Agriculture Business Community

Chapters: Perth East, Perth South, Wilmot West.

C/o 3649 Road 107

RR#2
Tavistock, Ontario
N0B 2R0
Brenda Jamieson, P. Eng.
Senior Vice President
Canada Transportation Business Unit Lead

AECOM
300 Water Street
Whitby, Ontario L1N 9J2,

Dear Ms. Jamieson:

We appreciate the request to meet. As you know this time of year is difficult. This is the busiest time in
our business cycle. We have asked you in the past for more appropriate times to meet. We are
disappointed that the meeting dates suggested are completely unrealistic.

This four year abandonment of the study shows complete disregard for the value we place on
community involvement in our future. It does not inspire confidence in this process.

To provide you with effective commentary we need time to review the recent report, meet and prepare a
response. Otherwise, a meeting would make a mockery of the public consultation process.

Since this is such an important issue to the agriculture businesses and rural areas affected, we feel
strongly that meeting dates into the fall are more appropriate. The end of October is the soonest
agriculture will be in a position to meet.

We urge you to consider this seriously. We feel strongly that the process we were all supposed to follow
has been abrogated by the Study Teams failure to follow through sooner. Your lack of response until
now, to the many official comments and concerns, from the last Public Information Centre is not
conducive to any meaningful process.

Yours truly:

C / O 3 6 4 9 R O A D 1 0 7 , R . R . # 2 TAV I S T O C K , O N N 0 B 2 R 0
PHONE: 519-655-2631 EMAIL hwy7and8@gmail.com
 2 September 6, 2017
Sharon Weitzel per

Agriculture Business Community of Perth East, Perth South and Wilmot West

Cc: Randy Pettapiece, MPP Perth-Wellington