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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

More Secret than ever?

Was having a chat with my friend Ron Bolin the other day, in fact there are a few of us that get together Saturday mornings to discuss municipal issues and goings on, and had brought up that we seem to be having far more 'In Camera' meetings than usual. It is also important to note that these meetings predominantly fall under sec 90(1) of the community charter, link below.

Key word in this section being, “‘may’ have to be closed." Have written other posts re this so am not going to go on other than to say council opts for the choice to have these meetings, under sec90(1) held out of the public eye.
Any who in our discussion I was wondering how to find out if there were more In Camera meetings and it appears Ron has delved into the question and come up with some answers and a very interesting graph that can be seen at http://nanaimocityhall.com/2012/05/08/3223/

Seems to me that at some point in the not too distant past there was mention of council setting a timeline as to when "In Camera" meeting information would be posted; guess they forgot:)

While we seem to be making inroads into having council become more transparent, i.e. taping FPCOW meetings, council seems to also have found the means to do the opposite.



While we seem to be making small inroads into having council become more transparent i.e. taping FPCOW meetings, council seems to also have found the means to do the opposite.

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