Kathy Leff, Resident, asked the first question related to agenda item 9.1, Appendix 1 entitled "Citizen Appointments to Committees, Boards and Authorities Policy 02-01-01".
With the skills and background necessary to be selected for this most important and critical committee, given the tone we live in now, why were solutions and recommendations deferred by this committee to staff who now in turn are recommending bringing in experts, paid consultants by another name, to assist or to do the job of the committee?
Sacha Smith, Manager/Deputy Clerk, Secretariat and Access & Privacy spoke to the shortlist process for nominating committee members.
Robert Trewartha, Director, Strategic Communications & Initiatives noted that experts invited to the Committee do not include paid consultants and the aim is to partner with the community to bring expertise as needed and as part of the Committee's workplan.
Kathy Leff, Resident asked the second question related to agenda item 9.1, Appendix 3 entitled “Peel Regional Police 2022 Annual Hate Motivated Crime Report”.
May I ask for feedback why all the above groups and others are not represented on this Committee, most particularly the Jewish community given the exceptionally high rates of incidents?
Sacha Smith, Manager/Deputy Clerk, Secretariat and Access & Privacy spoke to the membership appointment criteria. Further, Ms. Smith noted an error and provided clarity in the Committee's Terms of Reference related to the total number of members.