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City Hall Watcher #370: A recap of a short Council meeting and a preview of another one, with notes on the tiny details in Mayor Olivia Chow's budget, visitor parking, a SmartTrack audit, and more

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Matt Elliott
Feb 09, 2026
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Hey there, sports fans. Forget the Super Bowl. Ignore those Olympics. The real spectacle this week will be at City Hall, where 26 of the City’s most municipally-elected people will gather to spar and joust and try to get their iPad to log in to a web-based voting interface. It’s all in service of considering a $19 billion operating budget.

In this issue,…

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