The Perth Record

Council

The 4 members seated on the 2022–2026 council. Each is placed here by the minutes that record them present at council, never inferred from a motion.

Council of 2022–2026 · 2018–2022

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What these columns mean

They measure different things and are not interchangeable. Moving a motion usually means sponsoring a staff report’s recommendation onto the floor. Seconding puts a motion up for debate and is often a seat convention rather than agreement. Meetings are counted against the ones each member was on the record for — not against the whole term, because members join and leave mid-term, so two members’ figures here are not comparable.

Individual positions exist for 0 of 1,722 motions — none of them — because Ontario law records names only when a member asks. Members ask on the most contentious items, so that is a deliberately skewed sample and says nothing about the rest.

Mayor

Ed McPherson

Deputy Mayor · seen 2022-11-15 to 2026-09-22

Of the 106 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 262 substantive and 62 procedural motions, and seconded 81. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Also on this council

Dave Bird

Councillor · seen 2022-11-15 to 2026-09-22

Of the 106 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 226 substantive and 22 procedural motions, and seconded 75. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Isabel Anne McRae

Councillor · seen 2022-11-15 to 2026-09-22

Of the 106 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 0 substantive and 0 procedural motions, and seconded 0. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Gary Waterfield

Councillor · seen 2022-11-15 to 2026-09-22

Of the 106 meetings the minutes place them at, they moved 191 substantive and 35 procedural motions, and seconded 65. no recorded vote of theirs is on this record.

Every council meeting (146 meetings)

2026 — 19 meetings
CouncilSeptember 22, 2026
CouncilAugust 20, 2026
Committee of the WholeAugust 11, 2026
CouncilMay 26, 2026
CouncilMarch 24, 2026
CouncilFebruary 24, 2026
Striking CommitteeFebruary 23, 2026
Committee of the WholeFebruary 10, 2026
CouncilJanuary 27, 2026
Striking CommitteeJanuary 27, 2026
Committee of the WholeJanuary 13, 2026
2025 — 28 meetings
CouncilDecember 9, 2025
Committee of the WholeDecember 2, 2025
Committee of AdjustmentDecember 2, 2025
CouncilNovember 25, 2025
Committee of the WholeNovember 4, 2025
CouncilOctober 21, 2025
Committee of AdjustmentOctober 14, 2025
Committee of the WholeOctober 7, 2025
CouncilSeptember 23, 2025
Committee of the WholeSeptember 16, 2025
Committee of the WholeSeptember 9, 2025
CouncilAugust 26, 2025
Special CouncilJuly 4, 2025
CouncilJune 24, 2025
CouncilMay 20, 2025
CouncilApril 22, 2025
Special CouncilApril 14, 2025
Special CouncilApril 8, 2025
CouncilMarch 18, 2025
CouncilFebruary 18, 2025
Striking CommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
CouncilJanuary 28, 2025
Committee of the WholeJanuary 14, 2025
2024 — 26 meetings
CouncilNovember 26, 2024
Committee of the WholeNovember 5, 2024
CouncilOctober 22, 2024
Committee of the WholeOctober 8, 2024
CouncilSeptember 24, 2024
Committee of AdjustmentSeptember 24, 2024
Committee of the WholeSeptember 10, 2024
CouncilAugust 27, 2024
CouncilJune 18, 2024
CouncilMay 21, 2024
CouncilApril 16, 2024
Police Services BoardMarch 20, 2024
CouncilMarch 19, 2024
CouncilFebruary 20, 2024
Committee of the WholeFebruary 6, 2024
CouncilJanuary 30, 2024
Committee of AdjustmentJanuary 30, 2024
Committee of the WholeJanuary 16, 2024
2023 — 35 meetings
CouncilNovember 21, 2023
Police Services BoardNovember 15, 2023
Committee of the WholeNovember 7, 2023
CouncilOctober 17, 2023
Committee of AdjustmentOctober 17, 2023
Committee of the WholeOctober 3, 2023
CouncilSeptember 19, 2023
Committee of the WholeSeptember 5, 2023
Committee of AdjustmentSeptember 5, 2023
CouncilAugust 15, 2023
Special CouncilJune 27, 2023
CouncilJune 20, 2023
Special CouncilJune 20, 2023
CouncilMay 23, 2023
CouncilApril 25, 2023
CouncilMarch 28, 2023
CouncilFebruary 21, 2023
Police Services BoardFebruary 15, 2023
Committee of the WholeFebruary 7, 2023
CouncilJanuary 31, 2023
Committee of the WholeJanuary 10, 2023
2022 — 36 meetings
CouncilDecember 13, 2022
Committee of the WholeDecember 6, 2022
CouncilNovember 22, 2022
Committee of the WholeNovember 15, 2022
CouncilOctober 11, 2022
Committee of the WholeOctober 4, 2022
CouncilSeptember 20, 2022
Police Services BoardSeptember 12, 2022
Committee of the WholeSeptember 6, 2022
CouncilAugust 23, 2022
CouncilJune 28, 2022
CouncilMay 24, 2022
CouncilApril 19, 2022
CouncilMarch 29, 2022
CouncilMarch 1, 2022
CouncilFebruary 15, 2022
Committee of the WholeFebruary 1, 2022
CouncilJanuary 18, 2022
Committee of the WholeJanuary 11, 2022
2021 — 2 meetings
CouncilDecember 14, 2021
CouncilSeptember 21, 2021