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noted, residents may not realize are county roads because they have names like St-Pas- cal Road and Du Golfe Road. He stressed a need to “bring accord back to the council table” after the October elec- tion. Desjardins indicated there may be a review about whether or not to continue using the Clarence Creek municipal office as the site for the regular session of coun- cil and its various committee meetings. He said the room there is too small to hold the number of residents who want to sit in on council along with the council members themselves and the city staff who attend. Desjardins does like the idea of continu- ing to hold committee of the whole ses- sions in Bourget at the local community centre. “I’m open to that,” he said.
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ROCKLAND | Council meetings in the City of Clarence-Rockland would have one thing missing if Guy Desjardins wins the mayoral vote in the October municipal election. “No cops,”’ Desjardins said during an in- terview Sept. 24 during the opening of his electoral campaign office. “We don’t need police officers at (council) meetings. Or the bylaw officers either. It’s a waste of time and money.” The councillor for the Saint-Pascal-Baylon ward is challenging incumbent Mayor Mar- cel Guibord for the head seat at the table. Getting rid of the police presence that has presided over some council meetings in the past is part of Desjardins’ plan to clean up the public image of Clarence-Rockland and its feuding election officials, both at home and elsewhere in Ontario and the rest of the country. “Right now the city’s going around with a black eye,”Desjardins said,“and we’ve got to get rid of that.” After dealing with the “council chaper- one” situation, Desjardins wants to have a good hard look at the city’s planning and budgeting situation. “There are places where we have got to cut,” he said, but that will need to wait for a proper assessment first. Desjardins noted that the city has spent lots of money during the past few years on various studies concerning road conditions and other issues. What he wonders is what has been the result of all the studies and what benefits were there? “All that money we spent on studies,” he said. “Why did we need all these studies?” Desjardins plans to continue what has be- come a longstanding occupation for Clar- ence-Rockland’s mayors since the time of Richard Lalonde. He is going to go after the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) for a “more fair return” on the amount of property tax money collected in Clarence- Rockland for the counties. That includes getting the counties to allocate more of its own capital works budget towards improv- ing county roads within Clarence-Rockland, with emphasis on those county roads in the rural areas. Some of those roads, Desjardins
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