{"id":1264,"date":"2014-09-30T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinycottager.org\/site\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:44:39","slug":"candidate-profile-nigel-warren-for-councillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tinycottager.org\/site\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Profile: Nigel Warren for Councillor"},"content":{"rendered":"

We believe you should re-elect
\nNIGEL WARREN
\nas Councillor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 Andr\u00e9 Claire, he keeps a sharp eye on the Township\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

In his first term, he was part of a Council that consistently opposed Site 41. With the others he supported the University of Guelph\u2019s \u201cVisual Impact Study,\u201d which provides a scientific approach to the siting of wind turbine developments and which found very few appropriate locations for them in Tiny.<\/p>\n

For the last four years, he has chaired the Septage Committee and the Huronia Airport Commission, represented the Township on the County\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As accomplishments of the current Council, he points to:
\n\u2022 the institution of zero-based budgeting, which began in 2010-11 with one department, a model that was then followed by the other departments,
\n\u2022 the replacement of the Ombudsman with the County\u2019s closed-meeting investigator like the majority of other County of Simcoe municipalities,
\n\u2022 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
\n\u2022 adding quarterly reporting to the budgeting and financial systems.
\nIssues he sees for the incoming Council-
\n\u2022 finding a way to manage septage,
\n\u2022 coming up with alternatives now that OPP rates are rising dramatically,
\n\u2022 keeping industrial wind turbines out of Tiny,
\n\u2022 reviewing the Township\u2019s choice of consultants,
\n\u2022 finishing the Official Plan Review, now that the Province has finally revised its Places to Grow document.<\/p>\n

Community-minded, tenacious, experienced, Nigel Warren is an excellent choice as Councillor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He can be reached at nigelgwarren@gmail.com<\/p>\n

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