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municipal management team and that any action of council in hiring or firing staff must require a two-thirds majority vote. Council will refer this to the human resources depart- ment for a legal recommendation. Council agreed with the last sanction. It will send a copy of the M’Garry report, and any other integrity commission review reports presented within the next six months, to the ministries of municipal affairs and of labour. 8SJUUFO SFTPMVUJPOTXJMMBDDPNQBOZ UIPTF reports, authorizing the ministries to contact the report authors about their findings and conclusions.
accepting them for a vote. Those sanctions were: that the mayor and councillors involved in the organized voting block to dismiss three staff members have to sign formal apologies, acknowledging their “misguided and inappropriate behavior” ; that council as a group work with a professional manage- ment training consultant on the leadership skills suitable for municipal government; and that council publicly reprimand the mayor for failing to abide by several sections of the Municipal Act and also the Hawkesbury Code of Conduct. Council tabled one recommendation for a resolution that defines who is part of the
La mairesse de Hawkesbury, Paula Assaly, et le conseil municipal ont tous deux été critiqués dans le dernier rapport de la commission d’intégrité au sujet de leurs relations passées avec le personnel municipal. La directrice générale Dominique Dussault (à droite) a prévenu qu’elle contacterait le ministère du Travail si la situation ne changeait pas. —photo d’archives
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Tsourounakis had all agreed prior to the meeting to vote for dismissal. The other three councillors were surprised by the call for a dismissal vote though they opposed it. M’Garry noted that hiring and firing of municipal staff “is simply not the responsibi- lity of members of council or any member of council.” That, she said, is one of the duties of either the town’s chief administrator or its human resources director. During her investigation M’Garry became “quite concerned” about some of incidents and details discovered concerning mayor and council dealings and interaction with municipal staff and overall management of the town. She warned that the Ministry of Municipal Affairs has dismissed elected councils before for poor management and taken over governorship of a municipa- lity until a new council was elected. She recommended council undergo professional management training to prevent that from happening. “If you don’t want that (intervention) to happen,” she said, “I think that you should, even though there may not be much time left in your term, retain a professional manage- ment team and notify the ministry that you are trying to ‘get your act together’.” Council also got a warning from Chief Administrator Dominique Dussault to do something to guarantee the protection of municipal staff from harassment by indivi- dual council members or council as a whole. “I am asking council to find a solution,” Dussault said, “or else I am going to go to the Ministry of Labour. This is not acceptable, neither to me nor to any of the employees.” Council voted 5-1 to accept the M’Garry report. Separate votes were held on the recommended sanctions. Three sanctions “died on the table” be- cause no member of council would propose
Both the mayor and council of Hawkesbury endured criticism in the latest integrity commission report about a closed-door meeting last year that resulted in the firing of three senior staff. Valerie M’Garry was called in as the inte- grity commissioner for an investigation of a complaint filed September 4 2020 against both Mayor Paula Assaly and Hawkesbury council for actions and events surrounding the results of an in-camera session June 16 2020 during which three municipal staff were dismissed following a four-three vote. The incident has been the subject of a pre- vious integrity commission report by John Saywell and also an Ontario Ombudsman investigation and M’Garry used the two previous reports as part of the background information for her own investigation. M’Garry made an official presentation of her findings and recommendations during the September 27 council session. She noted one complaint was that the mayor had been “acting in bad faith, engaging in acts of political vengeance, and waging a personal vendetta against the complainant, and putting her own needs and desires and wellbeing ahead of the town and its citizens.” The other complaint, M’Garry said, was that “council, as a whole, failed to act as the guardian of the Municipal Act and the Code of Conduct of Hawkesbury, allowing these problems to persist through its time in office so far.” Case history M’Garry summarized the events surroun- ding the June 16 2020 in-camera session. There was a vote to dismiss three staff mem- bers. The mayor and councillors Lawrence Bogue, André Chamaillard, and Antonios
3-9 octobre 2021 • October 3-9, 2021 #SSMM21 • #MIAW21 • CAMIMH.CA of people des personnes souffrent d’une maladie mentale ou d’un problème de santé mentale au cours d’une année donnée (rendu à l’âge de 40 ans, 50% des personnes souffriront ou auront souffert d’une maladie mentale). experience a mental illness or mental health issue in any given year (by age 40, 50% of people will or will have expe- rienced mental illness). Canadian Mental Health Association, 2018 / Association canadienne pour la santé mentale, 2018 20%
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