Hi Greg,
I thought I’d say hello, since on May 1st
we open the campground for our 2007 season, the staff are at work preparing
the site and we hold our first 2007 Authority meeting on April
23rd.
You will recall that this is our final season under
the NCC lease signed in 1967, unless the lease is renewed or extended. A few things are underway to prepare
for this, and we hope to learn more when one of your RPAM staff (we don’t know
who yet) comes to our meeting on April 23.
Then there’s the new agreement or MoU which we were discussing at the end of last year. The existing agreement expires with
the lease and you had first indicated that we might see it revised before last
Christmas. That was before our
November 28 meeting, at which it became apparent that the campground’s status
in the city’s overall governance scenario was somewhat obscure. Maybe we can now look to the signing
of a new lease and a new operating agreement as concurrent events sometime
later this year.
One reason for a new agreement was to prevent the
occasional assault on us like the WSIB affair of last year. This year we have so far only suffered
one minor assault when the city was not prepared to turn our water on with
less than 3 weeks notice, but that problem has now been partly resolved,
though we still have to wait another 10 days.
I’d be grateful for any thoughts you might be able to
share with us about progress on our file from your perspective and which I
could share with authority members next week. Of particular interest would be the
name of someone who might lead the effort in the city to coordinate the
various actions. I seem to recall
we also talked about someone like this helping us handle a few of those
road bumps we encounter from time to time without us having to bring them to
you.
Best Regards,
Martin Brennan.
Chair, Ottawa Municipal Campground
Authority.