February 22, 2017 – Today’s meeting was remarkably short. We resumed our debate of the ever popular $42 Stormwater Right of Way (ROW) tax. The stormwater ROW tax originated from a 2013 URB decision that requires HRM to pay Halifax Water $3.9 million a year to cover the cost of …
February 15, 2017 – Today we continued budget deliberations at Committee of the Whole. The way the budgeting process has worked this year is a base budget was prepared by staff and council was given options as to how we could provide better service (increase in costs) or make cuts …
February 7, 2017 Wifi: Council passed public wifi 9-8. I voted against the proposal. My main reason is that the geographic coverage was originally much larger and the areas it was reduced down to already have some wifi access. $2.6 million for a very limited network with no certainty as …
