New Tecumseth Free Press  October 30, 2012 The Executive Summary of Simcoe County's 2013 draft budget lays out the obvious first. "Property taxation represents the most significant source of revenue for the County of Simcoe." That's followed by justification to raise those revenues by two per cent ov...

New Tecumseth Free Press October 30, 2012 Simcoe County's original plan to build a new ambulance station at the soon to be vacated County works yard at Main and Patterson in Beeton, has been shelved because of costs associated with site remediation and municipal requirements....

By Brock Weir KIng Weekly Sentinel October 17 2012 Discussions over whether to maintain the status quo of an appointed Regional Chair or having a duly elected representative as head of the extensive York Region hit Aurora’s council table recently....

By Sandy Agnew and Kate Harries AWARE News Network October 21 2012At a special meeting of County Council on October 16, 2012, councillors discussed three recommendations from the Governance Committee....

Said to have sights set on wardenship in 2014By Kate Harries AWARE News Network October 20 2012Simcoe County’s most pro-development mayor is soliciting support from his fellow county councillors in a bid to wrest the deputy-wardenship from Oro-Medonte Mayor Harry Hughes....

Upper tier municipality is looking at ways to remodel its governance structureBy Richard Blanchard Innisfil Scope October 17 2012 Simcoe County council made the first steps towards a reorganization of its governing structure last week. There seems to be support for making the warden's term four years...

AWARE Simcoe October 17 2012For the record, relying on the observations of several AWARE members at the September meeting of county council, we are publishing the vote on a motion proposed by Penetanguishene Mayor Gerry Marshall that would have ensured the public had a chance to view and comment on t...

By Emily Innes, Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin October 5, 2012Simcoe County Warden Cal Patterson says his peers on County Council have encouraged him to run again for the position of warden.He announced he is seeking another two-year term at the last council meeting on Sept. 27....

New Tecumseth Free Press  October 2, 2012 A September 13 report to Simcoe County's Governance Committee, whose recommendations will be tabled at a special meeting of County council October 16th, concludes the mayors and deputy mayors of the 16 municipalities who make up the 32 member upper tier gover...

By Jim Birchard Bayshore Broadcasting September 30, 2012MPAC says value of residential property is up 8.7 per cent while farm land up a whopping 24 per centThe latest assessment notices for about 190 thousand property owners of Orillia and Simcoe County are in the mail. Orillia homeowners will see th...