Lagoon City Shorewalls

09/30/2026

TWO of TWO

“NO NONSENSE” was, and is the promise of Sherri Bell

Justice Healey wrote in her Dec. 30, 2024, decision.
[175] "There is nothing in the Mara Act that authorizes the Township or the Committee to demand that hundreds of residents shoulder the cost of concrete fascia and caps on shorewalls for purely aesthetic reasons. The shorewalls exist for the primary purpose of preventing erosion between the lands and the canals."
After the court’s decision, in 2025 thru 2026, Sherri Bell actively discredited staff while trying to elevate the value and merits of the LCPWC. Topics were shorewall design, goose management, and lagoon w**d control. At that time, staff may have been trying to comply with Justice Healy’s Orders to grant building permits. Ms. Bell told residents, the township intended to disband the LCPWC. Did the township fall into CONTEMPT because Sherri Bell stirred up concern and confusion to draw attention to herself?

To serve Ms. Bell’s agenda of discrediting staff, her partner Drew Fulford made a “gaslighting” post on Facebook. Readers can decide how Drew’s “mansplaining” compares to Justice Healey’s paragraph 175.

Is this “NO NONSENSE?

09/30/2026

ONE of TWO

Sherri Bell you are indirectly responsible for the shorewall mess that will cost levy payers ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS. Your mentor, previous Ward 5 Councilor, present day LCPWC Chairman Kal Johnson, is directly responsible. You were an LCPWC Commissioner from 2020. You vigorously supported the now quashed bylaw and attacked the efforts of your neighbours who applied for permits to build lighter, environmental, economical shorewalls.

WHR Excavating built the shorewall, you bragged about in your comment. If your shorewall was finished, why in 2019 did you, and partner Drew Fulford have an unnatural interest in seven permit applications for modern shorewalls? Was a lightweight, strong, structural engineer sealed, design a threat to future business opportunities? Did Drew Fulford and WHR Excavating, misinform LCPWC Commissioners and Ramara Township officials about the benefits of our design?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/2uVNtvWrH7caELd47
You were an LCPWC Commissioner in February 2021, when our application to quash the shorewall bylaw was filed. Why didn't you do the right thing according to Justice Healey & convince your fellow Commissioners & Ramara officials they were mistaken? After all, now we know that the respondents were already breaking the law and acting in BAD FAITH.
At a minimum, Commissioner Sherri Bell could have prevented or called the firetrucks to put out Kal Johnson’s million-dollar dumpster fire.
OR
Were you protecting WHR's future shorewall building opportunities?

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08/19/2026

Late yesterday (Tuesday afternoon 8/18), Ramara officials called a Special Council Meeting to review a Framework Motion related to the Contempt finding in Bertrand et al. The meeting is set for Thursday August 20 at 2 PM

https://www.facebook.com/share/14kNijxH56L/

Two court cases were decided in favour of the Applicants. The Respondents (Lagoon City Parks and Waterways Commission and the Township of Ramara) were found to have acted illegally and in Bad Faith Twelve Times. An ill advised, poorly conceived bylaw was quashed. Fifteen months of non compliance passed before a Contempt of Court finding forced the Respondents to comply with the earlier court's December 30, 2024 operative orders.

The Respondents have no defence. Two Hearings are over. Two Justices of Ontario Superior Court handed down their decisions. We are done except for the Penalties Hearings, and perhaps the unlikely event of a settlement with the Applicants.

Despite the mention that part of Ramara Council's Thursday meeting may take place in closed session I want to remind everyone that the Penalty Hearing set for the morning of September 4th 2026 will take place at the Barrie Courthouse in Open Court.

COME ONE COME ALL TO OPEN COURT & NOT A CLOSED MEETING AT RAMARA COUNCIL!

There is little justification for the use of closed session for Thursday afternoon's meeting when the Penalty Hearing will be held in Open Court. To be clear, the Applicant's will insist that all of the details of any settlement to this matter will be in the public domain. There will not be a non disclosure agreement. Like Justice Sutherland's penalty decision, all parts of any future settlement will be public information.

After ten years of Bad Faith actions, followed by a finding of Civil Contempt, (proven beyond a Reasonable Doubt) there is no justification or excuse for continuing with Ramara's Systemic Culture of Closed Meetings and Secrecy
rebrand.ly/rcmbc

The Respondent's insulting, cowardly, self-serving Statement re; Lagoon City Shoreall Legal Matter is still visible at Ramara.ca.
https://www.ramara.ca/news/posts/statement-re-lagoon-city-shorewall-legal-matter/
The gutless statement does not include the word CONTEMPT. Despite the "Happy Talk". There have been no changes and no apologies. To the best of our knowledge there have been no sanctions against those responsible. Kal Johnson who led the Respondent's illegal action against the Applicants since 2016 still serves as the Chairman of the LCPWC. See the August 13 LCPWC Meeting here.

In closing I am reminding the Respondents of Paragraph 164 of Justice Susan Healey's December 30th 2024 decision.

[164] When a municipal government improperly acts with secrecy, the democratic legitimacy of its decision is undermined. Even when those decisions are intra vires, they are less worthy of the deference that courts must show to the democratic decision-making process of elected municipal officials: RSJ Holdings, at para. 38.

Ken Jennings
202 378 4868 or 705 242 0056
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/ken-jennings/0/7a2/602/

05/21/2026

Sherri Bell is “miffed” that because of previous behaviours, she was excluded from discussions on the future of the relationships and operations of the LCPWC and the Township of Ramara. Watch her narcistic Facebook performance here:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1502522801565914

The motion passed in resolution CR 118. 206 actually reads.

• “An evaluation of the legal and governance framework for the Township’s relationship with the Lagoon City Parks and Waterways Commission, including the effectiveness of the current operating model and feasibility, implications, and risks of alternative governance or service delivery structures, informed by applicable legislation and legal advice.”

Ramara is complying with the findings of two Ontario Superior Court Justices. Deputy Mayor Keith Bell’s request for a study and report on the legal and operational effectiveness of our current model, follow Ontario Superior Court's two decisions. This will be a LONG OVERDUE performance audit. This is not the end of the LCPWC as alarmist Sherri Bell wants you to believe. LCPWC levy payers should be delighted at the prospect of a report from external professionals trained and experienced in administration, finances, and operation of waterways.

LCPWC history shows:
• commissioners have done terrible job of managing shorewalls and pedestrian bridges.
• our levy increased 300% in ten years. ($250 in 2014 to almost $1,000 in 2024)

Why does “NO-NONSENSE” Sherri Bell vigorously dramatize and defend the “independence” of the LCPWC instead of defending the savings of her levy paying constituents?

Why should we always pick up the tab for repeated LCPWC missteps?

Past uninformed commissioners ignored bylaws and Ontario statues and their fiduciary duty to levy payers, squandering multiple millions of dollars:

• SECRETLY, ILLEGALLY and in BAD FAITH the LCPWC and Ramara officials fight against residents who wanted to install modern shorewalls that would not sink into our lagoons. Costs are mounting and will approach $1,500,000.

See rebrand.ly/lcdecision paragraphs, 164, 186 and 207 {sub a-j}

• Foolishly doing three or more expensive yet ineffective patch jobs on two pedestrian bridges which cost more than one million dollars according to Ms. Bell. Sherri Bell why not ask why LC levy payers are stuck with maintenance cost for two pedestrian bridges that everyone uses if we are not paying for seven vehicular bridges that everyone uses?

• Even after the township’s inadequate “legal speak” Statement on the Shorewall Legal Matter https://www.ramara.ca/news/posts/statement-re-lagoon-city-shorewall-legal-matter/ Kal Johnson Sherri Bell’s sponsor / mentor still serves as LCPWC Chairman.

04/15/2026

First Ontario Municipality Found in Contempt Does Not Apologize or Admit Guilt
Township of Ramara’s April 2, 2026, statement said “the township would like to take this opportunity to recognize.” Recognizing is not Apologizing! This was not an apology!

https://www.ramara.ca/news/posts/statement-re-lagoon-city-shorewall-legal-matter/

The applicant’s position is, that after ten years of wasted time and more than half a million dollars of wasted legal fees, the “opportunity to recognize” ended years prior to December 30, 2024. The township missed repeated opportunities to recognize problematic behaviours. Today, after the CONTEMPT decision, Ramara officials should “wake up” and then apologize to all Ramara taxpayers and all Lagoon City levy payers.

Justice Sutherland recognized the seriousness and precedent setting nature of his decision by ordering:
[46] “I also order that the applicants serve this decision on the Ministry of the Attorney General.”
The facts are, that during a ten-year shorewall bylaw dispute, the Township of Ramara officials violated multiple provincial statutes passing two shorewall bylaws with twelve instances of Bad Faith. December 30, 2024, Ontario Superior Court ordered the illegal bylaws quashed. Throughout this time and through seven CAOs, Mayor Basil Clarke led the township. We are shocked that Clarke was “curious” when faced with the court’s CONTEMPT decision. Disputing facts found by two Justices is not a wise strategy while Ramara waits for the Penalty Hearing.
A lawyer familiar with the matter, commented “The Court has found bad faith and contempt by the Township, which included: collusion; improper interference with government officials; ignoring engineering practice, professional advice, and the public’s financial interest, and taking proactive steps to use legislation for improper purposes thereby circumventing the rule of law. After these wrongs were found the Township continued to find reasons not to follow the rule of law and did not comply with the Court’s orders. Only now, after being found in contempt of court beyond a reasonable doubt is the Township taking steps to address any issues identified by the Court.”

Georgi Jennings commented,” the residents in this matter, fought for ten years for this result and officials of the Township have fought them, often illegally and improperly throughout the entire period. We are pleased that process reforms are being enacted. However, we are gravely concerned that the Township refuses to apologize and that there is no admission of guilt and that persons needed to act differently. Blaming this on processes and inoculating any blame on specific persons ignores the decisions which focus on calculated actions by individuals to subvert the rule of law. We are concerned that without reflection by individuals and a commitment by them to change their actions, this may still reoccur.”

To the applicants, Ramara’s Statement seems like insincere, political spin that lacks apology, remorse, or a remediation plan. The statement does not help applicants who suffered ten years of unfairness, and obfuscation.

Justice Sutherland may conclude Ramara’s statement was, “damage control.” Ramara’s statement shows, no concern for tax and levy payers who must now pick up the $500,000 plus tab. So far, even after the finding of contempt of court, all the contemptible and guilty Ramara officials will escape without individual accountability or consequences.

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