Remember Amberley Gavel, the meeting investigator for the Township of Melancthon who ruled that Melancthon did in fact hold a closed meeting in contravention of the Municipal Act, 2001 (see blog posting dated September 7, 2011)
And remember the outraged reaction of Council when they heard they were in the wrong?
No?
Let me remind you:
Comments by Council members at the September 8, 2011 meeting at which Council received Amberly Gavel's report (minebusters brilliant and insightful comments in green):
“It was felt that Fred Dean, Amberley Gavel owes the municipality an apology as this report is very insulting – the premise of the report is wrong and information contained in the report is not factual."
(Here is a link on Fred Dean’s credentials, the individual council is demanding an apology from: http://www.notl.org/files/%7BAFA27048-D660-4B62-8506-3B8B67276080%7DMunicipal%20Government%20101%20Workshop%20-%20Fred%20Dean%20Profile.pdf
"....Council has the right to defend itself and we have every right to consult with our legal counsel on such a report...." (WRONG-the Municipal Act provides no appeals court so to speak)
"Council to reconsider whether or not they are going to stay with LAS. " (here we go, lets fire them, they ruled against us)
"Council to also reconsider whether or not Mr. Jorden, Township Planner, will remain in the Township Office twice per month. Council want to know who Mr. Jorden is meeting with and if this cannot be done in Closed Session, there is no point in having him here. This was initiated by ratepayers to have a Planner in the office for easier accessibility to Planning matters." (lets punish the taxpayers)
For full details of Council's comments on Amberley's report on Melancthon, click on this link and go to page 3:
http://melancthontownship.ca/11council/minutes.sept8.pdf
BUT now, Amberley Gavel has made their report public on an investigation they did on a complaint about an alleged closed meeting of the Mulmur Melancthon Fire Board.
AND they found no fault-there was no contravention of the Municipal Act, 2001 as it related to the Board's closed meeting.
So where is the outrage from Melancthon Council?
Well no where, because IF you agree with Council all is good.
If you don’t, well suffer their wrath.
And here is a link to the closed meeting report re: the fire meetings starting on page 26 http://melancthontownship.ca/11council/agenda.oct6.pdf
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