By Pepper Parr
October 7th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
Updated at 6:10 pm
Declarations of an interest on an item on the agenda are seldom declared by Council members. We don’t see these very often.
The morning Councillor Sharman declared a conflict of interest on Item 9.5 which is the confidential human resource department report regarding a personal matter.
Sharman then said: “ because it relates to myself.”
Oh, Oh – what have you done Councillor?
You are not supposed to know what your fellow Councillors will hear nor will you know what they say. They will probably make a decision as to what they want to do about this “confidential human resource department report”
Time in the wood shed for Sharman?
Ward 5 Councillor Paul Sharman seen at City Council meetings serving the public.. I feel you pain brother!
Would this behavioural matter have anything at all to do with the fact that Councillor Stolte was absent from today Committee of the Whole meeting?
Council came out of a closed session and reported that on the Human Resources related to Councillor Paul Sharman – the decision was to file whatever there was in the way of a report.
This is too clubby a Council to find themselves making decisions about the behaviour of one of their colleagues. It should have gone to an independent group.
Are you kidding me – Councillor Stolte has been absent this whole second term. A friend of mine, recently repatriated from the USA, emailed Councillor Stolte asking about the Ward Boundary and Council Composition Review. Not only did she not get a direct response from Stolte but she received a ‘tag you’re it’ series of staff ‘over-to-you’s’. Stolte has no respect for her constituents and should really remove herself from a kitchen that she seems to find far too hot. Poor thing.