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Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison’s upcoming fundraiser is intended to skirt the new limit for public disclosure of donors’ names, says the vice-chair of the commission that proposed new campaign financing rules.

However, Linda Moulin, vice-chair of Saskatoon’s municipal review commission, added the $250-a-plate dinner at Prairieland Park on Thursday to bolster Atchison’s re-election war chest falls within the guidelines.

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City council voted last year to lower the threshold at which a donor’s name will be made public from $250 to $100. Atchison argued against lowering the limit, but eventually voted for it.

“Yes, of course it (the dinner) is (intended to avoid public disclosure of donors), but there’s nothing to prohibit him,” Moulin said in an interview on Friday.

It’s believed to be the first time a Saskatoon mayoral candidate has staged an event of this kind, which are common for federal and provincial political parties. Atchison did not stage one to raise money for his 2012 re-election campaign. He said he was unaware of any other such events in previous campaigns.