The duty of a person/party(council) to act on behalf of somebody else (taxpayer), in most cases its financial.
I am reading the replies from several incumbents who are in this section talking about fiduciary responsibility and I can't help but think every one of them justified these catered meals and alcohol or ignored the ban on catered meals and alcohol. $677K was spent on meals and alcohol in 4 years, out of which $177K was spent on one high-end restaurant without an RFP.
I will put forward a motion in my first 10 days to ban this practice. The city quoted me $1900 to get information about the money spent on brownstone restaurant over 4 years. It left me wondering if I am in the 1970s and if they aren't using accounting software. Canadian taxpayers federation has filed for this FOI, but last time I checked they are still waiting on a response. Maybe the city will reply after this upcoming election.