INACCURATE "DRAFT" MECAC MINUTES REMOVED FROM TOWNSHIP WEBSITE

I was planning on writing an alternate set of Minutes to the October 26/15 MECAC (Compliance Audit Committee) meeting and posting them here. The Township's version was filled with errors, inaccuracies and just plain over the top ridiculous comments and were posted from December 7/15 until Friday January 8/16 on the Township's website. I had e-mailed, for a second time, Woolwich CAO Brenneman last Friday and criticized him and the Township's behaviour over this matter. To his credit this time the offending and inaccurate Minutes were removed quickly. Should have happened a month earlier when I first e-mailed him.

So in the alternative I think I will point out a few select hilarious comments by Sandy either as recorded in my notes of the MECAC meeting or as per the now removed "Draft" Minutes posted for a month on the Township's website. Keep in mind that by design Sandy spoke after myself and I was not given the right of rebuttal or even clarification of any of her doozers. For example Sandy advised MECAC and the public that she expensed plates of food brought by her friends for the "kickoff and celebration parties". Well that's certainly interesting because that's not what her own Financial Statements say. They refer to plates of food brought by two of her one hundred plus volunteers to "meetings". The dollar total is $95.00. First off a party is not a meeting and secondly I question how far $95 worth of food is going to go for two partys for how many people including volunteers, Sandy. There is absolutely no reference in her Financials to food expenses at either the September 16/14 kick off party or the October 27/14 celebration/victory party.

Sandy repeatedly states she "corrected the error" and "I (Sandy) made a mistake" in regards to her first February 2/15 Financial Statement. Nice try there Sandy. You made three "mistakes" that you admitted to on that Financial Statement. Since then numerous more have been exposed. Numerous as in a multitude; not a single mistake.

Sandy stated at the October 26/15 MECAC meeting that she didn't originally believe that her Contributions exceeded the $10,000 threshold (for an Audit) and that her expenses still don't. Absolute horse manure on that one Sandy. Reread your own Amended and Supplementary Financial Statements dated August 20/15 posted on the Township's website and repeat that one publicly please.

Finally from Sandy's own lips we have the claim that she was taken to court twice by an elector. Really? I took her to court once and she took herself to Superior Court last July 23/15. Now maybe Sandy wants to count adjournements etc. as the number of times I've "taken her to court" but that seems rather deceptive.

The Draft MECAC Minutes stated that I had claimed that Sandy's volunteers (100 ?) should have submitted mileage costs as an expense. Horse manure, I said no such thing. Furthermore in the next paragraph the Draft MECAC Minutes have Sandy claiming that she herself included mileage costs in her expenses. Again horse manure. Sandy said no such thing plus I see none included in her latest expenses.

Interestingly while the second paragraph on page three of the Draft Minutes is riddled with falsehoods, that might not be entirely due to the incompetent and inaccurate Minutes. Sandy's words regarding being told to "over-submit" by the Ministry of Municipal affairs and hence she included extra expenses above and beyond the mandatory is fairly accurate. The problem is it's also untruthful but at least the Township accurately transcribed her nonsense. Food, in-kind services and Thank You ads are all mandatory expenses that Sandy fudged the first time around. She sold her bullshit on those expenses to a willingly blind, stupid and deaf MECAC whose primary purpose was to protect Sandy from undergoing a professional, forensic audit. Going back to the stupidity of the Draft Minutes would be the claim that Sandy included "the value of sign stakes that she had in her possession before the election". Sandy absolutely did not say that; in fact she stated that she paid for new stakes personally which is yet another contravention of the MEA (Elections Act).

I almost but not quite feel sorry for Woolwich Township. It is my thoughtful opinion that some of their errors in the Draft Minutes are caused by incompetence but also some of them seem much to self-serving, as in helpful to mayor Shantz. I got hammered by the first set of poorly documented, inaccurate MECAC Minutes of July 2/15. News flash Woolwich Township; you can only screw me so many times in a row before I catch on. This time I was expecting the exact dishonesty in the Draft Minutes that occurred and was ready for it.

Last December I was told by Township Staff in an e-mail that the approved MECAC Minutes of October 26/15 would be on the Township's website by December 18/15. The latest e-mail from CAO Brenneman claims that they will be posted by the end of Wednesday January 13, 2016. Also I should add that the "approved" MECAC Minutes are to be approved by MECAC themselves. Isn't that interesting? Has MECAC received a copy of the tape recorded meeting such that they can accurately and honestly correct all the errors or will they be satisfied with any Minutes that make me look bad and Sandy and themselves good? I've put it to Mr. Brenneman that fairness dictates that as the Township, the mayor and MECAC presumably have access and copies of the tape recorded meeting; then how about me. Don't hold your breath folks on that one! Woolwich Township know all about power and control and while honesty and transparency might dictate that I receive a copy, they conflict with the Township's penchant for the first two.