Ward 6 Coun. René Lapierre introduced the motion, which directs the city to provide a quarterly report summarizing city councillors' attendance for all regular, closed and special meetings of council and its committees, as well as outside boards
There will soon be quarterly records of Greater Sudbury city council members’ attendance, thanks to a successful motion by Ward 6 Coun. René Lapierre.
City council began debating Lapierre’s motion at the end of their Jan. 24 meeting, but the discussion was cut short when the meeting timed out at the three-hour mark and city council failed to receive the two-thirds majority vote needed to proceed. He later asked whether city administration was going to also impose a dress code, which Mayor Paul Lefebvre said was not insinuated anywhere in the motion up for debate.
Further, he asserted that the motion would put city councillors at risk of breaching the Code of Conduct for admitting to being at closed meetings of city council. The Municipal Act allows closed meetings under specific circumstances, and city council regularly holds them. A March 8, 2021, report by city integrity commissioner Robert Swayze notes that Montpellier’s “disclosure of the fact that the CAO was ‘addressed’ in a ‘secret meeting’ was a release of confidential information contrary to Section 6 of the Code.”
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