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Park Extension city councillor Mary Deros has been appointed a member of the Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal, a regional council which facilitates liaisons and better communications between elected municipal officials from Montreal Island and the provincial government.
No remuneration
While the role may place Deros in a better position to lobby for Quebec's help in furnishing aid for Park Extension's needs should that be necessary, she will be expected to attend meetings regularly, but will receive no additional compensation.
The CRE, which came into being in 2004, is the latest incarnation of at least one other organization that performed a similar role. Deros, who has been Park Extension's councillor for the past 10 years, previously sat on the Conseil régionale de l'Île de Montréal, which preceded the current group.
Knows dossier well
"There's no remuneration for this position," she said in an interview with NPEN. "It now becomes an additional meeting or meetings that will take place. But it's a dossier that I know very well. It's a dossier that I also know from having been on the executive between 1998 and 2001 back when it was CRDM. And so when there was a position available, they recommended that I sit on the board.
A collective effort
"Every opportunity is an opportunity," said Deros, noting that being on the CRE could be useful in getting the attention of some of the Montreal region's provincial elected representatives. "Every chance we have is an opportunity, depending on the issues that are brought forth. But we work on this as a collective body and, of course, if there is something that is important, there will be opportunities and it's a chance for them to understand what's happening in Montreal and for us to lobby, and at the same time to study and put forth the needs that we have."
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