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Fluoride will flow
CRANBROOK
Voters say no to Bylaw No. 3799, yes to Hydrofluorisilicic Acid
BLACK FRID A R N E P E T RYS H E N Townsman Staff
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GAME, SET, MATCH: The Women’s Avalanche volleyball squad celebrate their match-winning point against the Vancouver Island University Mariners, Saturday, Nov. 15, at the College of the Rockies. See details recounting Men’s and Women’s action on Page 7.
Cranbrook gets set for regime change ARNE PE TRYS HEN Townsman Staff
While the municipal elections ballots have been cast and counted, the new Mayor and Council Elect will not take office until the next council meeting, which is Dec. 8. The period between offers a time of transition between the sitting council and the new one. “Essentially, the current mayor and council are still
City staff prepare for transition to new mayor and council mayor and council until the inaugural meeting on the eighth,” explained Chris Zettel, the city’s corporate communications officer. On the eighth, the Mayor Elect and the Council Elect will take office. “Right now what staff is really going to be looking at is wrapping up all the election material, closing that out and putting together
some of the information packages for the incoming mayor and council, just to kind of bring them up to speed on things,” Zettel said. The first big item that the new mayor and council will look at is the 2015 budget. “They won’t waste any time, they’ll be right into it,” he said. “It will be a short meet-
ing,” he said. “I don’t know all that will be on the agenda. At this point I do know that they will determine all the council meeting dates for 2015 and likely determine which of the new councillors will be going on to the various city committees. There might be a little bit of city business, but generally we try to keep it pretty soft I guess and straight for-
ward and then hit the ground running in January.” On Dec. 8, an entirely new city council will take its seat. The incoming mayor is Lee Pratt, and the new councillors are Tom Shypitka, Ron Popoff, Isaac Hockley, Danielle Cardozo, Norma Blissett and Wesly Graham. Also on Monday, the City of Cranbrook said that the official results of Saturday’s election will be announced on Wednesday at City Hall.
Cranbrook residents have spoken and they want fluoride to stay. On Saturday, a referendum question on whether the city should continue the practice of adding Hydrofluorisilicic Acid to the municipal water supply should continue. The referendum failed with 2,794 voting no to keep fluoride and 2,473 voting yes to get rid of it. There was, it seems, some confusion about the referendum question itself and voting officials were on hand to explain the question. The referendum question read: “Are you in favour of Council adopting City of Cranbrook Cease Fluoridation Bylaw No. 3799, 2014, which authorizes swtopping the addition of fluoride to the municipal water supply effective January 1, 2015?” Prince George also had a referendum on its practice of fluoridation and there is was voted out 10,171 to 8,764. There, the question read: “The City of Prince George currently fluoridates its water supply. Are you in favour of the City of Prince George fluoridating its water supply?” Sparwood also voted out fluoride in the drinking water. That city’s question was almost identical to Cranbrook’s:
See FLUORIDE , Page 3