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Oct 17^th	Special Council
	Meeting

System passed through 6pm in Hecate with strong winds and some rain

Gordon Payne arrives about 10 minutes into meeting – just off work at Hospital	------------------Consultant George Paul comes in over speaker phone ----

‘Mayor did not have the authority to enter into contracts	From the Consultants Report – 4 issues addressed --

	Both Mayoral candidates attended the meeting
	Plus I saw the people referred to as the ‘Concerned Citizens Group’ —being Wilf, Ashley, and Garon present – though I suspect they were not told about meeting by City ---At left Cote talking with ex-mayor Don Scott before meeting

Kinney opposed the resolution ---

In the end – suggested the ‘group of concerned citizens’ could submit 6 questions by next Wednesday—and Consultant would be flown to PR for next scheduled council meeting so he could answer them, Kinney opposed as he suggested more people should get a chance to submit questions

Good for Kinney – Voted down because needed time to research answers etc

And then into more closed meetings

I will go into this in more detail—I had my ‘recorder’ confiscated by City – even threatened to call RCMP on me --- I had left the machine running and noticed my mistake as leaving – but because had ‘heard’ some of closed meeting – they confiscated it ---- and will return Friday after computer techy ‘scan’s my device to see if all files deleted

I am told the audio file of the full meeting available on City Web site as MP3

Special Council meeting of October 16, 2008

Concerned Citizens are hampered because now two of them running for Council – so hands tied

More on this later

I will argue that the consultant was more an expensive ‘cover-up’ than fact finding – mainly because he based his conclusions upon ‘the evidence provided’ by Pond et al--- (but no where itemized) --- plus City attacks another FOI applicant for not giving City back the info – as city had lost originals etc --- Plus I remember conversations at time which go opposite of what given consultant about ‘interference’ etc

I too had submitted an FOI request on Hesse material in April 2008, but City lost it etc – another request on another matter was referred to as ‘responded to’ --- sure they told me they had to talk to an employee first --- and nothing heard since

More later

Created by LG on 17/10/2008

Last updated on Friday, October 17, 2008