Agenda April 6Agenda Budget Committee April 7 Policing:Probably the most potentially controversial item on Council’s agenda was a motion by Councillor Mancini to review HRM’s unique shared policing model. HRM is the only municipality in Canada with two police forces. Halifax Regional Police (HRP) was created at amalgamation by combing …
Agenda Budget Committee March 31 Just one item on Council’s agenda last week, the Parks and Recreation budget. Parks and Rec is a department that attracts a lot of attention because the services it provides are close to people’s day-to-day lives. The Parks we visit, the recreation programs we attend, …
News Push-Button Traffic Lights:There are some big adjustments coming to traffic lights in HRM: the need to push a button to cross the street is largely going away in dense urban areas. The plan is to switch many signals to automatically display a walk sign between 6:00 am and midnight. …
Agenda March 23Agenda Budget Committee March 24 Community RinksOne of the items on Council’s agenda that I’m really interested in was a request by Councillor Morse for a staff report on providing assistance to community groups who want to set up outdoor rinks. There is probably nothing so quintessentially Canadian …
Agenda Budget Committee, March 10Agenda Regional Council, March 9Agenda Harbour East Community Council, March 4Agenda Budget Committee, March 3 Winter Maintenance in Parks:We had our first taste of spring last week, but at Council, we were talking snow clearing in HRM’s parks. The reason? A staff report in response to …
Property Tax CapNova Scotia’s Capped Assessment Program (CAP) was back in the news last month thanks to the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) release of a visual mapping tool to better demonstrate the CAP’s impacts. The CAP was brought in by the Province back in 2005 in response to …
Agenda February 23Agenda Budget Committee February 24 2021 Capital Plan:Yesterday was one of the biggest days in Council’s annual budget deliberations: the review of the capital budget. HRM has no shortage of good ideas, but the municipality’s funds are limited. The result is a rollercoaster ride for most Councillors as …
Agenda January 26Agenda February 9Agenda Budget Committee February 17 Shirley’s Splash Pad:The big news over the last few weeks at Council for District 5 is the Friends of the Dartmouth Splash Pad’s success in fundraising for a Splash Pad on the Dartmouth Common. The Friends have secured $140,000 for the …
Harbour East Community Council had a significant development proposal before us last night: Twin Lakes. The Twin Lakes project site is located on Prince Albert Road near the Braemar Superstore (where Napa and the Surveyor’s Association are now). The project consists of two 12 storey buildings linked together with a …
News Homeless Camps:A week ago, a shed showed up on a small piece of municipal land in Downtown Dartmouth. The shed was dropped off by Halifax Mutual Aid for a homeless man who had been tenting there for a few months. CBC ran with the story, which included a good …
