Karen Stintz will head a newly-elected seven-councillor Toronto Transit Commission board following a vote Monday evening.

The vote comes just hours after a motion to dissolve the board passed Monday afternoon after a day of heated debate at city hall.

The motion, which was put forward by Stintz, passed 29-15 just before 5 p.m.

The board will now be composed of seven councillors and four civilians.

Councillors voted on the nominees Monday evening, electing the following members:

• Karen Stintz

• Raymond Cho

• John Parker

• Maria Augimeri

• Glenn De Baeremaeker

• Josh Colle

• Peter Milczyn

Among the councillors who were nominated to be on the board were:

• Raymond Cho

• Karen Stintz

• John Parker

• Maria Augimeri

• Glenn De Baeremaeker

• Cesar Palacio

• James Pasternak

• Josh Colle

• Jaye Robinson

• Gary Crawford

• Peter Milczyn

Councillors Gord Perks, Shelley Carroll and Mary-Margaret McMahon were also nominated but declined the position.

Shortly after, Coun. Stintz was reassigned to the role of TTC chair with 24 of 43 ballots cast.

Coun. Milczyn received 19 votes.

The debate to dissolve the board came weeks after Stintz first went public with her disapproval of the mayor's plan to scrap light-rail transit for subways. Stintz said the plan was unaffordable under Toronto's current budget.

Stintz, backed by her council allies, and Coun. Michael Thompson, one of the mayor's allies, presented competing motions at council Monday over the composition of the TTC board.

Stintz pushed to change the commission from a group of nine councillors to a mix of seven councillors and four civilians, in what is believed to be an attempt to boot Mayor Rob Ford's supporters from the TTC board.

Thompson's motion sought to remove all councillors from the board and replace them with private citizens.

At his weekly Cut the Waist weigh-in Monday, Ford stepped off the scale after weighing in at 311 pounds - one pound heavier than a week ago - and declined to answer reporters' questions about the TTC board. His brother, Coun. Doug Ford, skipped the weigh-in event at city hall.

In a blog post on her website, Stintz cited stability and renewal as the reasons for the move to overhaul the board.

After speaking to fellow councillors, Stintz said the overriding belief was that the chair of a new 11-member TTC board must be a city councillor, and the board must be comprised of seven councillors and four citizens.

She said the TTC board members wouldn't be pre-determined.

Stintz presented her motion after Ford's allies on the TTC board, who represent a majority, outvoted fellow board members, including Stintz, to fire TTC chief general manager Gary Webster.

Webster was sacked after he too favoured new light rail routes instead of the mayor's transit plan.

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