Municipality needs to partner with other municipalities for quality admin
To the Expositor:
With a resident population of 240 people, one must ask can Tehkummah afford to fund a municipality in the 21st Century. Having still not fully recovered from the last catastrophe over the clerk, we appear to be going through the same motions. Once again we have no clerk and no one can tell us why. The administration doesn’t bother to post agendas and minutes as directed in its Procedure By-Law, doesn’t bother responding to constituents’ inquiries, and seems unable to manage such basic day to day operations as opening the washrooms at the public beach.
All the Municipalities on Manitoulin combined, do not make one decent sized urban municipality. All those clerks, superintendents, administrators, inspectors, all the different by-laws, the mish mash of road repairs, the plethora of uncoordinated tourism projects, we can’t even co-ordinate an Island wide fire hazard warning.
I do not believe Tehkummah can afford to pay for the quality of administrative service that is required in today’s world. We need to partner up with other municipalities and operate under a well-funded, professionally qualified administration.
David Samuels
Tehkummah
