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✃ money and put it into some infrastructure project, which is already budgeted and in process, simply demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the focus of what we’re doing for economic development.” “I don’t know why we go through the agony of preparing annual budgets for this municipality,” he added. “We have an approved budget that provides funds for this project; we tendered it and it came in under budget.” “With all due respect, the budget was approved by only 57 per cent of council,” said Mayor Mark Walas. “And that’s a majority,” said Kerr. “It sounds like there are some deep cuts as far as percentages of councillors who support budgets and those who don’t,” said Councillor Tom Rittwage. “And lied to the people on Addison Street,” said Walas.

News - Brighton - A motion filed by Councillors Mary Tadman and John Martinello found little traction with Brighton Council at their regular meeting on Monday night. The motion recommended that municipal staff be directed to dig up contracts between integrity commissioners Amberley Gavel and the municipality; a list of other contractors that bid on the contract; and a list of every payment made since the start of the term for the current council. Councillor Emily Rowley figured most of that information was readily available. “I’m guessing, if we did our own research, we could probably find all of this in previous reports,” she said. “I think we already have it.” “It was only a couple of months ago that we had a motion before us to terminate the services of Amberley Gavel,” added Councillor Mike Vandertoorn. “Today, we have a list of extensive questions before us. It makes me wonder why there’s a continued effort by some members of council to undermine the process.” Councillor Tom Rittwage took umbrage with the beginning of the motion, which started with the words, “In the interest of accountability and transparency.” “We have less than 12 months until the next election,” he said. “And you’re going to hear things like, ‘in the interest of accountability and transparency to the taxpayer,’ an awful lot. It’s Politics 101: make your opponent seem like they don’t care about the people who pay the bills.” “The taxpayers want to know and that’s why I brought this motion forward,” countered Tadman. Vandertoorn reminded Tadman about how the current investigation got started, with a motion she filed in a closed session meeting. CAO Gayle Frost pointed out how Local Authority Services Ltd. (LAS), a subsidiary of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), did the actual legwork in finding an integrity commissioner for Brighton. “They made the contacts and provided me with names,” she said. “Unfortunately, Amberley Gavel was the only organization out of those that were provided that put in a bid.”

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News - Brighton - It seemed to be easy sailing when Economic Development Manager Elisha Purchase revealed the winning tender for the municipal branding strategy last week at the Brighton Economic Development Committee meeting. Tenzing Communications scored highly with everybody around the table at a subcommittee meeting, convened to select the winning candidate. “What they brought forward really complements what we wanted to do and it really touched on the community, which we found missing from some of the other proposals,” she told the committee. Another plus was the

suggestion of an April-May deadline from Tenzing staff. “That way, we can start implementing the brand before our heavy tourism season,” explained Purchase. The $39,610 project was given the go-ahead by municipal council on July 15 and a request for proposal was approved on September 16. But when it was presented to municipal council for the final thumbs-up at their regular meeting on Monday night, the waters got stormy. So stormy, in fact, the mayor was ejected from the meeting. Councillor John Martinello fired the first salvo. “I think there might be better ways of branding ourselves rather than spending

40,000 taxpayer dollars,” he said. “Before we spend a cent on this, we should be spending money on the [municipal building] washroom and other things that would better brand us than this strategy.” “This council approved spending a considerable amount of money and resources on developing a Community Development Plan, which is aimed at bringing business to the community and restoring the balance between residential and commercial-industrial assessments,” countered Deputy-mayor Craig Kerr. “It’s the first step to getting economic development finally moving in this community. To suggest we should take that

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