As deputy mayor, McKelvie, a relative newcomer to City Hall, can act as mayor when the mayor is away from the city or when office is vacant
McKelvie, the city councillor for Scarborough-Rouge Park, will likely take on the role of interim mayor afterFriday night, admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a staffer.
“The Deputy Mayor has, and may exercise, all the rights, powers, and authority of the Mayor, except the by-right-of-office powers of the Mayor as a member of a Community Council,” states Chapter 27 of the Toronto Municipal Code. In her capacity as councillor, McKelvie has served as chair of infrastructure and environment committee, Scarborough Community Council and francophone Affairs Advisory Committee. She also sits on the board of the Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto Hydro Corporation and Toronto Zoo.She graduated with a PhD in geology, specializing in isotope geochemistry, from the University of Toronto in 2006.
McKelvie was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in Scarborough’s chemistry department in 2007, where she researched development of new techniques to assess the sources and fate of environmental contaminants.
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