Directors can still request to have their votes in opposition recorded
Regional District of Fraser-Fort George directors voted 7-6 Thursday to reject a proposal to have votes in opposition to a motion be automatically recorded in the meeting minutes.
But after hearing what fellow directors had to say, particularly McBride municipal director Gene Runtz, Atkinson changed her mind. Electoral Area C director Lara Beckett said having to keep track of who voted in opposition would make chairing board meetings more burdensome and worried it would make for a more adversarial tone.
"I hear the concern, but I think the concern may not be there, just based on my own personal experience," he said of the worry about unwarranted blowback. "I think a lot of times we do get pulled into that polarization because it is the rhetoric that the public and the news media like to produce to create stories," Ramsay said. "Regardless of that, I do think that that transparency around how we vote and around how we are accountable to that vote are really important to reinforcing the trust of the public.
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