The vast majority of members of the public act in good faith, but there are a few who will abuse the system.
The Aug. 4 article “Victoria councillors at odds over who can file a complaint under code of conduct” was good, but in other discussions there seem to be some misunderstandings about cities’ codes of conduct.
The MNP Governance Report prepared for Victoria has a section on codes of conduct and refers to the Working Group on Responsible Conduct - a joint initiative of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, the Local Government Management Association of British Columbia, and the Union of British Columbia Municipalities.“Complaints are allowed from any member of the council or board.
The cities with anyone-and-everyone processes tend to be the larger ones like Vancouver and Toronto, which have more financial resources to manage the system. Smaller cities like Saanich and Abbotsford tend to have council-only or council-plus-staff complaint processes. It would be poor governance to waste staff time and taxpayer dollars processing politically-motivated, fabricated complaints. It’s important to filtered out those ones before staff have to deal with them.
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