The Cobourg Council’s Procedural Bylaw controls every aspect of how our Councillors represent your wishes.
On January 14, 2019, the Town of Cobourg held its public budget meeting. Not all of the submissions were requesting money from the Town.
Bryan Lambert’s presentation challenged Council that Cobourg doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem.
The proposed changes to the existing Council Proceedings Procedural Bylaw have us concerned that these changes further restrict the voices of Cobourg residents. We ask all our supporters to attend the public meeting tentatively scheduled for January 28, 2019 to make their voices heard.
The cities of Cambridge, Waterloo, Kitchener and the Region of Waterloo have launched a new public engagement platform: Engage Waterloo Region.
The new tool gives citizens the opportunity to have their say on local projects and initiatives. With evolving needs and the advancement of online engagement, the cities and the Region have switched to a new platform that will better facilitate public engagement through more robust tools and a modern, user-friendly design.
In the U.S., only 3 to 5 percent of fire department calls nationally are related to building fires. It is probably similar here in Canada. There is an interesting article questioning the rationale for dispatching huge fire trucks to non-firefighting situations.
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