Josh Morgan
Mayor of London for the 2026–2030 term. Previously Mayor, 2022–2026.
2022–2026 on council
The 2022–2026 record below was kept under the old ward boundaries. London redrew its wards for 2026, so a member's old ward number can differ from the ward they now represent.
How Josh voted
As Mayor, 2022–2026. Landmark votes from the council scorecard, newest first.
- SEPT 22, 2026 · TRANSIT● FOR
Council directed staff to bring forward a by-law making the London Transit Commission a seven-member body of four councillors and three citizen members with relevant expertise, with a quorum of four and one annual report to council, and to advertise all seven seats (Councillor Franke's motion).
Passed 14-1 eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- AUG 25, 2026 · HOMELESSNESS○ AGAINST
As a condition of the 2026-27 winter response, Council required every proposed location to pass a fire and by-law compliance review, with sign-off from City officials, before any related contract is signed.
Passed 10-5 eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- AUG 25, 2026 · HOMELESSNESS○ AGAINST
An amendment (same meeting as the winter response vote) to remove from the City's Emergency Shelter Guidelines any provision that prohibits discharging, or restricting service to, a person for using illegal substances inside an emergency shelter.
Motion failed, 6-9 eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- JUL 21, 2026 · SAFETY AND POLICING● FOR
Council directed staff to report back on the feasibility of implementing a permanent City of London Special Constable Program, including costs, funding options such as automated speed enforcement revenue, and the legal authority to enforce traffic offences, including in school zones.
Passed 10-5 (part e, on impacts to existing services, passed separately 13-2) eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- JUN 16 / 23, 2026 · DOWNTOWN● FOR
Committee endorsed "Downtown Reimagined," a 10-year, 58-action, $48M (unallocated) downtown plan; Council ratified it a week later.
Passed 12-1 at Council on June 23, 2026 (2 absent). Committee had endorsed it 11-2 on June 16. eSCRIBE Council minutes, June 23, 2026 ↗
- MAR 31, 2026 · HOUSING● FOR
Council amended the short-term accommodation licensing by-law to provide an exemption or modified occupancy provision for hosted short-term rentals, where the owner or operator is on site during the guest's stay.
Passed 12-3 eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- DEC 16, 2025 · HOUSING● FOR8
Council adopted an Urban Growth Boundary expansion (Official Plan Amendment 166, By-law C.P.-1512(fk)-11): roughly 1,582 hectares of new community-growth land and 88 hectares of industrial land to cover projected growth to 2054, and sent it to the Province, which had not decided as of October 29, 2026.
Passed 9-3 (3 absent) on the committee recommendation. The by-law itself, C.P.-1512(fk)-11 (Bill No. 11), passed third reading 10-2 the same night (Nays: Trosow and Franke; Ferreira voted for the by-law after voting against the recommendation; minutes PDF p. 40). Cells show the 9-3 recommendation vote. eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- DEC 16, 2025 · HOUSING○ AGAINST8
An amendment (same meeting as the boundary adoption vote) adding further parcels to the boundary expansion beyond the staff-recommended map: two lots in Concession 3 and 1425-1439 Oxford Street West.
Passed 7-5 (3 absent) eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- NOV 20, 2025 · TAXES AND BUDGET○ AGAINST
A councillor motion at Budget Committee to add Business Case P-24 to the Mayor's 2026 Annual Budget Update, eliminating the Climate Change Reserve Fund contribution and lowering the tax levy by $192,000 in each of 2026 and 2027.
Motion failed, 4-11 eSCRIBE Budget Committee minutes ↗
- NOV 18-20, 2025 · TAXES AND BUDGET● FOR4
Budget Committee shaved the Mayor's proposed 2026 property-tax increase from 3.6% to 3.4% (part of the 2026 Annual Budget Update, see "How to read this").
Passed 12-3 City of London, Budget Committee minutes (Nov. 20, 2025) ↗
- NOV 4, 2025 · COUNCIL ITSELF● FOR3
Council approved indexing councillor base pay to the 70th percentile of full-time employment income for Londoners (2021 Census), up from the median, taking base pay from ~$67,420 to roughly $94,000 effective for the term starting after the Oct. 2026 election. Council voted the task force recommendations part by part; this was part a), and at 9-6 it passed by the narrowest margin of any part that day.
- JUL 22, 2025 · ROADS AND CONSTRUCTION● FOR
Council approved the Mobility Master Plan Report and directed staff to file a Notice of Completion and make the report available for the statutory 30-day public review period.
Passed 10-2 (3 absent) eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- APR 22, 2025 · HOMELESSNESS○ AGAINST
Council directed staff to stop operating the Watson Park service depot for people living unhoused and move to the recently approved mobile service model.
Passed 9-6 eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- APR 1, 2025 · HOMELESSNESS● FOR
Council restored $610,577 in daytime drop-in funding for Ark Aid Street Mission's 696 Dundas St. location, after a March 2025 committee vote had rejected it.
Passed 11-3 (1 absent) eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- APR 1, 2025 · ROADS AND CONSTRUCTION● FOR
Council directed staff to restart the Discover Wonderland Road environmental assessment from Southdale Road to Fanshawe Park Road, to build six general-purpose lanes with a long-term option to convert to bus rapid transit, and to use the widening's estimated cost in the 2028 Development Charges Background Study.
Passed 9-6. Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee had voted 9-6 on March 25, 2025. eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- APR 1, 2025 · TRANSIT● FOR
Council vacated the London Transit Commission's membership, removing all of its current members effective April 1, 2025, and directed a by-law making the commission an interim body of Council members pending a governance review (five members in the motion as voted, changed to seven by a later amendment the same day).
Passed 10-5. Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee had voted 9-6 on March 25, 2025 to dissolve the commission. eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- DEC 17, 2024 · COUNCIL ITSELF● FOR
Council approved new boundaries for all 14 wards (Final Option 1, as amended), effective for the Oct. 26, 2026 election.
Passed 14-1 eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- DEC 17, 2024 · COUNCIL ITSELF● FOR
Council suspended Stevenson's pay for 30 days after the Integrity Commissioner found a pattern of bullying/harassment of Deputy City Manager Kevin Dickins. A prior amendment to reduce the sanction to 5 days failed.
Passed 8-6, Stevenson recused (5-day amendment failed 5-9) eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- NOV 5, 2024 · HOMELESSNESS● FOR
As part of its homeless-encampment response plan, Council barred new overnight/daytime resting spaces for people experiencing homelessness from the main street of any of London's five Business Improvement Areas.
Passed 9-6 eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- SEPT 24, 2024 · HOUSING● FOR
Council introduced a "Rental Unit Repair Licence" requiring landlords issuing renoviction (N-13) notices to obtain a licence, permit, and certified report, with escalating fines.
Passed 14-0 (1 absent) eSCRIBE minutes (PDF) ↗
- SEPT 24, 2024 · HOUSING○ AGAINST
A referral motion (same meeting as the renoviction licence vote) to add temporary-accommodation requirements strengthening the renoviction bylaw's tenant protections.
Motion failed, 5-9 (1 absent) eSCRIBE minutes (PDF) ↗
- SEPT 24, 2024 · HOUSING● FOR8
Council adopted Phase 2 of The London Plan review, the Heights Review: up to 35 storeys in Transit Villages, 25 along Rapid Transit Corridors, 15 along Urban Corridors, 10 at major intersections, and stacked townhouses along all Neighbourhood Connectors (in force after provincial approval, July 2025).
Passed 13-1 (1 absent) eSCRIBE minutes (PDF) ↗
- SEPT 24, 2024 · HOUSING○ AGAINST8
An amendment (same meeting as the Heights Review vote) to drop the stacked-townhouse change, keeping them on Neighbourhood Connectors only in central London pending more public consultation.
Motion failed, 6-8 (1 absent) eSCRIBE minutes (PDF) ↗
- FEB 29, 2024 · SAFETY AND POLICING○ AGAINST2
A councillor motion to cut roughly $867,000 from London Police Service's four-year vehicle/equipment funding, as part of the 2024-2027 Multi-Year Budget debate.
Motion failed, 7-8 City of London, Council minutes (Feb. 29, 2024) ↗
- DEC 19, 2023 · COUNCIL ITSELF● FOR
Council formally reprimanded Ward 4 Coun. Susan Stevenson after the Integrity Commissioner found her September 2023 social-media posts breached the Code of Conduct.
Passed 9-6 eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- OCT 17, 2023 · HOUSING● FOR
Council dissolved the volunteer Urban Design Peer Review Panel, which reviewed new-development design, after sponsors argued it added delay/cost during the housing crisis.
Passed 10-4 (1 absent) eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- OCT 17, 2023 · COUNCIL ITSELF○ AGAINST
A councillor motion directing staff to study the feasibility and cost of a mandatory lobbyist registry for London, a public log of who lobbies city hall, which Ontario cities may create but London does not have.
Motion failed, 6-8 (1 absent) eSCRIBE minutes ↗
- SEPT 25, 2023 · HOMELESSNESS● FOR
Council, sitting as its Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee, awarded contracts to Atlohsa Family Healing Services, Youth Opportunities Unlimited and CMHA Thames Valley to run the first three homelessness hubs, at an estimated operating cost of $15,650,424 over two years.
Passed 9-6 at committee; Council ratified the three awards separately on Oct 5, 2023 (11-3, 10-4 and 9-5, 1 absent) eSCRIBE committee minutes ↗
Money
- The City’s 2025 pay statement shows $185,621 in total, of which $163,146 was base pay. Council pay
Where Josh sat
Boards and bodies in the 2022–2026 term. New appointments are made after the term starts.
- London Transit Commission (Commissioner)
- London Police Services Board (member (statutory seat as head of council))
- London Public Library Board
- Tourism London (non-voting, ex-officio)
- RBC Place London
- London Economic Development Corporation
- County/City Liaison Committee
- University of Western Ontario Board of Governors
- Community and Protective Services Committee (ex officio)
- Infrastructure and Corporate Services Committee (ex officio)
- Planning and Environment Committee (ex officio)
- Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee
- Budget Committee
No Integrity Commissioner findings in the 2022–2026 term.