A Darkest Day in the RM of Springfield - Procedure By-Law 24-10, Council Meeting, December 17, 2024

Описание: I am providing a version of video for the public of proceedings relevant to the Procedure By-Law 24-10. This is a resource for the public, documenting history in the RM of Springfield, I am releasing it for educational purposes and archival purposes. Residents of the RM of Springfield, Manitoba, are not provided video of the Council meetings, so I have gone to extensive lengths to provide this video for the public. It must be stressed, as I will likely feature in a future video, the RM of Springfield uses flawed methods of documenting their meetings, so you can't actually hear many of the interactions that occur (including from some Councillors). I would like you to note when the mics are muted and the fact you can tell residents are interacting. Of biggest note here, when my concerns were neglected by the Mayor,

Example footage, to illustrate how the RM's audio often leaves out details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MDmH...

Version of audio recording provided by a resident (from one side of the chamber, you can't hear everything still) [should there be a demand for this audio to be spliced with this video]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m_1y...

At this meeting, the Mayor of the RM of Springfield insisted both 2nd and 3rd Reading needed to occur for a highly controversial Procedure By-Law that would further restrict the chamber for public participation, through means that a resident called a travesty, biasing Council, to ram it through. Among many of the concerns, including constitutional concerns, as presented in my previous delegations, and the feedback of residents being blatantly neglected [including my own delegation from this meeting], the last means for ad hoc participation by the public was killed with Question Period. Now residents must go through a formal process to get a delegation (, delegations typically serve a different purpose,) which can be denied, or only participate in public hearings (which are rarely used in the RM).

This is being archived for educational purposes, and as reference material for the public. This video has been edited, it omits the delegation from the Springfield Public Library, which is not relevant to the proceedings.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Opening of meeting, calling meeting to order, invocation, land acknowledgment
3:52 Approval of the Agenda (Amendments to add Dr. Page's delegation [my delegation], and Delay 3rd Reading of Procedure By-Law; After being approved, Mayor motions for re-consider of vote, instructing Council what must happen, biasing Council, for which 3rd Reading is allowed to go ahead)
28:38 Elected Official Reports (concerns raised)
44:25 Departmental Reports
44:52 Dr. Daniel Page's delegation [note, the first delegation from the Public Library was skipped, it does not pertain to Procedure By-Law 24-10]
1:08:29 Question Period (first)
1:36:22 Motion to extend Question Period, concerns continue to be discussed.
1:43:08 Question Period continues
1:57:00 Final questions during Question Period [including a question asking the Mayor to answer what were two things Daniel Page said in his delegation, for which he refused to do so]
2:01:04 Mayor refuses to apologize to resident.
2:03:15 Procedure By-Law 24-10 2nd Reading
2:53:41 Procedure By-Law 24-10 2nd Reading Vote
2:55:24 Procedure By-Law 24-10 3rd Reading. Concerns raised, no policy incorporating information from the meeting.
2:59:38 Vote for 3rd Reading of Procedure By-Law 24-10 (no amendments, despite lack of all Councillors voting for it).
3:00:15 Mayor demands Dr. Page to lower his hand, Dr. Page tells Mayor to uphold his fiduciary responsibility, as discussed in Dr. Page's delegation], Dr. Page then refuses to and keeps it up until closed meeting [for which it was ignored].
3:00:53 Remainder of meeting (less the small portion for adjournment after the closed meeting, which this footage does not include).

Resources:
Charterpedia: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc...

Charter Advocates Canada Letter (published by the RM of Springfield):
https://springfield.allnetmeetings.co...

Agenda [this page has been modified, it's not the original agenda]: https://springfield.allnetmeetings.co...

Have a beautiful day!

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