How Paula Fletcher voted at council

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1. 2025.MM33.4ADOPTED

   Taking Back Control of Our City Services to Deliver Higher Standards, Lower Costs and Greater Accountability

   The City employs thousands of motivated, skilled, and trained professionals and subject matter experts. The services and advice that these public servants provide on a daily basis helps to ensure that Toronto is consistently ranked as one of the best cities in the world to live in. Unfortunately, a troubling trend has emerged in recent years. Spending on outside consultants rose markedly over the tenure of the previous administration. From 2014 to 2023 (the most recent year data was made available), the City and its Agencies increased spending on outside consultants from $11.2 million to $57.7 million. This figure does not capture considerable additional expenditures on consultants involved with the delivery of capital projects. While the City will always require some external expertise, core responsibilities such as playground design, planning studies, and crosswalks should not be contracted out to high-priced firms. Apart from the increased cost of contracting consultants, there are also ancillary benefits of performing more of this work in-house. A City of Toronto employee has flexibility to perform several roles on our residents’ behalf as opposed to an outside consultan…

   City Council · 2025-10-09 17:48 PM

   Adopt Item

   Paula Fletcher's vote: Absent

   Majority required - MM33.4 - Adopt the item

   Motion result

   Carried

   Recorded tally

   22-1

   Source outcome