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It appears most Huntsville Councillors were not in the mood to reopen discussions about adding a new marketing position to the municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Monday, November 25 Council meeting, following the passing of the 2025 and 2026 Town of Huntsville budgets, Huntsville Mayor Nancy Alcock brought the issue up again and asked fellow councillors if they would allow staff to report back to the Town’s General Committee in 2025 about the possible addition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The position was initially in the budget but did not make the cut at the General Committee when councillors looked at ways of reducing the budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is not meant as an additional item that we left out of the budget. There was a healthy discussion around the needs for marketing and fundraising for the library and for the Town, especially in light of the new community fund that will come online in the Town of Hunsville in 2025 and Director Frame during the discussions talked about many possibilities how we might be able to position ourselves to do more fundraising and marketing,” said Alcock. “But using funds that we might receive in a different way and also to be able to implement branding and sponsorship, we do have a sponsorship bylaw, but we don’t have any way of implementing it. So all this was doing is [to] provide direction to Director Frame to say ‘could you prepare a way of funding a position like this through the many possible avenues that are available to us…'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Cory Clarke said he did not need to see another report about the position. “I’ve already made my decision pretty clear at the last budget meeting, so I stand behind the comments I made at that meeting that we shouldn’t be continuing to create new positions, specifically also looking at adding new positions; I think if we continue to add new positions and create new positions during this term, it’s going to have negative long-term impacts on our budget,” he said. Clarke said inflation in Canada was back up in October from 1.6 per cent. He attributed the increase to the cost of groceries, gasoline and “the Canada-wide increase in municipal property taxes. So increased property taxes right across Canada drove inflation up with the highest yearly increase since 1992, so those are all reasons why we shouldn’t be even considering creating new positions, and I know the argument is going to be, ‘well, you know, we can look at how we can fund this position creatively through MAT tax or whatever other ways there might be,’ but eventually this position will come back and affect the levy…” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Helena Renwick said she did not think it would hurt to look at it. “In particular, we have a sponsorship bylaw that we have not even had the time or energy to look at because we don’t have anyone to look at that.” Renwick said the position could possibly be supported by initiatives like sponsorships or advertising. “And then we can’t forget about the library because that was really where the initial position came from,” she said, referring to marketing and fundraising support for the library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy Mayor Dan Armour questioned whether staff had time to put together a report on a marketing position. “My concern is not so much the position coming back just for us to look at it but do staff have the time to actually do the work because we’re always hearing about how busy they are.” Armour said he understood where councillor Clarke was coming from but said he was okay with staff returning with a report if they have the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huntsville CAO Denise Corry said staff is indeed very taxed with their time. She said staff is also always looking at ways of doing things more efficiently to reduce the cost to the taxpayer. “So we do feel that this initiative will satisfy that requirement, and we will slot the time…to get that work done.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Scott Morrison questioned why staff didn’t just go ahead rather than ask council for permission. He also said he could not support a report on the position unless other efficiencies are looked at like freeing up other staff member’s time to fulfill the role of that position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corry said because council had already turned the position down during budget discussions, and bringing it back without prior consultation would be “disrespectful to council’s position.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, councillors voted against it. <\/p>\n\n\n

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