gloria-raybone – NEWSMAGRENFREW

Some might characterize it as being taken to task. Others might say it was more like being taken to the woodshed.

Whatever your choice, it amounts to pretty much the same thing, as the mayor (Tom Sidney) and the CAQ (Gloria Raybone) were both on the hot seat at the beginning of last Tuesday’s meeting of Renfrew Town Council.

The accountability piece in question had to do with the mayor cancelling the scheduled Council Meeting for September 9, the reasons given at the time being there were too many questions expected to come forward, and the staff needed additional time to prepare responses for those anticipated questions.

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It certainly looks like Charlene Jackson is gone as Renfrew’s treasurer.

Earlier today, I was given a heads-up about a job posting on the employment site Indeed, where sure enough, there’s a posting for a position that sure sounds like the one she’s held down until just recently.

That posting appears below.

Budget deliberations were brutal, and there’s no time in a treasurer’s annual calendar where almost every road, every request, and every question lands squarely at your door as it does at budget time.

Also, Renfrew is in the middle of some bad times, especially money-wise, and that’s something that’s not going to change any time in the near future.

So I guess I’m saying that being the treasurer of an entity that teeters on the edge of financial ruin can’t be the easiest job in the world.

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A MEETING GETS CANCELLED. OR POSTPONED.

JACKSON RESIGNS POSITION AS TREASURER