COVID-19: Checking in with Town Councillor for Ward 2, John Challinor II It’s been over a month since the pandemic struck causing a period of uncertainty that currently has no end date. The Town of Milton has taken measures to try to help residents such as deferring property tax payments until June. Town Councillor for Ward […]
Town Councillor John Challinor II attends the Ontario Good Roads Conference. The Ontario Good Roads Association held their annual general meeting in Toronto last month, where political shakers and movers meet to discuss the current state of things and what they’d like to see moving forward. Town Councillor for Ward 2, John Challinor II, attended […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]