The Saint-Leonard borough council is the local governing body of Saint-Leonard, a borough in the City of Montreal. The council consists of five members: the borough mayor (who also serves as a Montreal city councillor), two Montreal councillors elected for Saint-Leonard's electoral districts, and two borough councillors. The borough council, like others in Montreal, is able to approve some contracts without seeking the approval of the

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'' article from May 2009 indicated that Saint-Leonard was paying more expenditures since dividing its management of parks and sports facilities into two twenty-year contracts. All members of the borough council are from Ensemble Montréal. Since the 2021 Montreal municipal election a majority of the borough council members are women.

Current members

;Information on the borough councillors Dominic Perri holds a

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Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer The Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer was a Catholic school board located on the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. It oversaw French and English schools in the former independent municipalities of Anjou, Saint-Leonard, and Montreal-Est a ...

'' from 1984 to 1987. Suzanne De Larochellière is a retired Sûreté du Québec police officer who served for more than 30 years in the force. Arij El Korbi is an ex-commissioner for the now defunct Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île (CSPI). She is the first Tunisian woman to serve on the borough council in Saint-Leonard. She is the youngest member of the borough's delegation. Angela Gentile is a businesswoman born and raised in Saint-Leonard. She was scheduled to run in the March 14, 2020 Saint-Leonard East by-election but the election was called off at the last minute due to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in Quebec.{{Cite web , title=Angela Gentile Conseiller de ville , url=https://ensemblemtl.org/en/team/angela-gentile/ , access-date=2022-10-17 , website=Ensemble Montréal , language=en-US

References

Municipal government of Montreal Saint-Leonard, Quebec