Council meets as GIC today to receive City Manager Chris Murray’s annual performance review. They will also receive the minutes of the PanAm Stadium Committee. Following this, they will go into closed session to discuss the arbitrator’s ruling requiring the City to rehire fired Public Works roads crew employees.
Posted inCity Hall, Videos
Replay: Planning Committee for May 5, 2015
Parking tickets, a new subdivision in Waterdown, farmers’ market amendments to allow farmers to sell produce grown by other farmers, and Hamilton General Hospital seeks a parking lot expansion.
Live Video starts shortly after 9:30am.
Posted inElections
Election Compliance Audit Committee to Consider Appeal of Conley Financial Disclosure
Hamilton’s Election Compliance Audit Committee (ECAC) meets Monday to consider if Ward 9 Councillor Doug Conley’s election return violated the Municipal Elections Act by not including information about how he funded his campaign. Conley failed to list sources of income for this campaign with both the donor and self contribution information blank. (see images of […]
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Recap: Public Works Committee for May 4, 2015
The Public Works Committee will try to make quorum to complete their April business at their first meeting of May.
Live Video starts shortly after 9:30am. (The Public Record is not allowed to set up prior to meetings by order of the City Clerk.)
Posted inPlanning and Development
James Baptist Condo – The Connolly – Gains Conditional Site Plan Approval
Stanton Renaissance – developers of the Council approved condominium at 98 James Street South – have gained conditional site plan approval. The final step in the City’s formal planning process, conditional site plan approval means the developer can apply for building permits and start construction. Conditional site plan approvals are very common, granting the developer […]
Posted inEditors Note
Response to Mayor's Claim of Misleading Reporting
Mayor Fred Eisenberger was concerned that I tweet about his absence at the Physician Recruitment Sub-Committee was misleading – inferring that I’m like “Fox News”.
I respond to his concerns in depth here. I fully stand by the reporting as accurate and proper.
Posted inCity Hall
City Will Issue Warnings, Focus on Education Before Fines for Smoking on Patios
While the City exempts restaurant patios from it’s park smoking ban. With changes to provincial law, smoking on patios is banned anyway.
Posted inAdvisory and Sub-Committees, Videos
Physician Recruitment Sub-Committee April 29 2015
Council’s Physician Recruitment and Retention Sub-Committee will elect a new chair and vice-chair, form a new sub-committee to the sub-committee, and receive updated 2014 statistics.
Meeting starts at 1pm, Room 816, City Hall.
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Hamilton PanAm Stadium Sub-Committee for April 2015
Full Replay and Summary of Monday’s PanAm Committee Meeting
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Stoney Creek Home Suffers Extensive Damage in $300,000 Fire
The Hamilton Fire Department says a late Saturday evening fire at 1 Boyne Court in Stoney Creek caused $300,000 and the Office of the Fire Marshal is assisting to investigate the cause of the fire. There were no injuries. Full HFD press statement from Public Information Officer Claudio Mostacci: Fire Damages Stoney Creek Home HAMILTON, […]