{"id":6161,"date":"2020-09-30T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:21:34","slug":"interview-deputy-mayor-ron-aiken-on-taking-over-mayoral-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/interview-deputy-mayor-ron-aiken-on-taking-over-mayoral-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Deputy Mayor Ron Aiken on taking over mayoral duties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"513\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ron-aiken2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ron-aiken2.png 513w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ron-aiken2-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Aiken-interview-Sep-21-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Mayor John Higham officially retires from office on Thursday, Deputy Mayor Ron Aiken\u2019s job will get a bit more complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Deputy Mayor will be filling in on mayoral duties until a new Mayor is elected, on or before May 10 of next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiken says he plans to continue with initiatives started by Higham, such as the roundtable on climate change, the age friendly committee, and work on maintaining hospital service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he\u2019s not holding any grand illusions of what the day-to-day job will be like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe job is, I mean, a lot of it is just small day to day stuff,\u201d says Aiken. \u201cIn an interview John described, there&#8217;s the sort of the the plodding part of the job and then the big picture stuff. And the plodding part of the job takes up most of your time\u2026 Everything from talking to people about issues of the day to going in once a week to sign about 100 checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiken says since he\u2019s been Depute Mayor for three years, there won\u2019t be many surprises. \u201cJohn [Higham] and I have been talking over the last two months about various things and transitioning. So I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s going to be fairly smooth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that there\u2019s a majority provincial government in power, I asked Aiken what the big issues will be for Sackville. Not surprisingly, he put health care reform at the top of his list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat&#8217;s the one we&#8217;re most concerned about,\u201d he says. A group of the six mayors and Deputy mayors who were involved in that attempted cuts back in February have been keeping in touch, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd now we&#8217;re looking at trying to get the process for the consultation on board. And we want a voice in what that process will look like. Not just have it dictated to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since the election there has been a sense among some that hospital cuts are a fait accompli, but Aiken doesn\u2019t think they are inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe six mayors and deputy mayors sent a questionnaire around to all the political parties during the election,\u201d he says, \u201casking things like are these [cuts] off the table permanently? Should we be involved in the process to reform the healthcare system? That sort of thing. And they all responded yes to all of the questions. So they&#8217;re on record.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiken says the political blowback was so bad in February that he thinks the current government might be gun shy on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiken says he will take the premier at his word, that he will follow through on his promise of consultations, but the concern is making sure those consultations count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe trick with that, is to make sure it&#8217;s not just a PR stunt,\u201d says Aiken. \u201cLet&#8217;s have some meaningful conversation about what we want done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says he acknowledges there needs to be some sort of reform. \u201cThings have to change a bit, because we pay a lot for health care, and apparently our outcomes are the worst in the country. So there\u2019s things that have to change,\u201d says Aiken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut their current model, which I think Allison Dysart described as a hub and spoke model, like the hubs are the big cities, and we all feed into them\u2026 Well they\u2019re coming to Sackville for treatment from Moncton. The mayor of Rogersville told me there&#8217;s people coming down to their hospital for surgery. So that model that they trying to push, it just doesn&#8217;t work. And they won&#8217;t acknowledge it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiken says he\u2019s heard the premier described as a \u201cnumbers guy\u201d, and hopes he can appeal to him on that basis. \u201cIf we can present the facts and the numbers and the arguments that way, I think we might have a chance of success with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiken believes the impetus for the proposed February service cuts came from the senior management of the health authorities, and not necessarily the political leadership of the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the problem is with the CEOs of the health authorities. They just seem to be hide-bound to follow this particular model that&#8217;s been in the works for years. I mean, the Conservatives tried this closing the hospital, or parts to it. The liberals tried it. So this isn\u2019t new. This has been an ongoing fight since I&#8217;ve been in Sackville.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other big issue Aiken expects to rear its head is municipal reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Premier Blaine Higgs has just appointed newly elected Moncton East MLA Daniel Allain as Minister of Local Government and Local Governance Reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a new cabinet position, and with reform in the title its safe to say that Aiken is right: municipal reform is front of mind for Higgs and the new majority government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are genuine issues that need solving in the structure of local governments in New Brunswick, says Aiken. The complaint that cities and to some extent towns like Sackville make is that people who live outside of town boundaries get the services of the town without paying for them. \u201cTheir tax rates are, I don&#8217;t know, about half of what the town people pay. So there&#8217;s that kind of thing that has to be worked out,\u201d says Aiken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While municipal reform seems likely under the new PC majority, Aiken says the government may not like what they hear when the process begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey take a lot of money from us, and we are going to start demanding it back,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The town\u2019s double taxation on buildings that are not owner occupied goes to province, not the town, he says. And the town used to get a sizeable portion of the speeding fines for those ticketed on the TransCanada within town boundaries. It\u2019s not necessarily a lot of revenue he says, \u201cbut this nickel and diming\u2026 taking money away affects you after a while.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiken once crunched the numbers on equalization and found that the amount coming to Sackville had dropped significantly over the decades, from over $1 million in the 90\u2019s, down to $67,000 in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd we&#8217;ve had to make up that difference,\u201d he says. \u201cAs I looked into the rules and how they&#8217;re calculated, it just does not make sense. There\u2019s just no logic to how they&#8217;re doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In their 2018 campaign the Progressive Conservatives mentioned giving municipalities more power to collect tax money. Aiken is not sure that would work out much to the town\u2019s advantage after the costs of collecting were accounted for. He says he would just like to see some of the lost revenues returned to town and municipalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe&#8217;d just be happy with taking away these clawbacks that have happened over the years. If we can get that back, we\u2019d be in great shape,\u201d says Aiken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time municipal reform is taking shape, it\u2019s likely Sackville will have a newly elected town council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiken, who plans to run for mayor in the next election, says he\u2019s got no insider knowledge of when the province will call municipal elections, but he hopes it\u2019s not this fall. Due to budget season, and a possible second wave of COVID, Aiken says the timing just isn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the immediate future, Aiken is looking forward to trading in the virtual council table for in person meetings at town hall again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says now that schools are back in, \u201cwe look kind of silly if weve got the kids out there side by side, and we&#8217;re not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says staff have assured him there are procedures to keep things safe in council chambers, but the issue that has yet to be resolved is public participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIs there just physically enough room to bring in the public and distance them? That&#8217;s something we&#8217;re going to talk about again soon, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Mayor Aiken will take over Mayoral duties starting tomorrow. Current Mayor John Higham announced his resignation last month, effective October 1, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sackville town council next meets on October 5 for a discussion meeting, and then on October 13 for a regular council meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mayor John Higham officially retires from office on Thursday, Deputy Mayor Ron Aiken\u2019s job will get a bit more complicated. 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