Agenda January 12Agenda Budget Committee January 12Agenda Budget Committee January 13Agenda Budget Committee January 20 Budget 2021It’s that time of year again, budget season at City Hall. Budget time is always the most challenging part of Council’s schedule. It doubles the workload and it’s not easy. The budget is where …
Agenda November 17Agenda November 24 Micmac Name:Council accepted my motion to look at renaming all municipal streets, a park, and a transit terminal that use the word Micmac. In District 5, this would be Micmac Boulevard and the Micmac Transit Terminal. This is a discussion that has been simmering in …
A back to the future Council update! I was swamped with the demands of running an election campaign and didn’t get a chance to write a summary of the previous Council’s very last meeting at the end of September. It was a doozy of a meeting though that had a …
Agenda September 1Agenda September 10 (Harbour East) Secondary Suites:Probably the most significant item on Council’s agenda was the proposed HRM-wide planning bylaw changes to allow for secondary units in all residential zones. A secondary unit would be smaller than the main unit and could take the form of a backyard …
Agenda August 18 Blue Mountain Birch Cove:Blue Mountain Birch Cove was back before Council for the second time in a row and Council was once again flooded with emails in support. On the agenda was a motion by Richard Zurawski that ended up being very procedurally complex. I’ll try my …
Agenda July 21 Transit Fare Technology:You might recall news stories from 2018 about super-sized transit tickets coming to HRM. What was driving the new larger transit tickets were new fareboxes. The boxes couldn’t process HRM’s existing small size tickets, forcing the municipality to move to a less user-friendly size. The …
Agenda July 7 Sidewalk Patios:My motion on Sidewalk Patios from April, was back on the agenda at Council because I was rescinding it. What gives you might ask? Did I give up on seeking more flexible patio arrangements? No. Success can come in many forms at City Hall and it’s …
Managing growth will always be challenging. Change is hard, and doubly so when it affects the places we love and cherish. Development, however, brings with it opportunities to improve our community. We don’t need to look any farther than Downtown Dartmouth with its growing collection of shops and restaurants to …
Agenda, June 23 Climate Change Plan:While we’ve all been fixated on the immediate crisis that is COVID-19, we can’t forget the pressing issue of our times: climate change. The existential threat to human civilization and the natural systems that supports the world as we know it hasn’t gone away. The …
Agenda May 26Agenda May 12Agenda June 9 It’s been a busy month at City Hall as Council met almost every day of the week through the last half of May to revise the 2020 budget. The result is I have fallen behind on my Council summaries. Here’s what you might …
