Analysis How city councillors are spending your money

By Joanne Chianello, CBC News Ottawa, March 19, 2018

When we think about how the city spends our money, what comes to mind are light rail, snow removal and garbage collection, not what councillors pay for brochures or cellphones.

But over a four-year term, councillors have sole discretion over how to spend $23 million running their offices. And how they decide to use that substantial budget is surprisingly different from office to office.

From the time they were sworn in Dec. 1, 2014, you've paid more than $750,000 for councillors to advertise themselves to you, $50,000 for them to serve you coffee, doughnuts and, in many cases, take their staff to lunch, and $168,000 for their parking.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-city-councillors-spend-office-budgets-1.4574418

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