Konc wants new aldermen complaint policy
Betty Konc wants to change the way complaints are handled against aldermen and the mayor in Wainfleet.
“Our code of conduct says that any resident that wants to make a complaint against an alderman has to get an alderman to make that complaint. What alderman is going to do that? It puts you in a bad spot and shouldn’t be like that,” the alderman said Monday.
At tonight’s township council meeting, Konc will bring forward a notice motion to deal with changing the code of conduct to make things easier for both residents and aldermen.
She said when a complaint is made now, the only people who know about it are the complainant, the alderman who takes the complaint and the township clerk. The subject of the complaint would not know who made it.
“Even if an alderman agrees with the complaint, it puts them in a horrid position.”
Konc said residents should be able to make their own complaint about an alderman right to the township’s clerk.
“We need to be more transparent.”
Her motion to deal with the code of conduct is part of a motion to also deal with how notices of motions are handled in the township, especially time- sensitive ones.
The way the council schedule goes, it can take up to six weeks to vote on a notice of motion after it is verbally presented at a meeting.
“That doesn’t cut it for me,” she said of the current time frame.
Konc said she combed through the township’s procedural bylaw dealing with notices of motion and couldn’t find anything related to a time frame.
“I want to make it more clear.” She said her motion may be split in two at tonight’s meeting to make matters easier to deal with.
The meeting starts at 7 p. m. in township hall. Meetings are streamed live on the township’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/channel/UCsRDFVYmXll4Es4IFnUI_ ig.