A NEW & IMPROVED CPAC COMING SOON TO A TOWNSHIP HALL NEAR YOU

The following are suggestions and ideas to improve a Committee of Woolwich Council with a checkered history. Over the last almost twenty years it has oscillated from being the Uniroyal Pollution Appreciation Club (as per the late Glenys McMullen of APTE) to being proactive and forward thinking and then back again. Each incarnation has had some positive attributes even when it was known as UPAC or Uniroyal Public Advisory Committee.

Some of these ideas are "out of the blue" and others are natural extensions of ideas already espoused during the municipal election campaign.
1) CPAC becomes CEPAC. Chemtura/Elmira Public Advisory Committee simply acknowledges the concensus that Chemtura are not the only source of contamination to the Municipal Aquifer. Nutrite (Yara) have now been publicly acknowledged. I am confident that Varnicolor Chemical will join this non prestigeous group with possibly Borg Textiles to follow, depending on the results of M.O.E. soil & groundwater testing.
2) In line with the above, CEPAC's mandate is to further actions that will restore Elmira's drinking water aquifer. This of course means not solely focusing on Chemtura but including any and all properties that have negatively impacted the Elmira Aquifers.
3) The public must be involved. For years I have unsucessfully lobbied for public evening meetings. This must be changed as Monday 9 am meetings suit the retired, government employees and certain elites. They do not suit the general public.
4) Minutes of public meetings being distributed one working day ahead of the next meeting, literally sometimes months after the last meeting are a farce. One's memory of a meeting is assisted by timely minutes being distributed. Conversely, minutes distributed eight weeks afterwards merely promotes "creativity" in the minutes.
5) The Agenda must no longer be distributed one working day prior to the public meeting. Promotion of voting members active participation depends upon them being prepared ahead of time. A minimum distribution one week ahead of time is required.

These ideas and suggestions are and should be SOP or standard operating procedure. These and more will assist in this Committee finally living up to it's potential.