Saugeen Shores council is as ready as it can be for the new term of office.
Everyone was sworn into office Monday — except Vice Deputy Mayor Doug Gowanlock who could not attend.
Councillors voted in favour of giving Gowanlock a 30-day extension to declare his intentions.
Meanwhile, Mayor Mike Smith says he’s ready for the next four years.
He says he wants to make Saugeen Shores a leader in Bruce County and to make the municipality a place to raise a family, operate a business and eventually retire.
Smith says learning from last term, he wants to establish a protocol with the Saugeen Ojibway Nation so they run into issues like they did at the beginning of the Southampton sewer project when a native burial ground was disturbed.
Newly elected deputy mayor Luke Charbonneau says there were be lots of challenges over the next four years.
Charbonneau says they’ve got to work on the town’s waterfront and to that end council has approved the striking committee — of which he is a member — to look into creating a waterfront committee and creating a mandate.
Charbonneau also wants to see continuing work on downtown improvement in the municipality.
