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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCD-6-86 TOWN OF NEWCASTLE ' REPORT File Res. # INIL By-Law # MEETING: GENERAL PURPOSE & ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE DATE: FEBRUARY 3, 1986 REPORT #: CD-6-86 FILE #: 10.12.3. SUB ECT: BY-LAW APPOINTING AN ACTING MAYOR. RECOMMENDATIONS: 1 . That Clerk's Report CD-6-86 be received; and 2. That the By-law attached hereto, appointing Members of Council as Acting Mayor be approved, and forwarded to Council for passage. BACKGROUND AND COMMENT: By memorandum dated January 17th 1986, Mayor Winters noted, that for the period from December 26th to December 30th 1985, both he and the Acting Mayor were out of Town and in effect during that period, the municipality was without a Mayor. In order to avoid this situation happening in the future, it would be appropriate to enact a by-law which not only appointed an Acting Mayor, but also provided for the assigning of the office to another Member of Council when both the Mayor and Acting Mayor were absent from the municipality, or absent through illness. The attached by-law (Section 3) provides for the assumption of the office of Acting Mayor by the remaining Members of Council in alphabetic order of the Councillor's surnames: a) Councillor Diane HAMRE b) Councillor Marie HUBBARD c) Councillor Hal MCKNIGHT d) Councillor Frank STAPLETON e) Councillor Arnot WOTTEN Continued . . . . ./2 CD-6-86 - 2 - February 3, 1986 � In this way, the office of Acting Mayor would fall to the Members of Council in alphabetic order; ie. If Mayor Winters and Councillor Cowman were away, the Acting Mayor would be Councillor Hamre; in the absence of these three Members of Council , the office would be assumed by Councillor Hubbard, etc. Respectfully submitted, J David W. Oakes, B.A. ,A.M.C.T. ,C.M.O. , Town Clerk. DWO/ms Attachment. TOWN OF NEWCASTLE REPORT File # Res. # By-Law # MEEji(G: GENERAL PURPOSE & ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE DATE: FEBRUARY 3, 1986 REPORT #: CD-6-86 FILE #: 10.12.3. SUBJECT: BY-LAW APPOINTING AN ACTING MAYOR. RECOMMENDATIONS: 1 . That Clerk's Report CD-6-86 be received; and 2. That the By-law attached hereto, appointing Members of Council as Acting Mayor be approved, and forwarded to Council for passage. BACKGROUND AND COMMENT: By memorandum dated January 17th 1986, Mayor Winters noted, that for the period from December 26th to December 30th 1985, both he and the Acting Mayor were out of Town and in effect during that period, the municipality was without a Mayor. In order to avoid this situation happening in the future, it would be appropriate to enact a by-law which not only appointed an Acting Mayor, but also provided for the assigning of the office to another Member of Council when both the Mayor and Acting Mayor were absent from the municipality, or absent through illness. The attached by-law (Section 3) provides for the assumption of the office of Acting Mayor by the remaining Members of Council in alphabetic order of the Councillor's surnames: a) Councillor Diane HAMRE b) Councillor Marie HUBBARD c) Councillor Hal MCKNIGHT d) Councillor Frank STAPLETON e) Councillor Arnot WOTTEN Continued . . . . ./2 CD-6-86 - 2 - ` February 3, 1986 V LCD ) In this way, the office of Acting Mayor would fall to the Members of Council in alphabetic order; ie. If Mayor Winters and Councillor Cowman were away, the Acting Mayor would be Councillor Hamre; in the absence of these three Members of Council , the office would be assumed by Councillor Hubbard, etc. Respectfully submitted, David W. Oakes, B.A. ,A.M.C.T. ,C.M.O. , Town Clerk. DWO/ms Attachment.