Council

Who decides, and how you can hold them to account

South Dundas 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

• MayorJason Broadjbroad@southdundas.com
• Deputy MayorMarc St. Pierremstpierre@southdundas.com
• CouncillorTom Smythtsmyth@southdundas.com
• CouncillorDanielle Warddward@southdundas.com
• CouncillorCole Veinottecveinotte@southdundas.com

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

• Partly
  Budgets posted online

  Budgets from 2014 to 2026 are posted as PDFs on one page. The 2026 file we downloaded is 27 pages, and only one page (a capital list) has text a computer can read; the other 26 are pictures of pages. The 2025 file called "2025 Combined" is built the same way (25 of its 27 pages have no readable text, 2 more have text made by character recognition). The separate 2025 budget binder has readable text on all but 8 of its 121 pages. Source

• Yes
  Audited financial statements

  Audited statements for 2014 to 2025 are posted as PDFs. The 2025 statements carry a clean opinion ("present fairly") from Welch LLP dated July 8, 2026. They say the 2024 statements were audited by another auditor, who also gave a clean opinion. Source

• Yes
  Council meeting videos

  The meetings page says regular council meetings are live streamed to YouTube. We did not check how far back the videos go. Source

• Unknown
  Agendas and minutes

  The meetings page has a calendar for agendas, which we could not read as a plain page. The council page lists minutes as PDFs for 2014 to 2018. We did not read current agendas or minutes, so we cannot say whether they are up to date. Source

• Unknown
  Council pay and expenses statement

  We did not find a yearly statement of council remuneration and expenses (Municipal Act, section 284) on the finance, council or accountability pages we read. It may be in a council agenda we did not read. Source

• Unknown
  Integrity Commissioner and closed meeting reports

  The accountability page explains how to complain but we found no reports on it. Source

• South Dundas on YouTube

  The Municipality links this YouTube channel from its website, and its meetings page says regular council meetings are live streamed to YouTube. We did not check whether past meeting videos are kept.

• South Dundas on Facebook

  The Municipality's Facebook page, linked from the footer of its website.

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

• Adopted 2025 and 2026 budgets and levy summaries

  The posted 2025 by-law and the 2026 budget file are mostly pictures of pages. The 2025 budget binder gives only the draft levy of $9,966,268.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request the adopted 2025 and 2026 operating and capital budgets, the by-laws adopting them, and the levy and tax rate summaries that went with them, in searchable electronic form.

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• The agreement for the loan to Rideau St. Lawrence Holdings Inc.

  Note 4 of the 2025 statements says the $938,352 loan has no specific terms of repayment. Related question: Why does South Dundas hold a $938,352 loan to a company it part-owns, with no repayment dates and no security?.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request the promissory note or agreement for the Municipality's loan to Rideau St. Lawrence Holdings Inc., and any council report or resolution that sets its interest rate or repayment terms.

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• Report on the correction to the 2024 figures

  Note 18 of the 2025 statements restates 2024 net financial assets by $960,106. Related question: Why did the 2025 statements have to correct the 2024 figures, and by how much?.

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  Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request any report to council, or communication from the auditors to council, about the prior period adjustment described in note 18 of the 2025 financial statements.

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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 has had an outside Integrity Commissioner since 2019, who handles complaints under the council Code of Conduct. A complaint costs $125.00. We did not find any Integrity Commissioner reports on the pages we read.

2. Closed meeting investigator: Local Authority Services (Amberley Gavel Ltd.)

   The Municipality says it has appointed Local Authority Services Limited, Amberley Gavel Ltd., to look into complaints that council met in closed session when it should not have. The page says a request costs $125.00. We did not find any reports about South Dundas.

3. Ombudsman Ontario

   The Municipality's accountability page points residents to the Ontario Ombudsman for complaints about municipalities. We did not look for Ombudsman reports about South Dundas.