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Article content One project, the redevelopment of Cassellholme Home for the Aged, is crippling nine municipalities, according to one Northern Ontario mayor. Papineau-Cameron Mayor Bob Corriveau was among a handful of mayors and municipal representatives who participated in a two-hour Zoom meeting Wednesday to discuss the financing portion of the long-term care home’s $122-million redevelopment project. Corriveau didn’t hold back any punches when it was his turn to speak. “I’m not happy with the routes Cassellholme has decided to take,” he said. “They’ve dragged their feet from 2017 to 2021 and now we’re being funnelled into one contractor and then told (if we don’t accept what is being offered) in 30 days, our prices will go up. We’re kind of being influenced to make a quick decision.” ....
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April 14, 2021 Local Journalism Initiative Reporter At their April 7 meeting, South Algonquin council discussed some amendments to the draft budget that was presented at the March council meeting. After a brief presentation by Holly Hayes, the CAO/clerk-treasurer, and a discussion by council, Hayes concluded by saying that despite the changes since March, the budget had stayed the same and the proposed mill rate increase remained unchanged at one per cent. Later on in the meeting, council passed the bylaws to bring the 2021 budget into effect. Hayes had given a detailed presentation to council of the draft budget during the March 3 council meeting. Overall, the 2020 township levy was $2,432,806 while they require a levy of $2,457,135 to balance the budget for 2021. That difference amounts to $24,329, which would necessitate a one per cent tax increase. With that one per cent increase, a property with a CVA of $150,000 would see an increase ....
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter South Algonquin Township held their latest Economic Development Committee meeting on Jan. 20 and one of the items on the agenda was to have a more extensive discussion about Councillor Bongo Bongo’s proposal to enact a comprehensive social media engagement strategy for the township. This strategy would include real time comments on the township’s YouTube channel, having the new economic development intern assume the lion’s share of the municipality’s social media duties, at some point in the future expanding into using Twitter and Instagram and using software like Hootsuite for a social media posting schedule to minimize the staff time and resources spent on this endeavor. After Bongo’s presentation and some questions and discussion on the issue, the committee decided to defer any further comments and decisions on the issue until they had time to fully reread and examine Bongo’s presentation. ....