Down in the farm team
Monday evening the Council, Cobourg that is, will appoint members of the public to committees. Two people being appointed may bear watching. One is Melissa Marshall and the other is Don Ubell who are being appointed to the Environmental Committee. Interesting is the fact that Melissa was a candidate in the last election. At 34 the youngest in the race and one of the few women. Obviously she wants to stay involved. Don is a man with a purpose - he collects committees. Currently the Chair of the Community Centre Building committee he also works on the Accessibility committee, he may even be Chair of that one too. He needs to fill his time and with three committees, that is one more than a sitting member of Council he will be busy. But will these positions on committees lead to a jump to the "show"? Ther are a couple of other active committee members who might make the jump too - losing candidate Larry Sherwin, is tucked down there as are other active people. Could be a busy period for aspiring candidates in the next few months, will they have had enough of the committee work or will the committee work prove to be a teaser for more?
2 comments:
What does Don Ubell do for a living?
Is he the Cobourg equivalent of Port Hope's Liz Stewart, committee maven extrodinaire? Except Liz also has a real job at Chemcraft.
Do tell....
What gets me is that these committees are a testing ground for future councillors. While that in itself is reasonable enough, the fact remains that if Council already doesn`t like you, there`s no chance they will appoint you to a committee in the first place, thus denying you the opportunity to prove yourself to the community.
I know there are people with expertise I would like to see working on town committees who have been denied the chance because of public positions they have taken, and just simply who they are. I won`t out them here but maybe some of them will tell us about that.
Kind of like ``no dissidents need apply``.
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