Two nights of back-to-back Special Council meetings.
During the one Monday, which finished around 10:30 p.m., we unanimously appointed a new Oshawa City Manager, Paul Ralph who has been Commissioner of Development Services and with the City for 30 years.
Then Tuesday night's special meeting, which ended after midnight, Council voted down the Lakeridge, Region Health Dept. and John Howard Society's plan for a Consumption & Treatment Service Injection Site in the Midtown Mall. The vote was 6-5 with John Gray, Jane Hurst, Tito Dante Marimpietri, Brad Marks, me and John Neal voting against...and Bob Chapman, Dan Carter, Derek Giberson and Rick Kerr in favour.
There were 30 citizens who made heartfelt delegations and in total, and they split 15-15 on either side.
Five of the 30 were recovered addicts who spoke movingly and with courage, All 5 of them were opposed to an injection site in Oshawa.
Interestingly there was a PART 2 motion that Council unanimously did pass, that the City of Oshawa urge the federal and provincial governments to take action and declare the opioid crisis a national emergency.
During the one Monday, which finished around 10:30 p.m., we unanimously appointed a new Oshawa City Manager, Paul Ralph who has been Commissioner of Development Services and with the City for 30 years.
Then Tuesday night's special meeting, which ended after midnight, Council voted down the Lakeridge, Region Health Dept. and John Howard Society's plan for a Consumption & Treatment Service Injection Site in the Midtown Mall. The vote was 6-5 with John Gray, Jane Hurst, Tito Dante Marimpietri, Brad Marks, me and John Neal voting against...and Bob Chapman, Dan Carter, Derek Giberson and Rick Kerr in favour.
There were 30 citizens who made heartfelt delegations and in total, and they split 15-15 on either side.
Five of the 30 were recovered addicts who spoke movingly and with courage, All 5 of them were opposed to an injection site in Oshawa.
Interestingly there was a PART 2 motion that Council unanimously did pass, that the City of Oshawa urge the federal and provincial governments to take action and declare the opioid crisis a national emergency.
