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Delegations On October 10 Council Meeting REVISED Agenda

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Interesting. Shirley Curson-Prue, Mayor Prue’s wife, will delegate on behalf of the Belle Vue Conservancy regarding the Belle Vue Expression of Interest. Curson-Prue is vice-chair of the Heritage Advisory Committee that met in-camera on September 21 to review Expressions of Interest.

Mike Lavigne will also delegate on Item 14.3 Belle Vue Expression of Interest.

There are no speaking notes attached to Curson-Prue’s delegate request form or Mike Lavigne’s request form.

A new inconsistency? Speaking notes were insisted upon as part of delegates’ requests and were routinely attached to the agenda and attaching speaking notes was mandatory for the online request form to be accepted.

CAO Critchley did highlight the following in an email:

The Clerk may, from time to time, establish or amend procedures related to the Delegation Process, provided that such procedures do not conflict with the provisions of this By-law.

Then there will be a Presentation – a concepl drawing is attached without any related information.

The admin’s recommendations that:

  1. The Loop Family Amico Belle Vue Expression of Interest proposal BE APPROVED to proceed to next steps in the evaluation process and;
  2. Administration BE DIRECTED to request the Belle Vue Conservancy pause any further efforts until such time as Council has made a final decision on the proposal and;
  3. Administration BE DIRECTED to facilitate discussions between the Belle Vue Conservancy (BVC) and proponent to ensure there is agreement and direction on the recognition of donors, handling of unspent donations and various antiques identified for potential use at Belle Vue Manor; and, 
  4. The execution of the confidentiality agreement BE APPROVED for the Expression of Interest to proceed to the next steps of the process.

It seems excessive that the town posts an agenda, revised agenda, and an addendum that is called a supplementary agenda, in both html and pdf when one universal document would suffice. Besides, the revised agenda duplicates addendum items.

Should Minutes Be Consistently Corrected?

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Background

During a council meeting earlier this year, Councillor Michael Prue had a question about committee minutes, the presence of his wife, Shirley Curson-Prue, at a committee meeting and the recording of votes.

Mayor DiCarlo said the minutes would be looked into and any corrections required would be made.

Present

On August 4, 2022, I read the August 8 town council meeting agenda and emailed all members of council that the Amherstburg Accessibility Advisory Committee (AAAC) meeting minutes June 23, 2022 were incorrect.

“The minutes indicate the motion was ‘that the delegation be received.’ However, following my presentation, Chair Shirley Curson-Prue asked, “May I have a motion to receive this document?” Chris Drew said he’d make the motion which was then seconded by Angela Kelly and carried. The audio is available online.”

I assumed errors were to be corrected.

On Friday, August 5, Mayor Aldo DiCarlo emailed, “Thank you for the clarification.”

On Monday, August 8, council received the AAAC minutes without comment.