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The Pay Accountable to City Taxpayers (PACT) Bylaw

A crowd-sourced direct-democracy bylaw drafted in public. If passed, it ties the pay of London's councillors, deputy mayor, budget chair, and mayor to the City's annual property tax levy. Each percentage point council raises the levy locks in a permanent percentage point of pay decrement that survives every future base reset. Tax cuts erode the decrement back toward zero. The bylaw never generates a pay increase by itself.

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Pay Accountable to City Taxpayers

How the PACT bylaw works

Today, without PACT

Council pay re-calculates on its own

Indexed every January to census income. Base re-pegged to the 70th percentile each census cycle. Nothing ties any of it to your tax bill.

What PACT would add

One new section, layered on top. Everything above still runs, untouched.

Council sets the property tax levy

PACT reads one number: the tax levy increase from rates.
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A running tally moves with it

Starts at zero. Never goes below zero.
- Levy up 3%tally +3 points
- Levy flatno change
- Levy down 2%tally −2 points
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Pay is cut by the tally

Applied last, after the City’s own rules have run. A 6% tally pays 94%.

The tally survives every reset. Re-pegging the base does not clear it. Only a tax cut, or a repeal, brings it down.

Four years, worked through

Base held at $94,222 to show the PACT effect on its own. Real base pay also moves under the City’s existing rules.

Year	Levy	Tally	Pay
1	+3.0%	3.0%adds	$91,395
2	+2.0%	5.0%compounds	$89,511
3	0.0%	5.0%holds	$89,511
4	−1.0%	4.0%erodes	$90,453

PACT only ever cuts pay. It never pays a bonus.

How council pay works today

London's elected officials are paid under City Policy CPOL.-70(b)-220, the Remuneration for Elected Officials and Appointed Citizen Members Policy. Section 4.2 of that policy adjusts pay on January 1 each year by the average annual variation in Londoners’ median full-time employment income, drawn from published Statistics Canada census data over the most recent census period.

On November 4, 2025, council voted 9 to 6 to expand that policy on the recommendation of a Council Resourcing Review Task Force report. The package added a new layer underneath the annual indexing: a one-time reset of the base pay, before the indexing runs.

The new base pay is set at the seventieth percentile of full-time employment income for Londoners. The seventieth percentile means the income level at which seventy percent of full-time London workers earn less, and thirty percent earn more. The base councillor salary will sit above what most full-time working Londoners take home, by design.

The same package also locked in a recurring re-peg of the base against future Statistics Canada census data, so the seventieth-percentile target updates automatically every five years. On June 23, 2026 the City wrote those November 4 decisions into the policy itself: the census re-peg is now section 4.3 of the policy, and the Deputy Mayor and Budget Chair stipends are section 4.4.

The numbers, in plain dollars:

2025 base councillor pay: about $67,420.
2026 effective base pay, at the start of the next council term on November 15, 2026: about $94,222.
The difference: $26,802, or 39.75 percent.

That is the council pay raise nine of fifteen voted for. Outlets reported different percentages because they measured against different baselines, not because anyone got the math wrong: against the 2025 base of $67,420 the raise is 39.75 percent, and against the 2026 sitting salary of $69,783 (the City’s own task force workbook, applying the policy’s current 3.505 percent annual adjustment) it works out to 35 percent. CTV reported 35 percent. CBC reported 35 percent. Western Gazette reported 39 percent. The City’s own math, applied to the City’s own benchmark, produces 39.75 percent.

The asymmetry

Council pay tracks median income from census data. The November 4 vote reset the base and locked in a recurring re-peg. That is how a councillor’s pay changes. Even if council raises property taxes year after year and makes life more expensive or difficult for the people who pay it, their pay continues on its own track.

This is not an oversight. It is how the system is built. London is in the same position most cities are in: council controls both the levy and its own pay benchmark. No rule connects performance on one to compensation on the other.

Most cities accept this. London does not have to.

The Pay Accountable to City Taxpayers Bylaw closes the gap.

How this works in plain English

This bylaw adds one new section, section 4.5, to the City’s remuneration policy. The new section creates a running tally called the accumulated decrement, expressed as a percentage and starting at zero.

Earlier drafts numbered this section 4.3. When the City amended its own policy on June 23, 2026 and took that number for the census re-peg, this bylaw was renumbered and re-audited within days, in public, with the change logged in the version history. A platform on GitHub can keep up with City Hall. A platform on a brochure cannot.

Each year, the decrement updates with the levy change council just adopted:

If council raises the levy by 4 percent, the decrement goes up by 4 percentage points. The levy change PACT measures is net of assessment growth, the same “tax levy increase from rates” figure the City already publishes in every budget and the one reported in the news.
If council holds the levy flat, the decrement is unchanged.
If council cuts the levy by 5 percent, the decrement goes down by 5 percentage points, floored at zero. Decreases below zero do not bank as credit against future increases.

Why net of assessment growth? When new homes and buildings join the tax roll, the City collects more total levy without raising anyone’s tax bill. PACT does not dock council pay for the city growing. It responds to the tax increase existing taxpayers actually bear, which is exactly the number the City reports as its annual tax levy increase from rates.

The decrement is then applied as a permanent percentage reduction to council pay, on top of every other calculation:

Section 4.2 of the existing City policy still indexes pay each January 1 by census income variation. The decrement does not touch that calculation.
Council can still reset the base every census cycle, exactly as resolution 2025-C06 directs. The decrement does not block that either.
After those calculations run on their own, the decrement is multiplied in at the final step. A decrement of 6 percent means council takes home 94 percent of what they would have otherwise received that year.

The decrement persists across base resets. If council re-pegs the base in 2028 (as resolution 2025-C06 directs), the decrement still applies to the new base. The only way to wipe the decrement is to cut the levy enough to erode it, or to repeal section 4.5 itself by passing a new bylaw through the same public process.

The decrement has no upper cap. If council raises the levy enough across enough years, the decrement can drive pay to zero. The bylaw includes a hard floor at zero so the final payable amount never goes negative.

Four properties keep the rule honest:

It is mechanical.: The decrement is a math operation on the levy the City’s budget decides each year (the statutory “general local municipality levy”), net of the assessment growth figure the Treasurer already publishes. Council does not vote on whether the decrement applies in a given year. Once the year’s levy is set and the rating by-law passes, the City Treasurer applies the update automatically.
It survives every re-peg.: The accumulated decrement is a separate state variable. Future councils can change the base, change the indexing, or change anything else in the remuneration policy. The decrement still applies on top until it is eroded by tax cuts or until section 4.5 itself is repealed.
PACT only cuts pay. It never gives a raise.: Tax hikes grow the pay cut. Tax cuts shrink it, down to zero. The pay cut never turns into a bonus. Pay raises always come from the City’s existing rules: annual cost-of-living indexing and the periodic base reset.
The Treasurer publishes the numbers.: The City Treasurer calculates and publishes the levy change percentage, the assessment growth amount used in that calculation, the accumulated decrement, and the final pay payable to the Mayor and Councillors in the City’s annual budget documents every year. The math is on the public record.

The legal text is below. Every section has a “Suggest a change” button.

How this becomes reality

PACT is a by-law. It adds one section to the City’s Remuneration for Elected Officials and Appointed Citizen Members Policy, an instrument council adopted by by-law (CPOL.-70-302) and has amended by by-law three times since, most recently in June 2026. It rests on council’s existing authority under the Municipal Act, 2001, which the bylaw’s preamble cites section by section. There is no new department to create and no provincial sign-off to wait on.

Below is the path it takes, with the sections of London’s Council Procedure By-law (A-61) that govern each step.

A councillor files it. An amendment to the remuneration policy starts with a member of council. I (Matt Millar) drafted this one and intend to introduce it if elected.
Notice of motion goes to the City Clerk. A member files a notice of motion in writing and the Clerk directs it to the next regular standing committee meeting (section 11.1). Material has to reach the Clerk by 9:00 AM on the Monday of the week before that meeting (section 27.10).
A standing committee takes it up, in public. The Clerk routes items to the committee whose mandate covers them, under the schedules to A-61. Council pay touches the Infrastructure and Corporate Services Committee through its Finance, Taxation, Payroll and Council Support Services mandate, and the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee through Governance and long-term financial policy. Every member of council sits on the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee (section 24.1). Either way the item lands on a published agenda at a meeting open to the public.
Londoners speak before anyone votes. Any resident can ask to be heard on an agenda item by written request to the Clerk by the same deadline (section 36.1), and gets five minutes (section 36.6). No committee member can move a motion on the item until the public has finished speaking (section 33.1).
Council can send it to staff first. Either the committee or council can refer it to Civic Administration for review before deciding (sections 33.11 and 11.17). If enacted as drafted, section 4.5(e) then directs the City Treasurer to run the calculation every year without a fresh council direction.
The committee reports to council. Committee recommendations arrive at council inside a report (section 27.7). Any councillor can ask for this recommendation to be voted on separately instead of inside the block motion (section 19.2). Where electronic voting is available, a recorded vote is taken on every motion and each member’s vote is publicly displayed and entered in the record (sections 12.13 and 12.16). Where it is not, any member can call for a recorded vote and the names go into the minutes (sections 12.14 and 12.15).
Three readings. Every by-law gets three readings before enactment (section 22.3), and all three can happen at one meeting (section 22.4). Debate and amendments happen at second reading (section 22.6). A majority of the members present carries it. A tie defeats it (section 12.12), and a member present who declines to vote is counted as voting against (section 12.7).

There is no conflict-of-interest bar on the pay question itself. Section 4 of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act exempts a member’s interest in remuneration they are entitled to by reason of being a member, so sections 5, 5.2 and 5.3 of that Act do not apply and every member can debate and vote on this. The bylaw says so in its preamble.

What stops a future council from repealing it?

Nothing does, and section 4.5(g) of the bylaw says so out loud. A future council can amend or repeal it by passing another by-law. Council can also suspend most of its own procedural rules by a two-thirds vote (section 2.3), so the exact route is not fixed in advance. Undoing PACT takes a by-law either way, and a by-law takes three readings at a council meeting whose agenda is published ahead of time.

There is one added friction in the first year. A motion to reconsider the same council decision within twelve months takes two-thirds of the whole council, and only a member who voted with the majority can move it (sections 13.4, 13.5 and 13.6). That restriction covers reconsideration of the original decision. Other routes to repeal are not subject to it.

That is the protection PACT offers. A future council can undo it. Doing that means passing something, in public, that puts the money back in their own pockets.

Pay Accountable to City Taxpayers (PACT) Bylaw

Status: draft, public consultation | Version: 2.4-draft | Last substantive review: 2026-07-09

Note to readers. This bylaw is a single-section amendment to the existing City of London Council Policy “Remuneration for Elected Officials and Appointed Citizen Members Policy” (adopted by By-law No. CPOL.-70-302 and amended by By-laws No. CPOL.-70(a)-408, CPOL.-70(b)-220, and CPOL.-70(c)-189). It adds one new section — section 4.5 — to that existing instrument. It does NOT re-enact base pay, annual indexing under existing section 4.2, the zero floor and wage-freeze pause in section 4.2, the 2027-2028 Councillor base-compensation update codified in existing section 4.3, the Deputy Mayor and Budget Chair additional compensation in existing section 4.4, or any other component already in the City framework. Those provisions continue to operate untouched; PACT applies its decrement to their combined result.

Why section 4.5 (2.4-draft). On June 23, 2026 the City amended the Policy (By-law No. CPOL.-70(c)-189) to codify Council resolution 2025-C06 parts (d) and (h) as new Policy sections 4.3 and 4.4. Earlier PACT drafts added the PACT mechanism as “section 4.3”; that number is now occupied by the City’s census re-peg provision, so the PACT section is renumbered to 4.5 and its text now names the live sections 4.3 and 4.4 where they interact with the decrement. The section number is to be confirmed against the then-current Policy at the time the carrying by-law is introduced.

The v13 series is a fundamental architectural change from the v12 single-clause modifier of section 4.2. v13 introduces a parallel persistent ledger called the accumulated decrement, applied multiplicatively on top of whatever section 4.2 indexing, the section 4.3 base-compensation update, and any future base re-pegs produce. The decrement persists across all base-setting events including the update codified in Policy section 4.3 (resolution 2025-C06 Part (d)). Levy decreases erode the decrement (floored at zero; no pay increase ever generated). There is no upper cap on the decrement.

The 2.3-draft revision anchored the levy measure to the statutory defined term for the City’s levy (the general local municipality levy, Municipal Act, 2001 subsection 312(1)) net of Treasurer-published assessment growth, so the change PACT measures corresponds to the “tax levy increase from rates” the City already publishes in its annual budget documents. Details in CHANGELOG.md.

Full audit trail, including the Perplexity Pro Deep Research audit on v13, the v13.1 delta-review, the v13.2 confirmation review (all completed 2026-05-23), and the 2026-07-09 independent verification pass, is in docs/.

Preamble

WHEREAS the Council of The Corporation of the City of London is authorized under section 5(3), section 8(1), section 8(2), section 9, and paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of subsection 10(2) of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25, to pass by-laws respecting the governance structure, the accountability and transparency, and the financial management of the municipality, including the remuneration of its elected officials;

AND WHEREAS City of London Council Policy “Remuneration for Elected Officials and Appointed Citizen Members Policy”, adopted by By-law No. CPOL.-70-302 (August 22, 2017) and amended by By-law No. CPOL.-70(a)-408 (July 24, 2018), By-law No. CPOL.-70(b)-220 (July 25, 2023), and By-law No. CPOL.-70(c)-189 (June 23, 2026) (the “Policy”), governs the remuneration of elected officials of the City of London, including the annual adjustment of base remuneration under section 4.2 of the Policy, the update of Councillor base compensation under section 4.3 of the Policy, and the additional compensation of the Deputy Mayor and Budget Chair under section 4.4 of the Policy;

AND WHEREAS the property tax levy adopted by Council in each fiscal year reflects Council’s exercise of its fiscal authority and represents the most direct decision through which Council determines the financial burden borne by City of London property taxpayers;

AND WHEREAS the Council of The Corporation of the City of London considers it appropriate, in the interests of fiscal accountability, alignment between elected official remuneration and the fiscal capacity decisions taken by Council, and the continued public confidence in the integrity of municipal compensation, to maintain a persistent record of the cumulative effect of Council’s property tax levy decisions on the remuneration of elected officials, applied multiplicatively on top of remuneration otherwise payable under the Policy;

AND WHEREAS the accumulated decrement established by this by-law is intended to operate asymmetrically and across terms of Council: increases in the property tax levy add to the decrement; decreases in the property tax levy reduce it, to not less than zero; the decrement never increases remuneration above what is otherwise payable under the Policy; and the decrement persists across all base-compensation reset events unless this section is amended or repealed by Council through the same public by-law process as any amendment to the Policy;

AND WHEREAS section 4 of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. M.50 provides that sections 5, 5.2 and 5.3 of that Act do not apply to a pecuniary interest in respect of an allowance, honorarium, remuneration, salary or benefit to which a member of council may be entitled by reason of being a member, so that every member of Council may lawfully consider and vote on this by-law;

AND WHEREAS this by-law does not affect the base compensation set or maintained by Council in any other resolution or by-law and does not affect Council’s authority to set the property tax levy or to set or update base compensation in any year;

THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON ENACTS as follows:

Enacting clauses

The provisions of the Policy are amended by adding a new section 4.5 in the form set out in clause 2 of this by-law. To the extent that any prior provision of section 4 of the Policy relating to annual adjustment, base compensation, or levy-linkage is inconsistent with the new section 4.5, the new section 4.5 prevails. For greater certainty, sections 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 of the Policy continue to operate according to their terms, and the new section 4.5 applies to their combined result as set out in subsection 4.5(c).
The new section 4.5 of the Policy is:

Section 4.5 — Permanent Decrement Tied to Property Tax Levy

4.5(a) Definitions. For the purpose of this section:

(i) “Annual rating by-law” means the by-law passed by Council in each fiscal year under subsection 312(2) of the Municipal Act, 2001 that sets the rates of taxation upon the assessment of the lands and premises in the City of London for the purpose of raising the general local municipality levy for that year.

(ii) “Total municipal tax levy” for a fiscal year means the general local municipality levy of the City of London for that fiscal year within the meaning of subsection 312(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001, being the amount the City of London decided to raise in its budget for that year under section 290 of the Municipal Act, 2001 on all rateable property in the City of London, as that amount stands when the annual rating by-law for that fiscal year is adopted. For greater certainty, the total municipal tax levy does not include amounts levied for education purposes under the Education Act, amounts raised by any special local municipality levy within the meaning of subsection 312(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001, or revenue from fees and charges. The total municipal tax levy is not adjusted for later supplementary estimates, supplementary assessments, or mid-year true-ups unless the budget for that fiscal year is formally amended before the annual rating by-law is adopted. Where the total municipal tax levy for a fiscal year cannot be determined under this clause, the determination shall be made by the City Treasurer and documented in the records of the office of the City Clerk.

(iii) “Levy change percentage” for a fiscal year means the percentage change in the total municipal tax levy for that fiscal year, net of the assessment growth amount for that fiscal year, compared to the total municipal tax levy for the immediately preceding fiscal year, calculated as (((current-year total municipal tax levy minus the assessment growth amount for the current fiscal year) minus previous-year total municipal tax levy) divided by previous-year total municipal tax levy) multiplied by 100, with the result rounded to two decimal places. The value may be positive (the levy increased by more than assessment growth), zero, or negative (the levy decreased, or increased by less than assessment growth). For greater certainty, an increase in the total municipal tax levy that is wholly attributable to the assessment growth amount produces a levy change percentage of zero, and the levy change percentage is intended to correspond to the tax levy increase from rates as published in the City’s annual budget documents. Where the total municipal tax levy for the immediately preceding fiscal year is zero or cannot be determined, the levy change percentage for that fiscal year shall be deemed to be zero.

(iv) “Accumulated decrement” means a non-negative percentage value, initially zero when this section first comes into force, that is updated each fiscal year as set out in subsection (b) of this section. The accumulated decrement is a persistent state variable maintained by the City Treasurer and is not reset by any resolution, by-law, or amendment of this Policy other than one that expressly repeals or amends this section 4.5.

(v) “Remuneration” as used in this section means the base compensation of an elected official as set under this Policy, and any additional stipend or allowance paid to an elected official under this Policy as it may be amended from time to time, including without limitation the additional compensation paid to the Deputy Mayor and Budget Chair under section 4.4 of this Policy.

(vi) “Fiscal year” for the purposes of this section means the calendar year January 1 to December 31, being the City of London’s fiscal year within the meaning of section 285 of the Municipal Act, 2001.

(vii) “Assessment growth amount” for a fiscal year means the portion of the change in the total municipal tax levy for that fiscal year, relative to the immediately preceding fiscal year, that is attributable to changes in the assessment roll, including new construction, additions, improvements, expansions, and supplementary assessments, rather than to changes in tax rates, as that portion is determined by the City Treasurer, consistently with the methodology used in the City’s annual budget documents for reporting the tax levy increase from rates, and published in the City’s annual budget documents. Where the City Treasurer publishes that determination as a percentage rather than a dollar amount, the assessment growth amount is that percentage applied to the total municipal tax levy for the immediately preceding fiscal year. Where no such determination is made or published for a fiscal year, the assessment growth amount for that fiscal year is deemed to be zero.

(viii) “Elected official” means the Mayor of the City of London and every member of the Council of the City of London.

4.5(b) Annual update of the accumulated decrement. For each fiscal year in which this section is in force, the accumulated decrement shall be updated as follows:

Updated accumulated decrement (in percentage points) = the greater of:

(i) zero, and

(ii) the previous fiscal year’s accumulated decrement plus the levy change percentage for the current fiscal year.

The accumulated decrement shall not be less than zero in any fiscal year. There is no upper bound on the accumulated decrement.

4.5(c) Application to remuneration. For each fiscal year in which this section is in force, the remuneration payable to each City of London elected official shall be calculated as follows:

(i) first, compute the remuneration that would otherwise be payable under section 4.2, section 4.3, and section 4.4 of this Policy and under any resolution, by-law, or amendment governing base compensation, applying all annual adjustments under section 4.2, any update of base compensation under section 4.3, and any re-peg or reset of base compensation in force for that fiscal year, all without reference to the accumulated decrement and without including any reduction attributable to the accumulated decrement from prior or current fiscal years; and

(ii) then, multiply the result of step (i) by (1 minus the current accumulated decrement expressed as a decimal fraction).

The resulting amount is the final remuneration payable for that fiscal year. For greater certainty, the operation of sections 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 in any fiscal year is unaffected by the accumulated decrement under this section; those provisions produce their result independently, and the accumulated decrement is applied only at the point of computing the final remuneration payable. Where the accumulated decrement equals or exceeds 100, the final remuneration payable for that fiscal year is zero.

4.5(d) Persistence across re-peg events. The accumulated decrement persists across, and continues to be applied after, any resolution, by-law, or amendment that establishes, resets, updates, or otherwise modifies the base compensation of City of London elected officials, including without limitation the update of Councillor base compensation directed by section 4.3 of this Policy and by Council resolution 2025-C06 clause (d) (November 4, 2025), and any subsequent periodic re-peg under similar provisions or resolutions. Any such re-peg or update modifies the input to step (i) of subsection (c) of this section for the affected fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years; the accumulated decrement continues to be applied in step (ii) on each such re-pegged value.

4.5(e) Calculation and publication by Treasurer. The City Treasurer shall:

(i) calculate the levy change percentage, the assessment growth amount, and the accumulated decrement for each fiscal year in which this section is in force,

(ii) maintain a record of these values in the records of the office of the City Clerk,

(iii) include the current fiscal year’s levy change percentage, the assessment growth amount used in that calculation, the accumulated decrement, and the final remuneration payable for the Mayor and Councillors in the City’s published annual budget documents and in any annual remuneration disclosure required by law,

(iv) where the annual rating by-law for a fiscal year has not been adopted before the first remuneration payment date in that fiscal year, use the previous fiscal year’s accumulated decrement for interim remuneration calculations and reconcile any difference in the first remuneration payment following adoption of the annual rating by-law, and

(v) without limiting subsection (iv), where any calculation under subsection (i), maintenance of records under subsection (ii), or publication under subsection (iii) has not been completed before the date on which the relevant annual rating by-law is adopted, perform the calculation, recording, or publication as soon as practicable and in any event no later than 60 days after the end of the relevant fiscal year, and apply the resulting accumulated decrement retroactively to the remuneration for the relevant fiscal year, with any over- or under-payment reconciled in the next remuneration payment period following the calculation, and the City may recover any overpayment by deduction from one or more subsequent remuneration payments to the affected elected official or as a debt due to the City.

The duties in this subsection are automatic and self-executing upon this section coming into force and do not require further direction or authorization of Council in any fiscal year.

4.5(f) First year of application. This section first applies to the remuneration payable for the first fiscal year that begins on or after the date this by-law comes into force. The levy change percentage for that fiscal year is determined under clause (a)(iii) of this section, comparing that fiscal year to the immediately preceding fiscal year. The previous fiscal year’s accumulated decrement for the purpose of subsection (b) is zero in the first fiscal year of application.

4.5(g) For Greater Certainty. This section does not alter the base compensation of any elected official as set or maintained by Council under any other provision of this Policy or under any other resolution or by-law, does not restrict or alter Council’s authority to set the property tax levy in any year, and does not restrict or alter Council’s authority to set or update the base compensation. This section operates by maintaining and applying a separate accumulated decrement to the remuneration otherwise payable, and that decrement applies regardless of the value of any base compensation set by Council. Council’s authority to amend or repeal this section is not restricted, but any such amendment or repeal must be done through a properly-passed by-law and is subject to the same public process as any amendment to this Policy.

4.5(h) Internal Priority. If there is any conflict between this section and any other provision of this Policy, this section prevails to the extent of the conflict. For greater certainty, this subsection applies only to interpretation conflicts within section 4 of this Policy relating to annual adjustment, base compensation, and levy-linkage, and nothing in this section prevents sections 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 of this Policy from operating according to their terms in the computation under step (i) of subsection (c) of this section.

4.5(i) Rounding. All percentage and percentage-point calculations under this section shall be rounded to two decimal places at each computational step.

Coming Into Force

This by-law shall come into force and effect on the day of its passage.

A pilot for direct democracy

The drafting of this bylaw was conducted in public. The full text, every parameter, every section of prose, and the record of every suggested change, accepted or rejected, are available on GitHub.

This is a pilot. If elected, I commit to using the same public-drafting process for every substantive motion I bring forward during my term of office. Direct democracy doesn’t replace representative democracy. It makes sure your councillor knows where you stand on every issue, not just at election time.

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