Calgary council could open the door to adding more city wards yyccc
Currently, each councillor has a budget for three people, including an executive assistant, community liaison and a communications person. He said the increased demand on councillors and their staff is noticeable as they approach the 1-to-100,000 ratio.
“When you think of it relative to the overall expenditures of a big city government like Calgary, adding a number of councillors to the total would be a budgetary drop in the bucket,” he said, noting when you have a bigger council, you tend to have fewer staff. “It’s a question of thinking through the quality of democratic representation that we have in the city.”Article content
Duane Bratt, a political science professor at Mount Royal University, said it comes down to representation. Red Deer has six councillors and a mayor for the number of people represented by one councillor in Calgary. When it was increased to 14 almost 47 years ago, each councillor represented 33,571 people.Article content
Lucas said there is a risk that comes with under-representation that has been underscored during the pandemic.
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