The mayor of Bluewater says a meeting with the Tourism Ministry at the AMO conference in Windsor went very well.
But he's not so sure about a meeting with the minister of community safety and correctional services.
Tyler Hessel says he told the tourism minister the municipality had been looking for a couple of years for funding to help them do a recreational master plan and an asset plan.
Hessel says the minister was very interested and supportive and said he would have ministry staff provide municipal staff with options for possible envelopes of funding that could help with the product.
The discussion with the minister of correctional services was all about the increase in OPP billing.
Hessel says what they wanted most was transparency in the billing so they could tell ratepayers exactly why policing costs were going up.
