Budget Wish List: Over the last several weeks, each of HRM’s departments has presented a budget based on a 1.9% out-of-pocket increase in the bill to the average home ($36.59). As the departments have presented, each one has identified what they’ve had to do without to get to 1.9%, as …
News: Chadwick Street Redesign: I have been very keen when looking at the road recapitalization budget in District 5 each year to see what improvements can be made to our streets. Recapitalization is more than just a skim coat of paving over top of the potholes. It’s a total rebuild …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
