Council

Who decides, and how you can hold them to account

Northern Bruce Peninsula 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

• MayorMilt McIver
• Deputy MayorRod Anderson
• CouncillorTodd Dowd
• CouncillorLaurie (Smokey) Golden
• CouncillorAman Sohrab

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

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  Meeting agendas and minutes

  The Municipality says agendas and past meeting materials are on its Civicweb council portal. That site's robots.txt asks all automated readers to stay out, so we did not read it and could not check whether minutes are up to date. The Municipality's own news page posts "Council Meeting Highlights" for each meeting, but the ones we opened are pictures of a page, which we did not read. Source

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  Budgets posted online

  The Municipal Budget page lists budget, capital and reserve documents for 2025 and a row for 2026, but we found a link only for 2025 (its file name ends "DFT" and the sheet is stamped 7/10/25) and for the 2026 fees and charges by-law. We did not find a 2026 budget document. The adopted 2024 budget (By-law No. 2024-17) is posted. Source

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  Audited financial statements

  Statements for 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 are posted with clean opinions ("present fairly") for 2024 and 2023. The auditor's reports on both the 2023 and 2024 statements are dated December 22, 2025. We did not find 2025 statements. Source

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  Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

  We did not find a yearly statement of council remuneration and expenses on the Municipality's website or in its sitemap. We may have missed it, for example if it sits inside council agendas on the Civicweb portal, which we did not read. Source

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  Tender results

  The Municipality says it uses a separate Bids & Tenders site to post public tenders, bids and requests. We did not read it. Source

• Northern Bruce Peninsula on YouTube

  The Municipality says council meetings are livestreamed on its YouTube channel.

• Northern Bruce Peninsula on Vimeo

  The Municipality says past meeting recordings are available through its Vimeo channel.

• Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula on Facebook

  A page linked from the footer of the Municipality's website. We did not read it.

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

• Capital projects budgeted and completed, 2023 to 2025

  The statements show capital purchases well below budget in 2023 and 2024. A project list shows which items slipped. Related question: Why did capital spending and capital grants come in at well under half of budget in both 2023 and 2024?.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request, for each of 2023, 2024 and 2025, the list of capital projects in the approved budget with the budgeted cost, the amount spent, and whether the project was completed, deferred or cancelled, and the most recent report to Council on capital project progress.

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• Lion's Head arena funding plan

  The project is capped at $10,000,000 and the sources of money are not in the documents we found. Related question: How will the Lion's Head arena project be paid for, and why did its expected timing move from 2024 to 2026?.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request the most recent report to Council that sets out the funding sources for the Lion's Head Arena Project (grants, reserves, borrowing and other), and the current cost estimate and schedule.

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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.

1. Integrity Commissioner

   The Municipality says it appointed Aird & Berlis LLP as Integrity Commissioner. Its council page and the by-law it links give different end dates for the appointment (see the finding on this). We did not find any Integrity Commissioner reports on the pages we read.

2. Closed meeting investigator: Ontario Ombudsman

   The Municipality says the Office of the Ombudsman handles closed session investigation complaints and that people should contact the Ombudsman directly.

3. Declarations of pecuniary interest

   The Municipality's council page links two lists of declarations: before November 22, 2021, and from November 22, 2021 to the present. We did not read the lists.