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When is it going to end?
This week the majority of the council voted to spend yet another $15,000 chasing the results of the judicial inquiry still trying to convince residents, that before the next election cycle there will be some value in all this.
Most of the present council are the same ones who voted to spend what was sold as $1 million for the inquiry. Now it is over an estimated $8.2 million and they still keep spending, despite ongoing pleas from residents to stop this.
Not surprising given that these councillors are the same ones that have sat by watching our waterworks capacity fall short to the point that all development has to stop and now has to be rebuilt to accommodate future development.
How with a combined 50+ years’ experience could these councillors get things so wrong?
Now this same bunch that halted development with the interim control bylaw, want us to believe that they can rebuild the water system by 2025.
What have they built so far to make you think they will pull that off? Not our crumbling roads. Not our parks or playgrounds. Don't even talk about the hospital. It doesn’t fill one with confidence that the water plant, with an estimated price tag of $64 million will be completed on time or on budget.
The present mayor has been fixated on the judicial inquiry at the expense of everything else.
To me, it appears that Councillor Kathy Jeffery is calling the shots, as the mayor defers to Jeffery’s point of view.
Deputy Mayor Keith Hull just sits on the sidelines.
They all should have known in 2016 that the water plant was in trouble and they just kicked the problem down the road and now act shocked. Just wait for the finger-pointing, blame and deflection.
They are relying on your short-term memory when it comes time for reelection and in the meantime, they will try to find anyone else but themselves to take responsibility.
It's really a shame as Collingwood is a beautiful town filled with wonderful people and potential.
Too bad our mayor is so busy looking at the past and focused on his own future political career to notice.
Ted Rowe
Collingwood, ON
