Mike Cluett

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  • Milton Town Budget Barely Passes

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    From Christina Commisso, Milton Canadian Champion Town budget barely passes Council divided in approving Milton budget that will see municipal taxes rise by 4.58% The 11 members of council spent little time discussing the increase during Monday’s marathon meeting, which saw only six of 11 councillors vote in favour of the controversial budget. Much of…

  • Hospital Levy Increases Tax Hike By 1%

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    From the Milton Canadian Champion Christina Commisso, Milton Canadian Champion Town staff presented the budget committee a 2011 budget with a 4.86 per cent hike and included options to bring that percentage down to 1.66 per cent. The committee approved a 2011 budget with a 4.58 per cent tax increase. A passionate debate extended into…

  • Say Cheese Mr Premier

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    From Christina Commisso Milton Canadian Champion McGuinty attends tweetup Local tweeters were greeted by an unlikely party-crasher Friday night — Ontario’s premier.Dalton McGuinty surprised about 25 people gathered for a meet-up among Twitter friends, better known as a ‘tweetup.’ “I want to be introduced as a fellow tweeter, and as Dalton,” the premier told organizer Robin…

  • Demographics Are Changing & Trustee Debate

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    Here is an article by Christina Commisso of the Milton Canadian Champion regarding some of the events coming out of the most recent Administration & Planning committee meeting. “We heard from (Milton trustee) Donna Danielli that the school board was working on base statistics of about three children coming out of a household. Last week we…

  • Milton Historical Society All Candidates

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    This past Tuesday evening at the Milton Fairgrounds, the Historical Society of Milton held the first of many all candidates meetings.  There were a lot of interested people filling the seats which was close to an open house.  At the front of the room sat over 25 candidates for office in Milton for the upcoming…

  • AMO Status report

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    Keeping in tune with a previous article by Christina Commisso from the Milton Canadian Champion last week about elected officials and candidates being “online & connected” it made me wonder about the AMO conference that is going on this week. She had also written an article about our 5 councillors who are attending the AMO…