PETITION DENIED $1 MILLION BORROWING DEFERRED

PETITION DENIED   

$1 MILLION BORROWING DEFERRED

First and foremost thank you all who attended the past two council meetings and those who supported the Ratepayers with the recent petition in regards to two LSAC Borrowing Bylaws.  You all have shown that the LSAC Ratepayers care about what is going on in our county and neighbouring municipalities.

Over 1100 electors of LSAC signed our petitions to stop the borrowing of $1 million dollars to fund the Legacy Municipal Land Corporation, a proposed for profit Corporation.

1. The petition was deemed invalid for two reasons by the LSAC CAO Mike Primeau.  The reasons stated at the May 9, 2019 LSAC County Council Regular Meeting were; one petition was 50 signatures short and the other 44 signatures short of the required amount and deemed the petitions "Insufficient".
2. The required form was not attached for the contact person who submitted the petitions.

In addressing these two reasons LSARA has formally requested the "Red Line" copy of the petitions in order to review the signatures which were deleted from the total amount that we had submitted.
We look forward to confirming the findings of the CAO.

As for reason # 2  LSARA did submit two letters along with the petitions identifying ourselves as the Submitters of the Petitions along with the reasoning why these petitions were required. 

1. Letter to Mike Primeau CAO Lac Ste. Anne County  (click here to read)
2. Letter to each LSAC Councillors  (click here to read)

Confirmation of receipt of the Petition was addressed to LSARA in 3 communications from LSAC which would indicate the letters LSARA submitted did confirm who submitted the petition as required.

1. Email to LSARA From LSAC  (click here to read)
2. Letter Attached to Email From Mike Primeau CAO LSAC  (click here to read)
3. Letter sent to LSARA  from LSAC Acknowledgment Receipt of Petitions (click here to read)

Directly after deeming the petitions "Insufficient" Mike Primeau advised Council that now that the petitions were dealt with Council could continue with 2nd and 3rd Readings for Bylaw 11-2019 to Borrow $1 million dollars to fund Legacy MLC MCC. 

A motion was made by Lorne Olsvik to Defer the the 2nd and 3rd Readings!  The motion was unanimously carried! 

Council must of been listening to the pleas of the Ratepayers in opposition to this ill prepared process of creating a unnecessary Government Controlled and Funded Land Development Corporation. In thanking the council for making the right decision it was mentioned by a councillor 1100 signatures is a lot of signatures! Yes it is. In fact it represents a good number of the LSAC Electorate. Given that LSAC Administration did everything in there power to stop petitioners from signing petitions at the local landfills, LSARA feels that with proper notice the petition would have included a even greater percentage of the Electorate! 

Council does have the option to stand by the Ratepayers and do the right thing. Their vote on Lorne Olsvik Motion shows that they can.

On another note the "CAO REVIEW" which was on the Agenda was deferred also as it was not completed yet. We can only hope that this fiasco is included in the review.

STAY TUNED 

LSARA will be reviewing this topic in the very near future and updates will be published.

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