Ghyslain Forcier - Le Guide - 25 septembre 2017
Le mouvement Demain Sutton Autrement, qui se veut non-partisan, lance une série de rencontres de 90 minutes.
Ghyslain Forcier - Le Guide - 13 septembre 2017
Le mouvement Demain Sutton Autrement appelle les citoyens à agir comme des acteurs dans l'univers municipal de la communauté ... Ceux qui adhèrent au mouvement doivent, dans les prochaines semaines, planifier «des assemblées de mise en candidature par district électoral», lit-on. Une fois le 5 novembre passé, il leur faudra «tenir avec les élus des consultations régulières par district électoral».
Demain Sutton Autrement: Public meetings
David James - Sutton Scene - 22 September 2017
Many citizens think there must be a better way to administer the affairs of
Sutton than has been experienced during the past four years. This sentiment
has led to the formation of a non-partisan group – Demain Sutton Autrement
- DSA.
Electoral Districts #5 & #6, Tuesday Sept. 26 19h, Grace Church
Electoral Districts #3 & #4, Thursday Sept. 28 19h, Sutton Junction Hall
Electoral Districts #1 & #2, Saturday Sept. 30 10h, Canadian Legion Hall, 2 rue Curley
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Mayor Dandenault says that he and his colleagues are the mayor and council
of everyone. Nevertheless, the DSA believes key elements missing in Sutton
are much greater citizen participation and open government.
This initiative echoes a lesson that was learnt in Paris where the deputy
mayor Jean-Louis Missika says, ‘If you want to escape the NIMBY - Not in My
Back Yard – reaction you have to make all of the citizens part of the project.
Co-inventing, co-processing, co-creating is the future of open government.
It’s a question of making the decision-making process and creation of a
project a shared responsibility between citizens and the elected officials.
When you do that’, M. Missika says, ‘you can make people go from critic to
supporting and it changes a lot of things in the relationship between the
citizenry and the people who are in charge’.
Demain Sutton Autrement is organizing three public meetings for different
electoral districts where it will review its objectives and above all provide an
opportunity for citizens to discuss the election, hear from and get to know
candidates, and become involved in their campaigns. The meetings will be
limited to 90 minutes. If you cannot attend your district meeting, feel free to
attend another.
The schedule of the meetings is listed above in the Agenda.
To learn more and become engaged in this group, click here DSA English
Pour en savoir plus et participer à ce groupe, cliquez ici DSA Français
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Founding members of group include the former owner of La Rameur
Affamée, - André Forest, owner of the B&B Vert Le Mont - Lynda Graham,
owner of the B&B Caprices de Victoria – Michel Lafrance, coordinator of the
Citizens Forum – Gilles Lavoie, a consultant who helped Sutton develop its
policy for families and seniors - Daphnée Poirier, an engineer – Andrew
Richards, a former mayor of Sutton township from 1993 to 1997 – Peter
Stastny.
Here is a mailing that DSA has distributed, DSA Mailing en français et
anglais
