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 […]
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 […]