Welcome to the Wasaga Chronicle.
A modern Chronicle of the Town of Wasaga Beach. This archive mainly contains Social Media posts that need to be remembered rather than lost in the chaff.
In Wasaga Beach the news and flow of information is entirely controlled by Mayor Brian Smith and is used to further his own personal agenda. His hand picked council and senior staff ensure his wishes overide the needs and representation of the whole community.
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Transparency
Moving away from the election onto the meat of the new agenda... Transparency. There was a lot said about it during the election. In fact as I recall there was a lot said about it at the election before. I think it seriously harmed Brian’s re-election chances that he was elected on the promise of making municipal politics “transparent” when the appearance was quite the opposite. That however is in our rear view mirror. What we have now is transparency and the question of how to go about it. Many people have their own frustrations with our towns opaque bureaucracy. I myself have an issue with the 500 page agendas with no index and the need for some method to broadcast a simple list of agenda subjects to the town so residents effected know to attend. There are also the basics like live streaming and archiving all meetings of [...]
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