
ROTHENBURGER: City council’s strange approach to writing a Code of Conduct
EVERY CITY COUNCIL should have a Code of Conduct but the Kamloops council’s approach to it is perplexing.
At this week’s Committee of the Whole meeting, corporate officer Maria Mazzotta presented a report on how to update the existing Code, with a recommendation that the committee “provide input to administration on potential updates to the Council Code of Conduct, and that an updated draft Code of Conduct be presented to Council for its consideration.”
Instead, giving scarcely a word of input, council sent the matter back to administration with instructions to present the council with a bylaw.
So, instead of taking control of their own behaviour, they turned the matter over to staff to come up with a plan.