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“We just aren’t equipped for the volume,” he told council members representing the waterfront community of close to 9,000. Not only has the number of requests increased, municipal responses are sometimes appealed, leading to more work, Sailland said. Administration staff are watching to see if the higher volume becomes the new norm, he said. Heather Svensen, Qualicum Beach’s corporate administrator, said she has never seen anything like it in her 17 years with the municipality. Appeals require the town to go through additional documents, she said, adding: “We are talking thousands and thousands of pages” in the past year and a half. ....
Council members decided to wait until Filmer’s leave, which started in mid-December, was over to set a date for the byelection. They will be asking the province to approve May 15 as the election date. Filmer took part in the council meeting Wednesday and participated in a Feb. 8 in-camera meeting regarding a report commissioned by the town to investigate nine complaints he made about conduct at city hall. The consultant’s report into Filmer’s concerns said it found no evidence of discrimination, bullying or harassment. Filmer posted on social media that his “fellow councillors gave a pattern of facts that does not square with my notes or memory.” ....