Dear Residents of SYSRC:

I know I had indicated that last week’s update would be my last one except for a good-bye statement in May, unless something drastic happened. But I feel this is important to communicate this to you.

I wanted to advise you that I have decided not to proceed with the Code of Conduct and Procedural By-Law amendments and to put them forward to the next council.

The original reasons for making the change in the by-laws was to continue the work of the last council.  They had proposed changes to those by-laws and the amendments had received two of the three required readings.

I had originally decided to go ahead with the changes and, after reviewing the original ones put forward by the last council, we decide to amend them to strengthen them.

However, we have received thoughtful comments from people suggesting that we should wait and let the next council decide what to do. So, I have decided to reconsider.

I will not sign off on the by-laws amendments and instead will put them forward for the next council to consider on whether to adopt them or not. This is the right thing to do.  We will however proceed with the zoning by-law amendment and the repeal of the CAO by-law.

Don Ferguson

Supervisor SYSRC