Agenda April 14Agenda April 9 (hospital parkade) Banook Fishway: Regional Council’s second virtual meeting had two motions from me related to District 5 issues. First, a potential fishway between Lake Banook and Sullivan’s Pond. Once the Sawmill River project is finished, fish will be able to swim upstream from the …
Agenda April 2 Council meetings haven’t been exempt from Covid-19 disruptions. With 17 of us, plus the staff needed to hold a meeting, it’s not possible to meet in person right now due to the need for physical distance. As part of the Provincial State of Emergency, the Minister of …
Agenda February 25, 2020 Airport Bus Fare: The subject of bus fares was back at Regional Council as staff returned for direction on the last piece of the fare strategy, what to charge for the airport route? When Council accepted the new fares back in the summer, we opted not …
Agenda February 12 Yesterday was the big day for setting the 2020 budget as Council went through the budget options list (aka the parking lot). The options list was generated over the last several weeks as each department presented their budget. After each presentation, Council had the opportunity to ask …
Agenda Regional Council January 28 Agenda Regional Council February 11 Splashpad: Yesterday, Council received the site report on the Dartmouth Splashpad proposal. The Dartmouth Splashpad has been a community-driven initiative that was started by a group of volunteers, the Friends of the Dartmouth Splashpad. The Friends submitted a proposal to …
Agenda Harbour East Council February 6 Harbour East Community Council held a public hearing and approved revisions to the development agreement for King’s Wharf on Thursday. The revised King’s Wharf plan includes some significant changes around access, layout, building massing, and public spaces. What the hearing wasn’t, was a retrial …
Agenda January 14 Regional Council hereAgenda January 9 Harbour East Council here Ride Hailing in HRM: Uber, Lyft, and the like were front and centre on Council’s agenda on Tuesday as staff returned with a report on recommended bylaw changes to facilitate ride hailing in HRM. There is technically nothing …
Agenda December 10 here Stadium: The stadium debate returned to Council yesterday with the completion of staff’s report on the Schooner’s proposal. The report was a far from glowing assessment. A lot of the concerns that staff identified, from infrastructure costs, to problems with the proposed tax district, to the …
Council is finishing the 2019 with a crunch of meetings (weekly rather than bi-weekly) Here’s what’s happened over the last two meetings Agenda December 3 hereAgenda November 26 here Woodland Roundabout: One of the items on Council’s agenda that grabbed a lot of the media attention over the last two …
Agenda November 12 hereAgenda October 29 here Port Wallace Development: There has been a snag in one of the biggest potential developments in Dartmouth: Port Wallace. If you’re not familiar with the Port Wallace development, it’s an entirely new community being proposed by Clayton on the vacant lands between Waverley …
