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Despite hours of deliberations, countless committee meetings, and the help of consultants, things will remain status quo around the District of Muskoka council table, at least for now.<\/p>\n

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Neither the District Municipal Modernization Committee (MMC), tasked with evaluating how to decrease the number of councillors at the upper-tier municipality and enhance governance, nor all of District\u2019s 22 councillors (23 with the District chair) could agree on how to move forward.<\/p>\n

Currently, District representation is comprised of three townships\u2014Muskoka Lakes, Lake of Bays and Georgian Bay\u2014and the towns of Huntsville, Bracebridge, and Gravenhurst. The townships of Lake of Bays and Georgian Bay each have three representatives sitting at the table, while the Township of Muskoka Lakes, which has the largest seasonal population and assessment, and each of the towns have four representatives.<\/p>\n

The townships have maintained for some time that they do not have an equal say around the table, particularly when it comes to major financial decisions which many see as mostly benefitting the towns, because when the towns vote together on an issue they have a total of 12 votes while the townships have 10.<\/p>\n

The District is required by the Municipal Act<\/em> to review District Council composition during this term of council, and again following every second regular election going forward. During this review, the District has the option to increase or decrease the number of council members, or can choose to remain status quo.<\/p>\n

The MMC brought forward two very different motions for debate before District council at its March 15 meeting. Both would essentially reduce the number of District councillors by just four, despite calls for a greater reduction.<\/p>\n

The first motion referred to as ‘representation by population’ was moved forward by Town of Bracebridge Mayor Graydon Smith and seconded by Gravenhurst Mayor Paul Kelly. It modelled a governance formula based strictly on the merits of representation by population, including seasonal residents. In that model, the Town of Huntsville and the Township of Muskoka Lakes would remain at four representatives while all other municipalities would lose one, thereby splitting the vote between townships versus towns from eight to ten, respectively.<\/p>\n

The second motion, referred to as ‘equal representation’ and moved forward by Township of Muskoka Lakes Mayor Phil Harding and seconded by Lake of Bays Mayor Terry Glover, would\u2019ve given all six municipalities an equal number of three representatives around the District table. That motion also included a somewhat complicated weighted voting mechanism, which could be triggered in the event of a tie vote on a particular issue. That weighted voting mechanism, based on population, would be applied as follows: Georgian Bay and Lake of Bays would get three votes per member; Bracebridge and Gravenhurst would get four; and Muskoka Lakes and Huntsville would get five.<\/p>\n

Huntsville Mayor Karin Terziano, who sits on the MMC, expressed disappointment echoed by many of her fellow District councillors at the idea of only reducing District council by four members. “If we were to actually try and modernize, we\u2019d be looking totally at service reviews at the District\u2014how we do business, what businesses we do, and how we can do them better,” she said. “We\u2019re not doing any of that and to consider this to be an exercise in modernization is absolutely ridiculous.”<\/p>\n

However, Terziano said she favoured the first motion which she referred to as a beginning and hoped in future District council could be reduced further. She said she favoured representation by population and said giving Muskoka\u2019s seasonal population full representation is the right thing to do. “And I\u2019m sorry that the two\u2026 smallest municipalities only end up with two people based on their population, because I do agree it would be somewhat more of a workload, but that\u2019s up to the District to come up with a better system for how we do business so that two people can do that workload.”<\/p>\n

In terms of the second motion, giving all municipalities an equal amount of representatives around the table, Terziano said: “For me, I can\u2019t go back to my municipality and say ‘listen, the four largest municipalities in the District of Muskoka happily gave up a seat at the table so that the two smallest municipalities at the District of Muskoka could remain at three.’ I can\u2019t go back and sell that to my community because I don\u2019t think I would be representing them well enough.” Terziano voted in favour of the first motion and against the second.<\/p>\n

Lake of Bays Councillor Michael Peppard said he understands the argument for representation by population, has no fear of extra workload, and takes issue with Georgian Bay or Lake of Bays being referred to as smaller municipalities.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s simply population, it\u2019s not geography and it\u2019s not issues, and I think there are really unique issues in the rural townships that differ from the towns\u2026 to drop our voice to two compared to say five\u2026 that\u2019s three less people to argue significant issues. Looking at it from an environmental perspective, Lake of Bays is by and large upstream of everyone else and I would hate to see our unique issues not getting as much airing with only two councillors versus a lot of other councillors,” he said, adding that he would not be supporting the first motion.<\/p>\n

Huntsville District Councillor and Huntsville’s Deputy Mayor Nancy Alcock rejected the premise that seasonal and rural residents are not being represented by town councillors. She said her municipality contains both and she has a fundamental problem when she\u2019s told that the towns only seem to represent the urban interests because her municipality contains waterfront, seasonal, and rural residents as well. “So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to put the urban representatives in one particular hole.”<\/p>\n

She said those who are already not feeling represented will not feel any more represented on issues where weighted voting might apply. “I don\u2019t see that option B is the magic bullet for creating unity that we think it might be,” said Alcock, who agreed that while neither of the motions could be referred as modernizing District governance, she preferred the first option.<\/p>\n

Huntsville Councillor Tim Withey also spoke to the matter and said he would be supporting the first motion which is representation by population, “which is what this country is founded on\u2026 it’s how the numbers add up.”<\/p>\n

Others, like Township of Georgian Bay Councillor Paul Wiancko, who said he travels about 2.5 hours to get to and from District council meetings, expressed the discontent felt around the table by some more succinctly. He said to be honest, “I\u2019ve never felt equal at the existing council. I know that going to any council meeting, any decision we make, every decision we make, we\u2019re outnumbered on the final decision. We\u2019re not considered equal and during this process, we\u2019ve all wrapped ourselves around the idea that we want to have seasonal representation equal to permanent, and yet when it comes to individual councillors, other councillors don\u2019t consider us as equals and they want to keep the status quo that we can always be outvoted. And so it\u2019s frustrating to drive all that way and know that on every vote we\u2019re not considered equal and it would be nice in years to come that we could go to a council meeting and each councillor is equal\u2026”<\/p>\n

In the end, both motions were defeated. You can find both motions and how your councillors voted here (pdf).<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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