For The Record

The Mayor has been making comments about the Decision of the Integrity Commissioner. A statement is promised concurrently with its publication.

On Friday at Five, a phone call was received from the Director of Corporate Services informing Councillors McRoberts and Collins Mrakas they would not receive a copy of the decision because their names were not on the complaint. Of course they were. It was their signatures that were absent.

Mine wasn't there either. But my contention is confirmed that the complaint was filed by six individuals who used town resources to pay for everything. .

Some would call that misappropriation .... or at the very least , abuse of public resources.

There's a clause against that in the Code of Conduct.

Isn't that ridiculous ? As if anybody would be silly enough to think it's alright to use public funds for nefarious purpose and need a Code to spell it out for them.

I won't be filing a complaint though when we get our new Integrity Commissioner. That would be inappropriate use of public funds , don't you think. I'm not big on spending taxpayers' money on stuff that benefits least of all the people who are paying for it.

I am however going to publish the Integrity Commissioner's one and only decision. He managed to get it in before the portcullis came down so all his effort wasn't wasted. We got what we paid for as well and that was a good thing....right.

I have to provide it to the two Councillors who are entitled to have it so I might as well let everyone else have a sneak preview as well. It might help to understand the purpose of the Mayor's statement which is to be presented with the decision. The lawyer will probably write that ... the Mayor's statement that is.