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The City of Saskatoon has abandoned a plan to release the summer communications spending by city council before the fall election.

Communications spending by the mayor and city councillors for June through August was supposed to be released this month, but city clerk Joanne Sproule said it will not be ready until after the Oct. 26 election.

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“We weren’t able to provide that report in September because we don’t have all the invoices,” Sproule said in an interview Thursday.

The communications allowance approved by city council in 2013 has come under attack by mayoral candidate Henry Dayday as unfair during an election year.

Some councillors have used their $10,000 annual allowance on billboards and bus stop ads, which Dayday has slammed as a misuse of public money to give incumbents a big advantage over challengers. He’s also said allowing councillors to claim tickets for events is a waste of money.