Happy Holidays Well time flies. This is my last newsletter for 2018. I wanted to take a moment to wish you the best for the holidays and the New Year from myself and my family. The New Year is always a good time to reflect, and looking back on 2018, …
Fire Response Time: A double Council update to cover off our December 11 meeting and our very light December 4 meeting (there was nothing significant to write about from December 4). One of the major items before Council was proposed changes to the fire department’s response time standards. The benchmark for …
Budget 2019: The big discussion on Tuesday was the start of our 2019/2020 budget deliberations. As a result, we had a Committee of the Whole on budget as well as a regular council agenda. Council’s task on the budget was to set the high-level direction for staff. The main question …
News: Downtown Dartmouth Combined Infrastructure Project: If you attended the Downtown Dartmouth Plan Update in October, you might have seen the panel on the Downtown Dartmouth Combined Infrastructure Project. Maybe you even talked to Shannon O’Connell, the project leader. The panel was the first public presentation of what HRM has …
Spring Garden Branch Library Proposal: It was a rather quiet Council meeting with high-level, pre-budget presentations on municipal services taking up most of the time. The major item on the main agenda was whether to proceed with developing a new HRM driven proposal for the reuse of the old Spring …
It was a busy evening at the Findlay Community Centre. A total of 444 District 5 residents cast ballots in our second participatory budgeting night to award $50,000 in funding to community groups. The rain certainly didn’t keep people away! Below are the results: Victoria Children’s Centre $10,000 Project: Purchase and …
There was a lot of attention on Tuesday’s Council meeting, with the stadium report grabbing all the headlines. While much was made of the stadium topic, what was actually before us was simply a staff report setting out some very high-level details and requesting authorization to gather both more information …
A week from now on November 6th, participatory budgeting returns to District 5 to award $50,000 in District Capital funds to local community groups. All District 5 residents are eligible to vote for five projects, including kids and permanent residents, so bring the whole family, your friends, and neighbours. This …
News: Participatory Budgeting: Participatory Budgeting is returning to District 5 in November to allocate $50,000 in capital funds. Participatory budgeting allows residents to have a direct say in how money is spent. If you missed it last year, the way it works is community groups setup science fair style and …
Cannabis Planning Bylaws: A rather routine Council agenda. The main item of interest was the public hearing to consider some narrow amendments to the Regional Plan and each community’s specific planning bylaws to regulate cannabis production facilities. This wasn’t a public hearing into the controversial Nuisance Bylaw changes regarding smoking, …
