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Residents of 22 Sideroad and Eighth Line asked the candidates if they had been involved in litigation against the Town of Halton Hills. "Yes, the Town of Halton Hills has advanced litigation against us," said Stull. Bonnette said, "I've never been in litigation against the Town of Halton Hills, and I don't plan to." Stull was asked if elected May- or would she be satisfied that she would have to declare conflict of in- terest and be obligated to withdraw from any discussion involving her or her family's interest. She said that would be true for every member of council for any matter they have a conflict of inter- est on. "This matter has gone well be- yond Council now and is in the courts, so technically the ship has sailed. We're working towards that now," said Stull. Bonnette said it's true council members are asked if they have a conflict at the beginning of council meetings, and then they declare it if they have one. "The only issue that is there is perception. People can still draw their own conclusions," said Bon- nette. "It is difficult, the rules are set as Sally said, but perception says a lot too. Sometimes people are guilty by perception." "And sometimes they're not," Stull added. The candidates were also asked what their vision for the Town would be over the next decade. "A lot of what we plan to do is move forward with growth in a slow mannered fashion," said Stull. "For me, one of the important things that goes with that is the road im- provements we need." She said she's heard countless times about road conditions in the south of George- town and gridlock. "Over the next 10 years I would like to see that cleared up," said Stull. "For the next 10 years we have to manage growth; we have managed growth for the last seven to eight years," said Bonnette. While Milton's population has exploded, he said Halton Hills' growth has remained at about 4 per cent for the last eight years. He also spoke about Vision Georgetown and the fact it's been legislated (by the Province) the Town will grow by 20,000 people. He also said the road network had to be improved and it's in Hal- ton Region's capital forecast for Tra- falgar Rd. to be widened. He said a Norval bypass is "a key issue we need to work on," but added it will take a lot of provincial money. They both responded to a ques- tion about whether it was a good idea not to put a turning lane in front of the Public Works Yard on Trafalgar Rd., "to match up with the Sports park." "I can't wait to see that work ad- vanced. That shared lane has been long coming. The pattern of that road to get to the Sports park or get past the tracks has been difficult at best. I really look forward to im- provements in that area," said Stull. Bonnette said he too "can hard- ly wait to see that road completed." He said the Regional/Town Master Plan is looking at put- ting an over- or under- pass on Maple Ave. and Trafalgar Rd., but that it could cost over $65 million. The candidates were asked if there would be any pro- vision to assist seniors with snow removal. "There are provisions to help se- niors with such things and given the kind of community we are we can look at the types of snow removal that is needed, but this was a par- ticularly unique situation this year and I do feel for the seniors," said Stull. Mayor Rick Bonnette said he would love to be able to provide the service for seniors, but, "do we have dollars to shovel out seniors lane- ways, no we don't. That would be another service and we can't keep on adding services, this adds to the tax bill." "But we do have organizations in town that are happy to help," said Bonnette, pointing to church groups and Links2Care. Candidates were asked if once elected they would freeze all gov- ernment salary increases including the mayor's until the next term, af- ter the mayor and new council has proven itself worthy. "The raise that Council has voted for the next term of Council is an in- teresting increase," said Stull. "Is it value for dollars, that remains to be seen." Stull also said Burlington has only seven council representatives in a municipality three times the size of Halton Hills and "perhaps there's also an opportu- nity for us to look at wheth- er we are well served by 11 councillors in a municipality of 60,000." Bonnette said Halton Hills Council hasn't had a review of its salary for more than 14 years. He said he put forward a resolution that froze council sala- ries from 2008 to 2010, and did look at other municipalities with similar populations and "we (council and mayor) were the lowest paid." So he said Council has decided to increase those salaries to the sixth percentile of the group that was looked at, and that would go in effect in 2015. Editor's Note: The Indepen- dent & Free Press stands by its story, Mayoralty candidate seeks fill variance, published Thursday, Oct. 2. Stull was given two oppor- tunities to submit a letter to the editor to clarify her position. Mayor's debate topics focused on roads, conflict of interest, and wage freezes Town vs Stull, Stull vs. Town There are two applications currently before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice involving the Town of Halton Hills and the Stulls, said Town of Halton Hills Director of Infrastructure Services Chris Mills. He outlined the timeline. The first, was initiated by the Town in September 2012, against prop- erty owners 1244002 Ontario Limited (Rick and Sally Stull) to enforce an order to cease importing fill under the site alteration bylaw. This application was adjourned in Nov. 2012, on consent and an order was granted requiring the owner (the Stulls) to cease importation. Court file No. 5442/12. Following the adjournment the Stulls made an application on Dec. 19, 2012 to the Town's site alteration committee. This application was heard by the committee on May 16, 2013 but not approved. Council rati- fied that decision. On Feb. 18, 2014, a separate application, Court file No. 921/14, by the Stulls was then made to Superior Court to quash the decision of the site alteration committee. Both court cases will be heard in March 2015. SALLY ST ULL MAYOR RICK BONNETTE