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Feb 14th, 2013
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By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com Feb 12, 2013NEW TECUMSETH - After over a month of debating the details of New Tecumseth’s 2013 budget, council has approved a 6.38 per cent tax levy increase this year.While the package doesn’t include the much-debated fulltime fire staff, council did add an additional $19...
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Feb 14th, 2013
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New Tecumseth Free Press February 11, 2013New Tecumseth councillors are 1-0 in fighting off allegations of improper in camera meetings, after the Town's Closed Meeting Investigator ruled that they "exercised reasonable discretion" in discussing proposed employee wage increases in private, last month....
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Feb 14th, 2013
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New Tecumseth Free Press February 11, 2013In December 2012, Free Press Online reported that New Tecumseth spent over $5,000 to oppose a Freedom of Information request. Since then, the monthly summary report of expenditures, no longer references what the legal fees incurred were for....
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Jan 6th, 2013
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New Tec Free Press January 8, 2013 One of the first concrete decisions made by council as part of the 2013 municipal budget package is approval of a 1.5 per cent Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) increase for Town staff. As has been the case for the past few years now, money is set aside […]...
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Jan 6th, 2013
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New Tec Free Press January 3, 2013  In its Statement of Defence (SoD) of a $750,000 lawsuit delivered just before Christmas, The Corporation of the Town of New Tecumseth, states that Angela Drainville was terminated at the end of her six month probationary period “based on the advice and recomm...
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Dec 27th, 2012
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By Brad Pritchard Simcoe.com Dec 21, 2012 NEW TECUMSETH - New Tecumseth has filed its response to a lawsuit filed in November by a former town employee seeking $750,000 in damages over a series of alleged actions and events that led to her termination in October. ...
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Dec 14th, 2012
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Letter to the editor New Tecumseth Free Press December 13, 2012Your article regarding the Legal fees for Freedom of Information and the lack of reporting expenditures to Council is interesting but only the tip of the iceberg.Lawyers only do and say as they are instructed, within reason. The question ...
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Dec 11th, 2012
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New Tecumseth Free Press December 10, 2012 The only details confirmed about a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made of the Town is that it involves four related matters, and it has so far cost New Tecumseth about $5,000 in legal bills to justify its reply. ...
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Dec 8th, 2012
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New Tecumseth Free PressDecember 7, 2012 New Tecumseth's November cheque registry - the summary of monthly expenses - shows a Nov. 28 entry to Feehely, Gastaldi in the amount of $5,368.07 dealing with a Freedom of Information (FOI) request registered on November 12....
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Nov 28th, 2012
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New Tecumseth Free Press November 27, 2012The former executive director of the Gibson Cultural Centre (GCC) alleges in a Statement of Claim served on the Corporation of the Town of New Tecumseth this afternoon, that she was "solicited and induced" (...) "to become an employee of the Town" then was te...