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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Safety Codes Services Bylaw
It looks like we finally have a councillor with both balls and common sense breaking away from the pack and speaking out against yet another example of this council's planned agenda of maintaining the status quo by ensuring even more obstacles and impediments are put in place to discourage development here in the Pass.
Kudos' to Andrew Saje!!
Council Briefs Pass Herald
Safety Codes Services Bylaw
Council was to give first reading to Bylaw No. 843, Safety Codes Services fee Bylaw for the purpose of amending fees for safety codes services. During the 2012-2014 triennial budget process, permit fees were reviewed for all the Quality Management Plan disciplines for which the municipality is certified- Building, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire. Changes that were provided through the budget process were a collaborative initiative between Finance and Corporative Services and Planning, Engineering and Operations and are now being brought forward for enactment through bylaw.
“I don’t think this is a good initiative. 20 years ago the population of the Pass was considerably larger than it is today, so I don’t see the rationale behind this,” said Councillor Andrew Saje. “Any decision that Council makes that may affect the economy, especially if it is negative, requires something called the risk assessment. Since that hasn’t been done in this package, means it is incomplete. I will not be voting for it.”
Councillor Jerry Lonsbury moved the first reading. The motion was carried.
Note: For more on this visit my blogging 'buddy' Dean Ward for an interesting thread on this subject.
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2 comments:
John
While we are on the subject of balls!
Over my short time on council, I observed three types of politicians, firstly those with no balls period. Those with balls from day one who questioned and stood up when they felt it was right. Finally those politicians that discovered their balls in the last 12 months of a term because the third Monday in October is coming fast.
Speaking from my experience of attending probably 90% of the meeting in the last two years. If I had to pick out one councilor who has questioned at times what is going on and offered a voice of reason it would be Councilor Saje.
I was at the meeting that the paper speaks to, I would share those "kudos" for Councilor Saje he did speak up and make reasonable arguments.
Unfortunately it wasn't close enough to that third Monday for anybody else to join him.
Dean Ward
:-) Really good comment Dean.
Thanks for your insight and for sharing your first hand recollection of how council is suppose to work i.e. open debate, discussion, councillors taking positions putting their arguments forward and not just raising their hands like good little puppets when and as they are told to do so by their puppet master.
Kudos again to Councillor Saje for leading the way back to how it use to be... and how it will be again, after the next election.
JP
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