Sanctions are being imposed on a councillor of an eastern Ontario township after he gave a speech at a community event while intoxicated and engaged in two separate physical fights with residents on the same day last year.
The Township of North Stormont Council voted in favour of imposing a 30-day pay suspension on Coun. Adrian Bugelli Tuesday evening, after officially receiving an integrity commissioner's report into the events.
"We found as fact that the member was at the event in an official capacity as a member of council, and therefore that satisfied the requirement that he was performing a duty or carrying out a responsibility for the township and was intoxicated at the time," Fleming told councillors Tuesday evening. "My actions that evening were not acceptable. I specifically want to apologize to Moose Creek Rec volunteers for putting myself in a situation that distracted from the evening's celebrations of their hard work. ... I've learned from this mistake. For those who know me best, my family, friends, my colleagues, this was a mistake on my part but it was an isolated event and I will make sure this is not repeated in the future.
"Video footage of this incident was reviewed. The video evidence shows that the Member and two other attendees are speaking and one of the attendees then aggressively shoves the Member who falls to the ground," the report said. The councillor told investigators he was accosted by the resident who made several comments about him and the incident left him with a broken ankle.
Bugelli argued before the integrity commissioner that that he did not attend the event as a Member of Council but as a member of the Moose Creek community. The integrity commissioner did not agree. Victims of a stabbing at a high school in Bedford, N.S., in March 2023 took the witness stand Tuesday and delivered their emotional victim impact statements.Ontario family claims a car wash malfunction caused $3K in damage.
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