You won’t be footing the bill for another local councillor after all.

The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) rejected local activist Antony Niro’s appeal of the city’s decision to not re-divide its existing boundaries from five wards into six in time for next year’s municipal election.

“The OMB chose not to grant the public’s request to improve municipal local representation in Vaughan for the 2014 term,” Mr. Niro wrote in an email this morning.

OMB adjudicator Joseph Sniezek’s decision comes nearly six weeks after a three-day hearing on the matter wrapped up.