tax, shelter, transit, housing, utilities¶

Original source: Edmonton Open Data, dataset ekzq-b4qg, https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/ekzq-b4qg.json Retrieved: 2026-07-04 m_janz = Janz, a_knack = Knack. Tallies over 13 seats.

Budget / property tax¶

2022-11-30 — MAIN BUDGET, 2023 Operating Budget (moved K. Principe, sec. J. Rice): "That the 2023 Operating Budget be approved as follows: 1. Total tax-supported operations with revenues of $3,287,196,000 and expenditures of $3,287,196,000..." — Janz YES, Knack NO, carried 8–5. This is the budget that set the 2023 property-tax increase.

2022-11-30 — 2023–2026 Capital Budget (moved T. Cartmell, sec. J. Rice): "That the 2023-2026 Capital Budget for tax-supported operations in the amount of $7,908,195,829... be approved." — Janz YES, Knack YES, carried.

2023-11-07 — 2023 Fall Supplemental Capital and Operating Budget process — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 11–1.

Shelter (regulation / criminalization angle)¶

2023-11-06 — Charter Bylaw 20657, "To allow for a low[-barrier shelter]": amendment adding a restricting clause to Section 4 — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 7–5 (Knack backing the added restriction). 2024-06-10 — Charter Bylaw 20842, temporary shelter locations, "Implications of Limiting Temporary Shelter Locations" — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 11–1. 2025-06-09 — Bylaw 21193: amendment adding a sunset clause limiting a youth/shelter use — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 9–4. 2025-08-18 — Bylaw 20890, "To Introduce Shelter Regulations": amendment "That Bylaw 20890 be amended by deleting Part 2" — Janz NO, Knack NO, defeated 3–8. (Both on the losing side of this specific amendment; the shelter-regulation bylaw itself advanced.)

Transit enforcement / conduct¶

2022-06-07 — Bylaw 19983, Amending Bylaw 8353 Conduct of Transit Passenger Bylaw (enforcement powers): third reading — Janz NO, Knack YES, carried 9–3. Janz's amendment to delete the enforcement section 10(2)(a) — Janz YES, Knack NO, defeated 5–8. Pattern repeats: Knack backs transit enforcement, Janz resists it.

EPCOR / utilities¶

Most EPCOR rate filings and reports (water, drainage, waste, Blatchford energy) passed unanimously with both voting YES — e.g. 2022-11-30 Waste Services 2023–2024 Rate Filing (Janz YES, Knack YES, 12–1); 2023 EPCOR water/drainage reports received for information (Janz YES). One split: 2023-07-04 Downtown District Energy Initiative — EPCOR agreements carried 10–3 with Janz YES, Knack NO.

Housing¶

Affordable-housing motions were largely unanimous; the few splits are procedural/land-deal amendments rather than up/down votes on building units (e.g. 2025-02-04 Surplus School Site sale/lease amendment, Janz NO Knack NO, 5–8). No recorded vote in this dataset shows either councillor voting against an affordable-housing build; the housing story is about pace and reliance on other orders of government, better told from Administration reports than from roll-calls.

Pattern summary¶

Across police, transit enforcement, and shelter regulation, Knack consistently votes for the order/enforcement side and Janz consistently against it. On the big-ticket property-tax budget it flips: Janz voted YES to the 2023 operating budget, Knack voted NO.