Wawa Council Holding Back-to-Back Meetings

Wawa Municipal Council will consider membership for a new committee and a few projects in a pair of meetings tonight.

First up is a Corporate Planning Committee meeting, which includes discussion about revised policies on the distribution of promotional items and the waiver of facility fees, as well as memos on membership applications for the Economic Development and Tourism Advisory Committee, the water intake project, improvements to the Michipicoten Memorial Community Centre, and awarding contracts for a water and wastewater rate study and financial plan, and a five-year tourism study.

Aside from the revised policies, those items will come back up in the regular Council meeting, which also includes by-laws to adopt a "right to disconnect from work" policy and amending the vehicular traffic by-law to lower the maximum speed for the Municipality's heavy equipment and trucks on certain streets, with a resolution to undertake a traffic study on Maple Street, as discussed in the last meeting.

The Corporate Planning agenda also includes an item on fluoridation put forward by Councillor Bill Chiasson, potentially putting it on the ballot in this fall's municipal election.

The meetings will be held back-to-back, starting at 6:30 pm tonight.