Entry to Private Property Protocol Motion

In the agenda for the September 4th council meeting, Councillor Andrew MacAlpine submitted a notice of motion for an Entry to Private Property Protocol for staff including the Property Standards Officer. We believe this protocol would go a long way to ease landowners concerns regarding warrantless entry to property while still allowing the township to address concerns as they may arise. His proposed motion can be found on
the Perth East website under council agendas or here:
https://calendar.pertheast.ca/Council/Detail/2018-09-04-1930-Council-Meeting/Agenda

However, further to this on August 28th, Andrew served notice to remove his notice of motion. After questioning Andrew on why he would remove this motion, he told us that it is very difficult to pass motions like this with the current Council and that the full Council would not be in attendance at the September 4th meeting, making it even more difficult. He has assured us that he will reintroduce this motion at a later date.

We support Andrew’s decision as we believe it is important to have a full Council present when discussing and voting on important topics, such as warrantless entry.  We look forward to a time when Andrew is able to again reintroduce this motion.

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