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Mary and Joseph":
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disrespectful.
Once certain Councillors & especially our Mayor, get a
particular bee in their bonnets, there does not appear to be room for anything
further.
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We could be jumping the gun here.
A presentation was made to Council on Tuesday .
A couple of Councillors expressed enthusiastic support. Like Pavlov's dog.
The motion approved by Council was to receive the presentation and refer .... I'm not sure where .
Several Councilors did not comment.
I'm not sure all Councillors participated in the secret, separate meetings.
Future debate will be open and fulsome.
Councillors are obliged to consider all aspects of the matter before a decision is made.
We may not presume to know what the decision will be.
Mainly because the public will have their input.
Councillors will listen and consider the merits and otherwise of the proposal.
We should not underestimate the calculated plan of the scheme's proponents.
The plan itself must stand up to scrutiny and Councillors run the gauntlet of public opinion.
The game is on.
It's not over.
OK We watch and wait. That ombudsman idea would have been good here just to check if secretive meetings are acceptable. It is ironic that this particular Council would involve itself in anything that even looks sneaky. They were also elected to STOP wasteful spending. But that's clearly old data.
ReplyDeleteSome time we should probably pay a bit of attention to the fact that Alison is not longer hosting Our Town for the Auroran. Knowing her work ethic and the fact that she did the job unpaid, I am puzzled over this situation. Even more so because it happened right after Aurorans spoke out strongly in support of that publication.
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ReplyDeleteThe problem is that certain councillors, once having gotten a particular bee in their bonnets, remain hostage to that bee.
And nothing that others say, including the public, will rid their bonnets of the bee.
They may be "obliged to consider all aspects of the matter before a decision is made."
But they don't.
Scrutiny and the gauntlet of public opinion be damned.
Maybe it might help if Council members were required to make a shift in semantics. Instead of speaking about the Hydro Funds, which sounds quite benign, they had to refer to " Public Money " ? Could that adjust the focus?
ReplyDelete3:54 PM Say what? I figured Alison had earned some time off. You're saying Our Town has been cancelled?
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