{"id":1794,"date":"2017-11-20T21:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2017-11-20T21:17:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:17:44","slug":"ombudsman-report-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/2017\/11\/20\/ombudsman-report-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ombudsman Report &#8211; Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>While the council members had conflicts of interest in the matters before council, and did<br \/>\nnot take the steps required to deal with the conflicts, we did not find any evidence that they<br \/>\ndid so maliciously or with any intent to deceive ratepayers.<\/li>\n<li>We found that these council members were not fully aware that the conflicts of interest rules<br \/>\nset out in The Municipalities Act applied to situations like these. Nor did they fully<br \/>\nunderstand the RM\u2019s own Procedures Bylaw, or the requirements that they not participate in<br \/>\nthese types of decisions, as set out it the RM\u2019s Gravel Testing Policy. Their response to our<br \/>\ndraft report confirmed this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the council members had conflicts of interest in the matters before council, and did not take the steps required to deal with the conflicts, we did not find any evidence that they did so maliciously or with any intent to deceive ratepayers. We found that these council members were not fully aware that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmofbeaverriver622.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}