Sunday, June 18, 2006

Cunningham Says LLP Opponents Narrow-Minded

In this week's St Marys Independent Jack Coddington writes he thinks 80% of St Marys, Ontario would vote against funding an indoor pool. Councillor Dave Cunningham opened the door to speculation on the extent of opposition to the Living Life Project at a March 28 council meeting.

In the April 5 issue of the Journal Argus Jennifer Leslie reported Councillor Cunningham as saying that in his contact with the public, he observed a 50/50 split for and against the Living Life Project. Cunningham went on to say 'People are somewhat narrow-minded and can't see the benefit of the pool'

Presumably Cunningham would include among the 'narrow-minded who can't see the benefit of the pool' the consultants St Marys Council hired to study the need and feasibility of a aquatics centre.

Monteith Brown Planning Consultants, The JF Group and MacLennon Jaunkalns Miller Architects found in their June 2005 report for St Marys Council that 'there is insufficient market demand to recommend that the Town build an indoor pool'.

The findings of the consultants can be read at ca.geocities.com/stopcouncil/mbpool.htm

2 Comments:

Blogger house said...

St Marys Council is somewhat narrow-minded and can't see the drawbacks of the pool

8:17 AM  
Blogger ford said...

Does anyone put any stock in Dave Cunningham's observations about public feeling? If he had any ability in that area he wouldn't have bothered running in January's election. He fooled himself then into thinking he wouldn't suffer a landslide loss and he's fooling himself now if he thinks only 50% of St Marys is opposed to spending millions on an unnecessary swimming pool.

5:15 PM  

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