A report from last night’s BIA planning meeting indicates that the event was quite well-attended with perhaps a couple of dozen merchants on hand. Councillor Parker convened the meeting but had to leave for other commitments. The meeting was handed over to his assistant, the BIA coordinator from Mt. Pleasant and “Michael the BIA guy” who was at last year’s meeting. Councillor Matlow was not present. The reports goes on: “Language during his four minute intro matched that of the letter (announcing the meeting) — extremely strong “encouragement” for getting this through. Wants to have some sort of vote by the end of June. Basically announced that he wanted the steering committee to be formed last night”.
