Earlier this month, a report from the Netherlands Tourist Board announced a remarkable policy change: Acknowledging that “more is not always better,” the board will no longer actively promote its country as a tourist destination. Instead, straining under the pressure of a booming tourism scene, the board will focus on redistributing the visitors it already has, operating as a sort of tourism damage control for popular vacation hotspots.
Since our inception in the Spring of 2015, the Cobourg Taxpayers Association has fought for transparency by continually asking that Holdco financial statements be made open to the public. We are very pleased that this has now happened. You can find more information here:
LINK: https://www.cobourg.ca/en/town-hall/Financial-Statements.aspx
Updated 5/22/2019
Council voted at the Regular Council meeting on 5/21/2019 not to increase their salaries passed at the previous week’s Committee of the Whole. Councillors Beatty, Burchat and Mayor Henderson reversed their yes vote and voted no. The motion was defeated 4-3.
Gerry Walker has been communicating with the Town for two years trying to get an answer to his question of why the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee request to act as a Steering Committee was never required to act as an Advisory Committee.
Innisfil, Ontario, decided to partially subsidize ride-hailing trips rather than pay for a public bus system.
It worked so well that now they have to raise fares and cap rides.
Read more about this in the following article: Innisfil Update
8/10/2019 Update: “Exploring Innisfil’s Uber public transit experiment“
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