[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by getbak

If a seat is vacated with more than a year remaining until the next election, a byelection is required, so Jones waited until there were 364 days until the next election before resigning.

I believe he went a while without working (with approval of council), before retiring just into the last year.

I believe Chahal and Carra both have some of the ward 10 budget for staff so that they can help manage ward 10 in addition to their own ward.