DEBORAH POWELL – LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE

BRISTOL – Council’s monthly meeting was held April 2 at the town hall.

Swim docks

Bristol Municipal Council agreed to pay close to $25,000 to purchase new swim docks. Due to the closure of the Norway Bay pier for safety reasons, the Norway Bay Municipal Association (NBMA) would not be able to set up their swim docks alongside the pier as they normally would. The NBMA worked closely with Bristol staff and council to determine how to continue to facilitate deeper-water swimming program activities and plan for community use in time for the summer season. The plan is to purchase a supported linked dock system from Fendocks and connect it to the road portion of the pier. NBMA president Pat Byrne was at the council meeting to explain the proposed dock configuration and express the NBMA’s gratitude to the municipality for their cooperation and financial support.

EFW update

Mayor Brent Orr announced the townhall meeting regarding the Energy from Waste (EFW) project to be held in Shawville, April 3, and mentioned that some municipalities had rescinded their support of the project. Bristol council agreed to do the same in light of information that has come out over the past year since the project first received municipal support.

Councillor Archie Greer, a member of the MRC Waste Management Committee, who proposed the motion of support last year, agreed to rescinding support saying that they’d “looked at one side only” at the time.

Earlier in the meeting, Bristol resident Remo Pasteris presented council with a motion opposing the EFW project using the same wording as the Friends of Pontiac petition that has been circulating both on and offline. Mayor Orr said that council would consider the motion and put it on next month’s agenda.