Employees charge boss! Reader disagrees with decision against Kincardine councillor

To the Editor:
RE: "Kincardine councillor loses month's pay for violating code of conduct"

I do not agree that the Kincardine chief administrative officer (CAO) and water and wastewater supervisor have so much say, since council is their boss!

It would have been much cheaper for the municipality to have found and repaired the water meter that was causing the issue, instead of passing the buck. Because the bylaw states that the property owner must find the water meter.

As a retired municipal employee, I was always under the impression that the council was the big boss, not the CAO, as he was hired by the council, as I was back in 1980.

I do not agree that councillor Gordon Campbell should be brought up on the carpet for doing his job as councillor and working for the taxpayers!

Who elected the council? It was certainly not the CAO!

The CAO should have to answer to the council, not the other way around.

Wayne Hartwick
Kincardine