Corrections Canada Minutes to be clarified on Monday ?? Council never 'ENDORSED" CAB report.

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The minutes reflect what Mr. Lang remembers occurring on Oct 24/05 and therefore are correct in what he said in his presentation at the last Council Meeting.

However he thought Council 'endorsed' the report when the Council actually simply 'received' the report. An annotation to the minutes should be made to these minutes or the minutes of Monday's meeting should reflect Council's correction of Mr. Lang's recollection.


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Mr. Lang in his letter of May 31 to council indicates that Coun. Beardsell was under a mistaken impression that Corrections Canada would share the BOI investigation results with Council. P.65 Agenda Pkg. . He probably did not make that promise but there was a request from Council in their resolution that night when they received the report that 'a report be provided to Council, at a later date, when the results of the inquiry are made public, for Council's further consideration.' To best illustrate what the Council expected can be found when our former Mayor best expressed what was required by the community in an article you can read at http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/09/23/vernon_parole040923.html on Sept 23/04 (a month after signing the Aug 20 agreement). (excerpts below)

• Corrections Canada announced it will launch an internal investigation after Eric Fish, a convicted murderer on parole, was charged with the recent murder of 75-year-old Bill Abramenko.
• But Vernon Mayor Sean Harvey said the investigation needs to be expanded. "We want to ensure the closing of Howard House is not the end of the story, and we also want to ensure, on a national scale, the system is overhauled, so no other community has to suffer like we did," he said.
• Bill Abramenko's wife Gladys said she is not satisfied that closing down Howard House will solve the problems in Vernon. "The problem doesn't start with the Howard House. It starts with the National Parole Board. I think there should be a grand public inquiry – nothing hushed up."

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Council in their letter to Corrections Canada of may 31 (P.67-68 same link as above) sets out Council's request for information etc. Hopefully Council will also ask Corrections Canada to reconfirm their statement reported in the media after the Council Meeting at Corrections vows to work with city :

'Lang confirmed that there are 42 parolees already in Vernon, but none of them would be eligible for the halfway house, meaning that residents of the house would be new to Vernon.'