If you missed the Ward canadidate “Q&A” sessions, NewsNow has made recordings of them available on their website. The Ward 2 session is on October 17th, so without the aid of time machine it will not be posted until after that date.
You can listen/view the sessions by clicking the links below:
So what happened after the Special Council meeting of February 10, 2020 that called for a “third party investigation”? The meeting where Council, in the form of a G5 vote, decided to put the CAO, Harry Schlange, back to work after the Mayor had placed him on “administrative leave” when serious workplace allegations arose.
If you missed the first part of this series you can read it by clicking this link here.
With the traditional “Election Day” just 19 days away and online voting set to commence next week, it is worth reminding readers of important information they need to cast their municipal election ballot.
It seemed like it was going to be like any ordinary, in that Grimsby sense, Committee of the Whole meeting on May 3, 2021. But Councillor John Dunstall and a few of his Council-mates had other ideas for the meeting agenda and public interest that evening.
After the previous post which introduced the origins of the fractured nature of Town Council, it seemed logical to start a detailed look where that one left-off, that being the February 2020 scuffle over the CAO, Harry Schlange. But in the name of completeness, we will start back a little further.
While many readers may already be aware of the divisions and contentious nature that permeated the 2018-2022 term of Council, there is a large group of the electorate who may have read/heard about the “G5” or “G4” and have no idea what this terminology refers to when they see it. If you are not aware what those terms have come to mean and want to satisfy your curiousity… this post is for you.
After reader demand for a Regional Councillor questionnaire similar to our Mayoral and Ward posts, we decided to go ahead and ask the two Regional Councillor Candidates their thoughts on growth, planning and issues in Grimsby at the Regional level. Both candidates responded to the questionnaire and the results are presented below.
In the first analysis of the 2018-2022 Council data, this post will examine how Members of Council performed in attending meetings. As representatives of their Ward residents, or in the case of the Mayor all residents of Grimsby, meeting attendance is one the most basic but important requirements of any elected official.
With the final regular meeting of the 2018-2022 Council now in the history books, analysis can now start on the information that has been gathered in the past 4 years. It might have been fun to use an ancient mainframe to do this, but today’s computers are far more powerful on several orders of magnitude and speed is what we need.
With almost 400 meetings, nearly half of them Council/Committee of the Whole meetings and about 700 recorded votes in the GCFRG database, there is a lot of data to draw upon… and the stories surrounding them to be told.
As always, this site will continue to keep the community aware of matters, past and present, so they can make their own fully-informed decisions in the upcoming municipal election.