From: Lydia Smith
Sent: June 2, 2017 3:34 PM
To: John Henderson <jhenderson@cobourg.ca>; Brian Darling <bdarling@cobourg.ca>; Suzanne Séguin <sseguin@cobourg.ca>
Cc: Councillor Aaron Burchat <aburchat1@cogeco.ca>; Debra McCarthy <dmccarthy@cobourg.ca>; Forrest Rowden <frowden@cobourg.ca
Q1 2017 Financial Report
The Q1 financial report was added to the Committee of the Whole (COW) agenda for Monday May 29, 2017. Bryan Lambert discovered the report was incorrect and emailed the Deputy Mayor.
From: Bryan Lambert
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 9:43 AM
To: John Henderson <jhenderson@cobourg.ca>
Trouble Seeing Council Video Recording
From: Lydia Smith
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 9:36 PM
To: John Henderson <jhenderson@cobourg.ca>
Cc: Aaron Burchat <aburchat1@cogeco.ca>; Brian Darling <bdarling@cobourg.ca>; Debra McCarthy <dmccarthy@cobourg.ca>; Forrest Rowden <frowden@cobourg.ca>; Gil Brocanier <gbrocanier@cobourg.ca
CTA Position on Venture 13
The Cobourg Taxpayers Association (CTA) sent a letter to Council requesting that Council receive this proposal for information purposes only. We have not taken an official position on the Venture 13 proposal. Our rationale for the request is this: Our perception is that although some town projects are handled well (police, fire, town roads, grass cutting, and other similar projects), we have no confidence with respect to many of the others.
The Shadowy Role of Municipal Private Companies
Municipalities have set up private corporations to run quasi-public businesses like companies. Cobourg has set up Holdco this way. Here is an article on why and some of the pitfalls.
The Private Lives of Quasi-Public Agencies
Here is an extract from the article:
“They were supposed to be outside of government, yet beholden to it.