Council Update: Budget Deliberations, Snow Standards, Climate Emergency and More

Budget Deliberations: Capital On Friday, staff were back before Council with options to fund the so-called B list of capital projects. You may recall from my December e-news that HRM has a big gap in terms of capital funding. The municipality has some ambitious plans including the Moving Forward Together …

E-News January 2019

News Sportsplex Naming: It has been a long closure, but the Sportsplex renovation is nearly complete. The facility will fully reopen at the end of February and today, the new name has been announced. When it reopens, the Sportsplex will officially be the Zatzman Sportsplex. The Zatzman name is for …

Council Update: Capital Budget, Plastics, Bins, and more

Capital Budget: The holidays are truly over this week, with Council meeting on Tuesday for our regular agenda and again on Wednesday and Friday for 2019/2020 budget deliberations. The main focus of Budget Committee was our three-year Capital Budget. I wrote about the Capital Budget in my December E-News and …

Harbour East Update: Splash Pad, Cancer Survivors Garden, and Disc Golf

It was a busy evening at Harbour East-Marine Drive Community Council. There were three proposals for additions to municipal parks in District 5 before us including the Dartmouth Splash Pad, Cancer Survivors Garden, and a Disc Golf Course. I’m not sure how widely these initiatives are known, and since they …