Full first quarter Calgary city councillor expenses were posted this week, and all in all, it’s a pretty clean set of books.

There aren’t any $20 orange juices or dubious FCM ‘hosting fees’ in this set of councillor expenses.

But we won’t let them get off scot free. Someone’s always watching…

Councillor expenses – overview

In Q1, the average total expenditure for councillors, including ward staff salaries was $53,318. The bulk of the Wards, 9 out of 14, ranged from between $50,008 and $59,544 for total expenditures.

Raj Dhaliwal and Andre Chabot had the lowest expenditures at $33,077 and $38,689, respectively. While Richard Pootmans and Sean Chu had the highest expenditures at $63,373 and $65,848.

Each ward has a budget of $278,400, for a total of $3,897,600. To date, $746,447 or about 19 per cent of that budget has been spent.

(Aryn Toombs gathered the data and produced the graphics.)