Wawa Council Holding 2 Meetings

Wawa Municipal Council will honour a retiring firefighter, hear about professional medical recruitment efforts, and consider landfill service levels in a pair of meetings tonight.

First up is a Committee of the Whole meeting, featuring a presentation for retired Wawa Volunteer Fire Department Captain David Jennings, as well as a delegation from the Lady Dunn Health Centre on medical professional recruitment efforts, plus discussion about a request from the Wawa Minor Hockey Association to extend the arena ice season, and Infrastructure Services funding requests for water tower upgrades and a trench box.

Those requests will be followed up in tonight's regular Council meeting, which also includes a resolution to accept a staff recommendation to change levels of service for the landfill - an item Infrastructure Services Assistant Director Rebecca Weatherall raised in November.

Weatherall had outlined options including reducing hours and potentially closing on more days, as Wawa's landfill is open more hours and days than most similar communities.

There are also three "in-camera" items, two legal issues - one about outstanding property taxes, another about an offer to purchase property - the third is a "land matter".

The meetings will be held back-to-back, starting at 6:30 pm tonight in Council Chambers, and livestreamed through the Municipality's YouTube channel.