Council will vote Oct. 6 on changes to the city's indemnification policy.--NEWS PHOTO BRENDAN MILLER

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A policy adopted in 2011 to protect councillors, appointees and employees from losses and other actions which may arise out of ‘conduct undertaken in good faith’ will appear before council during its last sitting on Oct. 6.

Specifically, council will vote to change one specific portion of the current policy that deals with the discretionary authority of the city manager to approve indemnification requests.

The request to adopt these changes came before council in early 2023, however it was not adopted at that time. Instead, the policy was sent to back staff for revisions.

“Since then there have been some discussions at closed sessions of council and closed

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