Verdun councillors chose Ginette Marotte as the mayor of the borough at an election held on Tuesday, December 11. She is the first woman ever to hold the post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI proudly and enthusiastically accept this responsibility,\u201d she said. \u201cMy colleagues and I will continue to serve the citizens of Verdun well, and with a profound respect for democratic values.\u201d<\/p>\n
She will retain her post until the next general election on Sunday, November 3, 2013, and has agreed not to run in that election.<\/p>\n
Marotte was officially challenged for the post by Andr\u00e9e Champoux. Champoux was the only councillor who chose to resign from the Union Montreal party publicly at the last Verdun council meeting on Tuesday, December 4. Ann Guy and Andr\u00e9 Savard informed citizens about their resignation from the party at the same meeting, which was the last official act of former Mayor Claude Trudel.<\/p>\n
Paul Beaupr\u00e9 remains the only Union Montreal councillor left in Verdun. He spent some time talking about his decision to remain with the party in response to a question from Claude Talbot. Citizens interested in hearing the resignations and Beaupr\u00e9\u2019s decision to stay can view the web-diffusion of the meeting from the borough website.<\/p>\n
Contracts given out at the same meeting include: $376,888 to Nicomat Construction Inc. to repair the glass at Verdun\u2019s greenhouses; $301,229 to the SPCA for animal care in the borough and $43,849.48 to ABC Recreation to equip the Esplanade de la Pointe-Nord children\u2019s playground.<\/p>\n
For the first time in several years, a vote had to be taken on an amendment to another motion at the meeting.<\/p>\n
Alain Tass\u00e9 voted against a motion to approve the contract to allow the Forum \u00e9conomique de Verdun to rent the building at 4400 blvd. LaSalle for the Centre d\u2019affaires de Verdun saying that he preferred that the building return to the CLD of Verdun instead. Mayor Trudel explained that the contract would be automatically renewed for two years regardless of how councillors voted.<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9 Savard\u2019s amendment to change the tax relative to services was also rejected, at a vote of 4 to 2, with Tass\u00e9 siding with Savard.<\/p>\n
The evening finished with Alain Tass\u00e9 and Ginette Marotte thanking and congratulating Claude Trudel on 40 years of public service in Montreal and 11 years of service in Verdun, and Trudel\u2019s thoughts on the difficulties of public service in Montreal.<\/p>\n
Note: This article appeared on p8 of the City edition of the Suburban on Wednesday, December 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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