Mayor Andrew Black shared the news of his roundtable on housing publicly for the first time on Monday afternoon at the end of council’s monthly Committee of the Whole meeting.
Black said the roundtable was created in August, “to initiate a conversation about housing and the housing crisis and how to address those concerns within Tantramar.” Black said that the existence of the round table has been kept under wraps until now because some members were sharing information that they wanted to keep confidential.
So far, Black’s Roundtable on Housing is not formalized, and Black clarified on Monday that the group is not an actual committee of council, which would fall under the town’s bylaws and be accountable to council and the public.
