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Mayor Barton ponders 2018 for Champlain Township
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Lemaire de Champlain, Gary Barton, a entamé la première réunion de l’année avec un bref discours sur les défis que les gouvernements locaux doivent relever pour répondre aux besoins et aux demandes des résidents, tout en respectant les limites de leurs budgets municipaux. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
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our our roads at once. We are going to have to do some (serious) long-termplanning to try to eliminate that infrastructure deficit.” He noted that the municipality needs to finish its asset management plan tomeet the deadline the provincial government has set for all local governments. Such a planmust be in place as part of the township’s annual municipal budget planning. An asset mana- gement plan will also help municipalities prioritize projects so they can be “shovel ready” with detailed proposals when govern- ment funding programs appear. The mayor also noted the provincial go- vernment’s plans for revamping the regula- tions regarding recyclable materials, in an effort to extend the lifespan of municipal landfills by reducing the amount of waste going into them. The province will phase in new regulations over a five-year period to increase the responsibility of corporations for making their products recyclable, and also setting up deposit and recycling collec- tion programs for those products. “It’s easy to say that,” Barton said, regar- ding the provincial government plan. “Ano- ther thing is to try and collect on it.” Don’t “snow block” streets The recent dumps of snow had some homeowners and storekeepers in Champlain Township scrambling to get their driveways and sidewalk areas cleaned out.A few of them got warnings from the municipal bylaw office about getting rid of the snow by push- ing it into township ditches or leaving it piled up on the roads. Township bylaws forbid obstructing municipal roads and ditches without reasonable cause and shovelling or dumping excess snow out on the street for the municipal plow to clear away is not considered a reasonable cause.The snow piles can create traffic hazards for drivers while filling up roadside ditches with excess snow creates potential flooding hazards, later in spring, for neighbouring yards and the street. – Gregg Chamberlain
Mayor Kirby ponders reelection Mayor Robert Kirby of East Hawkesbury Town- ships is thinking over whether or not he plans to run for another term in this autumn’s municipal election. During a Jan. 5 phone interview, Mayor Kirby said he expects to make his decision early in the year, before the May nomination period. “I like the job,” he said, “but I haven’t had time to sit down and decide.” – Gregg Chamberlain Mayor Barton noted that some residents who have complained to him about things over the years want the township to fix all the roads, providemore services and programs, and do it all without having to raise taxes. He used the current state of the township’s public roads network as an example of the problemcouncil and its staff face every year during budget planning time. “Our infrastructure deficit is in the neigh- bourhood of $10 million,” Barton said. “That’s how much it would cost to fix all Mayor Gary Barton got a bit philoso- phical for the start of the first Champlain Township council meeting of 2018. The mayor talked about the eternal pro- blem for local governments to figure out how to find themoney to pay for all themunicipal programs and services that residents want. This, of course, without having to raise taxes more than people are willing to tolerate. Themayor opened the January 9 township council session with some remarks about recent conversations he’d had with several taxpayers about the planned 2018 munici- pal budget. Most of the critical comments concerned the condition of local roads, those that need fixing, existing services that the township provides, and services that the township should provide.
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