It's Christmas Eve and I'm tempted to go out and join the hysteria. I have no reason to do so. Our family gathering happened last Sunday. To-morrow, Christmas morning, I will answer a dozen phone calls, call my cousin in Scotland , then join family for the rest of the day.
It will be nice. I will enjoy it fine. It will be a day like many another
My mind will not be occupied with sugar plums and dancing fairies. I will be thinking about town business. I just can't help it.
I'm glad we passed the resolution effectively blocking funding for the law suit by the Former Mayor
against three citizens. Our neighbours were relieved of a great worry in time for Christmas
I'm aware of how the decision to launch the lawsuit came about. New Councillors are not. I think they and the public have a right to know the former Council's rationale ,when the resolution we reversed on Tuesday, was originally passed.
I agreed to support a simple straighforward process on Tuesday, with the understanding ,Council will meet in- camera in January to receive all documentation that led up to the decision we reversed.
I gave Notice of Motion to waive solicitor/client privilege and release the legal advice received by Council ..
If the motion is passed, everyone will understand how town staff and other resources came to be used for what was always. , in my judgment, essentially a private issue.
Councillors have been informed the cheque registry is available for scrutiny on the desk of the Mayor's administrative assistant.
It is my intention to take a gander at that early in the New Year.
Legal invoices will indicate exactly when the wheels started turning.
It will take a vote in Council to waive privilege. It won't take that for me to get answers to my questions. Not any more.
Dear Evelyn:
ReplyDeleteWill you now take a week off from all this officious stuff, put your feet up on a hassock in front of the fire and read or knit or doze?
You deserve a break from it, and frankly so do we, from it and also from your recitals.
We would like to hear a story or two of yours, about your family, about your schooling, about remembrances of Scotland, before you came to Canada and became a stalwart politician.
To you and yours the very best wishes of the season and continued good health in the year to come.
Sprite