If my Facebook feed is any reflection of our city’s concerns at large (which is admittedly debatable), among the posts telling us to shop local and asking why are large chains allowed to be open when mom-and-pop shops must be closed, there is a distinct absence of stories about our dire need to improve the […]
Author archives: Mita Williams
Weeknote Nov 17-23 2020
There is a city council meeting on Monday. I’m not going to watch it live but I will try to follow up on the outcomes of the following: 8.1. Capitol Theatre Legacy Grant Application 8.7 Parking Bylaw 9023 – Recommended Amendments on Sandwich Street (C 215/2020) 11.1 Contracting Out Caretaking Services – Phase II- City […]
Weeknote Nov.10-16 2020
Last Monday, Council voted 6-4 in favour of the Mayor’s motion to support the location of the future hospital. During said meeting, the CEO of the Windsor Essex Economic Development Corporation suggested that the only thing holding back receiving $2.3 billion dollars of funding was a unanimous vote at Windsor City Council. So, as someone […]
Weeknote Nov 3 – 9 2020
Tomorrow promises to be a looooong city council meeting filled with delegates testifying for and against the Mayor’s motion in support of the County Road 42 location of the amalgamation of our local hospitals. Since I wanted to wait for the Ontario Provincial Budget to be released first, I sent my own position against the […]
Weeknote Oct 27 – Nov 2 2020
The next city council meeting is November 9th. The agenda is 643 pages long. I have not read this document, but here are somethings that caught my eye when I skimmed it: There’s a city response to a council question from 2019 about payday loan establishments. I learned that some cities have established buffer areas […]
Not 3.5 and not 12 but 8.5
I have lamented in several posts on this blog that natural coverage of the county of Essex is 3.5% — the worst in all of Ontario. I have since learned that this point of data from 2002 is no longer accurate. In 2012, the coverage moved 8.5%. My new question is why hasn’t the measure […]
Weeknote Oct 20 – Oct 26 2020
On Tuesday, October 20th we learned that the Ford government intends to remove the ability for a municipality to use ranked ballots. I’m a bit gutted about this. There is still time to register for a 60 minute session on Monday October 26 at 7:30pm from Unlock Democracy about the success of Ranked Ballots in […]
Weeknotes, Oct 13 – Oct 19 2020
Earlier this week, I plugged my nose and took a deep dive into the City of Windsor’s 20 Year Strategic Plan from 2016. In my post, I admitted that I could not find the 4-year strategic plan that we were supposed to be guided by, but a reader found it: Our mayor has a B.Comm […]
A city with a strategic plan is the goal
It’s a cliché but a goal without a plan is a wish. If that’s the case, the City of Windsor is a city of wishful thinking. Tonight I spent a little time re-reading The City of Windsor’s 20 Year Strategic Vision just to remind myself if it still holds up as the weakest and the […]
Weeknotes, Oct 6 – Oct 12 2020
Jeewen Gill is Windsor’s new Ward 7 councillor with a share of 19.7% share of the vote. Despite my misgivings, I did listen into the virtual Ward 4 & 5 Town Hall meeting last week. It was better than I expected and I did appreciate the ability to be polled about future budget priorities and […]