Area Service Boards are another new approach that is possible. They can provide a means to deliver a range of municipal services across a broad geographic area. Municipal Amalgamations The provincial government encourages municipal governments to amalgamate with a view that municipal government provides services in the most cost-effective and efficient way possible. Some local governments joined together voluntarily to achieve sustainable services and municipal infrastructure.
In other cases, the province had facilitated amalgamations of municipalities through restructuring commissions and special advisors. In the mid's, expansion of urban areas, changes in responsibilities of local government and provincial government initiatives had led to a massive wave of municipal mergers.
The most important changes saw some counties and regional municipalities merge with their constituent local municipalities. As a result, the number of municipalities was reduced by more than 40 per cent between and , from to In January of , that number went to Amalgamations happened in Northern Ontario as well.
There are no counties in the north. The typical amalgamation in the north involved the amalgamation of one or two municipalities and annexation of unincorporated territory. A provincial governance review of four regions had resulted in the creation of 5 single tier municipalities: the Cities of Ottawa, Greater Sudbury, and Hamilton; and the Towns of Haldimand and Norfolk.
Other Municipal Groups Municipalities have always looked for opportunities to implement more integrated systems of services inside municipal boundaries and between municipal neighbours. It just makes sense to work cooperatively and take advantage of administration and program efficiencies that make services work better for people at the local level. Consolidation of municipal service management has resulted in the creation of 47 Consolidated Municipal Service Managers CMSMs across the whole province.
In Southern Ontario, the CMSM area is frequently aligned along the upper tier boundary region or county and does include a separated town or city if one exists within its geographic boundary. The service manager can be either the upper tier or the separated municipality. Under municipal leadership, CMSMs are implementing a more integrated system of social and community health services for delivery of:.
Breadcrumb Home. About Us. Municipal Municipal governments raise most of the money to pay for these services through property taxes. Additional funding comes from other sources, or "non-tax revenue" including parking fines. In some cases, the Provincial government provides grants, payment in lieu, and other assistance to help pay for services.
The responsibilities of municipal governments are set out in the Municipal Act, Clarington is one of eight lower-tier municipalities within the Regional Municipality of Durham. Each municipality is governed by a council, and includes one member who is the Chief Elected Official Mayor or Reeve :.
Councillors are elected in accordance with the Local Authorities Election Act. The election is by a vote of the electors of the whole municipality unless the municipality is divided into wards. When a municipality is divided into wards, only an elector who is resident in the ward may vote for a councillor in that ward and councillors are elected for each ward. Click to Back to Homepage Home. Across the country there are also band councils , which govern First Nations communities.
These elected councils make decisions that affect their local communities. Skip to Main Content Area. Canada: The Road to Democracy.
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