During the last election campaign I spoke to many residents in Milton about the importance of “Fairness For Milton.” You can read those ideas here.
Recently the Region passed a notice of motion to ask Halton municipalities (Milton, Oakville, Burlington & Halton Hills) to provide a report on their support for changes to the make up of regional council.
Right now the make up is as follows:
Oakville (7)
Burlington (7)
Halton Hills (3)
Milton (3)
The additional member is the Regional Chair Gary Carr and he is elected across Halton.
This coming Monday, Milton Town Council will be discussing a staff report ES 15-15 to review our ideas and options to bring to Halton Region.
You can find a link to that staff report here (its 15 pages long, but still an excellent read) Milton staff report highlights a number of different options, including one to move to weighted voting where each municipality has a number of votes based on its population. I’ll discuss more in a later blog.
Once this is approved by Milton Town Council, the report will be forwarded to Halton Region staff and await the other municipalities reports. If 3 of 4 Halton municipalities agree that changes are needed, the process moves forward.
There is a time frame needed in order to make these changes before the next election. If nothing is done or agreed to by Halton Regional council by 2017, it would be impossible to make the changes before October 2018 which is the next municipal election.
Have a look at the report and let me know what you think.