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Fri Mar 13, 2020 - Anxiety/ Humour/ Decisions/ Uncertainty All Wrapped in One

3/14/2020

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When a Special Council meeting was called to take place in a few short hours, I was thinking there might be a discussion about cancelling the City's Kids March Break Program that is to start on Monday and wrote on my Facebook page:

Friday the 13th of March today, and 'beware the ides of March" time is this weekend right - the Soothsayer's warning to Caesar to stay at home? Special City of Oshawa Council meeting at 4:00 pm today to discuss 'update and preparedness' for the coronavirus aka COVID-19... question, should the City cancel the March Break camp events? Feel free to share your opinion and ...about 'social distancing', the WHO advises maintaining least 1 metre (3 feet) between anyone who is coughing or sneezing. Have to thank my friend for the quarantini recipe 
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 About the meeting,  it  was much more than I expected.

Two of the three staff recommendations were passed and a 4th one was added. The Mayor and Councillor Marimpietri were away so there were nine Council members casting votes.

After discussing/wrestling with the staff recommendations, the votes were close, one was 5 to 4; the other votes were a bit different. None were unanimous...Copied below are Recommendation 1, which was approved. Recommendation 2 was defeated. Recommendation 3 was approved. The additional recommendation to postpone the March 24 Special Council meeting, which was to review the Draft Fire Master Plan, was approved.

So Oshawa community centres/rec centres are closed for 3 weeks.
Council meetings remain as scheduled.
There is a new by-law granting the Mayor and CAO delegated authority to make special decisions in situations before a state of emergency is declared...and as said above, the March 24 Special Council meeting reviewing the (400+ page) Draft Fire Master Plan is postponed.


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