Groves wants council minutes to be changed
By ALAN LICZYK Staff Reporter

The discussion over Caledon's population forecasts isn't quite over yet.

At the start of last Tuesday's council meeting, when council usually adopts the minutes of the previous meeting, Councillor Annette Groves said the motion regarding the population forecasts wasn't dealt with properly at the Nov. 6 meeting. She explained she wasn't given a written copy of the motion which included an additional clause stating that council continues to support the 2021 population forecast of 84,444 currently approved in the Official Plan. She added if she knew that clause was in the motion she would have asked for the motion to be separated. She wanted her name removed from supporting that part of the motion.

Mayor Marolyn Morrison replied the written motion was handed out a half-hour before it was voted on and the motion was read twice into the record.

Councillor Richard Paterak also recalled there was an audible groan from the audience when he asked for the motion to be read out again at the Nov. 6 meeting.

Groves said the acting clerk told her she handed out the motion but she never received a copy.

Councillor Jason Payne agreed with Groves saying he thought the motion read something else. He, too, wouldn't have voted for the clause that spoke to the 2021 population forecast.

Clerk Cheri Cowan, who wasn't in attendance at the Nov. 6 meeting, said Caledon's bylaw doesn't address removing a recorded vote. She suggested putting some wording in the Nov. 20 council minutes that would show Groves and Payne's dissent for that clause in the motion.

Council deferred adoption of the minutes to the Dec. 4 meeting.