Raising awareness for Scout Canada & Girl Guides

Did you know that February 1925 is Scout- Guide Awareness week? Scouts Canada and The Girl Guides of Canada invite you to learn more about these kidfriendly programs that contributes to kids’ educations through a value system that puts an emphasis on developing young people physically, intellectually, socially, and spiritually Scouts Canada has over 50,000 participants country wide, while Girl Guides of Canada empowers around 97,000 young girls.

On Monday, February 19th, Mayor

Brant County Council

Oakley added these negative changes directly contradict the County’s 2019 pledge to be more environmentally friendly and conflicts with their upcoming ClimateAction plan.

“I have a great deal of concern about this, about us delaying our organic waste collections. So, I’m not going to be able to support not continuing to offer the services for what is a p**s poor roll out of a provincial program that has unattended consequences that they are not thinkingof,” said Oakley Annually, it costs the county $225,000 to provide curbside Blue

Box collection to ineligible sources (excluding industrial). When that requirement is no longer available through the Blue Box Program, the county will offer free Blue Box material drop off at the Paris Transfer Station and Biggars Lane Landfill at an estimated cost of $25,000 a year. Councillor Howes wondered if the committee could defer this decision to the 2025 budget or if staff needed direction now for contractual purposes Walton confirmed they needed direction now

The committee voted to support the plan to offer material drop off at the

Paris and Biggars Lane Landfills. Only Councillor Oakley and Bell opposed it.

County staff will work on a communication plan to inform impacted businesses of this change. Howes encouraged county staff to engage with the county BIAs to start the conversation and gather their feedback.

County staff plan to lobby the Province through the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) to revisit the decision and to allow ineligible sources as part of regular curbsideBlue Box program.