After a long back-and-forth discussion on the matter, Cobourg council, sitting as a committee of the whole in a virtual meeting, decided to keep Cobourg’s beach open for walk-through traffic only during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and state of emergency.
Council had two options on the table at Monday night’s meeting: keep the beach open for walk-through traffic with enforcement of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act (EMCPA) or close the beach and erect fencing for the duration of the provincial state of emergency (to be pushed until June 2 at the earliest). “Going forward, the monitoring the beach is very important,” said Deputy Mayor Suzanne Séguin. “It’s a hard question; either one of them would work.