There Is Work To Be Done

There are a number of questions.
Let's see if I can remember them all. 
There is no meeting on Tuesday. It's an extra Tuesday. The next meeting will be a general committee meeting. 
Decisions are not made in committee. Matters are discussed. A vote is taken and a recommendation is made to Council. 
That's always a week hence. Time for a Councillor to  hear from the community, do  more research. dwelling on what has been said and possibly change one's mind. . 
Recommendation  to approve from Committee  does not always  succeed in Council. 
Three Councillors did not support  finalization of the draft  Only  two more are needed  for a majority. Which would be to continue with  the current contract.
I am not in favour of that.
It's the position of Councillors Gaertner and Ballard. 
Councillor Thompson's commented  the decision is not final.  Council  directed staff to finalize a "draft" agreement. It still has to return to Council for approval before it can be signed. 
It has to be taken back to the  Arts and Culture Board for the same reason. They were  the second  party in the negotiations that took place over the summer. 
When it comes back. I will not be voting to maintain the current agreement. I will propose amendments to the  new agreement. 

Councillor Thompson has  indicated he will prepare a notice of motion related to the court findings that a legal action taken by the town and paid for by the town was  found to be SLAPP
It means, the  municipality  took Strategic Legal Action to Prevent Participation. 
For that we have to thank six members of the former  council who  discussed and approved the action behind closed doors while an election was in progress. 
The resolution on the Music Festival was to direct staff to prepare 
an invitation for proposals  from interested parties.
Much is made about my personal animosity towards the Jazz Festival Organizers. 
From the beginning,I  objected to fees being waived. To grants being provided. To a fence being placed around the town park to keep people out of their own park for three days. To  ignoring notification by the town solicitor, that under no circumstances were people to be denied access to washrooms. 
To people being denied convenient access to public washrooms.  To others enjoying a breakfast sandwich at a picnic table in the park, being ordered out by the festival organizer. 
To the Rotary Club and the Optimist Club being asked to surrender  hard-earned proceeds of their labour.
I have challenged the right to permit vendors in the park and  pocket permit fees of $600.  from each. 
The contention  the purpose of the festival is to raise money for charity. 
I have insisted over and over, the Jazz Festival  is a commercial endeavour to the point where they no longer received a financial hand-out.
I made an issue of the pointed insult  when the town's first citizen  was excluded from a list of dignitaries in attendance. 
As an elected representative, I have only one loyalty. It  is to good and proper fiscal management of the  town I represent.
To ensure stakeholders  obtain value for  every dollar spent.
To see that  hard-earned  resources do not flow easily from  town coffers to the advantage of  this group or that, leading to scandal 
and resentment within the community. 
I am not always successful.
But I try. 
I make no bones about it.