Medicine Hat mayor stripped of powers after council finds wrongdoing
Medicine Hat city council on Thursday severely limited the powers and duties of Mayor Linnsie Clark after finding she broke code of conduct rules over her treatment of the city manager during a meeting last year, a set of sanctions Clark called disproportionate.
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Council voted 7-0 during a special meeting to accept the findings of a third-party investigation carried out by Kingsgate Legal dated Feb. 27 that was spurred by a complaint filed by a member of council last year.