Metrolinx paying the bills, making the decisions.
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Hamilton City Council Capital Budget Meeting for January 19, 2016
Council received a presentation on bicycle infrastructure on the Claremont Access and approved the 2016 capital budget.
Full replay video
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Per Diems for RCF Increased, Funded Spaces Decreased to Maintain Budget.
The City is increasing the per diem for its subsidized residential care facilities (RCFs) from $48.25 to $50, and scaling back the number of subsidies to afford the increase without increasing the overall budget.
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Sympathetic Council Declines to Replace Federal Funding for Trusteeship Program
A year ago, changes in federal funding priorities ended funding to local trusteeship program. Council gave stop-gap transitional funding. That funding is expired, but not before advocates asked the Council to backfill the federal funding. Council calls for increased federal funding for homelessness prevention.
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Hamilton Emergency and Community Services Committee for January 18, 2016
Funding for Trusteeship Programs will dominate today’s meeting with many residents expected to attend to call on the City to make permanent temporary stop-gap funding the City implemented in place of federal funding.
The meeting starts at 1:30pm and The Public Record will carry it live. (Click into the story from the front page to watch)
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Hamilton Audit Finance and Administration Committee for January 18, 2016
To call this week’s AFA agenda light would be to make light seem heavy – with only two items which may cause discussion and the other two items being housekeeping, the committee could take less than 15 minutes to complete its business.
Live video on The Public Record starts at 9:30am
Posted inCity Hall
Hamilton Election Compliance Audit Committee for January 16, 2016
The Hamilton Election Compliance Audit Committee meet to hear two complaints about the election returns of Councillors Jason Farr and Terry Whitehead.
Following the meeting, they quickly dismissed the complaints.
Posted inCity Hall
Councillor's Call Farmers' Market Board Behaviour "Reprehensible", Move to Study Citizen Committee Term Limits
Citizen appointee resigns from Market Board after vendors object to her appointment on grounds that her day job is with the City.
Posted inAdvisory and Sub-Committees
Hamilton Governance Review (Accountability and Transparency) Committee for January 2016
Council’s Governance Committee (responsible for accountability and transparency) meet to discuss municipal proclamations in Hamilton, a ban on corporate and union donations to municipal candidates, remote online attendance for Councillors to vote at meetings, and resignation from the Farmers’ Market Board which lead to a debate on term limits for citizen committees. Council voted to […]
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How Will City Zone Marijuana Shops When Feds Legalize?
Ward 3 Councillor Matthew Green wants the City to think how it will zone businesses selling legalized marijuana as the federal Liberals move forward on their promise to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana.”