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NANAIMO resident Robert Fuller wants councillors to consider a new bylaw to deal with the absence of elected officials from council meetings. Nanaimo city council agreed Monday to get a staff report on council remuneration related to attendance, after Fuller asked council to consider
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doesn’t apply if absence is due to illness or injury. Fuller, who is Coun. Gord Fuller’s brother, said when one reads the Community Charter and Local Government Act, the takeaway can be that quite a bit of leeway is given before a council member or director can be disqualified from office. “Without a specific bylaw, an unscrupulous elected
official can certainly navigate through this section with virtually little impunity,” said Robert Fuller. “It’s not much of a stretch that a council member could, for example, attend two meetings, miss three, attend one meeting, miss two and so forth throughout their term in office with little to worry about.”
NANAIMO Search and Rescue wants a land lease with the City of Nanaimo after finding a place to call home. The search group is looking to build a permanent facility on civic property along Nanaimo Lakes Road, having received a million-dollar pledge from an unnamed donor whose son died at the Nanaimo River 30 years ago. City council asked for a staff report on the request during an open meeting Monday. Nanaimo Search and Rescue currently rents space at the old Harewood fire hall, which members say has issues like limited parking and storage space. The group has zeroed in on a 0.33-hectare property near the old reservoir on Nanaimo Lakes Road, suggested as an option in a preliminary meeting with city staff members. Rob Christopher, search and rescue president, and Richard Römer, building director, say the site is easily accessible for members, near training grounds and would allow volunteers to respond quickly to hot-spot areas. A renovation was considered for the fire hall, but would have required a seismic upgrade and wouldn’t have addressed parking. “We could continue to make that work,” said Christopher, of the fire hall. “I don’t think many groups have the opportunity to have a donation of this size to be able to work with their communities to have a permanent location.”
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