News and Updates in King Township
I use this blog to inform you of issues within the Township which are being assessed at the Council table as well as tell you about events happening in the Township which are of interest.
Development on Station Road: information session
Wednesday, February 1 from 7-8PM there is a information session hosted by a developer with property on north side of Station Road in King City. This is an opportunity for the public to learn about the application and aske questions, make comments directly with the...
2017 Budget-final proposal
As I anticipated little has changed in the final budget recommendation to Council at the 1/23 Council meeting versus the draft I reviewed in my recent post. The one change has been triggered by new information about assessment growth: it is greater than had been...
Speeding Up Internet in King
As you may be aware internet service has finally been declared as an essential service (as important as electricity and water.) Federal Government has funding; we want to apply as much of King has limited to no service. As part of our application we want to...
Zoning By-law Review
The best tools we have for protecting the character of our established neighbourhoods are the two updates, in process, for the King City and Schomberg zoning by-laws and the Official Plan. (For the zoning by-law amendment we are building off the effort completed for...
Interruption in Blog!
Maybe you thought I had stopped maintaining my blog? Not true but my blog was hacked and my service provider was not as responsive as I would have liked. Finally issues are resolved. Unfortunately I did lose recent posts and a couple comments; my apologies to those...
2017 Budget With 2018 Capital
2017 Budget will be on 1/23 Council agenda for approval by Council. The draft budget includes a property tax increase of 2.98% on the Township portion; when blended with the York Region increase (2.86%) and the expected 0% increase for Education the blended increase...
Pancake Breakfast
Don't forget....Mayor and Council have invited all King Township residents to the annual pancake breakfast. Its Saturday, January 21 9-11 at King City Arena. Here's the invite! Hope to see you there.
2017 Budget
At 12/12 Council there will be presentation of the budget for 2017. The draft budget proposes a property tax increase of 2.9%; when blended with York Region's and the anticipated provincial education tax the overall tax increase is 2.32%; for a property assessed at...
Reforming the OMB
12/12 Council agenda includes a Staff report recommending Township input to the Province on the review of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). Significant changes to the scope of OMB influence and how that influence is enacted is very much needed. The Staff report is...
Early progress on new recreational facility
On Council agenda for 12/12 there are two reports dealing with the announced Township recreation centre on the grounds of Seneca at north west corner of Dufferin & 15th Sideroad. One report is a recommendation to Council to amend the Memorandum of Agreement (MOU)...
Small Cell Technology with Bell
On 12/12 Council agenda there is a staff report about Bell installing small cell technology on municipal land and facilities. The latter will improve cellular broadband connectivity at no incremental cost. In fact, Township will collect some modest revenues. I am...
Current Twshp Office location: declared surplus
On 12/12 Council agenda there is a report reviewing process for selling the property where Township Office is currently located. As has been reported previously the sale of the property is a major source of revenue for funding the new Town Hall at the former Holy...
Recent Comments
What I would like to see is the actual recycling of most of the items in the blue boxes. We…
Good overview and assessment of current situation, and the situation that got us to this point . King Twp has…
thank you for your feedback and acknowledgement of the effort required to understand the budget.
Hi Nancy, Working sessions are really education type meeting for Council members. There isa Council report in the agenda and…
This has got to be the strangest working session. “Overview of King’s Citizen Experience Plan” does not allow for citizens…
Hi Deb, as always your blast/posts are SO helpful! You are a marvel. Your summaries are succinct, informative, opinionated with…
Hi Bruce, just yesterday somebody was telling me about Simcoe and the choices they had.
Hi Debbie, Of interest, Simcoe County has had the carts on wheels for recycling, organics and garbage for some time…
Hello John, good question. I cannot answer at this point; you can be sure I’m going to be finding out.
Since the township is saving on the recycling expense, will this savings be passed on to us the tax payers…