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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Nuisance Bylaw (Smoking): It was a very short Council meeting on Tuesday. The main item on the agenda was the return of the staff report on possible changes to the Nuisance Bylaw regarding smoking. Council previously changed the Nuisance Bylaw in response to the coming legalization of cannabis to ban …
Fell a bit behind this month on my Council blog so this entry is a wrap-up for our July 31 and August 14 meetings. Forum: Council spent a fair bit of time on the 14th going over the Forum Renovation Feasibility Report. The Feasibility Report is in response to Council’s …
Over the last week, I have been dwelling over the recent changes to HRM’s Nuisance Bylaw to ban smoking on municipal property. These changes are coming in response to the legalization of cannabis. Municipalities in Nova Scotia, British Colombia, and Alberta are in a particular dilemma on this issue because …
