One absent councillor was actually on township business

Centre Well­ing­ton councillor Bob Foster was officially absent from two town­ship council meetings last year, but he was still working on township business when those absences occurred.

Foster said on Monday night he is an appointee to the Groves Hospital board.

As such, he was attending confer­ences for that board.

Foster said he was at an Ontario Hospital Association con­ference when he missed one meeting, and was attending an Ontario Hospital Associ­ation meeting on finances when he was absent from council the oth­er time.

His absences from council meetings was noted in a survey conducted by the Wellington Ad­vertiser in an article publish­ed last week.

Only one coun­cillor who consistently missed a large number of missed meetings was asked to comment about why his attendance was poor.