Peterborough By The Numbers
AJ Shearer · Data & Accountability
Data · Context · Accountability

Don't take my word for it.

Look at the data. Explore where City money goes, how the numbers change over time, and how Council made significant decisions behind them through a growing verified voting archive.

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The standard
Source it.

Public claims should trace back to an official City document, report or minute.

Label it.

Draft, recommended, adopted and actual figures are different things. The dashboard keeps them different.

Separate fact from analysis.

The data layer should be useful even to someone who disagrees with my political conclusions.

01 · Budget

Where does the money go?

Compare operating totals and normalized service trends without hiding reorganizations, recategorizations or shortened comparison windows.

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02 · Council votes

How did Council vote?

Search significant motions by topic, financial impact and councillor, with a source link back to the official record.

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03 · Tax drivers

What actually drove the increase?

See the City's final 2026 levy-change factors — including an explicit distinction between recurring costs and the one-time $3M Legacy reserve offset.

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04 · Outcomes

What are we getting for it?

Connect spending to measurable outcomes where defensible metrics exist instead of treating dollars spent as the outcome itself.

KPI model queued
Current build status

Foundation dataset

Approved/final 2022-2026 backbone loaded; 13 normalized service net-requirement series now published, including qualified 2023-2026 Public Works and Recreation/Parks/Culture series; Legacy Fund one-time-vs-recurring treatment documented. first verified recorded-vote batch loaded from official City minutes, with budget, policing, reserve, library and homelessness decisions; ingestion continues.

Scope: 2022-2026