The future work of the city’s new Economic and Destination Development Committee raised questions at city council Monday night.
The action happened after the committee chair had been forced to leave the council chambers.
The issue was the committee’s newly-minted Strategic Plan.
Councillor Bill Sandison raised a number of items that he said were already handled by other committees, such as Bay of Quinte Tourism and the Business Retention and Expansion Committee.
Belleville Councillor Ryan Williams leaves council after refusing to apologize, January 13, 2020 (Photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News)
A bid to table the issue because Committee Chair Ryan Williams had been sent out of council chambers failed to receive enough votes.
Williams had refused to apologize for comments made in a letter he read out at the last committee meeting in December.
Councillor Kelly McCaw, a member of the committee, had raised the issue on a point of privilege, calling for the apology.
Mayor Mitch Panciuk says the comments were aimed at Councillors McCaw and Pat Culhane and himself.
Following the meeting, Williams repeated to Quinte News he does not intend to apologize.
In the end, the committee’s strategic plan was referred back to committee for reconsideration.
