Vaughan residents rang in the new year 100,177 pounds lighter as part of their collective pledge to the CBC's Live Right Now initiative – a national program intended to motivate Canadians to unite and improve the health of the country – which ended December 31, 2011. Residents had six months to determine their weight loss goals beginning in June. Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua pledged that Vaughan residents would lose 100,000 pounds collectively.

​Vaughan City Hall and the Joint Operations Centre will be closed for the festive break from Friday, December 23 at noon to Monday, January 2, inclusive. Offices will reopen on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.

Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua has announced that $20,000 from the money raised this year at the Mayor’s Gala and the Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua Annual Charity Golf Classic will be given to the City’s RecAssist fee assistance program.

​The City of Vaughan has presented a record-breaking cheque to the United Way of York Region. In a special presentation at this week’s Council meeting, Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua and Members of Council presented a cheque to Daniele Zanotti, Chief Executive Officer of the United Way in the amount of $73,136.38.

In addition, the Mayor has made a commitment to donate a further $15,000 from the money raised this year at the Mayor’s Gala and the Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua Annual Charity Golf Classic. Another $1,030 was raised by the Pierre Berton Resources Library.

​The City of Vaughan has been cited as a leading example of a municipality implementing a local system for residents to appeal provincial parking and licensing offences by the Law Commission of Ontario. In its recent Modernization of the Provincial Offences Act report, the Commission recommends the wider use of Administrative Monetary Penalties, noting that Vaughan is one of only two municipalities to implement such a system for enforcing parking by-laws.