Cobourg Council – Not Quite Time to Proceed on Brookside

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By Cecilia Nasmith/Today’s Northumberland
Despite all the good ideas coming in on what should become of the former Brookside youth correctional facility, Cobourg Mayor John Henderson told council this week that it’s not quite time to make decisions.

Henderson spoke of an Infrastructure Ontario meeting this week with Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini, and said that it is still not confirmed that the disposition process has yet reached Stage Three – the point at which they solicit expressions of interest in the property at 390 King St. E. At that point, they mayor said, “we determine how we would like to proceed.”

That is the time to start serious deliberations, he continued.

“Any interest that has been show – any e-mail, any phone call – has been taken and consolidated for the right moment for the right purpose for the right discussion.

“It is open to upper-tier (municipalities), lower-tier, non-profits and – depending on the question – we might find Indigenous First Nations might have an interest in it.”

Cecilia Nasmith
Author: Cecilia Nasmith

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