Coun. Brian Skakun gave the following statement in city council chambers on Friday:
"I just want start by saying thanks to acting mayor Shari Green and council for having the willingness to bring this issue to a closure today and we have some common ground on that.
And I also want to say that I apologize to council for what happened three years ago, and to Mr. Bates [city manager Derek Bates] and administration.
And I don't think there has been a day in the past three years that I haven't thought about how I could've done something different. It's been an incredibly tough three years and I do take my job and elected officials seriously and though I did what I did because of what happened to the victims of the harassment and I felt empathy for them and I also felt that this information needed to be public and I really think that there needs to be something, a better mechanism in place, if something like this ever happens again, although I don't think it would, that there would be an avenue for elected officials working with others to try and get the information out.
And I feel the same as many others that this issue does need to come to a resolution. Not only is there is an election going on, there are much more important issues in Prince George that we can deal with."
