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NEW MAYOR SWORN IN MONDAY NIGHT JOHN CAMPBELL jcampbell@metroland.com Brighton - Brian Ostrander, the new mayor of Brighton, says he knows what residents were looking for when they voted in him and his six colleagues, "a council that is calm, quiet, (with an attitude of ) get 'er done." "I can tell you that from my conversations with the members of this new council that is what we will deliver," he said Monday night at the inaugural ceremony held at King Edward Park Community Centre. Joining him in taking the oath of office were Deputy Mayor Laura Vink and councillors Mary Tadman, Emily Rowley, Doug LeBlanc, Ron Anderson and Mark Bateman. Ostrander said council "has already begun to keep" the commitments he made about strategic planning, communication
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and teamwork during the campaign. Throughout November he received feedback on strategic concepts from council members and municipal staff. One of his "first orders of business" will be to call a special meeting of council to build a strategic plan with concepts that come from the community, "and to ensure that we have the necessary goalposts in place for a properly functioning municipal team over the next four years," he said. Ostrander said he has met with area mayors, school principals, MP Kim Rudd and MPP David Piccini, and "the common theme" of every meeting was how to build partnerships and "capitalize on them." "We all want the best for our communities," he said. "And while I have made no commitments on behalf of Brighton I am confident that our new council will work with me, our staff, our neighbours and our partners in other levels of government to advance regional and economic development for the benefit of
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