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City council voted 5-2 Monday to initiate a process towards declaring surplus and selling the Owen Sound Billy Bishop Regional Airport, with a preference that the buyer continues to operate the facility as an airport.
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They also set a deadline – Dec. 31, 2022 – to either complete the sale or cease operating the airport if a purchaser isn’t found by then.
Councillors who supported the motion cited the $235,000 annual net cost to operate the airport and the fact the facility is not accessible to or used by most Owen Sound residents as reasons for their vote.
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Speed signage posted near Hillcrest School in Owen Sound. (photo by Nathan Shubert)
Owen Sound is moving towards dropping the speed limit in school zones to 30 kilometres an hour next year.
City council approved an operations committee recommendation at its meeting on Monday to bring forward a by-law to lower the speed limit in school zones from 40 km/h to 30 km/h starting in 2022.
A formal by-law still needs to be passed by city council to make the school zone speed reductions in Owen Sound official.
Owen Sound’s operations committee conducted a review of speed limits in the community after residents brought up the issue of speeding on city streets on several occasions. The committee reviewed a report on speed limits on residential roads at its April 13 meeting.
“The consequence is an increase in case counts in the region,” the Board of Health letter states.
Tamming responded to this at Monday’s meeting: “The letter accuses me of driving up our Covid numbers. Which, if it wasn’t so ridiculous, it would be pathetic.”
Coun. Scott Greig said it is a long list of community buying into common purpose which has allowed (the region) to be successful to this point with the pandemic, and it is unfair to blame caseload increase upon the actions of one or some councillors.
“Within the letter, I agree that Mr. Tamming has violated rules of decency and decorum. But, I am profoundly disappointed with how we got to be here tonight with this letter,” Greig said. “Nobody disputes that the local medical officer of health has worked tirelessly during the pandemic. All medical officers of health have … the public wanted to know about the lack of oversight on wages. They did not receive it.”
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