Disruptive delegates deflect Council focus from City municipal agenda.
City of Pickering Council meetings have recently been disrupted by unruly, discourteous and disruptive delegates. The delegate process in order to address the council has a specific procedure. Prospective delegates must apply to receive speaking approval and then they are supposedly bound by regulations as to duration of speaking and topic they may address. Because certain delegates have been abusing these regulations, the Pickering City Council has passed new regulations regarding delegates. Basically, the regulations further limit who can be delegates, loss of photo taking permission and emphasis that they must abide by delegate regulations.
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Comment
Delegate approval should be given to those who ‘skin in the game’ only (are City of Pickering taxpayers). However, proper delegate decorum should be a given and those who do not abide by the regulations should be removed from the delegate podium. End of story.
