AMENDMENT TO MOTION NO. 2020-24 PRESENTED BY DEPUTY MAYOR VOYER
WHEREAS it has been a year since the Council of the Municipality of East Ferris has been undertaking their Council meetings through e-Scribe software where their agenda and agenda packages are filtered through their tablets electronically;
AND WHEREAS after a year of implementation of the software, Council continues to "add the words": at times receive paper copies of "add the words": information pertaining to agenda items; that have not met the deadline of the Procedural By-law;
AND WHEREAS these documents circulated at the time of the meeting are nowhere to be stored electronically in Council’s tablet for ease of future access to documents and files from past meetings;
AND WHEREAS by "add the words": continuing to strive to be completely paperless the Municipality of East Ferris will reduce our carbon footprint with the consumption of paper and printing materials;
BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the Municipality of East Ferris, continue "add the word": its with the progress of electronic agendas and meetings and immediately proceed to paperless meetings;
AND FURTHER if Council Members wish to have items circulated with the agenda, it is the responsibility of the Councillor to abide with Section 7.2, “Items for Inclusion on Agenda” under By-law No. 2019-03 as amended, a By-law to Govern the Proceedings of Council in order to foster effective communication and decision making in meetings with all documentation provided ahead of time.