MORE WOOLWICH HUMAN ERROR OR PERHAPS INTENTIONAL?

Is it incompetence, deviousness, general unremarkable human error, my simple inability to navigate a spanking new website or none of the preceding? Long story short I went looking for RAC & TAG Minutes from 2015 and 2016 this morning and couldn't find them. I followed the prompts and Links and found the RAC (Remediation Advisory Committee) & TAG (Technical Advisory Group) information, correspondence etc. but when I followed prompts and links to their Minutes, they weren't there. Yes I found the upcoming schedule of their meetings and twice I found prompts advising me how to obtain past CPAC Minutes (ie. from the Clerk). That of itself is problematic as those Minutes should bre readily available on-line and NOT at the discretion or timing of the Woolwich Clerk. I have sent off an e-mail to the RAC & TAG (Woolwich) Support person (Lisa) and she usually responds promptly.

My problem is this. I have gotten into written exchanges with Woolwich Staff in the past and by far the worst should have been the best, namely their CAO. Based upon history and experience I now see his job as being a cheerleader and bodyguard/bouncer for either bad Council decisions or particularily for indefensible positions and decisions taken by both past and present mayors. You know he's on thin ice when he deflects the arguments and starts in on essentially irrelevancies. You can be quoting Woolwich policies, by-laws etc. and when Woolwich are off-target he will leap upon any thin strand in your e-mail which in his opinion isn't respectful enough of staff, council, himself etc.. That suddenly becomes the issue, the whole issue and everything else is out the window. Not impressed.

There is information, quotes and comments by both TAG and RAC that must be readily available to the public or the media. I hope that Lisa advises me where I can find those past Minutes otherwise Woolwich have done it again and granted undeserving concessions to Chemtura and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Both the public and media need ready access to some frankly incredible quotes and comments made by Dr. Richard Jackson (former TAG Chair), among others, at public RAC and TAG meetings in 2015 and 2016. Permitting the Woolwich Clerk's department to act as a gatekeeper to these Minutes is not acceptable in any fashion.