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Description : Art Janse was in Council Tuesday night asking the Town Council to identify the Marsh Drainage improvement scheme. This scheme could cost as much as $17million but if it is not done and there is a disaster the most conservative of estimates puts the damage to the Marsh at $80 million. Since the Walkerton water crisis the province has been sending engineers to review the water systems in towns. Bradford's will have met all the previous standards, but there is a strong possibility that upgrades will be required. Although, many councillors expressed support for the Marsh project it was taken to a vote to decide which project will be supported. The results came up with the council deciding in favour of the water system improvements.

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Description : The long-simmering dispute between Council and the Bradford West Gwillimbury Heritage Committee has finally boiled over. Following the demolition of the Ferguson-Bateman farmhouse on December 1st, Committee chair David Chambers roundly criticized both the new owners of the property and Councillors - and on December 11th, Bradford West Gwillimbury Council met behind closed doors to discuss dissolving the committee. Council came out of the closed door session to pass a resolution terminating the Heritage Committee. On December 12th, Heritage Committee members were contacted by the Municipal Clerk and informed that the committee had been "formally disbanded." They also received an email, signed by Mayor Doug White, providing the reasons for the decision - including a statement that "for many months members of Council have felt that the work of the Heritage Committee has been unfocused and unproductive. Other than the recent case of a designation of one property under the Heritage Act, the Committee has not come to Council with any actionable recommendations. The Committee jumps from one perceived crisis to another." The Mayor indicated that "Council is by no means abandoning the effort to preserve heritage properties.", and could reconstitute a BWG Heritage Committee in 2008 - but if it does, the Committee will no longer operate independently of the wishes of Council.

"The second meeting of Bradford Council in February was held in the Council Chamber last Thursday afternoon with all members in attendance, namely, Reeve Evans and Councillors Coffey, Davey, Fallis and Taylor.
Mr. Fred Cook, representing the Public Library Board, was present and informed that a meeting of the Library Board was held some weeks ago, at which time it was found that the Board was not properly constituted. ..."

Council Finance Report #5. Report to Bradford Reeve and Councillors from April 1902.

Miscellaneous Bradford council notes and documents from 1918.

Bradford council notes and documents for 1902. Dates include: April 14 and May 2.

Bradford council notes and documents for 1918. Dates include: January 14, January 21, February 8, February 11, February 19, February 22, March 8, April 12, May 10, June 14, June 17, July 12, August 23, October 11, November 22 and December 16.

Article about the amalgamation of the Bradford and Innisfil Police Departments; the previous defeated vote was reexamined after Innisfil Town Council voted for the bylaw, and BWG Town Council revisited the proposal.

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : After receiving a report and recommendation of its Bill 35 Steering Committee, behind closed doors, Bradford West Gwillimbury Council has decided to sell its electrical utility. Under Bill 35, the Province's Energy Competition Act, all Municipal Electrical Utilities are required to incorporate as Local Distribution Companies, by November 7th, 2000. The LDCs would have to establish separate affiliate companies to deal with retail sales of electricity, or to carry on other activities currently handled by local Public Utilites Commissions. The Town had a number of options, under the legislation - to incorporate and continue to own the LDC, to amalgamate with other area distribution companies hoping for economies of scale, or to sell. After looking at the bottom line costs of maintaining and upgrading the infrastructure, including the complex billing and collection required in an open market, Council decided to bail out of the electrical business. In a recorded vote, Councillors voted unanimously to sell the "wires" - the Bradford distribution network - to the Barrie Public Utilities Commission, for approximately $10 million. Under the terms of the agreement, all current Utility staff will be hired on by the new company and a Bradford office will be maintained, for a minimum of 5 years. The Town has also received assurances regarding future rates. The decision to sell means the end of the Town's Public Utility Commission, which was established in 1918. The Commission will be dissolved on the same date as the Transfer of electrical services to the Hydro Successor.

Councillor Art Janse sitting at his desk in the new Administrative Building for the Township of West Gwillimbury on August 12, 1989.

The building was designed by architect R. Myles Allison from Barrie, and replaces the offices built in 1951. The building and adjacent works garage cost $820 000.