March 2, 2016 - 13:07 — Timothy Gillespie
"Not well thought out' plan could cost towns $400,000
Municipality of Shelburne warden Roger Taylor says in his spring message to residents that the possibility of the amalgamation of the Town of Shelburne and the Municipality has "reached an impasse" and that the Town's plan to join with Lockeport to annex parts of the Municipality is "not a well thought out idea" and would cost the two towns almost half a million dollars.
Taylor also said that in February, provincial advisors to the municipal units warned Shelburne and Lockeport that they [provincial government] "do not recommend any attempt to annex the Municipality."
The warden said that his council decided to halt amalgamation efforts until the Town and Province took some "action to mitigate the financial risks to the Municipality." Only after that took place, Taylor intimated, would his Council "recommend to our taxpayers that we should go ahead with some form of consolidation."
In his "warden's message" in the MODS Spring Newsletter, Taylor also addresses the Roseway Hospital closure and local health care issues, wind turbines, the business park and the prospect of a Shelburne County Marine and Aquatic Centre of Excellence, for which the Council has received a recent report.
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