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A divided but decisive PEC Council wrestled with how fast to act on infrastructure funding, balancing urgency, affordability, and the challenge of explaining tough choices to residents.

PEC Council meeting tackled the true cost of maintaining roads, bridges, buildings, and parks, revealing a major funding gap and setting the stage for tough budget decisions ahead.

PEC’s Audit Committee received a clean 2024 audit from KPMG but wrestled with rising net debt, long-term sustainability, and growing concern over provincial policies shaping the County’s financial future.

A clean audit confirmed accurate County finances, but Audit Committee members made clear that long-term affordability, rising debt, and provincial growth pressures now demand a more strategic financial story.

This blog breaks down a wide-ranging PEC Council committee meeting, with a sharp focus on Base 31, heritage insurance challenges, and the ongoing push for clearer oversight, education, and consistency in heritage planning.

This meeting highlighted growing tension between financial risk, institutional caution, and public concern, as councillors, staff, and residents grappled with how rising water and wastewater costs, uncertain growth, and limited engagement are shaping trust in the County’s decision-making process.

This meeting focused on the growing tension around water and wastewater costs in Prince Edward County, as rising debt, uncertain growth projections, and limited public engagement collided with mounting concern from ratepayers.

This meeting showed the Traffic Advisory Committee working as designed, listening carefully to residents, weighing safety concerns, and operating within policy constraints—while also exposing the limits of a system struggling to keep pace with lived experience on County roads.

Residents from across Prince Edward County used this Traffic Advisory Committee meeting to raise urgent concerns about speeding, unsafe crossings, and neighbourhood livability, pushing pedestrian safety and traffic calming to the forefront of the agenda.