Council

Who decides, and how you can hold them to account

Orangeville 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

• MayorLisa Post
• Deputy MayorTodd Taylor
• CouncillorJoe Andrews
• CouncillorAndy Macintosh
• CouncillorTess Prendergast
• CouncillorDebbie Sherwood
• CouncillorRick Stevens

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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  Budgets posted online

  The Town's budget page describes the adopted 2026 budget (a total tax increase of 3.33 per cent) and links the budget book on its eScribe meeting portal. The portal showed a browser check and refused a scripted download, so we did not read the budget book. Source

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  Audited financial statements

  The 2025 and 2024 consolidated statements are posted as PDFs on the budget page. Both carry a clean opinion ("present fairly") from the Town's auditors, dated June 23, 2026 and August 11, 2025. Source

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  Council pay and expenses (s. 284)

  We did not find the yearly statement on the budget or council pages. It may be in the meeting portal, which blocked scripted downloads. Source

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  Meeting agendas and minutes

  Agendas and minutes are on an eScribe portal. The council page says all meetings are broadcast by livestream. We did not read any minutes. Source

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 carried forward from 2025 to 2026

  The Town spent $28,369,266 of a $72,438,519 capital budget in 2025. A project list shows which work moved to 2026. Related question: Why did the Town spend well under half of its budget for buying and building assets in both 2024 and 2025?.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request the list of capital projects in the 2025 capital budget, showing for each the budgeted amount, the amount spent by December 31, 2025, and the amount carried forward to 2026, and the year-end capital report to Council.

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• The Town's loan to the Orangeville Railway Development Corporation

  The statements show a $4,933,824 repayment in 2025 with $0 budgeted. Related question: What was the $4,933,824 loan repayment from the Town's railway company in 2025, and why was it not in the budget?.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request the loan agreement between the Town and the Orangeville Railway Development Corporation, the repayment schedule, and the staff or council reports that describe the repayment made in 2025.

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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. Code of Conduct and Integrity Commissioner

   The Town says all members of council follow a Code of Conduct, and that its Integrity Commissioner is an independent officer who reports to Council. The page links older Integrity Commissioner reports. We did not read them.

2. Conflict of interest registry

   The Town says it publishes council members' declarations of pecuniary interest from September 2022 to now in an online registry, with older ones listed on its accountability page. We did not read the registry.