May 1st Council Meeting

          Our last letter regarding amendments to the property standards bylaw was discussed at the May 1st council meeting. 
            Staff and council are working on a bio security protocol with advice from the OFA, the National Farmers Union, and the Christian Farmers Federation. From there, the township with draft a policy and submit it to other farming groups for their consideration including but not limited to the DFO, EFO, Pork Producers of Ontario and others. 
           Councillor Helen Dowd took issue with the statement from our letter: "We have also asked councillors whether they can recall anything to this end and they cannot."  This statement refers to the Mayor stating at the April 17th meeting that bio security was discussed during a council meeting in March. We could find no record of this and the counsellors we spoke to agreed.
          Helen stated that since we didn't speak to all the counsellors that this statement is inaccurate.  We disagree that this in inaccurate, we never implied that we spoke to all counsellors but the counsellors we did speak with confirmed our research on the matter.