There is a question on this year’s ballot regarding the election of a Regional Council Chair or the selection of the Chair by Regional Councillors.
I’m wondering why a second question couldn’t have been added to give force to Ajax’s dire need for a third councillor on Regional Council.
If we’re to be taxed without equal representation, clearly, we should be making a lot more noise given that 57% of our municipal tax levy flows into Regional coffers.
Policing, transportation, recycling, social and infrastructural services are as important to Ajax as they are to residents of Pickering, Whitby and Uxbridge.
Its not a matter of where numbers warrant – we’ve got the numbers – it’s a matter of politics at the senior decision-making level of Regional Council.
Its time for those key decision-makers on Regional Council to grow up, put aside personal and grudges if necessary –and give Ajax residents the representation they’ve earned!. We need to put an end to the divisive and petty nonsense that diminishes the stature and credibility of an otherwise fine institution.
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