Sep 29, 2011 | Debbie in the Community, The Issues
September 26 Committee of Whole (COW) provided a tough reminder of expenses—some we do control and others we don’t. 1. One of the bitter realities identified during the 2011 budget discussions was the need to prepare for refunding golf courses. At that point we...
Sep 20, 2011 | Debbie in the Community, The Issues
Realization of any vision is very dependent on actions and decisions by upper tiers of authority. As many peoples’ vision for King, including my own, has as its very foundation, a protected Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM), it is important to me to be assured that the next...
Sep 20, 2011 | Debbie in the Community, The Issues
As I posted a couple weeks ago, in late August I attended the annual conference of Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO). The agenda included speeches from the leaders of the 3 traditional Ontario parties. Earlier all leaders had been provided the top 12...
Sep 20, 2011 | Debbie in the Community
My resolution to “request the York Region Transportation Services Committee to investigate and report upon options of parking/shuttle services within King Twp. to help alleviate and remedy the existing as well as future increase of parking demands at the King City GO...
Sep 9, 2011 | Debbie in the Community
September 6th I participated in our 4th meeting of the Task Force leading the development of the sustainability plan for King Township. We saw draft visions and goals from the 4 pillars: Economic, Financial, Socio-cultural and Environment. We then drafted our 1st...
Sep 9, 2011 | Debbie in the Community
The initiative to allow Genview to utilize the east section of our Museum as a sales office is essentially moving into execution phase now. At 08/29 Council authorized the entering into an agreement to cover the temporary tenancy. ...
