An alleged breach of confidentiality by Mayor Keith Hobbs is still under investigation.
The probe by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission was launched seven months ago. Hobbs has been forced to step down from the Police Services Board since mid-March when the investigation began.
He said it is a role he believes many people in the community elected to him to serve.
"I had an interview in August with the Ontario Civilian Police Commission and I'm just waiting for a decision from them and it's taking quite a long time," Hobbs aaid on Thursday, after visiting a local Grade 5 classroom. "I really want to get back on that board.
"I told the Ontario Civilian Police Commission that I was elected on a platform of a safe city and that they were doing the citizens a disservice by removing me from that board and I still believe that. I have a lot to offer.
The investigation was launched after former police chief Bob Herman lodged a complaint with the police commission alleging that Hobbs divulged information from an in-camera session of the local police board to a third party.
During Hobbs's absence from the board, a new police chief, J.P. Levesque, has been hired and a new deputy chief, Andy Hay, selected.
The mayor said he is disappointed that he has been off the police board during that time.
However, that hasn't stopped the mayor from having his say about the city's police force and the direction Levesque is taking it in.
"We did meet as a city council with the police chief, the deputy chief and the police board the other night to talk about strategic planning for the city. And I like the direction it sounds like they're going to go in, but I want to make sure I'm on that board to see that true," Hobbs said.
Hobbs has admitted that he was attempting to get a suspended officer back to work when the alleged breach of confidentiality occurred.
-- With files from Leith Dunick
