Council has begun consulting with stakeholders privately about the future of the Evergreen Centre.
Barry Elliott, the town’s administrator, explained that participants discussed food services as well as three submissions received by the Town in the absence of a request for proposal.
“They’re charged with reviewing the applications and kind of moving through the preliminary process,” said Elliott of the group. “Any final decision in terms of selection would be in front of council.”
Rennie Harper, the town’s mayor, clarified during the Jan. 9 council meeting that the group was not a committee. In an interview Jan. 16, Harper said that privacy was important.
“There are staff involved and sometimes names of staff come up,” she said. “I want to be respectful of staff and respectful of staff privacy.”
To that end, the discussions will remain in confidence and the stakeholders will not be named.
“We had about a dozen, 14 different people representing probably around 500 or 600 people in the community.”
Harper pointed to the golf club and curling club as examples of stakeholders.
