On Safety
As we reach the beginning of the voting period, I wanted to talk about safety in Middlesex Centre, and specifically Ward 4. Over the next 10 years there is going to be a great deal of road reconstruction happening. We have an infrastructure funding gap of roughly $42,000,000 worth of infrastructure repairs that need to be addressed as soon as possible, and roughly another $43,000,000 worth of infrastructure repairs that need to be addressed over the next 10 years. In that infrastructure there will no doubt be roads that need to be repaired and rebuilt. I asked municipal staff recently
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All-Candidates Meeting Videos
The Ward 4 All-Candidates Meeting happened on October 16! Unfortunately the live stream wasn’t flawless, but you can watch a good chunk of what happened over on Livestream.com. Since we used my free account to make this work, you will need to register for your own Livestream.com account in order to view the videos. Click here to register and watch. I hope this gives you a glimpse of what we can do at council. All we had last night was my smartphone and a 3G data connection. If we had a proper camera that was wired in to the municipal
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On Bill 8 and the Ombudsman
I will make one thing very clear: I like the Ombudsman, Andre Marin. I like his outspokenness, I like his style. What I don’t like is that Middlesex Centre does not utilize the Ombudsman’s services for closed meeting investigations. Every municipality must have a closed meeting investigator. When the provincial government mandated this, as told me to by Mayor Edmondson and the incumbent, Middlesex Centre chose John Maddox (and his firm JGM Consulting). The rationale? According to the Mayor… “…the main reason that both the County of Middlesex and Middlesex Centre chose not to go with the Ombudsman at that
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