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My answer is no. I am not saying no because the request was announced to a room full of people other than City Councilors (at a building owners and managers industry luncheon). I am not saying no because our municipal borrowing power is limited by law, nor because what’s left within our ‘credit limit’ will… Read More
A quick follow up to a previous post about my Open Data inquiry. The inquiry response report came to Executive Committee yesterday and was well received by the mayor and other councillors who attended. In essence, the report says the City is working hard on opening up as much data as it can in keeping… Read More
[This post is back dated to appear in order and correspond to the time. It was posted for reference in July of 2010.] Council’s budget deliberations in December of 2009 resulted in a 5% tax increase that came into effect for 2010. 2% of that was dedicated toward the fund established to fix sidewalks, curbs… Read More
What follows is my January contribution to the Edmonton Examiner’s gracious ‘Councillor Connection‘ column space which rotates among us. Since the Examiner is split run (there are, I believe, seven different versions, each localized to different parts of the city) people outside the South West would not see this. But I thought it might be… Read More
I caused a bit of a stir on Thursday at Council by raising some concerns about the city’s proposed development plan ‘The Way we Grow’. I rather flippantly suggested we could call it ‘The Way we Sprawl.’ Scott McKeen wrote about the plan in Friday’s Journal and his critique is similar to mine. In spite… Read More