The trustee of the Waterloo School Board decided to launch one of a number of future meetings and sessions.
At a special meeting Monday night, they voted 6-3 to temporarily remove longtime trustee Mike Ramsey.
This comes after a complaint was filed in late February alleging that Ramsey violated the Trustee’s Code of Conduct.
As for the complaint, this is not known and the board refused to make it public.
Ramsey claims that this includes a number of his interactions on Twitter.
“Either I retweeted someone tweeting something, or I had my own tweet,” Ramsey told CTV News. “There is absolutely no denial of what has been published. What it comes down to is someone else’s point of view on what tweets are. This is essentially a matter of freedom of speech. “
“VEIL OF SECRET”
Ramsey said he wanted both the complaint and the 36-page accompanying report from the Commissioner for Integrity to be made public.
“The fact that my colleagues are hiding behind the veil of secrecy, which allows them to imagine what the problems were, for this part I will look for some [legal] council, “Ramsey said.
On Monday night, after reviewing the report of the Commissioner for Integrity in the complaint against Ramsey, the trustees voted in favor of a proposal showing that he had violated the code of conduct.
Ramsey was reprimanded and banned from all committee meetings, including the committee, until September 30.
He was also barred from attending a board meeting on June 27, and was barred from attending closed-door meetings and receiving materials until September 30.
“I am disappointed with my colleagues in the sense that they are pretending to stand for diversity, inclusion and justice. But when a black person doesn’t agree with them, they quickly put me in my place, “Ramsey said.
STATEMENT OF CONTENT
The Waterloo School Board and Board Chairman Scott Piatkowski have denied requests for an interview with CTV News.
“As civil servants, school board trustees have a responsibility to be accountable to the public, and the WRDSB Code of Conduct is our tool for ensuring public accountability,” Piatkowski said in part in an e-mail statement.
Meanwhile, a retired professor of political science at the University of Waterloo, who has criticized the board in the past and is not directly involved in the situation, said the complaint should be made public.
“As citizens, we are called to make judgments about our civil servants,” said Peter Walstencroft. “How can we do this if you don’t know what they did? We know what they did, but we don’t know how they did it. And why they did it is very important.”
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