In the June General Committee Meeting of Council a question was asked:
Why has the Trail Connection from Elizabeth Hader Park not commenced?
Answer:
Minutes from the Trails Sub-Committee meeting of September 11.2009,  considered at the October 15. 2009 meeting of Leisure Services Committee Meeting , and recommended for approval at the November 3. 20o9 General Committee Meeting and approved  on November 10.  2009 by Council directed it not happen.
In accordance with the decision ,Council directed staff to await completion of the Trails Master Plan which is scheduled for this Fall (2010), before commencing with the Elizabeth Hader Trail
The question was asked by Councillor Evalina Mac Eachern, Chairman of  said Leisure Services Advisory Committee.
The same committee which recommended  rejection of a  staff  request for $4,800. for fifteen additional portable toilets .
When residents  seated at their dining room table were treated to the  view of an adult ball player, full frontage,  relieving himself  at the end of their garden, subsequently expressed a lack of appreciation  for the performance to staff in 2009, a  Johnny was on the spot within a week.
In 2010, after a repeat performance,   an e-mail to Mayor and  Council from the resident, resulted in  a  review of the  record of  the  decision-making process. It revealed  staff  request for funds to provide relief stations was rejected,  on  recommendation  from the  Leisure Services Advisory Committee, chaired by  Councillor  Mac Eachern and approved by Council, resulting in ALL portable  relief stations being outlawed  by the town forthwith.
The 2010  complaint  prompted swift prevarication from the Mayor's office and subsequently a lengthy epistle from Councillor MacEachern , countering the written  record of decision-making, with excerpts from the newly adopted Master Recreation Plan, which was a version of a discarded  Draft Plan prepared by a consultant at a cost to the town of $53Ks,  edited by Councillor Mac Eachern and the Mayor's friend and campaign supporter, Ken Whitehurst, who is also a member of the Leisure Services Advisory Committee.
The question about why the trail connection to the Elizabeth Hader Park had not been started was asked by Councillor Mac Eachern, Chair of  said  Leisure Services Advisory Committee which recommended to Council  to await the completion of the Trails Master Plan  before commencing the Elizabeth Hader Trail.
The same Councillor who filed a complaint with  the Integrity Commissioner that the process by a working group, composed of herself and Mr. Whitehurst , of editing the Draft  Master Recreation Plan was misrepresented by myself to the detriment of somebody or other.
Sunday, 25 July 2010
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Are you saying that the same people that put the Trail on hold until the trail plan was completed actually asked the staff why the trail had not been constructed ? this surely cannot be so.
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are you also saying that the direction of Council to not put johny on the spots in parks was contravened without the full approval of council just because it was it was tucked inside the rec masterplan somewhere. How can this possibly have happened
I thought Wendy Womble took the prize for female spaced out councillor (Grainger takes the male prize) but I guess Evilina is not the brightest bulb in the box either.
Thank the lord for Councillors C-M and McRoberts who restore my faith in female and male intellect respectively.
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