Innisfil mayor blocks vote on market study for $70-million sewer project
By Rick Vanderlinde Innisfil Journal
The majority of council wanted to debate and vote on a controversial recommendation last night that would have halted plans for a $70-million sewer project to allow more study.
But there was no debate and no vote after Mayor Gord Wauchope used a procedural maneuver to strike CAO Jason Reynar’s Innisfil Heights employment lands report from the agenda.
Led by Coun. Rob Nicol, the majority of council wanted to vote on Reynar’s recommendation to commission a market analysis study to find out what businesses would locate near Innisfil Beach Road and Hwy. 400 if the lands were fully serviced.
But Wauchope ruled the vote would be a repeat of a December decision that already quashed a market study in an 8-1 vote.
Nicol challenged Wauchope’s ruling but needed a 2/3 majority to over turn it, losing the chance to debate the recommendation by one vote.
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