By Staff
October 15th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
After some rather awkward discussion related to how the city engages with the public mention was made that there was going to be a virtual Town Hall meeting THIS EVENING
Current ward boundaries
Council Composition and Ward Boundary Review is currently at this stage
Community Engagement Session
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Virtual meeting via Zoom
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83690753520?pwd=hgWxu8bajhD4aGCun8xx1AXx82UP8Z.1(External link)
Passcode: YK1xnb
Come speak to staff about council composition. Input gathered from the community will be used to help create recommendations about council composition that will go to City Council for their consideration in December 2024.
One cannot deny that there is voter apathy out there in Burlington. If the majority of citizens don’t even bother to come out and vote, it sorta sends out a signal that the majority don’t care about what goes on at city hall. Most of the time (and it starts in childhood!) if people are pretty sure that they aren’t being watched/supervised they will do what they WANT to do, not what they are SUPPOSED to do! That sucks for the minority of us who do vote and do care about the goings on at city hall. Just my 2 cents worth.
It is obvious !Just double the size of council.Maybe we will get some new blood that has higher level experience than the current crew.
I love how they keep pretending that “input gathered from the community” means anything, or that a telephone town hall with no notice, a booth at the market, or a skewed survey equals actual engagement. Why is it that when residents give their feedback to their council members by email or phone – it never counts for anything? Same with petitions.