Welcome to my blog! MY primary objective is to alert my constituents and others in King Township about issues being reviewed at the upcoming Council meetings. I do this as I believe the quality of Council decisions is enhanced when the public is engaged. I hope that residents will make deputations and/or send emails to Council to express their opinion and/or to ask important questions. Also, I include notice of meetings and events which I think are particularly important. I welcome your comments, whether you agree or not with me, and only edit to eliminate inappropriate language.
Recent Posts
Financial Impact of COVID
On Council agenda Sept. 21 there is a staff report reviewing forecasted cost impact of COVID-19 for this calendar year. The anticipated cost is significantly mitigated by the Federal/ Provincial Safe Start Agreement. Specifically, forecasted net impact is a deficit of $125,000; the gross cost is forecasted to be $700,000. The government support is clearly very welcomed. In addition I am...
Active Transportation Plan
On Council agenda Monday Sept. 21 there is a large important report on the Active Transportation Plan. I am excited about this as it captures many ideas identified many times as being valuable enhancements to our daily living (e.g. midblock pedestrian crossings) and provides good perspective on the costs and other constraints to implementing. Very importantly it provides a methodolgy for...
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What I Heard at AMO
I attended the virtual Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference for Aug. 17-20. As I found these conferences in past years to be worthwhil I looked forward to it and was curious as to how effective it would be as a virtual experience. Again, there was some good content; and the virtual experience was excellent. As is the case in any profession, there is value to get out of...
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…