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Council Report, 4 May 2011 By Sandra Soloman Holly and I have switched for this month – she will be doing the May 18th meeting. Highlights from the general part of the meeting: As reported in the last Council report, Dave Thompson, Building Inspector, is leaving to become a fire fighter with the City of Guelph. An acting Building Inspector is being appointed until the position is filled permanently. A landscaping design has been done for the Puslinch Community property along Maple Leaf Lane. A meeting will be set up with the residents to discuss the plan. Don Creed, the new Road Superintendent, presented his report – he had only been on the job for 2.5 days!! Council gave him some guidelines on what they would like to see in future reports and that they would like it as part of the Council package. Don had visited Story Bridge to familiarize himself with the situation and noted there was no signage. Council requested that both the signage and a barricade need to be erected as soon as possible. New Business: Wayne Stokley reported on the Green Legacy tree distribution the previous Saturday. It was very well attended and 5,000 trees disappeared very quickly. He thanked all those who helped. $90 and 255 lbs of food were collected for the Food Bank. Susan Fielding reported on the joint COP Committee, local churches and OPP presentation of Looking for Angelina on April 27th. It was a movie about domestic violence in the early 1900’s and more than 40 people were in attendance. Hopefully the message will get out into the community. Susan also reminded everyone that it was the Township Clean-up this Saturday (May 7th). Dennis Lever mentioned that Marilyn Crow was the Volunteer of the Year for the County. Dennis said that the County had had a good Ambulance/EMS meeting with the City of Guelph. They seemed to be resolving their differences. Delegations: The only delegation was Amanda Levy. Amanda will be facilitating the first gathering for the residents in the Township on May 18th. Originally it had been called a Town Hall Meeting. After discussion with Wayne, Amanda came up with the following points:
There were a few minor word changes on the poster and Amanda and Heather Krouskie would finalize it and it would be distributed throughout the community. Wayne suggested that a contact sheet for residents be developed after the May 18th forum. Susan asked that a “debriefing” session be held with Amanda after the May 18th forum to discuss what went wrong. Amanda suggested that it would be worthwhile to discuss what went right! They should look at all the issues and turn them into opportunities. Dennis said they would learn as they went along. He felt that all Council should be involved in decision-making for the forum. It was decided that the large room at the community centre would be used for the forum – thinking positively! Council thanked Amanda for her presentation. The next Council meeting will be May 18th in Council Chambers. The Community Forum will take place prior to that on May 18th in the Puslinch Community Centre at 6:00 p.m. |