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LCSA AGM DETAILS

 

Lambton Shores Community Association  AGM

Sat.  June 11, 2022

Grand Bend Legion

10 AM -Noon

Mayor Weber, Dave McGuire & Dan Sageman will open our meeting.

with a local update. 

Followed by questions and answers.

Our Regular AGM & discussion will follow. Masks are requested indoors.

Lambton Shores Annual General Meeting

The  Lambton Shores Community Association's AGM is set for Saturday June 11. 2022. We will be together one way or another.  Either Zoom or another option may present itself. See you there!

Save this date - Lambton Shores Community Association 2021 AGM

 
On  Thursday April 29th from 7- 9 pm  please join us for our  

2nd Zoom Annual General Meeting.

 

Our Mayor and Councillors will begin our evening with a virtual town hall open to the public and members..

 Our guests can participate in the Town Hall portion of our meeting and we welcome anyone else who wants to stay for the AGM portion.

 Please send requests to attend with name & preferred email link to LSCommunityAssoc@gmail.com

 Zoom & phone links will be forwarded the week preceding the AGM

 

 

Changes to Our AGM !!

Attention everyone! 

We have a new date for our AGM - MAY 16th 2020

and 

 we are going virtual. 

Notify us by email at lscommunityassoc@gmail.com for details & setup  AND

 send us your questions for our Council attendees.

 

AGM 2020 Save the DATE

Our 2020 AGM is set for June 13, 2020 10 am at the Grand Bend Legion.

URGENT - VENUE CHAMGE

Due to Circumstances beyond our control the VENUE for both the Lambton Shores Community Association AGM 9:30 am & the PUBLIC TOWN HALL MEETING set for tomorrow May 25th at 11 am has been moved to Huron Shores United Church 25 MAIN ST, Grand Bend, ON N0M 1T0. Downstairs Community room. Parking may be an issue. Our apologies.

An IMPORTANT message for us all.........

Please take the time to read Sandra's report.  We all need to participate to solve some of the new and old troubling behaviors.  With your help we can make progress.

Community Affairs Officer's Report for May 9th, 2018

Annual General Meeting

by Sandra Cronk

 As an Association, we represent the concerns of the community and do our best to communicate those concerns to Council and staff.

At last year's AGM, Council members answered our Members questions with explanations like:

- the Bylaw Officer used to be a contract position, but now is an employee position.

- the Bylaw Officer reports to the Clerk who reports to the CAO.

- Council works with staff to improve situations.

- when you have a concern, go to the Municipal website and use the "Report It" form; email photos directly to the Bylaw Officer.

- in the Walker Road parking situation, Councillor Sageman told neighbours  who were concerned, to write letters to Council.

- Ed Fluter added that when people are communicating with Council, to address letters to the Council and the CAO.

- Grand Bend is patrolled by Bylaw Officers; the rest of Lambton Shores is complaint driven.

- when one member complained about noise from the Main Street,  Councillor Sageman looked up the statistics and announced that there had only been three commercial noise complaints lodged so far by July.

- regarding OPP versus Bylaw Officers, Deputy Mayor Cook explained that Council does not control the OPP. Bylaw Officers enforce the Municipal Bylaws.

Councillor Sageman added, Council does not direct staff but communication is the key to collect statistics.

Example: 70 residents in Southcott Pines reported on the same property, then something was done. Therefore, there needs to be separate complaints.

Sharon Weitzel reminded us to report incidents to Bylaw Officers, when it happens via email, Twitter, etc.

In July of last summer, your Executive met with the Bylaw Officer, Chris Martin. Deputy Mayor, Doug Cook, and the Clerk, Nancy Wright-Laking also attended. 

After expressing our purpose and some of the concerns of our members, we were told that staff and Council cannot do anything about any situation, if they don't know about it. 
  
In her report for the April 24th Council meeting, the Clerk wrote "Staff was not made aware of the concern in 2017 or any other time; there were no complaints dealt with by staff regarding  this issue; "

 So in conclusion, the Executive is pleading with our members to report your concerns immediately. Phone Bylaw and/or OPP and record it in writing in two places: one on the Municipal website and the other to us. Fill out our "Record of Calls for Service" form or just tell us what happened and send it to us by email. We become frustrated when our members get upset because their concerns are not resolved, but we urge you to act, not just talk about it.

Therefore, Phone Bylaw and leave a message, if you don't get a person.

Phone the OPP, when needed.

Go to the Municipal website and use the "Report It" form under "Services" to have it in writing.           

             

Information that was gathered from a couple of Members last fall, was reported to the Executive at our Fall meeting. Our Communications Officer, Sharon Weitzel, wrote a letter to Council in January, based on the  three most important issues

It is very disappointing to us, to be told by Council members and staff that they can't do anything about our issues, because they don't have it writing. We, the Executive, also need to have it writing, to verify the numbers that we get from staff, such as when they said they only got three noise complaints all summer, when we know that people are disturbed by noise a lot more often than that!

There are copies of our "Record of Calls for Service" forms on the registration table. Take one and make copies. It is also on our website.