Guns a-blazin: Ladner goes down shootin'

True to his word, Peter Ladner has filed his motion that would see the current council's last meeting spent debating the hiring of an investigator to see who leaked sensitive city documents:

MOTION ON NOTICE 3. Investigation Regarding Leak of Confidential Information
MOVER: Councillor Peter Ladner
SECONDER: Councillor
WHEREAS Council met in camera Oct 14, 2008.
WHEREAS it has become public knowledge that confidential information relating to the Athlete’s Village in Southeast False Creek presented at that meeting was wrongfully taken at the end of that meeting;
AND WHEREAS that information was leaked to the media;
AND WHEREAS the leak of that information undermined the City’s negotiating ability, potentially damaged sales in the Southeast False Creek project, generally causing financial damage to the City;
WHEREAS Sec. 176 of the Vancouver Charter says Council may engage a barrister to investigate and report upon:
(a) any alleged misfeasance, breach of trust, or other misconduct by:
(i) any member of the Council;
(ii) any member of any other administrative body;
(iii) any employee of the City;
(iv) any person having a contract with the City;
(b) any matter connected with the good government of the City or the conduct of any part of its business, including any business conducted by any other administrative body;
AND WHEREAS Sec. 177 says the barrister so engaged shall without delay make the
investigation and report thereon to the Council, and for those purposes shall have full powers of enquiry as set out in the Vancouver Charter;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
THAT Council engage a barrister to investigate the source of the leak and report back to Council, without delay, in an open meeting, the results of the investigation;
FURTHER THAT Council give authority to the city manager, in consultation with the director of legal services, to appoint an appropriate barrister; and
FURTHER THAT the barrister work in collaboration with the Vancouver Police internal theft investigation, if appropriate.

Not to be done, COPE Coun. David Cadman will also ask for a city investigation into the subsequent leak of security "card swipe" info that lead to an unsourced Global TV report that all but suggested Vision Coun. Raymond Louie was the leaker (an allegation he strongly denies).

MOTION ON NOTICE 2. Card Swipe Information
MOVER: Councillor David Cadman
SECONDER: Councillor
BE IT RESOLVED
THAT Council ask the City Manager to prepare a report on who had access to card swipe code information for Councillors’ access to their offices on October 16, when and if a report was compiled on this information, by and for whom, and to whom this information was communicated to.
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The meeting is on Nov. 25.

Perhaps after this, council can spend a session looking into why voter turnout was so low this year.

Comments

[Brenton]

Not sure voter turn-out was as relatively low as seems. There isn't a normal turn-out, or even a trend yet, because of the big change in 2005.

http://brentonwalters.blogspot.com/2008/11/history-of-voter-turn-out-in-vancouver.html