These days, it won’t take much searching to find out what your neighbourhood municipal councillor thinks about a subject.
On Wednesday, an argument between two city council members on local government reform caused a dispute between the Town of Quispamsis and the City of Saint John to become viral on Twitter.
Brent Harris, a councillor for Saint John, once responded to Noah Donovan, a councillor for Quispamsis.
“Your police are bringing your addicted and destitute people onto our streets, but you don’t back our police.
Although your commuters work in our well-paying jobs, you don’t contribute to maintaining our streets, Harris said.
You profit from the customers we bring in, but you contribute the least to NB’s economic growth.
The Quispamsis town council announced on Tuesday that they were looking for papers from the City of Saint John about an examination of four significant regional facilities with a price of $17.
3 million over the following ten years: the TD Centre will cost $11 million, with the remaining funds going to the conference centre, the arts centre, and the aquatic centre for the Canada Games.
Mayor Donna Reardon of the City of Saint John claimed during an interview with Global News that the financial statement was sent well in advance of Tuesday’s council meeting in Quispamsis.
The Regional Service Commissions of all the CAOs received such information several weeks ago.
So they should have that information, and it will be sent out again today as a repeat,” Reardon said.
She claims that asset mapping has been done by the City of Saint John since at least 2012 and that this method has assisted in controlling how money is spent throughout the city.
On Thursday, Noah Donovan said that the Town of Quispamsis is merely looking for clarity on the subject, and with money fronted and little stake, they want to make sure they won’t be on the hook if the City of Saint John pulls the plug.
The common perception at the moment, according to Donovan, is that the City of Saint John has neglected some of its amenities over the last few years.
“Whether it’s intentionally or unintentionally through a lack of funds, now that the government is pushing capital costs on us, we’re going to able to fix some of those facilities for them. ”
The City of Saint John reached out to Quispamsis on Thursday, 20 kilometres away, emphasising that cooperation would enable them to control expenses and improve services.
Saint John councillor Paula Radwan stated on Twitter that “in order for our region to expand to its full potential, we need to come together and take advantage of regionalizing many services, not that we are saying that we are but not paying a fair share.”
If we cooperate, I believe we can be so much stronger and better. Reardon “I think we need to understand where our bread is buttered at the end of the day and how can we support each other going forward. ”.
Conflict between New Brunswick council members over local government reform spills over into Twitter
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