Vision Montreal won a council majority in this election, and Belleli served as a backbench supporter of Pierre Bourque's administration.
[3] In March 1999, her committee approved a controversial housing project in one of the city's largest remaining greenspaces, at the foot of Mount Royal.
[4] The committee later approved initiatives to construct condominiums on the Redpath Refinery, transform the Rialto Theatre into a dance club, and launch a Loblaws store in Ahuntsic.
)[5] In 2001, Belleli's committee voted to support demolition of the dormant York Theatre in order to permit an expansion of Concordia University.
Tremblay's party (renamed as Union Montreal) still held a majority on council, and Belleli again served as an opposition member.