Cobourg Council – Council Presses for More Brookside Info
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By Cecilia Nasmith/Today’s Northumberland
After the initial euphoria of the Imagine Brookside days, there is very little specific information forthcoming on the fate of Cobourg’s decommissioned Brookside Youth Centre with its lovely acreage and prime location.
Correspondence before council this week included a letter from Chair Diane Chin of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and one from Chair Donald Macintosh of the ACO’s Cobourg and East Northumberland Branch, both calling for more transparency and direct communication from Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini.
Councillor Nicole Beatty said she had also heard expressions of concern from the Cobourg and District Historical Society.
Beatty put forward a motion calling for four things:
An invitation to Piccini to answer some of the questions these letters pose
A report on the outcome of the Imagine Brookside public-engagement initiative
An update on the status of the property
Information about the disposition process to which the property will be subject, as well as possible options through Infrastructure Ontario.
Beatty believes that all those who were encouraged to provide input through the Imagine Brookside initiative deserve to know how it came out.
“Folks I continue to talk to would be keen to know whatever became of the MPP’s public-engagement website,” she said.
