The Municipality of Lakeshore hosted the inaugural meeting of Council on Tuesday, November 15, at the Atlas Tube Recreation Centre. The event officially kicks off Council’s 2022-2026 term.
“Congratulations to all of Lakeshore’s incoming Council members. I know that we will hit the ground running,” said Tracey Bailey, Lakeshore’s newly elected mayor. “We have a lot of experience and skill around the table, and I am incredibly excited to build consensus and harness our shared passion to serve our communities.”
The inaugural meeting featured the signing of declarations of office, followed by remarks by new Council members.
For the calendar of Lakeshore’s upcoming Council meetings, please visit Lakeshore’s Council Calendar.
Full Message from mayor Tracey Bailey
“I am honoured to have been elected and I want to thank my friends, family, colleagues, and citizens from all of Lakeshore’s communities for supporting me. I’d also like to thank all the candidates who put their names forward to represent their communities and Lakeshore as a whole.
Congratulations as well to Lakeshore’s newly elected Council. I am incredibly excited to build consensus and harness our shared passion and energy to serve our communities. We may not agree on every issue, but I know we are dedicated to working as one for the future of the municipality.
And we certainly have lots of work ahead of us, as Lakeshore has as many challenges as it does opportunities. We have a strong Council and a talented team of staff. We’re centrally located, with a mix of urban and rural living, which has made us one of the fastest-growing municipalities in Ontario.
But that growth brings new challenges. As a Council will be tasked with balancing needs and wants; increasing levels of service while keeping taxes low; upgrading infrastructure and building new.
We are prepared to meet these challenges head-on; to make tough decisions and provide clear direction to accomplish our shared goals.
With that in mind, we are now embarking on the strategic planning process, which will help us create a vision; a roadmap of where we want to take our municipality over the next four years. We’ll soon deliberate on and approve Lakeshore’s 2023 Budget, which will set out how we’ll effectively use tax dollars to make our vision a reality.
As we make these important decisions, we expect to be held accountable by citizens and stakeholders. In turn, they can expect honesty, transparency, and advocacy; that we will work with each other and with all levels of government.
This cooperation will be critical to our success because together we are strong.
Together we are Lakeshore.”
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