Milton Mayor Gord Krantz and Town of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II opposed the Town’s 2025 Budget, which increased Town expenditures by 9.89 percent, resulting in local property taxpayers paying 6.5 percent more for Town, Region of Halton and education services.
Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II was recently elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Grand River Conservation Authority, the oldest conservation authority in North America and one of the largest such organizations in Canada.
At the request of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II and the Turner family, and with the support of the vast majority of interested Miltonians, Milton Council approved the renaming of two baseball diamonds located within Milton Community Sports Park for two individuals who championed the development, growth and success of baseball in the community.
Town of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II first ran for public office in 1991 to encourage the municipality to develop a new Official Plan to deal with the significant growth that was about to come, as required by the Province of Ontario. It was approved in 1997. After a 12-year hiatus, […]
What follows are the Top Ten complaints I have received this year, so far. Let’s work on all of them together in the months to come with a view to eliminating them and creating a better place for all of us to live, work and play: Challenge: Speeding through residential neighbourhoods Solution: Demographically, […]
Following recommendations by Town of Milton Councillor John Challinor II, other members of Milton Council and Town staff, infrastructure is gradually being added over the next four years to Milton’s residential roads that will make them safer for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. For example, pedestrian crossovers near schools on major collector roads will receive […]
If the Town of Milton is able to identify a one-time funding source, it will establish an operating budget reserve fund that would generate income to help offset the impact on local property taxpayers brought about by annual operating budget tax increases. Town of Milton Ward 2 Councillor John Challinor II suggested the idea […]
While the Town of Milton, like all Ontario municipalities, is a creature of the province, developing a strong working relationship with the Government of Ontario and, ideally, being represented on the Government side of the House locally is critical to the Town’s future. Milton’s relationship with the current Government took a another step forward […]
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority recently reported that air traffic over the Greater Toronto Area, including Milton, during the first nine months of 2023 increased to 88 percent of what it was in 2019, prior to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Passenger growth increased 11.9 percent for the first three quarters of 2023 at Toronto Pearson […]
Good Neighbours Day, the popular community-led, volunteer neighbourhood clean-up program founded in 1992 by former Ward 2 resident, the late Len Lee (1942 – 2023), will return on Saturday April 27th after a five-year hiatus. Starting off with registration and breakfast at 8 a.m. at Hugh Foster Hall, located beside Town Hall, volunteers will be […]
