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by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date.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

Severn 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

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 Severn?

What a resident can find online without asking, as of October 5, 2026.

  • Partly
    Budgets posted online

    The 2026 budget presentation (November 27, 2025) and capital budget sheets for each service are posted, and the page says council approved the 2026 budget in November 2025. We did not find a full 2026 operating budget book on the page. Capital sheets are posted back to 2021. Source

  • Partly
    Audited financial statements

    Statements for 2017 to 2024 are posted as PDFs. We did not find 2025. The 2024 PDF has no text we can extract (it looks like scanned pages), and the auditor's report in the 2023 PDF is also a scanned image, so we could not read either opinion. Source

  • Unknown
    Council pay and expenses statement

    We did not find the yearly statement of council remuneration and expenses on the budget, council or accountability pages, and did not search the meeting portal. Source

  • Unknown
    Meeting agendas, minutes and video

    Agendas and minutes are on the Township's CivicWeb portal. That site's robots.txt asks all automated tools to stay out, so we did not read it and cannot say whether minutes are up to date. Source

Where the town speaks for itself

Severn'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.

  • Township of Severn on YouTube

    The Township links this YouTube channel from its website. Its council page also says people can "watch the live stream" through the Council portal. We did not check whether meeting videos are kept online.

  • Township of Severn on Facebook

    Linked from the Township's website.

How to raise a concern

From the gentlest step to the most serious. Start at the top.

  1. Integrity Commissioner

    The Township says an outside Integrity Commissioner advises council on its Code of Conduct and the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and looks into complaints about members. We did not find any Integrity Commissioner reports on the pages we read.

  2. Closed meeting investigator: Ontario Ombudsman

    The Township says the Ontario Ombudsman is its closed meeting investigator and links the Ombudsman's complaint form. We did not look for reports about Severn.

  3. Conflict of Interest Registry

    The Township links a registry of councillors' declarations of interest on the same page. The registry sits on the Township's meeting portal, which asks automated tools to stay away, so we did not read it.