Fire Negotiations Deadlocked – Councils To Drag It Out Further With More Paid Meetings

At last night’s fire negotiation meeting, very little, to no
progress was made.  There are two options that are currently
being considered. Option one has Morris-Turnberry buying 1/2 of the
North Huron Fire Department.  Option two is where
Morris-Turnberry is simply a customer of North Huron, but pays a
fair, un-padded bill.  Two and a half hours into the meeting, a
secret ballot vote was held.  Councillors voted on which option
they preferred. 

(5) Ownership Option

(6) Customer Option

There was a second question on the ballot, to gauge councillors
willingness to talk.

(5) Actually, either option is fine, provided all my questions
are answered. 

As you can see, they can’t even agree on which option to pursue, and
one councillor abstained for some reason.  It will likely take
another meeting to figure out which option to pursue, then more
meetings to figure out the terms.  All at the taxpayers expense
of course.

The next meeting is on Feb, 21 2013 at the Belgrave Community
Centre.

WFP predicts this will eventually end with North Huron offering a
fair bill to M-T, without the extras” they tried to slip in. 
Morris-Turnberry will likely accept the new lower bill

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