Humboldt’s city manager suspended with pay following allegation

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“It’s been building,” McInnis said.

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The claims have not been independently verified.

“Council wishes to be clear that this is a preliminary step, not a final determination,” the city posted on their website. “Council takes its obligation as an employer and as a public body seriously and will ensure that any further steps are taken in a manner that is fair, impartial, and consistent with those obligations.” 

Lori Yaworski, the city clerk, has been appointed as interim city ,anager, as per Humboldt’s Administrative Bylaw 01/2023. The city’s statement read that council is not going to comment further at this time. 

A tense situation involving Day was also recorded at the Humboldt city council meeting on May 25. Councillor Marilyn Scott addressed council about Day at the meeting, stating that she and fellow Councillor Karen Siermachesky were deliberately excluded in an email from Day about a matter that was to be discussed at that meeting. She said they did not receive the information that other members of council received, yet were expected to cast a vote on. 

“Under the Cities Act and also under common law, you are accountable to the city council as a whole, not to individual members,” Scott said to Day at the meeting. “You, and we, are all subject to ethical guidelines that require us to perform our jobs with openness, transparency, and fairness.” 

Scott asked Day to explain under what authority he had been permitted to exclude two duly elected city councillors from information being provided. 

Day replied that he didn’t believe it was a violation of any process and that the issue would be discussed at June’s council meeting. 

Scott countered that by saying it was not possible for all of council to effectively vote on something when information is withheld from some of them. 

“Had we not been advised that this was going on by one councillor who came forward and said ‘This is not right’, we wouldn’t have been aware of it,” Scott said. “We would have missed that whole thread.” 

In response to Day’s reply about not being in violation of any processes, Scott said, “That is frightening to me that that is your interpretation of this, that you actually think that you can withhold information from councillors.”

She added that she would deal with the issue separately, potentially in the form of a complaint. 

Council then went into Committee of the Whole to end the public portion of the meeting. 

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