Charlottetown council committee stays intact in narrow vote
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — An effort by some members of Charlottetown council to shuffle a committee’s membership round has failed.
At its month-to-month public assembly on April 11, a decision to maintain the council advisory committee membership intact handed 5-4.
The decision took place throughout a gathering of the strategic priorities and intergovernmental co-operation committee on Feb. 24 wherein Coun. Mitch Tweel moved a movement to ship a decision to council that councillors ought to have extra enter on what committees they serve on and that the present make-up of the council advisory committee, tasked with assigning councillors to committees, be shuffled.
Coun. Julie McCabe proposed an modification that may abolish the council advisory committee altogether and have the facility of assigning councillors to committees returned to the mayor’s workplace, the place it has been up to now.
Peter Kelly, the town’s chief administrative officer, mentioned McCabe’s modification couldn’t be mentioned on the ground, that it must be handled as a separate matter and it could require council amending a bylaw.
Kelly mentioned it could in the end be as much as council which plan of action it needs to pursue.
“What makes probably the most sense is to provide the facility again to the mayor’s workplace,’’ McCabe mentioned on April 11.
Tweel mentioned April 19 council by no means handled the problem of councillors having extra enter and intends on mentioning that challenge on the subsequent assembly of the strategic priorities and intergovernmental co-operation committee.
Additionally on the April 11 assembly, Coun. Terry Bernard questioned whether or not the strategic priorities committee had the authority to carry such a decision to the ground beneath its phrases of reference.
Kelly responded that the request was forwarded to the council advisory committee, which issued a advice to council that issues stay established order, contemplating the mandate for this council concludes on the finish of this yr.
This all stems from Tweel being positioned on the planning committee the place he has, for probably the most half, refused to attend the conferences, saying that his household’s enterprise dealings put him in a battle of curiosity.
In response to Tweel’s refusal to attend conferences, councillors Terry MacLeod and Mike Duffy pressed the matter to the purpose the place Tweel was fined beneath council’s Code of Conduct Act, a high quality which was paid by way of payroll deduction.
Council additionally despatched the matter to provincial Communities Minister Jamie Fox to analyze. There nonetheless has been no determination rendered publicly.
The vote
- In favour: Councillors Alanna Jankov, Julie McCabe, Terry Bernard, Mike Duffy, Terry MacLeod
- Opposed: Councillors Greg Rivard, Bob Doiron, Jason Coady, Mitchell Tweel
- Absent: Coun. Kevin Ramsay
Members of the 2 committees on the coronary heart of the matter:
Council advisory committee: Alanna Jankov, chair; Mike Duffy, vice-chair; Terry MacLeod, member-at-large; Jason Coady, member-at-large; Mayor Philip Brown.
Strategic priorities and intergovernmental co-operation: Coun. Kevin Ramsay, chair; Coun. Bob Doiron, vice-chair; Coun. Mitchell Tweel, member-at-large; Coun. Greg Rivard, member-at-large; Mayor Philip Brown.
Dave Stewart is a reporter with SaltWire Community in Prince Edward Island.
