Comprehensive Coverage of Hamilton's Civic Affairs
“The City facilities group has identified the windows at Central [branch] as nearing imminent failure”.
Library budgeting $360,000 to replace.
The first “In The Round” of 2016 is scheduled for March 11th when The Trews are scheduled to perform.
The City’s 2016 operating budget books are now public and senior city staff are forecasting a 2.3% tax increase for a budget maintaining the status quo from 2015.
Overall, a maintenance budget will increase spending by 3.5%.
City and School Board formally submit applications for new high school and recreation centre in Ward 3. A first look at the plans.
Hamilton’s HSR is the only transit agency in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area to not extend service on New Year’s Eve despite Council direction in 2007 to do so.
Councillor Partridge’s GO local Waterdown bus service motion is flawed: here’s why and what she can do to create a service to connect with McMaster.
The City of Hamilton’s new website now includes sponsorship advertising as part of the new design. This follows Council direction to find revenue opportunities from web based advertising. The result is a dedicated area at the bottom of the City homepage for “Sponsors / Partners” which plugs the programming corporations are paying to support in […]
We need to de-politicize the appointment of Hamilton’s Elections Compliance Audit Committee to create public confidence in the process of municipal electoral oversight.
A heritage designed Anglican parish, a historic landmark in the heart of a vibrant downtown connected corridor, and a plan to build an eight-storey residential building that will generate needed funds for the revival and survival of the congregation that calls the church building home.
There are no take backs this time, Hamilton’s Chief of Police Glenn De Caire is retiring – a month after a hard fought battle to continue as Chief. De Caire’s retirement is effective Sunday, January 17, 2016. He is leaving policing to become the next Director of Parking and Security Services at McMaster University. De […]
