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Quarterly heritage committee meeting proposal dies in tie vote By Mike Williscraft NewsNow A major suggested schedule change at last Tuesday’s Heritage Advisory Committee meeting touched off a lively debate after members were told staff were recommending the group reduce its 2022 meeting schedule to just four. A staff report suggested working groups be formed to largely take the
place of formal committee meetings – with statutory meetings remaining a constant. Formal committee meetings would then be quarterly or called only on an “as needed” basis. Staff said this structure would help the committee reach some its goals due to it being an election year. Grimsby heritage planner, Bianca Verrecchia, told the committee the change was also done in 8-10 other
municipalities which had been researched. Most committee members suggested the result would be just the opposite to what was offered – that a new schedule would improve the process. “I don’t like this idea at all,” said Anne Brabant. “The fact that we’re still here at 10:30 at night tells us we need a
monthly meeting. I don’t know that the working groups, which don’t have staff there, are actually going to be the best use of all of our time because we’re volunteers too, right.” Committee chair, Coun. Dorothy Bothwell, noted the schedule change was just one component of a fiveitem motion presented by staff, so it could be removed easily to leave the See HERITAGE, Page 2