After consulting with Rick Di Lorenzo (Ward 7 Local Councillor) and Zeeshan Hamid (Ward 8 Local Councillor), and Sharon Barkley (Ward 1 Local Councillor) we’ve come up with a date where we want to hear from you. Of course all other councillors in town are invited to join us but we wanted to have a focus on issues in our area that needs to be heard.
Thursday night June 30th at 7pm (location to be determined) If we get a lot of interest we might move it to the Sports Centre or somewhere larger but it could also be Symposium or Hawthorne Cafe.
The budget call process has started and thank you to everyone who filled out the survey online but thats not the only way to give us your input.
Sharon, Zeeshan, Rick and I want to hear from you in a “tell us what you think” format. We dont want to go on about what OUR priorities are just yet. That will come in time for sure. We want to hear what yours are.
Of course we can provide direction on the topics, like transit, community services, parks, taxation, budget increases, etc but the floor is yours. Once we complile the opinions from everyone, we can send out a summary and these comments will be sent to staff as part of this process.
As always you can tell us what you think via email if you cant make it and each one of us encourages that.
So RSVP here or email one of us to let us know you can make it.
Its your time to speak and comments made there at the meeting and here on the Villager and in emails to us will be used in this budget call process. We can all agree this hasnt happened much in the past…lets change that.
Mike, I found the online survey was really general. Sometimes is hard to give your opinion when you don’t really have numbers. Glad to see that at least the public has an opportunity to give their input and express what is important to them. I would suggest that we all have different priorities as we all are in different life stages.
June 30th is the Friday before the long weekend. I wonder how many people will be able to attend. We’re not available that weekend.
Thanks for reminding us about the date. Im talking with Sharon, Rick and Zeeshan to see if we can work out a better date before we go crazy to advertise it. Makes sense that we want people to hang around and maybe not head to the cottage or wherever they are going. Stay tuned. – Mike