For the second time this year, the Ontario Ombudsman is being called in to investigate the operation of South Bruce Peninsula council.
At Tuesday night’s Council meeting — Mayor Gwen Gilbert revealed a second complaint has been filed with the Ombudsman.
This complaint is over her removal from the negotiating team that was bargaining with the town CAO.
South Bruce Peninsula recently released CAO Malcolm McIntosh of his duties.
Councillor Dan Kerr confronted the Mayor to ask if she herself filed the complaint with the Ombudsman’s office and Mayor Gilbert denied she was involved.
Kerr says it had to be someone on council, since her removal occurred in a closed session of council.
Meanwhile, there is no date yet for the Ombudsman to report on the findings of an earlier investigation.
The Ombudsman office came to Wiarton and interviewed several members of council over the way the town operates and was to make recommendations, but those have not come down yet.
Councillor Kerr refused to be interviewed at the time, without being able to tape the session himself and was threatened with a subpoena.
Kerr says nothing has happened to him and he is disappointed the Ombudsman’s office has failed to follow up with recommendations to council yet.