City setting up new committee to renegotiate parking contract

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council will over the next two weeks develop the Terms of Reference (ToR) for its newest Metered Parking Rene-gotiation Committee.

At yesterday’s statutory council meeting, it was decided that the nine-member committee will comprise seven councillors and two members of the public who will have voting rights. Town Clerk Royston King and City Treasurer Ron McCalman will also sit on the committee but only in an advisory capacity.

What exactly the committee will do is to be decided at the next statutory meeting, scheduled for September 25, at which the ToR will be presented. Once the ToR have been approved, the seven councillors will be selected and two members of the public will thereafter be nominated by any member of the 30-member council.

Another meeting will then be