Sunday May 8, 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen

A beautiful Mother’s Day and a chance to honor the individual who is at the heart of our families.

We will be meeting at the NSSRC at 7:00 on Monday May 9^th for our General Committee.  (Soon we will be moving to our new Town Hall Council chamber – its looking great).  Likely a long agenda including:

-          direction on how we will be changing our taxi bylaw – meter or flat fare

-          direction on how we want to handle the transportation of heavy waste from your home to the transfer station

-          what we should do with our 2011, $776,000 budget surplus

-          a discussion on how many committees your Council should have (Council currently participates in 36 different committees) and

-          direction to staff on the 2012 budget objectives

Some of your favourite politicians will be at McDonalds on Hwy 93 though the day on Wednesday May 11^th to raise funds for Community Living Huronia. Please drop by. That same evening is the Planning and Development Committee meeting at 7:00 at the NSSRC.  Two major items on the agenda are;

-          proposal to re-start our suspended Official Plan Review process

-          submission of the amended Employment Area Policy Review with a recommendation that it go to a public meeting

The weekend features many events in our area:

-          at 5:00 pm on Friday May 13^th is the Huronia Museum Heritage Dinner – Tickets are still available from the museum

-          at 8:00 pm on Friday members of Quota International District 18 will meet in conference at the Best Western – welcome to all

-          Port McNicoll is handing out its annual awards at 7:00 pm on Saturday May 14^th at the Community Centre in Port McNicoll

-          on Sunday May 15^th at 5:00 pm is the annual Field Naturalist dinner at the Wye Marsh. The noted Terrence Dickinson will be the featured speaker.

Gord McKay