ANNOUNCEMENT

Salesperson of the Month

805 WALKERS LINE, BURLINGTON 905-333-0595

Scott Leggat,General Manager andAaron Stewart, SalesManager of BurlingtonMazda, would like to extend their warmest congratulations to Dan Keith whoachieved Salesperson of the Month for June 2012. In addition to sellingMazda’s product Dan wants to make sure that his customers are completelycovered. Dan has access to over 15 new car brands, including Toyota, Honda,VW,Acura, GM, Ford, Chrysler and Kia. Why shop anywhere else when Dan hasyou completely taken care of for New or Pre-Owned vehicles.

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By David LeaOAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF

An Ontario court judge ruled late last month that no reasonable grounds exist to hold a compliance audit of

Ward 4 Halton District School Board Trustee Kathryn Bateman-Olmstead’s 2010 municipal election expenses and contributions report.

In the wake of the election, Oakville resident Wendy Gunn

went to court seeking such an audit, claiming contributions made to Bateman-Olmstead’s campaign hadn’t been record-ed and the true expenses incurred through the purchase of election signs and creation

of a campaign website were absent from official records.

None of these allegations were proven in court.

Gunn claimed Bateman-Olmstead had received 3,568 votes in the 2010 election, but,

Compliance audit is ruled out by judgeaccording to the contribu-tion form the school trust-ee filed, received no con-tributions from anyone other than herself.

Gunn claimed that this, coupled with the fact that in 2006, Bateman-Olmstead received $3,495 in contributions, made it ‘inconceivable that no one donated to her campaign.’

In his ruling, Justice R.J. LeDressay said there was no evidence anyone contributed to Bateman-Olmstead’s campaign and noted Gunn’s allegation was grounded in nothing more than conjecture and speculation.

Affidavits, he said, had also been supplied by three people who had made financial contributions to Bateman-Olmstead’s 2006 campaign, but who did not make a financial con-tribution to her 2010 elec-tion campaign.

LeDressay found a lack of evidence of any wrong-doing with regard to alle-gations made by Gunn and accordingly, did not order the compliance audit Gunn was hoping for.

“My family and I are pleased with the decision of the court and looking forward to the summer

ahead,” said Bateman-Olmstead.

“I am personally excit-ed to be able to return to putting my full attention to the job I was elected to perform. I remain com-mitted to the families in Halton and to the contin-ued work of creating safe, inclusive schools where students are happy to attend and where they have great opportunity to achieve their maximum potential. In this time of financial constraint, the job of trustee is even more challenging,” said Bateman-Olmstead.

Gunn admitted she was disappointed with the court decision and said she found the process to be complicated, drawn out and expensive.

“My family and I are pleased with the decision of the court and looking forward to the summer ahead.”

Kathryn Bateman-Olmstead, Ward 4 public school trustee