Santos resigns as chair of citizen advisory safety committee
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This article was published 24/03/2022 (1592 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Coun. Vivian Santos is no longer the head of the Winnipeg Committee for Safety, a citizen-member committee that advises council on safety issues.
A new motion notes the councillor resigned as that committee’s chairperson and suggests Coun. Cindy Gilroy take over the job.
The motion does not specify a clear reason for the resignation.
Santos is the only member of council not vaccinated against COVID-19; she has linked that decision to an undisclosed medical condition. She was removed from the role of acting deputy mayor in September. At the time, Mayor Brian Bowman deemed fully immunized Coun. Markus Chambers “a better fit” to help convince Winnipeggers to get vaccinated.
Santos blamed a series of “conflicts” with Bowman for that decision, including disagreements around poverty, policing and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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