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I agree but cannot see how we can help him. Last night it was quite clear that Council, with the one exception, were not going to " micro-manage " the market even if a resident was being bullied. I had been fudging on Cllr Abel but am no longer
Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 28 May 2014 14:
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I have no interest in micro-managing the market.
I support the intent of the Farmers Market Bylaw.
Vendors should have representation for communication with the town and they should manage their own affairs.
I presented a motion on Tuesday to direct staff to review the Bylaw to ensure wording was clear as to intent.
Without a seconder the motion was not tabled.
It was a slight to be sure. But it's always a possibility. I don't ask for favours.
A delegate, purporting to represent vendors had five mintes to speak to the issue but a colleague was denied the right.
Any time a right is denied the right is surrendered.
The enemy is within.
If anybody is keeping score ,,,that was a minus zero.
Credit earned for discontinuing the plan for district heritage designation was reduced .
It had nothing to do with the Market Bylaw It was fear of Anna Kroeplin.
A person not a vendor, was a vendor for one season,selling painted plates, sufficiently brazen to take the podium in a Council meeting and lay claim to represent vendors has already spread a circle of intimidation.
On Wednesday morning, an e-mail was copied to all Councillors. Unsigned It came from Park Residents Committee, in support of district designation. It included Anna Kroeplin . It appeared to warn Councillors against failure to act on the "compromise agreement " for protection of the neighborhood against undesirable development,hammered out at the Heritage Advisory Committee.
Councillors Abel and Humfryes are Council's valiant representatives on that illustrious committee.
Sub-committee of the Committee was composed of Park Residents Committee .Anna Kroeplin is one.
I have an anecdote to share:
I have known Lynn Knowles and Mary O'Reilly since I was Mayor in the early seventies.
Mary and Lynn were members of a Sorority that raised $15,000. for development of Black Creek Pioneer Village It's an opportunity to immerse oneself in history if one is so inclined. And it's on our doorstep.
It's a long time since both women established their credentials in heritage preservation in my book.
At General Committee ,when Council made the decision to disontinue designation plans Mary and Lynn were standing at the door of the Council chamber. The proponents were leaving before the decision .
It must be noted throughout repeated appearances before Council , opponents have conducted themselves entirely professionally, always respectful of Council and the proponents.
Never threatening but always firm in their stated determination to oppose the designation to the limit.
every time.
As the proponents were leaving the Chamber , a female member of the group, pushed her face within three inches from Lynn Knowles and spat out "You are a liar"
It wasn't Anna Kroeplin. It was an associate, a member of the committee.
The e-mail Council received indicated 49% of residents had not taken a position on designation.
Some have apparently confiessed to fear. I think that's a distinct possibility.
In this town, much is made of good work by volunteers. Rightly so.
In every community, in every age, people work together to make a better place. It's a given. It's not extraordinary. It makes a community. But Thank you is always in order.
At this time and in this place and for some time there have been those who loudly claim and proclaim volunteer status and use it to cloak selfish interest and club into submission any who might get in the way of their intent.
"All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"
Edmund Burke's quote may not be the precise ,but you get my drift.
It is the five year anniversary of my personal battle against harm in our community .
The virus is not yet contained. The major decision is pending.
I am not about to surrender.
The important round there was with the south-east designation. That defeat took the wind out of their sails & I believe there is enough vigilance now to prevent it from making another appearance at the table. People who seldom paid attention to municipal politics became involved on both sides. The winning argument in my mind was that we do not try to tell our neighbours how they should live their lives. Buying & selling property is a personal/family matter
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ReplyDeleteI found that the fact your motion did not have a seconder from any of the members present, to be a cowardly act and not in keeping with the fact that the Farmers' Market was officially created by the town's passage of a Bylaw, and that councillors and mayor have an obligation to deal with legitimate concerns that arise from time to time under said Bylaw.
There was more time wasted on other completely unimportant issues. But then this is true of Council and GC meetings in general.
If members of Council were paid on the basis of real accomplishments that furthered and improved the lives of our residents they would probably find that for the more than three and a half years in office they each might be entitled to $10,000.
It was interesting to watch Clr. Gallo babble on about Clr. Able's motion re: Code of Conduct and what came forward from it to the courts, and then realize that he was a defendant in another action so hastily stated a conflict of interest. These are supposed to be made before the matter is discussed, not following and having participated. Gaertner quickly followed suit with her own conflict of interest statement.
A quick scan of the Auroran.
ReplyDeleteAnother good cartoon.
No letters telling Evelyn to quit.
I saw my first bumble-bee of the year.
All is well in the world.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I am dense, but when a member of Council has a motion that relates to a town By-Law it should be incumbent on another councillor at the table to second the motion, if for no other reason than to get the subject into active discussion, and not simply disappear.
I don't know what provisions there are in the Procedural By-Law, but it surely must contain a directive that a By-Lay related motion MUST have a seconder, even if that person is opposed.
Theoretically all motions that relate to By-Laws could be absent a seconder. And then where the hell is this dimwit Council?
Tuesday evening's failure to gain a seconder represents a gross abuse of responsibility on the part of all councillors present and the utter disregard
of the Oath of Office.
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ReplyDeleteThere is no requirement that someone must second a motion. The process of having a motion tabled and then endorsed by at least one person give the motion some chance of life. It the motion cannot be seconded, what is the point in debating it? It will not pass.
Of course you have seen some motions seconded - with a caveat that the seconder is doing it to allow debate - but you know whare the motion will sit at the end of the night.
It was not cowardly. As Ev likes to say, "politics is a game". She rolled the dice with a motion and it came up snake-eyes. Nice try, move on.
Entirely too many weird ideas are being created in committees and then allowed to grow like toxic mushrooms.The only good thing about the coming election is that nothing substantive is going to get done by council.
ReplyDeleteThere is movement on another proposal. This one is 99 Sudbury St. Should we be paying attention to this one too ?
ReplyDeleteFive years? What's the hang up?
ReplyDeleteI think the motion wasn’t second because the whole mess is an embarrassment. Anna Kroeplin and Councillor Humphreys should be embarrassed that this couldn't be taken care of quietly. Good on the opponents of the SE heritage designation. To think that the Town spent $34,000 on this study is BS. Thank you to all who to personal time and worked hard to stop the handful of self entitled people. It won`t be forgotten.
ReplyDeleteMr Pullano is using a project in TO as an example of how to do things in Aurora. The man is tooo big for this town.
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19:22-There’s nothing wrong with looking at what other Towns/cities have done. In fact we could probably cut down on all these studies and save Aurora $$$$ by looking at studies that other municipalities have paid for. Learn from their mistakes and benefit from their successes. Aurora is geographically smack in the middle of towns larger and smaller than us. They opportunities to share information and resources are endless.
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ReplyDeleteWe could borrow completed studies from other town thereby saving us the costs of time & redundancy.
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ReplyDeleteCllr Sandra is riding a Tiger she has fed and nourished. She has no control of it. And she has no sympathy from me.