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From the Community Survey
Ways people in Woolwich influenced
decision-making in 1998:
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Do you feel that Council
is listening?
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If you could change something about Woolwich, what would it be?
- Develop neighbourhood groups with a spokesperson to be at council meetings
- Public meeting process is good but citizens’ opinions must be upheld as a result of these processes. The results of recent meetings have lead to much cynicism, justifiably.
- Township staff [would] really listen and take ideas of people seriously and that "ordinary" people have sound ideas as well as themselves. They aren’t the only ones with knowledge to solve our problems.
- Ensure that Woolwich continues to envision the future and adjust to future needs - do not live in the past.
- Move Township Council to a central location. There’s more to the township than Elmira.
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- Have a council that would only look out for our best interests without being persuaded to do things by the so called power people ie. companies and some individuals.
- Get rid of the good old boys club which skirts environmental and health concerns.
- Careful planning that doesn’t swallow up wood lots and farmland.
- Regard St. Jacobs as a town, not a commodity.
- Have council lighten up. Work cooperatively , efficiently, and not use needless criticism of each other in discussions and decision-making.
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Notice:
The Woolwich Healthy Communities 1998 Survey of Households, Final Report includes full details of the results of our community survey. The Report is available in a variety of locations around the Township, including Woolwich Community Services, Woolwich Community Health Centre and local libraries.
 
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