Looking back on 2020, Prince Edward County Mayor Steve Ferguson says overall, the municipality was able to adjust to the year dominated by COVID-19.
He says a meeting set for early March to get a preemptive jump on spring flooding became a reactionary meeting based around this new and unknown virus.
“So then we had the Municipal Emergency Management Group meeting booked and I added to the agenda this corona virus thing that I had heard about, that we would just put on the agenda to keep an eye on. By the time we got to the meeting it was we don’t need to deal with flooding, we need to prepare for corona virus.”
He says it was very difficult in the early stages but he is happy with how far they’ve come in just nine months.
Ferguson also noted they were one of the first municipalities to put a bylaw in place to make masks mandatory.
As much as the virus dominated the year, he said the municipality was still able get a number of projects completed.
Another major concern of the municipality which saw some advancement was County Road 49, even though Ferguson noted it’s far from a done deal.
“Particularly the Ministry of Transportation and we have been dealing with the province and the federal government to determine how we can find the financing to rehabilitate County Road 49.”
He says they made major inroads when it comes to the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital, which moved into Phase Three in 2020. The rehabilitation of H.J. MacFarland was also moved ahead.
