Thank you to City Councillor Allmand for expressing his concerns about the process and our borough's Green Plan. Meanwhile, please include me in the growing Cynical Citizen category. Having found it listed in the previous Friday's on-line borough agenda, I visited Access Montreal last Monday afternoon seeking more information, only hours before the monthly borough council meeting.

I was told that it was not available, should be available at the borough council meeting, but in any case would be found on-line on Tuesday morning. Effectively this prevented any interested citizen, cynical or otherwise, from preparing a well-informed question or comment at the meeting. To date, I have only been able to obtain on-line a sketchy outline of the Green Plan, distributed by UBS key at a press conference in an NDG school yard last Tuesday.

Apparently the borough's plan for environmental responsibility has 7 goals and 49 concrete steps. To me the word Concrete Steps is ironic. The only Concrete Step we can count on in NDG is the pouring of a large Concrete Footprint, for an institutional building in a green space known as Benny Park, which was entirely rezoned for such purposes last summer. Translation: Benny Park is not a green space.

Regards,

Diane Chambers