Council News

Meaford's council is continuing to work toward finalizing the municipal budgets for 2025. While they have made some progress in lowering the required rate increase, council is hoping to continue to find ways to reduce the required increase even further before presenting the budgets to the public for the required statutory public budget meeting. By the end of council's third full day of budget discussions for version two of the municipal budget, held on Friday, February 14, council had significantly...

Meaford council has voted against a motion brought forward by Deputy Mayor Shirley Keaveney that sought the allocation of $5,000 for legal fees in order to explore options for municipal acquisition of the waterfront property known locally as Centreville Beach. Keaveney's motion, brought before council at their January 27 meeting, noted that in 2020 the municipality spent roughly $7,000 to obtain a legal opinion about the ownership of the property, and that legal opinion gave no indication that the municipality...