Vernon Council considers changes to meeting dates
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Vernon may be holding its City Council Meetings on a new schedule.
At the meeting May 11, Mayor Victor Cumming proposed that, starting in November following the municipal election, the council meetings be held on Tuesdays, rather than have the Committee of the Whole meetings at 8:30 a.m. and the Regular Council Meetings at 1:30 p.m. on Mondays.
“The rationale in terms of timing is, for people planning to run [as a candidate], then they’d know which day the future council meetings are on, that’s why we’re bringing it forward now instead of bringing it forward in the next council,” Cumming explained in the council chambers. He added the change would also line up with meetings from other organizations across the Okanagan before going further into his reasoning for changing the dates.
“The challenge of Mondays is it requires both staff and council to work on the weekend, particularly on Sunday, before a Monday council meeting, and it means we’re asking our directors to be available every second weekend. It seems that if we could shift it to Tuesday then that kind of activity and questions and clarification would happen on a work day as opposed to it happening on Sundays,” he said.
