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Council Planning · February 10, 2026 · Item 8.4

City Clerk be directed to amend the February 3…

Main motion under the agenda item Amendment to the February 3, 2026 Committee of the Whole Draft Minutes

Carried (11 to 0)

11 in favour, 0 against — unanimous

This was one of 2 motions on the same item

In the order council took them. A vote makes sense next to the ones around it.

  1. 1/2Main motionCity Clerk be directed to amend the February 3…Differs here: …that the vote result for clause two of the staff recommendations from the Council Remuneration Review reflect Mayor Guthrie voting against. That…no recorded vote
  2. 2/2Main motionCity Clerk be directed to amend the February 3…you are hereDiffers here: …that the vote result for clauses two of the staff recommendations from the Council Remuneration Review reflect Mayor Guthrie voting against. That…Carried (11 to 0)

What was voted on

The motion in its exact words, as recorded in the minutes.

That the City Clerk be directed to amend the February 3, 2026 Committee of the Whole draft minutes such that the vote result for clauses one and two of the staff recommendations from the Council Remuneration Review reflect Councillor Gibson voting against. That the City Clerk be directed to amend the February 3, 2026 Committee of the Whole draft minutes such that the vote result for clauses two of the staff recommendations from the Council Remuneration Review reflect Mayor Guthrie voting against. That the City Clerk be directed to amend the February 3, 2026 Committee of the Whole draft minutes such that the vote result for clauses two of the staff recommendations from the Council Remuneration Review reflect Councillor Hauser voting in favour. That the City Clerk be directed to amend the February 3, 2026 Committee of the Whole draft minutes such that the vote result for clauses one and two of the staff recommendations from the Council Remuneration Review reflect Councillor Klassen voting in favour.

Moved by Councillor Gibson, seconded by Councillor Billings.

How the room voted

In favour (11)

  • Allt
  • Billings
  • Busuttil
  • Caton
  • Chew
  • Gibson
  • Goller
  • Guthrie
  • Hauser
  • Klassen
  • Richardson

What was said

915 words from the meeting recording, transcribed automatically. Times are from the start of the recording.

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6:01:08the attention of our clerks um and to me um about some uh draft minutes that were accidentally

6:01:19written down incorrect and before they become permanent we need to correct the the record

6:01:25sort of now now what's happened since that was brought to our attention is that a few days later

6:01:33I found out that I was all also marked down incorrectly and then guess what a few days later

6:01:39after that counselor helzer also found out uh marked incorrectly uh accidents happen it's fine uh

6:01:48in my view it's fine it's up to council here but we have done we have we have corrected things

6:01:53like this in the past and I think uh it just bodes well for us to make sure that we are are correcting

6:01:59as we move forward uh and before I go to counselor Gibson um I just wanted to make sure that just

6:02:07just as a standard sort of practice moving forward uh for anybody that's chairing a meeting

6:02:14when a vote is called please make sure you when you say is anyone against that you don't just do

6:02:23account and then say pass or fail that you you say the last name okay like you actually say you know

6:02:31howzer guthrie goller richardson and chew and then and then that way it's on the record like it's

6:02:37it's actually captured and and the clerks have a better opportunity to sort of write that down um

6:02:44just because of the way hybrid works sometimes it sometimes the video doesn't show by accident

6:02:50like on the screen and so our clerks can't go back and sort of validate or whatever

6:02:55so it's really important as a chair just moving forward make sure you always state the last name

6:02:59of the people that are against that way it's just really clear and captured well all right with that

6:03:04I'll go to counselor Gibson uh to speak and move the motion for us please yeah thank you

6:03:12through you mr. mayor and seconded by councillor billings the following uh recommendations are

6:03:18put before you woke up last wednesday morning with a dozen or so notifications on my phone asking me

6:03:25why i voted the way i had had and i had spoken against the motions but i seemed to have voted for

6:03:29them i ran it down um it was reported wrong honest error i went back to the video to look to see if

6:03:37you could correct it just by video evidence and lo and behold i was not one of the four across the

6:03:42banner on the video and unfortunately the chair at the time didn't didn't say the names of the people

6:03:49who were for or against so we find ourselves in this predicament thank you very much to

6:03:54accounts sorry to clerks for bringing this forward so quickly on my behalf and i also wanted to thank

6:04:00our media partners who i've been discussing with i appreciate you correcting the record on this

6:04:06it goes to say it so that it was a consequential vote and i'm happy to make sure that my vote was

6:04:11recorded properly i appreciate it okay thank you um so it's for yourself and me and councillor

6:04:19hauser councillor Klassen did your hand go up or were you didn't want to move it or seconded

6:04:25i'm happy to move it but i think i need to propose a clause for because okay unfortunately i think

6:04:33that i was one of the people who was incorrectly um uh noted i voted in favor um for both clause one

6:04:45of the main motion and for clause two of the main motion yeah i actually remember seeing your hand i

6:04:52was sitting across away from you what's it say right now councillor Klassen i don't have it in

6:04:56front of me it does say that i voted against for both on both yeah interesting okay so um um

6:05:06can we just uh can we just have the clerks just write a clause for then would you do that okay

6:05:12just give us a moment everybody it doesn't change the outcome by the way anybody so we can still

6:05:18debate it at a council at the end of the month right so not a biggie okay just give clerks a

6:05:25second they're just writing it for you it might be better and cleaner if we just do all four in

6:05:34one vote so councillor gibson and billings would you mind just removing the motion that's on the

6:05:39floor sure and then i'm happy to move all four yeah okay christine you're good with that yep and then

6:05:48and and all second yep no problem uh to my council colleagues you're okay with the motion

6:05:54the main motion being removed right now okay great so yep so now we have the four that are up there

6:06:02including councillor Klassen at the end okay so all four have been moved by councillor gibson

6:06:09seconded by councillor billings anything further on this nope okay i'm gonna call the vote anyone

6:06:16against nobody okay unanimous councillor richardson lucky you you're doing our bylaws tonight

6:06:31oh hold on a second speak to the bylaws go for it yeah thank you mr. mayor and sorry for the

6:06:36interruption just a point of clarification because of the previous motions in regards to the or lands

6:06:44the first bylaw that was indicated on the agenda has been removed because we've given direction to

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