Parksville’s mayor will no longer be addressed as ‘Your Worship’ in council meetings.
Council gave three readings to a bylaw amending Council Procedure Bylaw, 2018, No. 1541, by deleting Section Section 16 (3) and replacing it with a new Section 16 (3) that states, “members shall address the chair as ‘Mayor’ or ‘Chair’ and shall address a member by that councillor’s surname preceded by ‘Councillor’.”
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It replaces a bylaw adopted in October 2019 that instructed council members to address the mayor as ‘Your Worship’.
Council Procedure Amendment Bylaw, 2022, No. 1541.3 was carried unanimously at the Dec. 5 regular meeting.
— NEWS Staff