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Ottawa mayor loses bid to shrink city council
Watson's motion defeated 15-9, city council to remain 23 in size plus the mayor (ZT)
Shrinking the size of council is one election promise Mayor Jim Watson won’t keep. Watson tabled a motion Wednesday asking staff to establish a process to review the city’s ward boundaries.
He was trying to make good on a campaign pitch f rom 2010, when he vowed to trim council from 23 councillors to between 14 and 17 councillors plus a mayor to save $2 million annually.
It was the first time this term most councillors formed a collective voice against a major policy proposal put forward by Watson, who lost the vote 15-9.
Watson didn’t lobby his colleagues for support and he encouraged councillors to vote against it if they truly didn’t believe in changing the wards in time for the 2014 municipal election.
“It was part of my platform and I lost the vote, so obviously I’m disappointed,” Watson said.