Conceivably the county could throw enough money to address requirements relating to extended areas of policing and litter pick-up, Moore said, but their liability regulations were concerning in the extreme. As she put it, county liability for operations extended to employees and councillors personally, while the town was indemnified from liability even if they did something on purpose.
Cobourg council held its own emergency in-camera meeting an hour prior to Tuesday's council meeting, and then at 11:05 a.m. Wednesday, announced an emergency 4 p.m. meeting. It immediately went in camera and emerged for two minutes at 5 p.m. to announce the results.
Councillors passed the motion that was produced – to authorize Chief Administrative Officer Tracey Vaughan to send a letter in response to the letter received by the CAO of Northumberland County, and copy Mayor Lucas Cleveland and Cobourg council on the response, and further that council authorize the Municipal Law Enforcement and Licensing Manager and town solicitors to meet with county staff “to discuss the topics raised in the correspondence noted above and shall not discuss the outstanding bylaw exemption appeal requested by Northumberland County under the ECE By-law.”
By 5:02 p.m., the meeting was adjourned with Cleveland's parting words.
“Thank you very much, council, for finding a way forward and working to find an olive branch so that we can move past this impasse towards resolution,” the mayor said.