Miles Peters wants to restore public trust and confidence. Enters council race

The president of the North Bay Taxpayer's Assn. is running for a seat on council.

For the past five years, Miles Peters has attended virtually every city council meeting and many committee and budget meetings in the fifth-floor boardroom in an effort to listen and evaluate the processes and decisions made on the citizen’s behalf.

In a news release, Peters says he has "respectfully addressed Council numerous times to appeal and advocate on many issues on behalf of concerned citizens and continued to raise public awareness on those issues through very active public media campaigns."

Peters lists a number of issues he has represented, stood and fought for over the past five years.

•  Along with many other citizens vocally represented and fought the closing of Public Access Right of Ways that would have extremely limited citizen’s rights and access to our beautiful Lake Nipissing beaches. City eventually dropped this ill-conceived initiative.
• With many other concerned citizens he expressed deep concerns over the impact of casinos and its impact on addiction, crime and policing and advocated that if indeed Council veered in that direction they must be absolutely sure the take and reward was greater than the associated costs and that the dollars generated by gambling revenue more than offset the losses to businesses, city revenue, and individual citizens.  
• As President of The North Bay Taxpayers Association, he led the public initiative to explore OPP costing alternatives that failed due to multi declared conflicts and a timid defeat in Council even though our citizens highly favored exploring cost saving alternatives and efficiencies.
• He is still advocating for the retention/relocation of an RV Pumping station primarily to encourage our tourism industry and visitors as well as a convenient facility for our local citizen retirees and campers who have invested so much into our community. He still feels having no tourist welcoming Centre is to our detriment and loss of tourist dollars.
• He led the effort to retain the historic Dionne Homestead and artifacts intact and within its foundation communities and adamantly opposed the abandoning of its historical presence and history. He engaged and spoke on behalf of the surviving Quints during the process that garnered the New York Times to attend and take the story nationwide. He is currently a Director of The Dionne Quints Heritage Board Inc.

Peters says he will release his leadership program in early September and simultaneously propose solutions and ideas towards solving the many challenges facing the community.

His primary objective over the next four years will be "to restore the public faith and confidence of our citizens in the governing and administrative processes that the Baylor Report found so sadly lacking. This will require measured performance and evaluation at all levels, total accountability and full and open disclosure of where all our tax dollars are being spent."