By Pepper Parr
October 22, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
The following is not something you are likely to see coming out of Burlington’s city council.
Halton District School Board trustees.
The Halton District School Board passed the following:
With the unanimous approval of Motion M16-0121 on June 15, 2016, the Halton District School Board authorized the posting of the Board’s Trustee Code of Conduct Policy on the Board’s website for public input, for a period of no less than 25 days.
Any feedback received was to return to the Board at the second meeting in September 2016.
RECOMMENDATION:
Be it resolved that Halton District School Board approve the “Trustee Code of Conduct
” policy, as revised, and appended to Report 16127.
Burlington’s city council has been avoiding the creation of and agreement on a Code of Conduct for the members of Council – not the sign of a healthy organization.
Burlington’s city council
One has to wonder why such a state exists.
The task was left with the City Manager to get something worked out. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
This council does not want a Code of Conduct and the city manager isn’t going to work all that hard to bring anything to the table.
Here is the link to the Code of Conduct: https://www.hdsb.ca/our-board/Board%20Agendas%20and%20Minutes/BdAgenda-October%205%202016%20-%20PUBLIC.pdf (pages 14-24 of 163)
Similar to the house of commons these people all need to act like adults. Could you imagine our children being allowed to act like they do in school. It is to unforchant they nust have to create a set of rules but seems they don’t know how to act or think without guide lines. Just another waste of time and money to create another policy of what use to be common sense
Patience …
We have a code of practice specifically for council members, reviewed and approved by this council in 2013. Some say council doesn’t use or follow it however, it’s due to be reviewed in Apr 2017, all we really need if members use it.