New Official Plans or, at the very least, significant revisions to existing Official Plans, should be developed for municipalities like the Town of Milton every ten years or so, in my view.I was deeply involved in the development, approval and implementation of the Town’s current Official Plan, which became a legal planning document in 1997. […]
During the 2018 municipal election campaign, I called for the establishment of a Core Services Review to ensure that the Town of Milton’s resources were focused on the most important municipal services and, further, that those services were delivered to local taxpayers in the most productive and cost-effective way.Approved by Milton Council as part of […]
Seconded by Ward 2 Regional Councillor Rick Malboeuf, I successfully put forward a motion before Milton Council requesting that Ontario Ministry of Transportation senior staff appear before Milton Council to discuss the funding and installation of a noise barrier along the south side of the 401, between James Snow Parkway and Regional Road 25. Given […]
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) and NAV Canada are continuing to make progress on various Pearson International Airport noise reduction initiatives, according to the latest update prepared by the organizations.At a briefing I attended in December 2019 on your behalf, but on my own accord, GTAA & NAV Canada staff outlined their joint efforts […]
Seconded by Ward 2 Regional Councillor Rick Malboeuf and supported by a slim majority of Milton Council, I successfully requested that Town staff return to Council with a 2020 Operating Budget that would see property tax increase options between 3% and 5%.During my previous tour of duty on Council between 1991 and 2006, and always […]
A majority of Milton Council ruled on December 9, 2019, that the Town of Milton’s portion of the property tax levy will increase in 2020 by 5.6% or almost three times the rate of inflation, an improvement over the 8.30% increase approved for 2019, which was more than four times the rate of inflation that […]
Magical Milton, the documentary film created by renowned and versatile local mixed media artist Fahim Hamid Ali, premieres on Sunday January 12, 2020 at 2 p.m. in the Mattamy Theatre, First Ontario Arts Centre Milton, 1010 Main Street East, Milton, Ontario. The doors open at 1 p.m., the event is free-of-charge, but seating is limited to […]