All Posts Tagged With: "City Council Meeting"
Hall Monitor: A Capital Plan!
This is the first of a series looking at our city council’s strategic planning sessions and the resulting document. At the time of this writing, neither the final draft nor the final strategic plan have been presented or approved by council. The information below is based on observations and drafts made available at the time [...]
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Weekly Poll: Grading the Mayor and City Council
Kingston’s newly elected Mayor and City Council officially took office last December, but what have they been up to over the past six months of their freshmen year? Unless you are a local political junkie, defeated or unseated candidate, chances are you are probably unaware of the decisions being made inside our scaffolding-clad City Hall. [...]
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Hall Monitor: For The Birds
Council session Tuesday night had a large agenda and touched bits of the city small and large. From parking and projects to statements and sports, unless you had the agenda on-hand, I wouldn’t blame you in the slightest if you thought our elected officials had gone to the birds – which, given the amount of [...]
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Council Approves 3.39 Per Cent Municipal Tax Increase
Last night, Kingston’s new City Council approved its first operating budget keeping the municipal tax rate increase at 3.39 per cent. “Council took a very considered approach in its deliberations and City staff was very responsive in answering their questions. City staff members are to be commended for keeping their budgets keyed to the rate [...]
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Out With the Old
Late last December, Kingstonist presented you with our top 5 posts from 2008. With your help, we intend on ringing in the New Year by celebrating our best stories and topics of conversation from 2009. Did KFL&A Public Health’s management of the swine flu vaccination clinic get your attention? Will Fauxcoming, the over budget Queen’s [...]
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Waterfront-Related Council Items
Via K7Waterfront: Two waterfront-related items (see pg 48 of 56) are on Tuesday’s Council agenda: The city wants to renew a 5-year lease with The Crown for Portsmouth Olympic Harbour (POH) land and land underwater. The rental rate is ”20% of the marina’s annual gross revenue”, or a payment of $75,848 in 2008. Kingston & [...]
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Economic Action Plan for Kingston
This morning I went hiking with my two fierce creatures at Lemoine Point – a fantastic and little known hiking area just west of the airport. On my way towards the point, I noticed a few signs proclaiming the presence of Canada’s Economic Action Plan. I could not read what each project entailed, and so, upon returning home [...]
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Waterfront Agenda Items
As posted on K7waterfront.org, there are three notable waterfront-related agenda items for the next City Council meeting scheduled on the 6th of October 2009. Highlights are as follows: 1. Waterfront-related items listed in the Recreation & Leisure Services Department 2009-2010 Priorities are either stalled, or token. They include: Design of the Breakwater beach area (2010). [...]
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Suite and Sour
Yesterday I received an interesting tip regarding an agenda item at this evening’s City Council Meeting. Hidden on page 82 of Report 69 Part B are the guidelines for use of the City-owned suite at the K-Rock Centre. In addition to the definitions, eligibility criteria, and sample application form, there’s a complete report of events [...]
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