The resident has addressed Council twice already with his concerns about the hazards of monkey bars in his neighbourhood park.
He sent a previous e-mail to the Mayor and all Councillors.
He took me to task for not speaking when he thought I should and speaking when he thought I shouldn't.
Just when he appeared to have convinced the entire Council of the seriousness of the problem, I had the audacity to suggest staff should provide a written response to the serious charge that Aurora places the lives of children at risk with hazardous playground equipment..
The resident requests " Mr. Dawe" to inform whoever needs to be informed of his intention to attend the next Council meeting and specific documentation he requires to refute the report requested by Council from the Director of Leisure Services.
The resident is completely confident in his own expertise. He works as a construction safety inspector.
He is equally confident of his right to appear for a third time at Council with the same concern and to fully participate in the debate on whether or not the equipment should be removed.
Council had one meeting to deal with the town's business in July. The agenda was extensive.
In August, the same situation prevails; one meeting..lengthy agenda.
It remains to be seen if the resident's demands will be acquiesced.
What will it tell us about Council's respect for its own function?
Saturday 23 July 2011
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The world is full of self proclaimed experts and saviours from ourselves, there was an excellent discussion on CBC raidio yesterday morning on this very topic , but the only real contrast to your so called "Safety Expert" was that the folks being interviewed were in fact experts , The common theme between these participants is that our society is generally far to protective of children in that we tend not allow children to challenge themselves in their early development , but what was most intersting was their view that parents of young children, under 6, should always determine their childs abililty and never allow them to particpate in playground activities without direct supervision , My what a novel idea, Much easier to blame someone else and sack the playground equipment.
On this one, we will be watching All the
members of Council, not just Humphreys who
has a tendency to parrot and vote with the last
speaker.
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