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4 bd 3 BUT TRUSTEE = CONDUCT = INVESTIGATION = FINDS wursday, September 16, 2021 | 5 FACTIONALISM, & DYSFUNCTION ROLAND CILLIERS rcilliers@metroland.com estigation into trustee conduct at Halton Cathol District School Board (HCDSB) meetings has vindicated the chair of dias. However, not all the findings are favourable for those around the board ta- ble— with examples of "fac- package of the Sept. 7 regu- ard meeting for the YOUR VOTE FOR HCDSB — which oversees schools in Halton Hills and across the region report from the investiga. tion into trustee conduct. Pre] by Bi Bresner of the contlict reso- lution services agency ADR yhambers Inc., the investi gation involved the analy- sis of meeting recordings etween peember 2020 and June of this ye: The investigation was requested by the board 1 a June after months of m ings that included pari ao calls to order, agendas reg- ularly left incomplete at the end. of meeting time, trust- ling trustee ate roghonee and criticisms by ratepayers and students around trust- ee conduct. In the roughly 30-page report, Bresner said he found no grounds that Graham Paine/ Metroland Areport on the conduct of Halton Catholic District School Board trustees found that chair Patrick Murphy had not demonstrated bias in his decisions. board chair Patrick Mur- phy had been biased in his decisions or behaviour. "Having listened to over 50 hours of board meetings, I do not share trustee (Pe- ter) DeRosa's sense that the chair has actedin a manner that is unfair or unbal- FREEDOM theifp.ca RLE anced,” reads the report. “He has stayed calm and re- trustees have the same op- portunity to express them- ves Bresner stated, “The al- He refers to the fact that trustees Vincent Iantomasi and DeRosa — from whom. the allegations emanate — both former board chairs, and that Iantomasi was defeated for that at posi: tion by Murphy in ber 2020. The investigation sought to answer two other questions: whether the con- duct of trustees was compli- ant with board policies re- garding civil behaviour, and whether there has been behaviour in general that -~ PEOPLE’S PARTY of CANADA has not been in the best in- terest of the board and stu- le bel have ecome heated at meetings, it rarely crossed othe, report credits much of the "dysfunction" at the board to what it describes as its factionalism, which ees trustees vot- ing asa bloc “regardless of the issues." As a result, many decisions before the NO EVIDENCE OF BIAS BY CATHOLIC BOARD CHAIR: REPORT have used parliamentary procedures to frustrate and delay the majority's agenda that is "arguably in breach of the trustees' duties under the Education Act." Pravecraiaat atthe April eeting wherein the question of raising a Pride flag at schools was dis- cussed, trustee Tim O'Brien made a number of amend- ments to the motion, in- cluding a proposal to strike out an almost full page of action items from it. He at- tempted t board are decided by a vote po: ne the from the chair, ‘Which re- motion indefinitely ite sulted in allegations ofbias. and unsuccessfully = The ext ensive break- posed a an “objection to vine down of of the ques- while clashes are common __ tion," which would have re- at the board meeting, they moved the flag raising mo- have not extended into tionentirely. name calling, direct insults However, the report or other seriously disrup- states this does not neces- tive behaviour. sarily constitute a breach of It does identify that the minority group of trustees See - page 5 NO} Oke) BION INTIS) INO MINS GMI NI BIA N=) NOM VZNGC]IN] STN BY ts) NO VACCINE PASSPORTS -~