Vancouver’s integrity commissioner has ruled that Mayor Ken Sim and seven of his ABC Vancouver councillors broke city rules by meeting in private to discuss and plan city business.

Lisa Southern’s report , dated Aug. 22, was based on a complaint lodged last summer by Green Coun. Pete Fry.

The report concludes that Sim and councillors Sarah Kirby-Yung, Lisa Dominato, Lenny Zhou, Brian Montague, Mike Klassen, Peter Meiszner and Rebecca Bligh breached the Vancouver Charter by privately planning how they would vote on and amend two items before council: funding for a turf field at Moberly Park and a climate justice charter that was ultimately defeated.

While political parties are permitted in B.C. municipal politics, city rules ban councillors from privately discussing how to advance city

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