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By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
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Sunny skies and mild weather helped raise attendance at Remembrance Day services across Chatham-Kent on Sunday. At the Cenotaph service in Chatham, a large crowd turned out to pay their respects to our veterans – the living and the dead who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Piper Dick Laurie of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 642 Pipe Band walks in step during the parade of veterans, military, cadets, Knights of Columbus and Scouts who took part in the service.
Despite an order from the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, a local businessman is still trying to get Chatham-Kent officials to release the supporting financial documents attached to the report on merging municipal fire and ambulance services. John Cryderman, who has been trying to get the information from the municipality for the past two years, has expressed his frustration with what the municipality has turned over in response to his Freedom of Information request. The matter is again going to mediation. First brought to council in May 2016 by then Fire Chief Ken Stuebing to develop a service sustainability review process (SSRP), the review gave three options (A, B and C), including one to amalgamate the Fire/EMS services under one umbrella (C). In the report to council, it was noted that “a comprehensive cost analysis” was done, however, only the final numbers
were given in the public report. Council ultimately went with option A to contract EMS services with Medavie, going against the municipal administration recommendation for a fully blended fire/ EMS service, which was approximately $2 million below option A. Cryderman, who wanted to know how the service review came up with the final numbers, asked for the costing data leading up to the numbers given in the report, data he said councilors weren’t given. In a back and forth with the municipality, he filed an FOI request for “financial details to costings of proposals A, B and C, the three proposed alternatives to amalgamating service costs for EMS/fire, whereby the financial and projected financial details were never released to the public and to council.” Although the municipality has twice given information to Cryderman, he said the first was a onepage document with no cost analysis.
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