier budgets on the page. The audited statements do print the budget as a comparison column (Note 13). Source

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  Audited financial statements

  The 2025 consolidated statements are posted, with a clean opinion ("present fairly") from the auditors, dated August 10, 2026. They show 2024 as a comparison column. We did not find the 2024 statements, or any earlier year, as separate documents on the finance page; it points readers to the Province's Financial Information Return for history. Source

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  Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

  We did not find a yearly statement of council pay and expenses on the finance or council pages. It may be filed elsewhere or in a meeting package we could not open. We leave the pay table out. Source

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  Meeting agendas and minutes

  The council page sends readers to a community calendar and meeting list on calendar.marathon.ca. That host returned a block message ("Access to the requested resource has been blocked") to a plain script request, including for its robots.txt, so we read no agendas or minutes. We did not try to get around it. The old minutes page address on marathon.ca no longer exists. Source

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  Tender results

  The bids and tenders page lists open and recent bid notices under a procurement by-law. We did not find a list of who won or for how much. Source

• Town of Marathon on YouTube

  The Town's council page says meetings are livestreamed and can be watched from home on this channel. We did not check which meetings are posted or how long they are kept.

1. Send the request in writing to the town clerk (the freedom of information coordinator), on the town’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 town 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 town 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 town’s decision.

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

• The 2025 budget detail for recreation and cultural services

  The 2025 statements show $7,105,193 planned and $3,639,801 recorded. The budget detail would show what the plan contained. Related question: Why did recreation and culture cost about half of what the budget plan said?.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request the 2025 approved operating and capital budget detail for recreation and cultural services, and any report to Council comparing 2025 actual spending with that budget.

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• Capital spending and financing report for 2025

  Schedule 1 shows unfinanced capital outlay of $(2,129,723) and debt proceeds received after year end of $(2,548,896). Related question: Why did capital spending run above plan, with borrowing not yet received at year end?.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request any report to Council listing 2025 capital projects, their budgets, actual costs and how each was or will be financed, including the debt approved for them.

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