Wards / Deputy mayor
Tracker
C+
$143,178.98
2025 Sunshine List salary
Their grade
No letter
Declined every grade on the NewmarketToday card. He said voters, not the incumbent, should grade the record.
2025 Sunshine List
$143,178.98
Salary paid · taxable benefits $7,366.18
Filed by the Town of Newmarket under job title Regional Councillor. The name on the List is Thomas Vegh. The Town statement reports T4 employment income of $141,978.98: York Region $63,623.04 and Town $78,355.94. The List salary is $1,200 higher, and the List’s taxable benefits are $1,200 lower. The Town records a $1,200 communication allowance inside taxable benefits.
On the ballot vs. Mohsen Alavi. Ward 1 councillor 2006–2018. Deputy mayor since 2018. Won in 2022 with 9,396 votes to Gordon Prentice’s 5,455.
Town-wide, plus Newmarket’s seat on York Region council. This office is not a ward.
Tracker read
He would not give himself a letter grade and said voters should do that. The neighbourhood-park promise and the claim of 900 events are still his account. The development-charge squeeze he is campaigning on is a provincial decision.
The C+ is this site’s grade. Letters below, where they exist, are the councillor’s own card. The mayor’s grade remains B-.
Declined every grade on the NewmarketToday card. He said voters, not the incumbent, should grade the record.
Promises
- Unverified
Keep taxes manageable while growth is serviced
His 2026 questionnaire names affordability and responsible growth, and seniors’ services with taxes at or below inflation. The town-wide tax comparison lives on the mayor’s record. A deputy-mayor-only tax result is not published.
- New term
Bring downtown-style programming into neighbourhood parks
His dream project is to put the energy of Main Street, Mulock Park, Fairy Lake, and Riverwalk into local parks, including more summer movie nights outside the core. Nothing in that list has a completion date.
- Unverified
Answer residents within 24 hours and take every meeting
He says he answered every email within 24 hours, never refused a meeting, missed two council meetings, and spent about 50 to 75 percent of his office budget. Those figures are not in a town audit on this page.
What changed
Better means a sourced improvement in the ward. Worse means a source shows the ward lost something. Mixed means both. Still open means the claim is not checked yet.
- Still open
First neighbourhood watch in 20 years
He says he worked with the ward councillor and York Regional Police to start it, and that he brought a winter road-salt motion tied to Lake Simcoe. Both are his account. A town report confirming either one is not linked here yet.
- Still open
Development charges pushed onto property taxes
He says provincial cuts to development charges leave Newmarket and York Region paying for growth infrastructure. Staff have briefed council on a federal-provincial offer to cut charges by up to 50 percent for a limited time. The bill is not settled, and it is not a decision he made alone.
This file has no worse mark. A blank here means a loss has not been documented, and the open items above are still unchecked.