Agenda Items For June 11th. Meeting

In reviewing the agenda for tonites meeting, the following items jumped out to me:

Item 4.1 - Summary of General Expenditures Spending to May 31, 2007

• On Pg. 3 - was doesn't the budget identify forecast revenues for the McNabb Drain
• On Pg. 4 - $638 715 was spent on the McNabb Drain, but their is no forecast fiqure for this item. So if nothing was budgeted, there were do the funds come from?

Item 4.3 - Proposal to increase mileage from $0.40/km to $0.43

• Yet another tax grab on top of the 41% increase they already gave themselves this year

Item 4.4 - Proposal to stop council from taking their show on the road

• Is this report another example of the township's top unelected official to muzzle democracy. If Richard Bates wants to run the township, you should run for Mayor?
• It's unfortunate that Ramara's ratepayers receive notification of what's up for discussion that night, only hours before the meeting. I see this as yet another attempt to muzzle ratepayers and effectly bar them having their concerns placed on the record, before council makes their decisions.

I've tried to have this council implement a waiting period between the time it makes public their proposals, so that ratepayers have time to review these documents and forward their concerns to their elected officials, but this council is just not interested in open and transparency, by allowing timely public participation.