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Ward 1

Grace Simon

Tracker

C

$55,894.21

2025 Town salary

Their grade

No letter

She is not seeking another term, so she did not file the 2026 self-grade card.

2025 Sunshine List

Not on the list

Town salary $55,894.21

The 2025 disclosure, published March 27, 2026, has no council row for this person. The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act covers pay of $100,000 or more. The Town treasurer’s statement for the same year says its employment-income column is the amount that would be reported for that disclosure if it applied. That salary is $55,894.21. It does not include taxable benefits or expenses, which the same statement lists separately and which differ by councillor.

Not running · five candidates filed. Elected in 2018 and again in 2022, with 1,899 votes to Mark Holmes’s 794. She is serving out the term and leaving for work, grandchildren, and volunteer advocacy.

Includes Stonehaven Avenue on the town’s 2019 ward index. She has described Copper Hills as a traffic-calming concern.

Ask this councillorGrace Simon

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Her 2022 ward asks — a dog park, Copper Hills traffic calming, and basketball courts — do not have a completion report on this page. The mayor credits her with ward park work and speed mitigation. That is his summary, not a project list.

The C is this site’s grade. Letters below, where they exist, are the councillor’s own card. The mayor’s grade remains B-.

She is not seeking another term, so she did not file the 2026 self-grade card.

Promises

  • Unverified

    A dog park, basketball courts, and Copper Hills traffic calming

    In the 2022 campaign she said residents wanted those three things and she would work on them. A later town story credits her, in the mayor’s words, with improved park spaces and speed mitigation. Which parks and which streets is not specified.

  • Delivered

    Replace the body-rub parlour category

    Council repealed the body-rub classification and adopted personal-wellness rules after a review she pushed. She told advocates who feared the trade would be driven underground that policing that risk was not the municipality’s job.

What changed

Better means a sourced improvement in the ward. Worse means a source shows the ward lost something. Mixed means both. Still open means the claim is not checked yet.

  • Mixed

    Personal-wellness rules replaced body-rub licences

    Wellness businesses are no longer licensed as body-rub parlours. Advocacy groups warned the crackdown could push erotic massage, and people being exploited, out of sight. The town has not published a count of that outcome.

  • Still open

    Ward 1 park and speed projects are not itemized

    She also cites plastic packaging taken out of town facilities and water stations at events. Those are town-wide. A list of Ward 1 parks or streets finished in this term is still missing.

This file has no worse mark. A blank here means a loss has not been documented, and the open items above are still unchecked.