Central Frontenac Mayor Cuts Back on RMFEO Commitments

Craig Bakay | Mar 01, 2017

Time commitments have caused Central Frontenac Mayor Frances Smith to pull back from participation in the 14-municipality Rural Mayors Forum of Eastern Ontario (RMFEO).

“The Township is still a member but I personally have had to pull out, chiefly because of my work with the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN),” Smith said. “The meetings tend to overlap and there is a lot of reading involved with both.

“So, I’ve said (to RMFEO) that I can’t be as involved.”

EORN was created by the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) a few years ago to improve Internet service to the area.

“I have had too much on my plate,” Smith said (which includes helping out at the Medical Centre in Sharbot Lake while they look for a new director). “The RMFEO issues are good (with skyrocketing police services costs being a major focus) but they want to research a lot of stuff.

“The EOWC works well because the member CEOs do much of the research but with RMFEO, it’s the mayors themselves that have to do it because our township CEOs and clerks already have too much they are responsible for.”