Council requests & answers

What the council has asked the administration — and what it's still owed.

When the City Council wants something from the administration, a councillor files a Policy Order. If adopted, the request is logged as an Awaiting Report — an open question with a number. When the City Manager responds, the answer arrives on the City Manager's Agenda and the question closes. Every item in a chain shows its own timeline.

The City Manager reports all outstanding questions as a single bundled “Awaiting Report Status Update” line on the agenda — one item, no count. Itemized from the record, here is what that actually contains. At each two-year term's end the council votes which unanswered reports carry over; the rest are cleared.

⏳ Outstanding reports — 47

Awaiting Reports referred by the current council (2026–27) and the term just ended (2024–25) — carried onto the live docket — with no written answer on the record. This is the count the single bundled status item leaves unstated.

📨 Recently answered

📊 Answer rate by term

Across all 812 requests on record since 2018, the administration has answered 468 (57%), a median of 63 days after referral. Older terms' unanswered items were mostly cleared at term's end rather than left pending.

🐢 Slowest answers on record

Answer links come straight from the agenda record. Policy-order origins are matched by text (~90% reliable); a dash means the origin isn't on the record.