City of Hamilton

The Ombudsman received a complaint about an electronic meeting held by the City of Hamilton’s Board of Health on August 11, 2021. The complaint alleged that during the meeting, the votes of individual Board members were not visible in real time and that this was in contravention of the open meeting rules in the Municipal Act, 2001. The Ombudsman found that the Board did not contravene the open meeting rules as the meeting was at no time closed to the public. All meeting proceedings were streamed live online. The results of each vote were also announced verbally.

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