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If you’ve been looking forward to October’s Municipal Election… you are not alone! The Grimsby 40 is a collective of local residents looking to bring positive change and fresh faces to Town Council.
Along with A Better Niagara and Community Voices of Fort Erie, they will be hosting a series of seminars for those who are interested in bringing change and even running in the forthcoming election.
Seminar and contact details are in the above graphic.
Are you thirsting for change in the Municipal and Regional government in October? Perhaps you might consider a run for a seat and bring effective change to local government.
The good folks at A Better Niagara are hosting a workshop that will give you an overview of the election process and the do’s and dont’s of running a great campaign.
The event will be held on March 21 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at the Beamsville Legion in Grimsby, located at 5545 King Street in Grimsby.
The Region recently held a meeting discussing possible changes to media policies and the recent seizure of press equipment. In the incident that involved seizure of media equipment, Grimsby Regional Councillor Quirk says the Region is the victim and did nothing wrong.
For more details, please read the March 6th article in the St. Catharines Standard:
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/8312515-region-victim-in-press-incident-says-quirk/
Well, March is now upon us and we have a slate of new meetings for the month.
The Planning & Development Committee has scheduled a second sitting on March 27th. The much talked about “Century Condos” proposal for downtown will be front and centre for this meeting. As always, these meetings are at Town Hall and the public is invited and encouraged to attend.
**UPCOMING PUBLIC BUDGET MEETINGS**
Please mark your calendars for these upcoming important public budget meetings:
February 28 5:00 pm Fire Station 2 (Mountain Road)
March 8 5:00 pm Town Hall
March 26 5:00 pm Town Hall
EDIT: The February 28th meeting has been cancelled. A hat tip to Alderman Berry for updating us.
One of our good friends and noted naturalist, Bruce McKenzie, shared with us a story and some photos for those who might have seen some new visitors in town.
It appears that the OPP has cleared the NPCA of any “criminal” wrongdoing after investigating allegations of such, but that doesn’t mean the storm has passed for the agency that seems to have little trouble attracting controversy.
We came across an interesting opinion piece by Joan Little in the Hamilton Spectator regarding out-of-scale development in Burlington and the rise of yet another citizen’s group.
In the case of Burlington however, their city manager James Ridge seems to be going the failed route of the NPCA in an attempt to suppress this public dissent.
Judges gavel and law books stacked behind
Despite the apparent attempts to keep costs under wraps, it looks like the now-dismissed lawsuit by the NPCA against Ed Smith ran up a legal bill of over $140,000.
We came across an interesting opinion piece in Niagara This Week regarding expense accounts, after the Region released 20 years worth of data as we previously posted here.
As the author points out, having one member of Council expensing a $10 ticket for a charitable event is beyond reason.
You can read the full article here: Hide the cookie jar? They’d just expense us for a new one.
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