Reader’s vote depends on Jazz Fest support

October 22, 2014 · 0 Comments

As we approach the municipal election date, I find myself in somewhat of a fog when trying to determine who should get my vote for Council. So many incumbents running, so many newcomers offering up their services. How to decide?
There is one particular issue arising from the former Council’s tenure, however, that strikes me as a defining moment, one that would make me say yea or nay to incumbents seeking re-election. That moment was the vote on the now defunct Aurora Jazz Festival. (Not really defunct, just living happily in Newmarket).
Some members of our council, very shortsightedly, and maybe with some malice, voted to effectively kick the jazz festival out of Aurora. A sad day for Aurora.
I wish to support Councillors who voted to keep this jewel of a festival in its original Aurora home. I suspect others may feel the same. To refresh our collective memory, I wonder if your paper would be kind enough to publish the names of Councillors who voted in favour of maintaining the Jazz Festival? Informed voters are effective voters.

Jeremy Frape
Aurora

(Editor’s Note: For a refresher on what this motion was, who voted for and against it, and their detailed and complex reasons of why they did or did not, readers can access our October 30, 2012 edition of The Auroran at www.theauroran.com and click on “Current & Archived Issues”)