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The City originally forecast to collect $106-million in development charges for 2020.
As of June 30, the City has only collected $30-million. The decrease is primarily related to COVID development delays, Zegarac said.
Among the proposals, standards for elevator service in residential buildings, and fines for violations. Former City Councillors says long overdue and needed for quality of life.
With Hamilton needing to modify existing emergency homeless shelters and potentially needing to create new temporary shelters, funding could be timely.
Meeting runs smoothly as CoA approves all but one application.
The picture is becoming more clear, LRT’s path to nine votes in favour needs either Ward 13’s Arlene Vanderbeek or Ward 7’s Esther Pauls, likely both.
What happened at City Hall this week, a long at our deficits which COVID has laid bare, and a proxy LRT debate on Upper James.
Delay in opening pools is to train lifeguards in new rescue techniques and procedures to decrease their risk of acquiring COVID-19.
Report shows Hamilton’s Live Music Venues were barely getting by prior to COVID, does the City have the ability to help them post COVID?
During a video conference meeting, members of the Board voted unanimously to “accept” the findings. They promise they will implement the 38 recommendations, but their words reveal a resistance to change, and a serious lack of understanding of the need for reform revealed in the report.
The 126-page independent investigation into the Hamilton Police response to the attack upon the 2019 Hamilton Pride festivities at Gage Park is a shocking reveal into a Police Command that was inept in preparing for Pride, inept at managing community relations, that set its front-line up for failure, and were blinded after the fact in a rabbit hole they kept digging deeper.
The report makes 38 recommendations that need to be implemented.
Joey Coleman argues Hamilton deserves better from its Police Command, and needs a new Police Chief to implement the recommendations.
It is necessary that the City support local small businesses in whatever way we have at our disposal and we need to set an example that this is the right thing to do – Esther Pauls, Ward 7 City Councillor
