The Our Town - Clarenville Blog by Paul Tilley

It’s time once again for the provincial government to start putting its 2014 budget together and, as in previous years, the pre-budget consultation road show starts this coming week.   This year, it’s being held in Clarenville on Friday the 15 th of February from 9-11 am at the Clarenville Inn.  Are you reading this and listening Town of Clarenville? Last year, the Town of Clarenville was conspicuously absent from the pre-budget consultation process.  It  wasn't  too long after that that our Town officials went crying to government, on a couple of occasions, for money for “very important projects” such as an overpass for Clarenville.   Was this a matter of doubting the merits of the process or just someone dropping the ball? I'm sad to say I think it was doubting indifference. Regardless of the perceived merit of the pre-budget consultation process, the process at least forces Town officials to plan - identify potential projects, cost...