Sunday March 27, 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen

The sun is shining mightily but it is not having much of an effect on winter. So the Canadian Coast Guard will help things along with a little ice-breaking in Midland Bay on Tuesday.

Recap:  Wednesday last week was the public meeting on the “taxi issue”. About 35 people in attendance including the four taxi companies. Good ideas presented both for and against metering and what the “fare level” should be. The matter will now go before a meeting of Council.

Recap: Thursday last week was the public meeting on the “Employment Area report”. Forty people attended, including some of our Town’s major employers. The message from those who spoke was unequivocal – they wanted more flexibility with our industrial land designation. All agreed that this was a critical issue for our economic future.

Monday March 28^th at 6:30 pm your Council meets in camera at the NSSRC to discuss “personnel matters”. Then at 7:00 is the regular Council meeting. Items on the agenda include:

-          a deputation by Ms. Trudeau to rename the

Park Road

through Little Lake Park.

-          A Public Meeting to get your input on the new Fees and Charges schedule affecting a number of Town services, such as secondary suite inspections

-          Decisions on a number of upcoming summer events including:

o        The downtown Farmers Market

o        Party of the Dock

o        Canada Day Parade

-          Presentation of our proposal for the joint police service to cover Midland and Penetanguishene

On Wednesday March 30^th, two items:

-          at noon at the NSSRC is the Askennonia AGM

-          at 7:00 pm at the Library is an in camera meeting of Council to discuss its strategic plan. Its expected with the in camera items out of the way, the next meeting will be open to the public.

And on Friday at 2:00 pm Garfield Dunlop MPP has invited area politicians to a meeting at the Elmvale Community Centre to hear concerns about the provincial growth plan. This is the same growth plan that gave us our joint urban growth node designation.

In closing please remember that we need beds for our hospital. Please vote every day at http://www.refresheverything.ca/light-registration.

Gord McKay