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The following ran in last week’s Edmonton Examiner as part of our monthly ‘Councillor Connection’ column. It is reproduced here for reference. Last week Council established 2011 budget guidelines for City Administration to work towards. As with last year, Council set a target for an overall tax increase of 5% for 2011. I recognize that… Read More
This post is a follow up from my Snow Policy Must Change post. Yesterday at Transportation and Public Works committee we debated the proposed new Snow Policy. My comment to the head of Transportation was “I couldn’t have written this better myself.” It calls for just what I called for back in January, specifically: a 5cm snow… Read More
This is the April instalment of my Edmonton Examiner column, from this week’s paper, reproduced here for the record: The Katz Group proposal for a Downtown arena and related development remains a work in progress, which has contributed to uncertainty both for members of City Council as well as the public. I can relate my… Read More
Tonight Council gave second reading approval to our Municipal Development Plan. After considerable debate it’s more or less finished, subject to approval from the Capital Region Board, followed by third reading in May or June. We debated the restriction on gravel mining in the river valley, which was upheld in a close vote. The Kanata… Read More
I took a bit of flack for the rhetorical device I employed in my previous post on this topic. If you go back and look, you’ll see that the reasons I said are motivating me to say no are principles: 1) limits on public borrowing authority and the application of those borrowed funds; and 2)… Read More