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by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date.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

Mattawa is run by an elected council of 7 people. They set the budget, approve big purchases and hire the senior staff who run the town day to day.

Current council

  • MayorRaymond A. Belanger
  • CouncillorMathew Gardiner
  • CouncillorFern Levesque
  • CouncillorGarry Thibert
  • CouncillorLoren Mick
  • CouncillorLaura Ross
  • CouncillorSpencer Bigelow

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 Mattawa?

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

  • Partly
    Budgets posted online

    The financial services page links the audited statements for 2018 to 2025 and fee schedules, but we did not find a budget document on it. The 2025 and 2026 budgets are inside council agenda packages. Source

  • Yes
    Audited financial statements

    Statements for 2018 to 2025 are posted. The 2025 statements carry a clean opinion ("present fairly") from Baker Tilly SNT LLP dated April 27, 2026; the 2024 report is dated June 16, 2025. Source

  • Partly
    Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

    A pay statement is linked from the council page as "Council Member Renumeration For the Year Ended December 31, 2025", but the PDF is a two-page scan with no text we could read, so we did not use it. Source

  • Yes
    Meeting agendas and minutes

    Agenda packages and minutes are posted as PDFs for 2024 to 2026. Some adopted minutes are scans without text, though the same minutes appear as text in later agenda packages. Source

  • Unknown
    Integrity Commissioner and closed meeting reports

    The Integrity Commissioner page links files that we did not open. We did not find a closed meeting investigator report. Source

Where the town speaks for itself

Mattawa'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 page

    The Town has a page on its Integrity Commissioner. It links a code of conduct complaint file, an application file and the code of conduct policy. We did not open the complaint or application files.

  2. Written statements of disclosure of interest

    The council page lists seven signed disclosure statements, from April 28, 2025 to May 25, 2026, each linked as a PDF. We did not build any finding on them.