{"id":10433,"date":"2015-04-22T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10433"},"modified":"2015-04-22T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T21:01:09","slug":"councillors-concerned-citizens-join-forces-to-correct-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/councillors-concerned-citizens-join-forces-to-correct-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillors, concerned citizens join forces to correct Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

They filled Council Chambers with a growing list of concerns over the newly renovated Aurora Family Leisure Complex (AFLC), now these AFLC users will collaborate with three Councillors to try and rectify the situation.<\/p>\n

Aurora Council approved a new liaison committee, bringing together Councillors John Abel, Sandra Humfryes, and Michael Thompson, along with AFLC users, and appropriate members of municipal staff, as a solution to evaluating which of a growing list of shortcomings with the building to prioritize, along with developing a communications plan to users overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is obviously a huge concern tonight and there is a big, big list in front of us,\u201d said Councillor Humfryes, who made the motion to establish the committee, addressing a lengthy list of deficiencies.<\/p>\n

A smaller, focused group bringing together Council, but also those residents who have been more active in trying to have their concerns addressed would help prioritize issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can narrow those down and focus strongly, I think we can get some quick wins,\u201d she said. \u201cIf there are some bigger projects that need to be done, some undertaking and some investment, we can make those decisions as we go along. The reason we changed this facility was to celebrate a youth centre and keep the facility running beautifully for [all users]. There are so many benefits we built, but they are being overshadowed by disappointment from our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The establishment of a committee to help steer the AFLC through these rough waters won the overall support of Council, who have been inundated with residents\u2019 complaints, well beyond the 10 residents who reiterated their concerns at the podium that night.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a facility that is almost ready, should be ready, but it is almost there,\u201d said Councillor Jeff Thom. \u201cThere are a couple of things we need to deal with, some of which has been [addressed] already. I think this [Committee] is great because it is solution-oriented. We can drop all the negativity and anger and work together with members of the community, Council and staff, and get this list dealt with. If there is anything else to go on this list, let\u2019s get that dealt with and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

This last point was one shared by Councillor Michael Thompson, who said he didn\u2019t want the mandate of the new committee to be governed too strictly by the list of shortcomings before them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see this as a continuous improvement plan,\u201d he said. \u201cI think you can address the things on the list, but more important things may come up [as people use the facility]. I would like to see this as an ongoing process to not only address the issues before us tonight, but others that crop up. I want to get to a point where we\u2019re all satisfied with the status of the complex. Residents have come out tonight with an expectation these issues being brought forward are being actively worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councillor John Abel was also vocal in his support for a solution, suggesting some groups of residents weren\u2019t adequately consulted when plans for the Community Space for Youth got underway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were building a youth centre and we forgot all about our members,\u201d said Councillor Abel. \u201cI would like to\u2026bring it around to the standards they expect and to keep engaging with them so we can get this done properly and satisfactorily. There is a lot to celebrate that is there, but it is not too late to get this ship going and I think a lot of this can be addressed.\u201d <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They filled Council Chambers with a growing list of concerns over the newly renovated Aurora Family Leisure Complex (AFLC), now these AFLC users will collaborate with three Councillors to try and rectify the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2Ih","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 20:31:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}