WHEREAS on June 28, 2022 at a Committee of the Whole meeting at the Town of The Blue Mountains, a unanimous vote of 6-0 was passed in support of item B.4.1 entitled,"171 King Street Disposition", regarding the land transfer to The Blue Mountains Attainable Housing Corporation;
WHEREAS, according to a transcript provided by The Blue Mountains Attainable Housing Corporation, on July 7, 2022 at a Board meeting of The Blue Mountains Attainable Housing Corporation, a publicly funded corporation of the Town of The Blue Mountains, Mayor Alar Soever, supported by Councillor Rob Sampson, did misinform the Board and the public of a result of a vote in the Committee of the Whole by misstating the above-mentioned vote as 6-1 while also inaccurately reporting that Councillor Hope voted against the motion;
WHEREAS, the Mayor further misrepresented the vote in the Committee of the Whole meeting by mischaracterizing Councillor Hope’s position in his remarks to The Blue Mountains Attainable Housing Corporation;
WHEREAS the Mayor apologized briefly to The Blue Mountains Attainable Housing Corporation Board and to Councillor Hope, on behalf of himself and Councillor Sampson, through an email to The Blue Mountains Attainable Housing Corporation, there was no correction made available to the members of the public who attended the Board meeting nor to members of the public with whom the Mayor and Councillor Sampson may have been interacting prior to the date of the apology on July 12th;
WHEREAS the Mayor, by way of his election to office, has the grave responsibility to share results of Committee of the Whole and Council vote results in an accurate and professional manner to preserve the trust placed in him by his community and, further, to not misinform the public who elected him;
THEREFORE, Council does hereby confirm that the vote results of the June 28th Committee of the Whole were 6-0, with no votes against the motion regarding the motion B.4.1 entitled, "171 King Street Disposition" and that the vote results were inaccurately and inappropriately reported by Mayor Soever, supported by Councillor Sampson, during The Blue Mountains Attainable Housing Corporation Board meeting on July 7, 2022.