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Well, here is another fine mess, as Oliver Hardy would say to Stan Laurel. Remember the medical clinic? An architect of local origin with experience in building medical clinics lost out to one with no experience. The results were a $400,000 overrun plus continuing costs and cutbacks in the original concept. It was the wrong architect, wrong place, and wrong decision. Now the mayor has another fine mess on his hands. From the beginning of the Pipeline debate, Tiverton residents made their choice clear. They would stay with their well system. No one on council, certainly not Ribey, Roppel, or Sutton, bothered to tell the residents the realities of the costs and the limitations of the well system. The opportunity for the mayor to bring everyone down to earth was at the Tiverton residents’ meeting last December. Glen failed to do so. Now council is planning to use more than three quarters of a million dollars from the former Bruce Township road reserve as a way to salve the frustration of Tiverton’s residents. This is another irresponsible squandering of capital. Are we so rich that we need no thought for our future? Is this any way to run a 19 million dollar, and counting, public corporation? The Tiverton water issue was an either / or decision from the beginning. Tiverton residents keep their well system and pay for it themselves with no subsidies, or they connect to a pipeline and pay the same as all others who had to connect to the pipeline. Mayor Sutton failed to say that to the residents back in December. More importantly, Glen failed to tell all of us that if Tiverton is allowed to stay on its well system, then development will be limited in that area. No pipeline means no development; no development means no tax revenue. Surely, on that point, that is a decision for all citizens of Kincardine?
This not-so-funny mess once again illustrates the need for councillors to
be elected at large across the municipality, councillors who can see the
whole picture when discussing issues. Of course, we would still require a
principled mayor at the helm capable of being straight with the public |
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