By Sara Ross, Orillia Packet & Times Orillia CAO Roman Martiuk, 56, sat down with media representatives Monday morning to answer questions regarding his resignation. Martiuk resigned Friday evening after a closed session council meeting. Below is an edited version of the interview. All of Martiuk...
Forwarded by Springwater Park Citizens’ Coalition By Cheryl Browne Barrie Examiner SPRINGWATER TWP. – The gates of Springwater Provincial Park may be pushed a little more open as council sets aside $10,000 for its re-opening this year. Although the park remains technically locked up, Springwate...
By Meade Helman I have written here before about municipal reform. I think our current way of conducting municipal business is unfair and not democratic. Officials get elected, often without having a majority if there are more than two candidates running. Then we have very limited input into the act...
By Meade Helman The town staff brought forward the budget for engineering of a number of projects to support future growth. NOTE: The council had already approved obtaining $66 mil in funding from developers that, if the employment lands weren’t populated, would require the town to reimburse the deve...
If you happen to drop by the Simcoe County council chambers to see democracy in action, you might find it hard to figure out what’s going on. There are 32 councillors down there – do you know any of them? Hard cheese if you don’t, because the little signs bearing their names are facing away […...
By Bill French – Local Advocate and Council Watch The township held a public meeting Feb 10th to discuss and recommend passing its 2014 operating and capital budget on Feb 25th at a special public meeting of council. It appears that this council, especially the senior members, have become a lit...
The radical Midhurst Secondary Plan requires radical (and very risky) public financing By Les Stewart .There is nothing clever about looting the treasury, loading up mega-debt and pacifying taxpayers with a soothing 2% tax rate hike. The draft budget for 2014 is being discussed now and all township ...
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