Antigonish Co.‘s warden says they should make a decision regarding their involvement with the Eastern Strait Regional Enterprise Network within a week.
Officials with all five municipal units in the REN- the Town of Antigonish, Antigonish Co., the Town of Port Hawkesbury, the Municipality of the District of Guysborough and the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s- submitted notice of intent to withdraw in March.
Since then, municipal, provincial and REN officials have been working to address the concerns of municipal officials- specifically, provincial funding, the REN’s governance model, and a required three-year commitment.
In December, Owen McCarron, Antigonish Co.’s warden, said they’d probably make their decision by January’s council meeting.
After January’s regular municipal council meeting Tuesday night, McCarron said they decided to wait a little longer.
“That’ll give us a final opportunity to review it- we gained some more information from it,” he said. “We have a couple councillors who couldn’t be with us (Tuesday night)- we were going to have that discussion, but we want to have all our council here.”
McCarron said they’ll make their decision during their Committee of the Whole meeting Jan. 22.
