The County of Oxford council is looking to explore made in Oxford solutions to the Regional Review currently taking place.
WOODSTOCK - Oxford County Council will be looking for a Made in Oxford solution when it comes to the Regional Review.
Staff have prepared a report that will have them explore all of the possible scenarios, including single tier, existing two-tier or a refined or hybrid two tier system, in a way that leads to defendable, logical recommendations for Oxford County that translate into clearly defined outcomes, or improvements. Warden Larry Martin says they want to make sure they have all of their bases covered.
"What we are trying to do is, we don't want a knee jerk reaction, we just to think this thing through and go through it logically and try to come up with the best results for the residents that we can and try to maintain as much identity as we can but like I said we just don't want a knee jerk reaction."
Martin says they have received funding to do this review.
"We got a notice in the mail from Minister Clark that we are getting some money both at the municipal level and the County level to conduct a review and I think if we were to get an independent person to come in and look at it, they can be more objective than we might and at the end of the day, that is what we are looking for objectivity."
The report also recommends that County Council must articulate what is important to protect regardless of any provincial decision about our municipal governance, for instance, its urban/rural balance at council. For illustrative purposes, the report also contains community, governance, service delivery and decision-making comparisons to the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, a single-tier municipal government with similar community characteristics to Oxford County.
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