Before and during an election

1.

Travel for Returning Officer

Paid once for each official review and changes

Paid once during an election

Rural — personal driving, each kilometre

$ .35

— other transportation and related travel expenses

Receipts

Urban — for each polling place and advance poll

4.30

2.

Sundry Items

Reimbursement of cash outlays for office supplies, stationery, postage, pay telephone calls, base maps and required copies of final maps, etc.

Receipts

3.

Payment for any election expenses not specifically set out but necessary and reasonable for the proper conduct of an election

Receipts

Before an election

Returning officer and election clerk

4.

Course on electoral procedure and other election duties as directed by the Chief Election Officer

Attendance — including part payment for part days, each per day

170.00

Personal driving, each kilometre

.35

Other transportation and related travel expense

Receipts

Returning officer

5.

Polling Divisions

Review, when ordered by the Chief Election Officer

450.00

Changes, when determined as necessary after review, with detailed descriptions of all boundaries, maximum

900.00

Maps, preparation of map or maps of electoral district with polling division boundaries and poll numbers shown by bold dark lines in such manner as to be suitable for reproduction of copies required for distribution, maximum

400.00

Typed descriptions, on 8½ by 14 inch white paper as per format supplied by the Chief Election Officer and including the production of carbon or machine copies required for distribution

490.00

6.

Storage of election supplies at home or elsewhere (no insurance required), per month

36.00

7.

Key — preparation of original or revised key to urban polling divisions, typed on 8 ½ by 14 inch white paper as per format supplied by the Chief Election Officer and including the production of carbon or machine copies sufficient for distribution, per original page

15.00

Plus — in an urban electoral district

550.00

— in a mixed urban and rural electoral district,

minimum

120.00

maximum

550.00

8.

Preliminary selection of polling places with an accessibility report to the Chief Election Officer

305.00

During an election

Returning officer

9.

Personal fee

All duties including revision

3,425.00

Plus — Name fee — for each name on the polling list

If a poll is held (minimum $5,000)

.18

If no poll is held (minimum $2,500)

.08

10.

Notice of enumeration fee

All duties connected with addressing, sorting by postal code and mailing notice of enumeration for each name enumerated

.12

Payment of office or other personnel

11.

Stenographers, typists, clerical assistants and other help in the returning office and for persons to post notices of poll — for each name on the polling list

.20

Cost of film projectionist where necessary

Vouchers

Rentals

12.

Office rental as approved by the Chief Election Officer

Approved Contract

Facilities for instruction meetings, office furniture, business machines and film projector

Vouchers

Election clerk

13.

Personal fee, all duties including those of revision assistant

3/5 of item 12

14.

Rural travel (there is no urban allowance for election clerks)

Personal driving as directed by the returning officer, each kilometre

.35

Related rural travel expenses as directed by the returning officer

Receipts

Recount

15.

Attendance by a returning officer and election clerk at a judicial recount or appeal from decision on recount and paid to each, per day

170.00

Other election officer

16.

When appointed by the returning officer with the approval of the Chief Election Officer to assist the returning officer in special circumstances

All duties as directed for those days and polling divisions allocated by the returning officer, per day

125.00

Plus — if located other than in the returning office

Personal driving in rural areas, each kilometre

.35

Other rural transportation and related travel expenses

Receipts

Sundry supplies

Receipts

Regular enumerators

17.

For the enumeration of a polling division and the preparation and posting of the typed list of electors as directed and approved by the returning officer and paid to each:

Basic fee, including personal driving and incidental

Rural

105.00

Urban

75.00

Attendance at class of instruction including travel to and from

40.00

For each name on typed list submitted to the returning officer

.52

Personal driving in rural or mixed rural and urban electoral districts delivering lists to the returning officer after a total of sixteen kilometres of travel, each kilometre

.35

Typing of lists by other than the enumerator, to be deducted from the total fee payable to the enumerator, per name

.08

Special enumerators

18.

Special enumeration or other related duties as directed by the returning officer and paid to each, per day

70.00

Personal driving, rural and urban — paid for one vehicle per pair of enumerators, each kilometre

.35

Revising agent

19.

Each pair appointed only under special circumstances and with the prior approval of the Chief Election Officer, per day

70.00

Personal driving, rural and urban — paid for one vehicle per pair of revising agents, each kilometre

.35

Revision assistant

20.

When appointed by the returning officer with the approval of the Chief Election Officer to assist the returning officer in special circumstances

All duties as directed and for those days and polling divisions allocated by the returning officer (a minimum seven hour day), per day

125.00

Plus — if located other than in returning office

Personal driving in rural areas, each kilometre

.35

Other rural transportation and related travel expenses

Receipts

Sundry items

Receipts

21.

Final selection of polling places and necessary rental agreement negotiations

305.00

Polling place rental

22.

Furnished as per poll rental agreement per polling place, per day

90.00

Deputy returning officer

23.

All duties in connection with attending and holding a poll and making a return, including advance polls or on stand-by in the returning office, per day

135.00

Attendance at class of instruction including travel to and from

40.00

Postage for returning ballot box contents in remote areas

Receipts

Personal driving in rural or mixed rural and urban electoral districts picking up or returning election material after a total of sixteen kilometres of travel in each case, each kilometre

.35

Poll clerk

24.

All duties in connection with attending and holding a poll, including advance polls, per day

100.00

Attendance at class of instruction including travel to and from

40.00

Other poll officials

25.

Poll Co-ordinator

Attendance at a polling location with three or more polling places, per day

135.00

Attendance at a class of instruction including travel to and from

40.00

26.

Traffic Director when required at a polling location, per day

50.00

Security guard

27.

When required by the returning officer and authorized by the Chief Election Officer

Vouchers

Printing

List of electors

28.

For reproducing from pages supplied by the returning officer up to 100 copies of each page, gathered and stitched into poll sets by page number, the sets sorted into poll number sequence and delivered to the returning officer, including up to 25 complete sets, trimmed and bound with cardboard covers, up to $23 per page

Film and metal plate (if required), up to $13 per page

When collated into complete sets in poll number sequence, up to $11 per poll

Proclamation

29.

As sample format — up to a maximum of 300 copies (English or French or both English and French), up to $100 the lot

Film and plates, if required, up to $14 each

Notice of enumeration card

30.

Printing two sides, black ink, on white bristol; as per specification set out by the Chief Election Officer

First 100 cards per poll, up to $19

Each additional 100 cards per poll, up to $3.25

Notice of poll

31.

As sample format — up to a maximum of 400 copies (English or French or both English and French), up to $105 the lot

Film and plate, if required, up to $14 each

Ballots

32.

Printing two sides, numbering once on perforated stub and stitched or stapled (no gumming) into pads of twenty-five ballots each —

set up cost, up to $745 the lot

Plus:

2 or 3 names per ballot, up to $27 per 1000

4 names per ballot, up to $38 per 1000

5 names per ballot, up to $40 per 1000

6 names per ballot, up to $45 per 1000

7 names per ballot, up to $48 per 1000

Sundry printing

33.

As ordered by the returning officer

Invoices

34.

The following districts are designated as “Northern” and are subject to special allowance:

Algoma

Parry Sound

Algoma-Manitoulin

Port Arthur

Cochrane North

Rainy River

Cochrane South

Renfrew North

Fort William

Sault Ste. Marie

Kenora

Sudbury

Lake Nipigon

Sudbury East

Nickel Belt

Timiskaming

Nipissing

Special fees in northern electoral districts

Urban travel allowance — for each polling place and advance poll

4.80

Personal driving, each kilometre

.36

Name fee — minimum payable

— if poll is held

8,000.00

— if no poll is held

4,500.00