Kingsgate Report - Code of Conduct Complaint Against Medicine Hat Mayor Clark
The Kingsgate Report is heavily redacted, some pages are nothing but blank blocks. This article focusses solely on the complaint, the response will be in a separate article.
Re the Code of Conduct complaint filed on August 22 2023 (the day after the Shitshow Showdown by Councillor Sharps against Medicine Hat Mayor Linnsie Clark, it concludes -
FINDING:
The investigator finds there is sufficient evidence to establish that the Respondent violated the Code by failing to treat the City Manager with courtesy, dignity and respect and maliciously injuring the professional or ethical reputation of the City Manager during their exchange at the August 21, 2023 Council meeting. This allegation is substantiated."
Complainant Remarks are taken from the report
Below are excerpts from the Complainant’s interview statement:
• I filed this formal complaint on my own behalf, not on behalf of the City Manager or anyone else.
• In February the City Manager moved the City Clerk from the City Solicitor to report directly to the City Manager. REDACTED Within days of doing this the City Manager realized that process to amend the Administrative Organization Bylaw hadn’t been followed and no one on Council, including the Mayor, spoke up when the City Manager apologized for that.
• August 14 2023 was the annual performance appraisal of the City Manager. It was not a regular or special council meeting but I’m pretty sure it was advertised. It was not a council meeting.
FACT CHECK
It was not advertised as indicated by the screenshot below.
All possible meetings were selected and only one appears.
• REDACTED
• REDACTED
• REDACTED Mayor said in a public meeting that she got a personal legal opinion
• The morning after the Council meeting (Aug 22) I tried to talk to the Mayor and ask her how do we fix this. The Mayor told me REDACTED
• I go back and watch the video of our Council meeting sometimes and one time I realized I had spoke inappropriately to a Managing Director during the meeting. So, I went and apologized to them and then I apologized publicly at next Council meeting. I REDACTED
• On Aug 21 when the Mayor spoke, the idea that the City Manager failed to inform Council is simply not true. We knew what the City Manager was doing. Council said thanks, yes that sounds good. REDACTED
• The Administrative Organization Bylaw has been under review for the last 6 months.
• The City Manager came to Council and asked if people are good with what she was doing. REDACTED
• REDACTED The next day people on social media were asking how Council could be so deceptive; we’ve taken a beating from a very small minority. My credibility is key as is my integrity. I don’t lie.
• The City Manager has something like 40 years of service. Even if every word the Mayor said was true it should have been said in private as a confidential personnel matter. We can deal with it behind closed doors. There was opportunity to do that. REDACTED Personnel is a closed item under FOIP. Performance issues are not appropriate discussion in public.
• From my perspective this investigation is not about the Administrative Organization Bylaw REDACTED If the AO Bylaw was breached it is on Council to raise the issue.
• Council never met to discuss issues with the AO Bylaw and how the City manager was handling the organization.
• The Mayor’s conduct at the Aug 21 meeting REDACTED
• The Mayor never brought her concerns to Council in advance. She never said we need to get a legal opinion on this. REDACTED
• REDACTED
• The City Manager had come to Council in-camera to REDACTED
• Making resolutions to ratify decisions isn’t new. We are doing a resolution on Oct 3 to approve 3 letters that were already sent to the Minister. So, what’s the difference here?
source pgs 9-13 Kingsgate Report
(Following screenshots re Complainant excerpts are from the Kingsgate Report )
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