Holding public office comes with varying degrees of public scrutiny and so it should.
A commentary by the vice-chair of Grumpy Taxpayer$ of Greater Victoria, a non-partisan citizens’ advocacy group for municipal taxpayers.
The bogus arguments made by Coun. Dave Thompson — supported by councillors Matt Dell, Jeremy Caradonna, Krista Loughton and Susan Kim — would see public complaints made through and vetted by individual councillors. A model allowing the public to lodge complaints, which costs an estimated $200,000 annually in larger jurisdictions, would lead to better decisions and savings to cover the modest costs.Thompson says it would be poor governance to waste staff time and taxpayer dollars processing politically motivated, fabricated complaints.
Thompson says there are also other mechanisms that members of the public have had for many decades — without any code of conduct — emails, knocking on the door, voting in elections, attending council meetings, letters to the editor, etc. Elected officials should be reminded “responsible conduct is grounded in principles such as integrity, accountability, respect, and leadership and collaboration in a way that furthers a local government’s ability to provide good governance to their community.”
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