For you people in the big urban centres the problems that go along with running a city are huge. From mass transit to services, all colossal undertakings. Things are a little less intense in a smaller township, such as the one I pay taxes to. Until recently I never realized the importance of a good town council but ours is so bad that making the distinction is easy.
I watched the town council one night argue 3 hrs over bits of toilet tissue left on the floor of a town owned washroom in one of our parks. Their latest night of wrangling actually produced what one councillor thought to be a great proactive reaction to a problem we never really had. Even the mayor seemed flabbergasted but this is small town politics at its best, dealing with issues of massive importance to its residents.
The latest:
*I never knew I had a neighbour who raised chickens. Stevensville is roughly 10 km from anything that could be classed as urban. Stevensville is part of town of Fort Erie.
We have a new KFC on the town’s main drag if any of those poor poultry farmers needs a chicken that bad.
I watched the town council one night argue 3 hrs over bits of toilet tissue left on the floor of a town owned washroom in one of our parks. Their latest night of wrangling actually produced what one councillor thought to be a great proactive reaction to a problem we never really had. Even the mayor seemed flabbergasted but this is small town politics at its best, dealing with issues of massive importance to its residents.
The latest:
Quote:The town won’t be going ahead with a proposed pilot project that would allow residents in rural residential areas to raise chickens on their property.
At Monday’s council-in-committee meeting, town politicians voted against directing staff to draft a temporary bylaw that would have given the pilot the go-ahead but residents in approved areas in town will be allowed to keep up to five chickens.
“This is a solution to something that has not been a problem,” Mayor Wayne Redekop said, adding that during his many years at town hall, there had only been one complaint and that was for a Stevensville * resident who was keeping chickens within the urban boundary.
“We’re going to be setting up a large amount of work for a small amount of people.”
*I never knew I had a neighbour who raised chickens. Stevensville is roughly 10 km from anything that could be classed as urban. Stevensville is part of town of Fort Erie.
We have a new KFC on the town’s main drag if any of those poor poultry farmers needs a chicken that bad.