Milton
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Its that time of year again. This Saturday June 25th at the Milton Fairgrounds marks the return of the STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL!
All proceeds go to support the Milton District Hospital Auxillary. Fun and games for kids as well as…well you know…STRAWBERRIES!
Everything starts at 8am! See you there.
This coming Monday June 20th is the Administration & Planning Standing Committee meeting at Town Hall starting at 7pm.
This Committee consists of five Councillors and the Mayor. Committee members review all reports, formulate policy and make recommendations to Council on matters over which Council has authority under the Municipal Act, the Planning Act and other legislation. Recommendations are made in the areas of corporate administration, personnel, legal issues, planning and finance.
The Administration and Planning Committee reviews the operating and capital budgets as well as various financial matters affecting the Town of Milton.
The agenda for the meeting can be found here.
Some of the highlites include:
As always you can watch online on Monday night at 7pm. If you have any questions or comments for any of these reports, please email me mike@mikecluett.ca
The Town of Milton has released the copy of the feasability study on the future of Bruce Street Library.
You can find it online here.
There are two public meetings happening June 16th. One is from 3pm to 5pm at the Seniors Centre on Childs Drive and the other session is from 7pm to 9pm.
If you cant make these sessions, as always, you can email your local councillor (see the “HOW TO REACH YOUR COUNCILLOR” link to the right.
The report will be discussed at the next full meeting of Milton Town Council.
After consulting with Rick Di Lorenzo (Ward 7 Local Councillor) and Zeeshan Hamid (Ward 8 Local Councillor), and Sharon Barkley (Ward 1 Local Councillor) we’ve come up with a date where we want to hear from you. Of course all other councillors in town are invited to join us but we wanted to have a focus on issues in our area that needs to be heard.
Thursday night June 30th at 7pm (location to be determined) If we get a lot of interest we might move it to the Sports Centre or somewhere larger but it could also be Symposium or Hawthorne Cafe.
The budget call process has started and thank you to everyone who filled out the survey online but thats not the only way to give us your input.
Sharon, Zeeshan, Rick and I want to hear from you in a “tell us what you think” format. We dont want to go on about what OUR priorities are just yet. That will come in time for sure. We want to hear what yours are.
Of course we can provide direction on the topics, like transit, community services, parks, taxation, budget increases, etc but the floor is yours. Once we complile the opinions from everyone, we can send out a summary and these comments will be sent to staff as part of this process.
As always you can tell us what you think via email if you cant make it and each one of us encourages that.
So RSVP here or email one of us to let us know you can make it.
Its your time to speak and comments made there at the meeting and here on the Villager and in emails to us will be used in this budget call process. We can all agree this hasnt happened much in the past…lets change that.
The next meeting of the Community Services Standing Committee is this coming Monday June 13, 2011 at Milton Town Hall beginning at 7pm.
This Committee consists of five Councillors and the Mayor. Committee members review all reports, formulate policy and make recommendations to Council on matters over which Council has authority under the Municipal Act. These matters are related to Community Services, Fire, Library, Transit and other operational programs. If you wish to be a delegation at the Community Services Committee, you must register in writing with the Clerk’s Office by 10:00 a.m. on Monday, the day of the meeting.
The following Council Members sit on the Community Services Committee:
Here is a copy of the agenda for you to review. Some of the items to be discussed include:
If you cant make it to the meeting, as always you can watch online. Just click on my links to the right and enjoy!
This is just a reminder that you have until June 8th to submit your comments through the Town of Milton’s website for the 2012 Budget Call Report.
Here is the link to the survey.
The survey collects information from residents asking them questions on the priorities YOU would like to see Milton Town Council & Staff focus on for next years budget. Personal information collected will not be used/sold for any other purpose.
Some of the priorities it will ask you about is fire services, winter control, transit, roadway maintenance, parking, traffic signals, parks, recreational facilities among others. It will ask for your opinion if we should increase funding, maintain service levels, or decrease them.
Your comments are important and there are options for you to provide your opinions including if you support property tax increases to allow for increase in levels of services or new services. Another question it asks if you support the dedicated tax levy for hospitall expansion and if you have any additional comments. This question is very important and we’d like to hear your opinions on the matter.
So please take some time, if you havent already, to complete the survey. It should take no more than approximately 5 minutes for you to complete but the input is important.
As always if you have something specific you’d like me to bring to council regarding these issues, feel free to call or email me mike@mikecluett.ca
The Town of Milton will continue to ask for input throughout the year as will your councillors to make sure that this upcoming budget represents what you feel our priorities should be.
The Budget Call report will be delivered to council this month and of course, there will be opportunities to meet with me and others over the next few weeks to have more comments submitted.
Democracy is a two way street and we need as much input as possible. Dont be shy, complete the survey today!