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April 18, 2013   ·   0 Comments

Dear editor:

This whole long and lingering series of inappropriate situations that have polluted the sweet clean air of a small Ontario country town have cast an unbelievable doubt and distrust by the people of  this New Tecumseth and the only real solution following the outcome of the Drainsville court action would be for our “squeaky clean” Mayor and our Council, including Councillor Norcross should ask the Queens Park Minister responsible for Municipal Affairs to appoint a Provincial Judge to undertake a judicial inquiry into the affairs of the Town, it’s council, and the town staff management with specific priority that the staff advice and recommendation may have led to such improprieties as the awarding of the Hornet Nest lease.

This may not be the beginning of the problems we are mired down by  but a good starting point would be with the council of the day and it’s legal advice to accept a contract with a member of council, that is in the 1st. Place but to compound the matter entering into a lease with the same said councillor  and the company k/a and operates as Coke Cola.

The most urgent of such issues being the legal agreement and payout to a member of council to relinquish the lease for the Hornets Nest and the methodology behind the calculation of the value of the said lease.

Finally, the reasons for the de-hiring of staff employees and their senior lower but middle management should be completely disclosed. This has been a long and painful sickness that has been hanging around the necks of at least more than the present council and it’s predecessors.

Just a reasonable and soundly thought-out idealism, on I suspect the minds of many of my fellow  New Tecumsethians, may be  too much for either this council or its Mayor to be expected to act upon whether they are squeaky clean or not.

The very reputation of our town, its council and the very essence of open and transparent democracy that the people of New Tecumseth deserve and can be proud of.

Gordon McInnes

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