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 […]
As one of the architects of the Town of Milton’s 10 straight years of 0 percent tax increases between 1993 and 2002, an initiative that has afforded Miltonians the lowest property taxes in the Greater Toronto Area to this day, I was extremely dismayed when a slim majority of Milton Council voted to increase taxes […]
Over the last seven months that I have served as your local Councillor, I have had the privilege to meet hundreds of you, answer your questions and, most importantly, help to resolve those matters that affect your quality of life in our community. I have been successful on most files that you have sent my […]
The emerald ash borer devastated the Town of Milton’s inventory of ash trees in 2015, 2016 and 2017, such that the Town could not afford to replace all of them in a timely fashion. At that time, I had reached out to the Town to suggest that it investigate the feasibility of establishing a program […]
The Town of Milton is engaging more frequently with Pearson International Airport on airport noise at a senior staff level and I have also now re-engaged with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) and NAV Canada on a political level, attending a related briefing in April. I will be attending these meetings for the remainder […]
Maplehurst Correctional Complex has been a significant community partner in Milton since its establishment in 1974, collaborating with the Town of Milton, area churches and other organizations, principally through its community work program in a way of that benefitted both local residents and prison inmates. The program specifically afforded inmates purpose, pride and rehabilitation through […]
As Milton deals with ever-escalating residential and commercial growth, at times it has impaired the municipality’s ability to retain residential and commercial buildings of significant historical interest to the community. A provincial program that provided nominal financial grants to owners of residential and commercial buildings that were designated under the Ontario Heritage Act was cancelled […]
When the Town of Milton was planning the community we live in today, former Town CAO David Hipgrave, former Town Councillors Brad Clements and Brian Penman, Mayor Gord Krantz and I met face-to-face regularly with senior officials from Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs & Housing, Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Ministry of Education, the Regional […]
