The Mayor of Kawartha Lakes, Andy Letham, thinks the city turned a corner in the last year. There were certainly some big changes, including the city council reducing its size from 17 to nine. Letham said, "Not to minimize the importance of our local communities and the issues in some of those communities, but this is being in a position to do a better job for the first time since we amalgamated. This will benefit all the rural communities. We can start putting effort into giving them back some what they gave up being absorbed into this big city.” He also says the city is doing well financially, is looking forward to improving roads, and is moving toward affordable housing projects.
LINDSAY - Call it a pleasant surprise. Kawartha Lakes Mayor Andy Letham says he was long a proponent of reducing council’s size from 17 to nine but wasn’t sure it would get such a buy-in from council this past spring. “I don’t think anyone was more surprised than I was when I went home that night. I thought ‘Wow, look what we did.” He wondered if council might first go to 12 as a compromise but they bit the bullet and went ahead, he says
The Mayor of Kawartha Lakes, Andy Letham, thinks the city turned a corner in the last year. There were certainly some big changes, including the city council reducing its size from 17 to nine. Letham said, "Not to minimize the importance of our local communities and the issues in some of those communities, but this is being in a position to do a better job for the first time since we amalgamated. This will benefit all the rural communities. We can start putting effort into giving them back some what they gave up being absorbed into this big city.” He also says the city is doing well financially, is looking forward to improving roads, and is moving toward affordable housing projects.