Hey big and low spenders

Rookie councillor Ana Bailão (Ward 18, Davenport) outspent her 43 colleagues, expensing $8,665 — including $3,158.65 for magnet calendars and $902.87 for paper calendars.

Bailão said she campaigned on keeping in close touch with her constituents, through town halls, newsletters and the like, and she won’t outspend her $30,000 annual budget.

Behind her were Giorgio Mammoliti, Frank Di Giorgio and the top spender in 2010, Ron Moeser.

Doug Ford is continuing his brother’s tradition of paying office expenses out of his own pocket and expensing nothing. Next lowest were Kristyn Wong-Tam and Doug Holyday.

Donations

Councillors continued giving office money to pet projects:

• David Shiner donated $1,050 from January through March: $150 to the Jewish National Fund of Canada; $100 to the North York Senior Games; $500 to the Canadian Film Centre; and $300 to the Hillcrest Village Soccer Club.

• Norm Kelly gave $200 to Ty-Mac Music Parents Association, to support music programs in two schools.

Parties

• Councillor Paula Fletcher billed taxpayers $200 for a lion dance performance at a Lunar New Year celebration.

• Councillor John Parker spent $1,000 on ice rental and hot drinks for a community skate day at Leaside Gardens arena.

• Glenn De Baeremaeker spent money on a juggler and popcorn machines for a Valentine’s skating party, but got Royal Bank to kick in $5,000 in exchange for mentioning the bank in print and online material.

Oddities

• Newly elected James Pasternak paid a university student he knows $1,631 to do 116.5 hours of data entry. He said he encountered startup costs in taking over the office from former councillor Mike Feldman.

• Giorgio Mammoliti likes to keep in touch — his cellphone bill in mid-January was $2,309.42, with a further payment of $3,617.34 in mid-March.

Councillor Mark Grimes spent $988.75 for 50 “scroll frames.”

Councillor Peter Milczyn spent $100 for updated photographs of himself.

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Mary Fragedakis takes the cake, spending $70 on one for the reopening of the East York Community Centre.

The mayor

Rob Ford spent some money, but much less than predecessor David Miller. Ford’s three-month office tab was $1,093.65, much of it for toner cartridges and staff BlackBerry bills.

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