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.
Citizens provided their input to the Town’s draft strategic plan through almost forty emails and seven verbal submissions. John Draper summarizes this feedback very well on the “Cobourg News Blog” and you can read it all here:
At the Committee of the Whole Council meeting on February 19, 2019, Council voted against continuing with the floating waterfront playground. The vote was 4 to 3 against.
Voting for the playground was Nicole Beatty, Aaron Burchat, and Brian Darling.
Voting against the playground was John Henderson, Suzanne Seguin, Emily Chorley, and Adam Bureau.
The Cobourg Council’s Procedural Bylaw controls every aspect of how our Councillors represent your wishes.
Is more or less public engagement being considered; e.g. question and answer period, town hall style meetings, public correspondence read out in Council, and the public’s role in advisory committee meetings
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.