{"id":26433,"date":"2013-06-04T21:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=26433"},"modified":"2019-12-05T21:31:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T02:31:12","slug":"possibility-of-flouride-plebiscite-presentation-on-oral-health-at-tonights-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/04\/possibility-of-flouride-plebiscite-presentation-on-oral-health-at-tonights-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Possibility of Flouride Plebiscite? Presentation on Oral Health at Tonight\u2019s Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The addition of Flouride to community drinking water is a contentious issue throughout the world. The debate is fierce with proponents and opponents quoting their \u201cexperts\u201d on the issue. \u00a0Wawa has been adding flouride to it\u2019s municipal water supply for a number of years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the Corporate Planning Committee Meeting of May 14th, Ccouncillor Holly Smith explained that in the KPMG report fluoridation was identified as a possible place to reduce costs.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Rody has approached people at Algoma Public Health for a presentation on fluoridation tonight, June 4th. An Overview of Oral Health in Algoma \u2013 Strategies for Oral Health in Algoma will be presented by Hannele Dionisi, Public Health Program Director and Oral Health Manager (APH); and Dr. Peter Wiebe, Public Health Consultant.<\/p>\n<p>In order to begin fluoridation a plebiscite is required. However to take it out, either a plebiscite or resolution from Council is required.\u00a0As part of the KPMG report, the cost of adding flouride to the water supply was tagged as a potential savings in the Municipal Budget of $3,000. If implemented, this would be the second cost-savings item from the KPMG report to be utilized. The first was a reduction in Council per diem (what a Mayor\/Councillor is paid in lieu for extended periods of time away from work\/business\/family).<\/p>\n<p>The presentation that will be shown to Council is viewable below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of Flouride to community drinking water is a contentious issue throughout the world. The debate is fierce with proponents and opponents quoting their \u201cexperts\u201d on the issue. \u00a0Wawa has been adding flouride to it\u2019s municipal water supply for a number of years. At the Corporate Planning Committee Meeting of May 14th, Ccouncillor Holly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 08:14:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26434,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26433\/revisions\/26434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}