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City Council · October 29, 2024 · Item 9.2

Councillor Caron be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Corporate Services chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.

Main motion under the agenda item 2024-2026 Council Appointments - 2024-430

Carried (13 to 0)

13 in favour, 0 against — unanimous

This was one of 11 motions on the same item

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

  1. 1/11Main motionAudit 1.That Councillor Goller be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Audit Services chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.Carried (13 to 0)
  2. 2/11Main motionCouncillor Caron be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Corporate Services chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.you are hereCarried (13 to 0)
  3. 3/11Main motionCouncillor O’Rourke be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Infrastructure, Development and Environment chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.Carried (13 to 0)
  4. 4/11Main motionCouncillor Downer be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Public Services chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.Carried (13 to 0)
  5. 5/11Main motionCouncillor Downer be appointed as the Committee of Management for The Elliott chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.Carried (13 to 0)
  6. 6/11Main motionCouncillor Richardson be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Audit Services vice-chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.Carried (13 to 0)
  7. 7/11Main motionCouncillor Caton be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Corporate Services vice-chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.Carried (13 to 0)
  8. 8/11Main motionCouncillor Klassen be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Infrastructure, Development and Environment vice-chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.Carried (13 to 0)
  9. 9/11Main motionCouncillor Allt be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Public Services vice-chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.Carried (13 to 0)
  10. 10/11Main motionGovernance and Office of the Chief Administrative Officer 10. That Councillor Busuttil be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Governance and Office of the Chief…Carried (13 to 0)
  11. 11/11Main motionCommittee of Management for The Elliott​ 11. That Councillor Caton be appointed as the Committee of Management for The Elliott vice-chair for a term ending November…Carried (13 to 0)

What was voted on

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

Corporate Services​ 2. That Councillor Caron be appointed as the Committee of the Whole Corporate Services chair for a term ending November 15, 2026, effective November 16, 2024.

Moved by Councillor Caton, seconded by Councillor Downer.

How the room voted

In favour (13)

  • Allt
  • Billings
  • Busuttil
  • Caron
  • Caton
  • Chew
  • Downer
  • Gibson
  • Goller
  • Guthrie
  • Klassen
  • O'Rourke
  • Richardson

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5:39:16in the year once at the beginning once now and there is kind of a flow that i have to do

5:39:25um so it can kind of go fast a little bit but uh but just bear with me as i kind of have to go

5:39:30through each one and do a flow of a procedure on how we do this and our clerks have have brought

5:39:36everything forward so there is uh preferences from members of council of where they kind of want to

5:39:43sit and we're going to only concentrate on the chairs appointments right now okay then after that

5:39:48we'll do the vice chair so um the first one to the clerks is audit i hope you have it in that in that

5:39:56sequence and i only have one person that has come forward with that preference and it's councillor

5:40:02galler as you can see there it's councillor Goller be appointed to the audit chair for the rest of

5:40:08this term and now this is the flow part i have to ask is there anybody else that would like to

5:40:14put their name forward for this position hearing and seeing none can i please have somebody move

5:40:21a motion to accept councillor Goller as the chair richardson and busitil all right anything further

5:40:29no i'll call the vote is anyone against that okay perfect corporate services is next again

5:40:39we have councillor Caron to be appointed as the committee of the whole corporate services chair

5:40:44till the end of the term is there anybody else that is interested in that position

5:40:51hearing and seeing none can i have someone move and second that for me for councillor Caron

5:40:57katin and downer anything further no i'll call the vote is anyone against

5:41:05no thank you going on to ide so we have one person with their first preference being councillor

5:41:14rork and we have a couple people with that that it was their secondary preferences although the

5:41:20two people as their secondary just became chairs so i think i think it might be kind of easy on

5:41:25this one but it is councillor rork to continue as the ide chair till the end of the term is there

5:41:33anybody else that is interested in this position nobody great is there somebody that would be

5:41:40willing to move and second that galler and billings perfect is there anything more on that

5:41:47no i'll call the vote is anyone against no perfect now we'll go on to public services

5:41:55the preference of councillor downer is to remain as the chair of public services there was no one

5:42:01else on that one but i'll ask right now is there anyone else that's interested in this position

5:42:07nobody okay would somebody willing to move and second downer who's it till an alt

5:42:14is there anything on that hearing and seeing none i'll call the vote anyone against councillor

5:42:19downer being the chair nobody great committee of management for the eliot that is uh councillor

5:42:30downer i oh we're getting there that's vice chair we're not quite there i don't know maybe i want to

5:42:44reconsider my uh vote for you to be the chair since you're a kind of vote of reconsideration not just

5:42:50getting okay uh committee of management for the eliot councillor downer is interested in that

5:42:56is anybody else interested in that hearing none or rork is willing to move downer racherton is

5:43:03willing to second downer anything further on that hearing none i'll call the vote is anyone against

5:43:10that nobody perfect now we're moving into vice chair uh we have i need someone to help me who

5:43:22wants to put their hand up for the exciting world of vice chair of audit who would love that position

5:43:31councillor ritchardson all right what anybody else like to challenge councillor ritchardson

5:43:38in a sing-off for that position nobody okay who would like to move councillor ritchardson

5:43:45chew and or rork will second as the vice chair for ritchardson for audit is anything more on that

5:43:53nobody okay i'll call the vote is anyone against that

5:43:56that nobody thank you uh councillor kate is the first uh preference to stay on as vice chair of

5:44:04corporate services is anyone else interested in that position nobody okay perfect who's going to

5:44:11help councillor kate and get on the floor here busatil and closet and anything more on that

5:44:18no i'll call the vote anyone against that nobody awesome okay ide for vice chair uh we have

5:44:31clausen orork and karan that were interested but since or work and karan are now chairs

5:44:38maybe they'd be cool to let clausen take that spot is there anyone other than clausen that's

5:44:44interested nobody who's going to help clausen get on the floor here galler and gipson perfect

5:44:53and is there anything more on that nothing i'll call the vote is anyone against that

5:45:00nobody awesome public services we have nobody nobody well there was kate that was interested

5:45:11as a second preference but she is already vice chair phil okay perfect i'm sorry councillor Allt

5:45:22to be professional about it uh is there anyone other than councillor Allt

5:45:27perfect who wants to help me put councillor Allt on the floor busatil and kate great uh

5:45:33anything further on that no i'll call the vote anyone against councillor Allt for vice chair public

5:45:39services nobody that's great governance vice chair only one person was strong armed into

5:45:50continuing to hang out with me a little bit busatil is anybody else willing to

5:45:56or does anyone else want that position for vice chair of governance no okay great who's

5:46:01going to help me put busatil on the floor here alt and galler thank you anything further on that

5:46:09nobody i'll call the vote anyone against busatil for vice chair governance

5:46:14nobody that's great committee of management for the elliot

5:46:20clerks was there a position or a issue that you wanted to discuss i forget about the vice

5:46:27chair for committee of management was there something that you wanted me to do there i

5:46:31cannot recall through you mr marry just to recognize that not just any member of council

5:46:37can act in that role it needs to be a member of the committee of management which at this

5:46:40point based on the appointments would be one of um richardson kate and classon alt or busatil

5:46:51richardson kate and classon alt busatil good and councillor downer is already on the committee

5:46:57but as the chair so there was nobody that put themselves down for first second third fourth

5:47:02but there was one person that did that was katin so was katin uh allowed to be vice chair yeah

5:47:09katin would you like to still do that okay anyone else want to challenge

5:47:15erin on that k- i mean councillor Caton on that good nobody perfect who wants to help katin get

5:47:20on the floor for vice chair uh richardson and nororke perfect okay is there anything further on that

5:47:27hearing none i'll call the vote is anyone against that nobody perfect was that a record clerk

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