This Week at Council: Downtown Renewal, Recycling Revamp

After a pretty light January, the first week of February brought a couple of packed agendas to the council’s agenda management software on their iPads. First, Committee of the Whole contained an unexpected report about the Housing Accelerator Funds, plus some grand plans about downtown. Also, there was a field trip to the east end of town for a special council workshop about the proverbial Cadillac of City services: waste management. Continue reading “This Week at Council: Downtown Renewal, Recycling Revamp”

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for February 7, 2024

Live from the Waste Innovation Resource Centre, it’s a city council meeting! You can click here for the amended agendas from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for February 7, 2024”

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Meeting on February 7?

Garbage. How often do you think about it? Well, at this meeting of council, the topic is unavoidable because not only is this special meeting and workshop of city council all about solid waste collection, it actually takes place in the building where all the solid waste is collected. There are some real changes coming to your local blue box in the next couple of years, and this meeting will help give you a heads up! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Meeting on February 7?”