Problem behaviours not defined

 In Letters, Opinion

Editor:
Re article, Clearview adopts behaviour policy for its facilities, March 22, 2019.
First those facilities do not belong to staff and council, they are the property of residents. That presumption is as annoying as the advertisements that purport to have been paid for by the “Government of somewhere” rather than the taxpayers who had their pockets picked to enhance the status of government.
We now have yet another new policy with the same problems as the bylaws covered by your editorial two weeks ago – no listing or public announcement of what behaviour is defined and therefore subject to a ban.
Who is going to be the determinate party as to what is acceptable behaviour, our 1.5 bylaw enforcement officers, the unqualified staff manning the facilities or a resident through the same flawed reactive written resident system that applies to Clearview bylaws?
As a person living opposite a Clearview Park, I consider the almost total male nudity caused by the changing of clothes by baseball players and their urination against the walls of the buildings to represent inappropriate behaviour, but I’ve never filed a complaint because our council has never provided the change and toilet facilities necessary to accommodate the numbers of park users.
Am I qualified to speak on this issue – Absolutely. As the first person to be subjected to another of Clearview flawed “policies” developed by staff, I was banned from communicating with the township without being told any reason, without having any notice of trial, without being allowed to defend myself and over the past two years (I’m still banned) CAO Sage, Clerk Fettes and council have all refused to provide me with the appeal process! Since then the only information that I am allowed to get from Clearview is by means of a Freedom of Information process that is controlled by the same individual I was informed filed the original complaint against me that led to this ongoing ban or with a 20-word or less question once a month to the CAO.
Wake up citizens of Clearview – this latest attempt by obviously unqualified staff to implement rules and regulations that do not specify exactly to what they apply is a very dangerous precedent. Of even more concern is that our “rubber stamp” council under our new Mayor agreed to adopt it without even requiring the “behaviours”  to be defined and publicly announced!
Peter Lomath,
Creemore.

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