We believe you should re-elect
NIGEL WARREN
as Councillor
As a Councillor for eight years, Nigel Warren has amassed a wealth of experience. More, he is known for his tenacity, returning to issues until they reach resolution or are taken as far as possible. With André Claire, he keeps a sharp eye on the Township’s cheque register, questioning anything that strikes them as odd, or inefficient, or inappropriate in the week or so leading up to a meeting of Council. Encouragingly, there have been fewer such instances in his second term. He is very much his own man and is not influenced by others unless they win his support with a better factual argument. He is honest and blunt.
In his first term, he was part of a Council that consistently opposed Site 41. With the others he supported the University of Guelph’s “Visual Impact Study,” which provides a scientific approach to the siting of wind turbine developments and which found very few appropriate locations for them in Tiny.
For the last four years, he has chaired the Septage Committee and the Huronia Airport Commission, represented the Township on the County’s Affordable Housing and Transportation Committees, and served on the Bluewater Dunes Restoration Committee until its work was deemed complete. He has continued to serve his community as vice president of the Sandcastle Community Association, as a member of the now much diminished Tiny Community Policing Committee, and an area coordinator and block captain for Neighbourhood Watch.
Until his retirement, Nigel worked as a purchasing and materials manager. As a senior manager with Burlington Technologies, he negotiated with Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and Toyota. He holds a Business Certificate from McMaster University.
When he and his wife became permanent residents of Tiny in 2003, they already knew the area well from many visits to relatives in the area. His wife is connected to the Maheu and Leroux families, descendants of settlers who came to Lafontaine over 150 years ago as loggers, later becoming farmers around Lafontaine and Perkinsfield.
As accomplishments of the current Council, he points to:
• the institution of zero-based budgeting, which began in 2010-11 with one department, a model that was then followed by the other departments,
• the replacement of the Ombudsman with the County’s closed-meeting investigator like the majority of other County of Simcoe municipalities,
• the fact that Tiny is viewed as one of the best managed townships in the province (a status which, ironically, makes it more difficult for Tiny to get funding), and
• adding quarterly reporting to the budgeting and financial systems.
Issues he sees for the incoming Council-
• finding a way to manage septage,
• coming up with alternatives now that OPP rates are rising dramatically,
• keeping industrial wind turbines out of Tiny,
• reviewing the Township’s choice of consultants,
• finishing the Official Plan Review, now that the Province has finally revised its Places to Grow document.
Community-minded, tenacious, experienced, Nigel Warren is an excellent choice as Councillor.
He can be reached at nigelgwarren@gmail.com
