Essex Town Councillor Randy Voakes is not happy with his fellow councillors.
They have turned down his motion to have a legal letter drafted and sent to both sides in the Essex County library strike, urging them to get back to the bargaining table.
The answer was 'no' with cost cited as a factor.
Voakes estimates about $250 to have the letter drawn up and calls the response from council ''irritating. The Library Board has spent $50,000 in taxpayers money on legal costs. When I ask for about $250 to get a legal letter sent I'm told no. So I challenge anybody listening, does this make sense to anybody? Because it's really getting irritating."
Voakes says "the only way, and we have everybody saying they want to do something, well, the truth is nobody is doing nothing. Absolutely nothing behind the scenes and we have a council in there that is on record for saying they want to do something and the truth is they haven't done anything."
Had council approved his motion, Voakes says "he would have paid the cost himself."
But town concillor Steve Bjorkman disagrees. He says the town has instructed administration to draft a letter urging a return to the bargaining table - a letter to be hand-delivered by the town's Chief Administrative Officer.
Bjorkman says, perhaps there can be a breakthrough if administration gets involved instead of just mayors and deputy mayors.
The strike by 58 full time and part time library workers is now 137 days old.