Greater Sudbury city council was near-unanimous in suspending pay for Ward 11 Coun. Bill Leduc and Ward 3 Coun. Gerry Montpellier for a respective 30 and 10 days
Two members of city council are having their pay suspended, with Ward 11 Coun. Bill Leduc being docked 30 days’ pay and Ward 3 Coun. Gerry Montpellier docked for 10 days.
Leduc was not called on to vote on a motion regarding sanctions against him, and for reasons unclear declared a pecuniary interest when called on to vote on sanctions against Montpellier.During his brief remarks, Leduc offered a public apology for how his words during the Sept. 7 public meeting in question were interpreted.
During much of its three-hour runtime, Crupi “repeatedly and viciously criticized the competence of city staff,” as Boghosian put it to city council on Nov. 7. Crupi primarily spoke against the city’s decision to pull his company from an asphalt recycling project on The Kingsway, which a third-party report by WSP clarified the city was justified in doing due to the contractor failing to meet various agreed-to specifications.
During the Sept. 7 meeting, Leduc turned around from where he was sitting in the front row, and told the audience through a microphone that the two employees in question were common-law partners. He also named the two staff members in question. The key statement from Montpellier during the Sept. 7 meeting which Boghosian flagged in his report was: “I’m not allowed to call them by their names and all that because I’ll end up in jail again, but he couldn’t have been alone, so this crew — that gang, is that the same people that built Maley on private property?”
“It is clear to me that he did so in order to ‘pile on’ the criticism already being leveled against City staff at the meeting with his own reminder of what he regarded as past incompetence. He directly impugned the competence and integrity of staff by his comment, albeit nominally framed as a ‘question.’”
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