EPS Funding Formula & Police Budget — Janz / Knack recorded votes

Original source: Edmonton Open Data, dataset ekzq-b4qg (2021–2025 Voting Record with Motion Details) and huhs-auh6 (2017–2021), https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/ekzq-b4qg.json Retrieved: 2026-07-04 Vote columns m_janz (Michael Janz) and a_knack (Andrew Knack). Tallies computed across the 13 council seats; outcome = yes vs no.

The funding-formula arc (2022–2023)

2022-05-18 — Executive Committee, "EPS Funding Formula Policy C604 Further Analysis" (moved E. Rutherford). "That the Edmonton Police Service receives operating funding of $385,000,000 (net operating requirement) starting in 2023 on an ongoing basis..." Knack = no; Janz not on committee. Carried 3–2 at committee.

2022-06-07 — City Council, C604 Further Analysis. Series of votes: - Cartmell/Sohi amendment raising the floor "'$385,000,000' be replaced with '$407,000,000'" — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 12–1 (Janz the lone dissent). - "Part 1 of Motion as Amended, put: That the Edmonton Police Service receives operating funding of $407,000,000 (net operating requirement) starting in 2023 on an ongoing basis." — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 12–1. - Rice/Principe "develop a revised funding formula and related policy, and return... as part of the 2023-2026 Operating Budget deliberations" — Janz NO, Knack NO, carried 11–2.

2022-10-07 — City Council (Non-Regular), "EPS Revised Funding Formula and Related Policy." "That the Edmonton Police Service Funding Formula Council Policy C604A... be approved with the following adjustments..." — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 9–4.

2023-08-22 — City Council, "EPS Funding Formula – Additional Information." "That revised Edmonton Police Service Funding Formula Policy C604B, as set out in Attachment 5 of the August 22, 2023, Financial and Corporate Services report FCS01542, be approved." Moved by A. Knack, seconded K. Tang. — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 9–4. (Knack authored the motion adopting the escalating formula.)

Other police budget votes

2021-11-30 — City Council, Operating Budget Amendment 22 (moved M. Janz, sec. K. Tang): "That the 2022 Edmonton Police Services tax-levy funding be reduced by $11,943,000." — Janz YES, Knack NO, DEFEATED 5–8. (Janz moved the cut; Knack voted to protect the police budget.)

2022-08-15 — Healthy Streets Operation Centre (Chinatown): "That the Edmonton Police Service budget be increased by $2.9 million in 2023 and $5.8 million in [2024]..." — Janz NO, Knack YES.

2024-04-23 — EPS Operating Reserve Payback Strategy: "That the Edmonton Police Service reserve be replenished by the management of Edmonton Police Service operating expenditures from 2024 to 2026." — Janz NO, Knack YES.

2024-05-14 — 2023 EPS Annual Report received for information — Janz NO, Knack YES.

2017–2021 (Knack only; dataset huhs-auh6)

2018-11-28 Knack voted yes to several police budget reductions (e.g. a $2.742M/yr ongoing decrease, carried 10–3; and a failed $6.2M helicopter-replacement cut). 2021-04-06 Knack voted yes on the motion launching the "EPS Funding Formula Policy C604 Further Analysis" (carried 8–5) — the formula's genesis. Knack's police posture hardened between terms: reduction-friendly under Iveson's council, formula-author by 2023.

The honest complication

On police specifically, Janz is the consistent dissenter — he moved to cut the EPS levy, voted against the $407M floor, against C604A, against C604B, and against the mid-cycle police top-ups. Knack is the reliable pro-police-funding vote and personally moved the C604B formula adoption. The thesis's "unwavering support for police" lands squarely on Knack (now Mayor); for Janz the materialist point is that the formula carried anyway (9–4 / 12–1) and locked in autopilot growth regardless of his symbolic no.