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Petition calls for removal of mayor, councillors ANDREW TRIPP
Boundary Creek Times Reporter
Mayor Smith and three councillors should be disqualified from council, says a petition bordercountrybob.ca circulating throughout Greenwood. Numerous residents, including Christopher Yates, Mike Goddard and Christopher Stevenson, aim to expose what they see as four separate breaches of the community charter on the part of the city council. The petition needs 10 signatures but the number currently stands at over 100, and peKELOWNA (Wstbrg) titioners are hoping to top 200 by the time it is filed later this week with the Supreme Court of B.C. Reached for comment while on family business in Alberta, Mayor Ed Smith said, “EveryArtist David Seven Deers stands amidst his Gateway “Stektahl” installation in Midway’s Entwined thing we are doing is above board and for us it Trees Park. An official opening and blessing ceremony will take place Thursday, June 11 at 10 a.m. is business as usual. The group that has created PHOTO: ANDREW TRIPP Located in Westbridge and the petition will do what they have to, but we proud to service the area that councillor to vote to remove her husband’s Bylaw 807 by removing the CAO in December have done nothing wrong.” 2014 from having any dealings with the legal 1-250-446-6808 Yates said, “The breaches are based solely on supervisor. “2) A council member who sits as a director of case, and taking over steerage of the legal matter past council minutes, which are a matter of public �������������������������� ��������������������������������������� another organization spoke to and voted on a fiputting them all into a direct pecuniary conflict record and concern conflicts of interest, as well as nancial raise for said organization during budget of interest. They were using city funds claiming procedures that contravened certain bylaws.” indemnity under a bylaw, and then ignoring the All conflicts noted on the petition are pecuni- meetings. This is a direct conflict of interest. “3) Council claimed indemnity under Bylaw previsions to their own financial benefit and our ary conflicts of interest. “1) A council member’s husband is a city em- 807, which grants council legal indemnity if all citizens’ financial detriment. “Legal fees for the month of March alone were ployee. Our CAO was the councillor’s husband’s parts of the bylaw are adhered to. At the time 0 24543 16681 8 supervisor. It is a direct conflict of interest for the new council claimed indemnity, it breached • See PETITION page A3 250-449-1982
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