Two Ontario ministries can expect complaints from the West Nipissing Police Services Board involving the switchover to the OPP.
The first letter will be to the Ministry of Labour.
The board maintains the temporary site the OPP will work out of while waiting for a new building is not suitable and cannot deliver effective services to West Nipissing.
The building in question is the former rink building on John Street which the municipality plans to retrofit.
It will ask the Ministry of Labour to review this.
The Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services can also expect a letter.
In this instance the board will convey its frustration with the OPP costing process.
The board maintains it was not involved in the process and chair Barry Bertrand says it can’t sign off on something that didn’t happen.
Meanwhile the municipality’s CAO, Jay Barbeau, is disputing the police board’s claims on both issues the board plans to pursue.
Barbeau says when it comes to determining a site on where the OPP will operate from, the local board has no say in the matter.
He says this is a matter between the OPP and municipality to provide adequate and effective police services.
Barbeau also says contrary to the board position that there was a lack of consultation on the costing, he says just the opposite is true.
Barbeau says a significant amount of information was exchanged between the OPP, municipality and local police beginning in October, 2016 to last November.