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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Weeknotes, Sept 22 – Sept 28 2020
There’s a City Council Meeting today at noon. The agenda is pretty light. It includes the question of whether used clothing bins be regulated by the city and potential relief from 2019 property taxation due to extreme poverty and/or sickness. While the agenda is light, there are nine delegates lined to up to speak to […]
Weeknotes, Sept 15 – Sept 21 2020
On Monday, September 15th, City Council held a meeting. Unfortunately, the archived video is not time-stamped, which means it is very difficult to find out, for example, Did measure 8.17 about city support of community gardens pass? [Answer: yes and you can hear so at the 1:49 mark] My colleague, Carina Luo is Geospatial Data […]
Weeknotes, Sept 8 – Sept 14 2020
Items of note from last week’s news: LaSalle to construct bike lockers at select bus stops – Windsor Star, September 7, 2020 Privacy, community trust, equity a concern after Windsor police access COVID-19 database, CBC Windsor, September 8, 2020 “A Crown witness in a lengthy gun trafficking trial repeated earlier assertions of “dirty cops” on […]
Weeknotes, Sept 1 – Sept 7 2020
There is still no Greyhound bus service to or from the City of Windsor. For your consideration: Forget Greyhound, Canada Needs A Public National Bus Service. I liked this excerpt of the WECHU September 2, 2020 Public Health Updates Related to Corona Virus that illustrates how the decisions of a couple families led to over […]