Wawa Municipal Council's set to discuss this year's operating budget and the fate of the drag races in back-to-back-to-back meetings.
Three meetings are scheduled: a Committee of Adjustment meeting for a single item, a Corporate Planning Committee meeting, and a regular Council meeting.
The committee meeting will see the presentation of the proposed 2020 Operating Budget - as Council already approved the capital budget last month - as well as a recommendation to award the nearly $2.7-million tender for the Connecting Link project to J. Provost Contracting and a memo on the cancellation of the Northern Nationals Drag Race.
Both of those items will be addressed in the regular meeting - though the budget will not - with other resolutions to confirm plans to use an aluminum coagulant to address THM issues - a plan expected to continue indefinitely at a cost of $15,000 a year - and to hire a new engineering consulting services firm, Pinchin Limited - and its subcontractor, STEM Engineering - for three years with an option to extend to five, but keep Kresin Engineering for water and sewer-related engineering for one to two years, as they scored particularly well on that section with good knowledge of the plant - and they're very tied in with current permitting - and "now is not the time to change".
Conducted electronically, the meetings will be livestreamed on the Municipality's YouTube page, starting at 6:30 tonight.