Oro-Medonte Township Deputy Mayor Peter Lavoie will be travelling with the township’s mayor to Ajax next week to present their side of the Barrie annexation story to the province’s standing committee on heritage, infrastructure and cultural policy.
by Wayne Doyle, Barrie Today Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
‘Oro-Medonte cannot be the party that subsidizes another municipality for their lack of funds,’ says Deputy Mayor Peter Lavoie
Oro-Medonte Township Mayor Randy Greenlaw and Deputy Mayor Peter Lavoie are so adamant to have their side of the Barrie annexation story told to the province’s standing committee on heritage, infrastructure and cultural policy, they’re travelling to Ajax next week to tell it.
“We are actively preparing for our presentation,” Lavoie said at the township’s regular council meeting on Wednesday.
Lavoie was tight-lipped about the final contents of the presentation, but did allow it may include information that came to light during a town-hall event at the Parkview Community Centre in Barrie on Monday night.
According to Lavoie, Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall told the Parkview audience Barrie’s proposed boundary expansion into Oro-Medonte and Springwater townships was based, in part, on the simple fact that Barrie didn’t have the money to expand to the south.
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