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City Councillors are giving the Friends of the Aviary at least a month to determine which of the competing Boards is the valid Board of the volunteer organization, and for them to propose a plan for the future of the Hamilton Aviary.
Councillors divided on Vision Zero, as Ferguson declares he will not support any changes in Lower City during Monday’s Public Works Committee meeting.
Full video of City Council’s February 13, 2017 Public Works Committee meeting.
Council’s Public Works Committee meets Monday to discuss the state of Hamilton’s roads, selling part of an alley in Beasley, the Kay Drage Park Trail, and a citizen delegation asking for bike infrastructure on Sydenham Road.
The full agenda is here, and The Public Record will post a recording of the meeting as soon as possible after its completion. The meeting starts at 9:30am.
Hamilton City Councillors meet as the Public Works Committee to decide on PRESTO equipment maintenance contracts, closing an alleyway abutting 131 Ivon Avenue in Ward 4, adding on-street parking (while maintaining bike lanes0 at Stone Church and Upper Paradise, repairs to the Eastern Sanitary Interceptor Sewer on South Service Road at Fruitland Road, expanding floral traffic islands, urgently replacing water servicing on west portion of Scenic Drive and Goulding Avenue, begin City studies on a proposed private-public partnership at Roxborough Park in Ward 4 bordering the Red Hill Valley, and funding a feasibility study to convert Queen Street South to two way traffic.
Live video starts at 9:30am
Full video of City Council’s August Public Works Committee meeting:
Councillors will discuss business planning for the City’s two municipally owned golf courses, supporting private installations of rooftop solar panels, HSR bus traffic on Redfern Avenue, and improving fencing along Mountain Brow Boulevard.
Replay Video
The Public Works Committee will try to make quorum to complete their April business at their first meeting of May.
Live Video starts shortly after 9:30am. (The Public Record is not allowed to set up prior to meetings by order of the City Clerk.)
Two business items, two consent items, and one public delegation – that’s the agenda for this cycle’s PW meeting. Live video starts at 9:30am
The Brief
The saga of the alleyway at 14 James Street North (above the now closed Sirloin Cellar) is finally coming to an end.
The new Council’s first Public Works Committee meeting is a light one with one public delegation, a Public Works department overview presentation, seven discussion items, and one motion.
The highlights include LED street lights conversion, new bus shelters, and the public delegation regarding lighting around Hamilton General Hospital.