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by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date.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

Matachewan 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.

How open is Matachewan?

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

  • Partly
    Budgets posted online

    The adopted budget by-laws for 2012 to 2026 are posted, each as one scanned page with income and expense totals by heading. We did not find a line-by-line budget book or a staff report behind them. Source

  • Partly
    Audited financial statements

    The Reports page lists financial reports for 2019 to 2022 only, as scans. The 2022 report carries a clean opinion ("present fairly") from Kemp Elliott & Blair LLP dated October 4, 2023. We did not find 2023, 2024 or 2025 statements. Source

  • No
    Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

    We did not find the yearly statement of what each member was paid. A by-law with the pay rates set in 2022 is posted, which is not the same thing. Source

  • Partly
    Meeting agendas and minutes

    Minutes for 2017 to 2023 are on the Township's own site. Minutes for 2024 to 2026 are on a separate portal (allnetmeetings.com) whose robots.txt tells all automated readers to stay out. People can read it in a browser, but we did not read it. The Agendas page of the Township's site says "Agendas for 2019-2022". Source

  • Unknown
    Integrity Commissioner and closed meeting reports

    We did not find any reports or any page naming these officers on the pages we read. Source