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He received an endorsement from the Toronto Star and was once again re-elected in Ward 14, over nine other candidates. In his second term, Perks was named chair of the Toronto and East York Community Council. [9] In the 2014 municipal election, Perks was re-elected for a third term. He once again was endorsed by The Star. [10]
The role of the executive committee is to set the City of Toronto's priorities, manage financial planning and budgeting, labour relations, human resources, and the operation of City Council. The committee existed in the old City of Toronto beginning in 1969. Before that Toronto had a Board of Control, as did former cities North York and Etobicoke.
Prior to the election, the province of Ontario passed the Strong Mayors Act, which granted the office of mayor additional powers including the development of the budget, creating council committees, appointing the chairs and vice chairs of those committees, the power to reorganize departments, appointing department heads, and appointing the city manager.
The powers of the City of Toronto are exercised by its legislative body, known as Toronto City Council, which is composed of 25 members and the mayor. The council passes municipal legislation (called by-laws ), approves spending, and has direct responsibility for the oversight of services delivered by the city and its agencies.
Jennifer Keesmaat (born 1970) [1] is a Canadian real estate developer and urban planner who served as Chief City Planner of Toronto from 2012 to 2017 [2] [3] and the runner-up in the 2018 Toronto mayoral election to Mayor John Tory, where she won 23.6% of the vote and lost to Tory in each of Toronto's 25 wards.
After the 2010 mayoral election, Vaughan was an outspoken critic of then-Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. As a member of City Council Vaughan sat on the Toronto Police Services Board, [6] the Planning and Growth Management Committee, the Toronto Arts Council, Artscape Board, the Board of Trustees for the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Harbourfront ...
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Urban planning, Land economics, Housing First woman to have received a PhD in Planning in Canada [35] She was the City of Vancouver's co-director of Planning and led the community consultation of city of Vancouver's first citywide plan. [36] Ann has been a global planning advisor for many fast growing cities in China, Sweden and Australia.