The Municipality of Norfolk-Treherne is looking to fill two vacant positions on its council.

Currently, both council positions for Ward 3 are empty after Gilles Guertin announced his resignation earlier this month - citing concerns surrounding transparency, among others. The municipality has experienced significant turnover around the council table over the last several months, as five councillors have now stepped down in just the past two years. One even resigned, ran again in a byelection, won, and resigned a second time.

Will Eert, the Reeve of Norfolk-Treherne, says transparency is something he has worked hard to improve since being elected by spending less time in-camera while also archiving important documents on the municipality's website.

"This council has, since we became elected in 2018, has dramatically improved our transparency," says Eert. "One of my goals was to stay out of in-camera as much as possible. We've been doing that. We've been putting a lot more documents online. Anybody who chooses to go to the municipal website and look at the agendas and the minutes, can see that we're very, very transparent.

Everybody can see where all of our money's spent. They couldn't do that previously... You can see where we're spending all our money. During COVID, we were recording our meetings. Our meetings were 100 per cent recorded if people wanted to hear what we were doing, and couldn't attend due to COVID, they could listen in on the meetings. And our council has also initiated comprehensive quarterly reports, which we publish online and in print in the newspaper. To me, we're very, very transparent."

carrying a full highway load. Anticipated service life of the bridge is a minimum of 75 years, which works out to an annual cost of about $12,500.