All eyes are on the court case after Quesnel City Council decided to hold off on lifting the sanctions against Mayor Ron Paull on Tuesday (July 30) night.
There was absolutely no discussion or debate.
Deputy Corporate Administrator Rhya Hartley simply read a couple of resolutions coming out of a closed meeting on June 25th onto the record.
“That Council extend the three month progress review of Mayor Paull’s Censure and sanctions until after the court case of Ron Paull vs. The City of Quesnel: And that following the conclusion of the above-noted matter, Council will provide Mayor Paull 14 days’ notice of the censure/sanction review, allowing him an opportunity to prepare comment on his progress and make representations to Council.”
Council first censured and sanctioned Mayor Paull back on April 30th accusing him of taking the book Grave Error:How the Media Misled Us (and the truth about Residential Schools) to a CRD meeting and trying to distribute it.
Council agreed to revisit the decision in three months.
Mayor Paull has denied the allegation, saying that he took the book to that meeting in the context of asking what the CRD would do with it in light of a spirited discussion they had earlier about sexual orientation and gender identity books being placed on low shelves in Regional District libraries.
The Mayor has filed a petition in Supreme Court in Vancouver to have the measures against him lifted.
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