We asked the question “Do you support having all Council meetings video-recorded and available on YouTube?” The results of the mini poll are:
I agree 97%
I disagree 3%
We also asked each of the Councillors about video recording Council meetings.
Council within their approved Strategic Plan under Objective #1 Ensuring open, clear and timely communications has identified 1.2 Broadcast all open meetings of Council. Council supported this outcome, in principle. Under General Government, I am currently working with Ms.
Northumberland 89.7 has named Lydia Smith as Cobourg’s Newsmaker of the Year (2015).
The CTA received a copy of this correspondence from Bill Thompson to Mayor Brocanier
To mayor and council
I am 100% opposed to this waiver of $303,623.00 of development fees requested by a private enterprise for a new medical building.
Being a private enterprise ,it should not be granted this gratis waiver which may reflect solely on Cobourg taxpayers while all Northumberland County residents may avail themselves of the medical services provided.
There seems to be some misunderstanding about the question asked by the CTA. For your convenience, we have included the question again below:
Informed constituents are essential for a working democracy. During the last election all candidates supported improved accessibility and transparency.
