WOOLWICH COUNCIL HAS ISSUES LIST FOR ROMA

This week's Elmira Independent has an article on the first page titled "Council approves issues list for ROMA". ROMA stands for the Rural Ontario Municipal Association and their conference is coming up late next month. Woolwich Council has an issues list and it most appropriately includes several environmental matters relevant to Woolwich Township. They are the status of the review of the Aggregate Resources Act, the need to reform the Ontario Municipal Board and concerns over inadequate time periods given for municipal input on Feed in tariff applications. All of these problems have arisen within Woolwich over the last couple of years and all citizens have borne the brunt of the province's failure to heed earlier calls for reform.

Woolwich Township are also requesting a follow-up meeting with Environment Minister Jim Bradley. This is due to the very unfortunate and unsatisfactory letter sent by his staff to the Township and CPAC following their face to face meeting with Minister Bradley in early December. Quoting Mayor Cowan "We had a good meeting (on Dec.5); unfortunately, the letter from his staff does not reflect the answers we were looking for".