town of milton
Milton Makeover Morning April 15th 2011
Last year over 3,500 people participated in Milton’s Makeover Morning to help keep our town clean! This year we hope that even more people get involved in the 7th Annual event. This event is in partnership with the Milton Chamber of Commerce.
I have talked with someone from Ward 6 who is really interested in getting this set up for that day, so please email me mike@mikecluett.ca and I’ll forward your information to her right away. There are lots of areas that need a good cleaning, one of which is along Louis St. Laurent between Thompson Road and James Snow Parkway as well as a few of our parks that need to shed the “winter blues” and prepare for spring.
If you are interested in registering, look below for the Online Registration Link and sign up today.
Let’s help keep our town CLEAN!
From the Town of Milton Website
Participate in our Milton Makeover Morning on April 15, 2011
Over 3,500 participants gathered together to pick up litter during last year’s makeover. The Town of Milton, in partnership with the Milton Chamber of Commerce, is encouraging everyone to participate in this seventh annual makeover on Friday, April 15. The Town is inviting families, friends, neighbours, community groups, school students and employees at Milton businesses to gather together to pick up litter on streets, boulevards, surrounding grounds, parking lots, local parks, green spaces and woodlots. Take some time to “stash some trash” to preserve and enhance Milton’s natural beauty.
Makeover supplies
To promote safety during this clean up activity, the Town is asking participants to wear protective clothing such as boots and gloves, and will be making free garbage bags and gloves available for pick up starting April 5 at the Milton Leisure Centre, Sports Centre, Town Hall, and Milton Chamber of Commerce.
Looking for areas to clean up?
Watch for a map coming soon for areas needing special attention during the Milton Makeover
Register and be recognized
Register using our online registration form so that your participation will be posted on this website.
Online registration form
Makeover participants
Arrange for special garbage pick up by April 13
If you anticipate you will have 5 bags or more of garbage after your clean up, please fill in the online form above or contact us as indicated on the bottom of this page; schools are not eligible for special garbage pick-up.
Milton Makeover Morning promotional materials
The “Don’t Be a Litterbug” logo and public information posters will help you to advertise the makeover. In addition, participation posters will help you promote the specific involvement of your school, group, organization or business.
Information Poster
Participation Poster (to promote your involvement)
Don’t Be a Litterbug Symbol
Other upcoming anti-litter/clean up activities
There are many opportunities to get more involved in litter clean up in the community:
- Nassagaweya Rural Road Clean Up Day: Saturday, April 30
- Good Neighbours Community Day: Saturday, May 7
For more details on these activities, review Additional Clean Up Day Information
Town Council Meeting Tonight
Here is a link to the agenda for tonights meeting.
Some of the items up for discussion is Milton’s participation in the 2011-2013 Metrolinx Joint Procurement Initiative for purchasing transit buses, the memorandum of understanding with the Town of Milton & Wilfrid Laurier University for the Education Village, and a technical report regarding a possible zoning change for the intersection of Harris Blvd and Main Street to permint mixed use condominium development.
As always, you can follow the links to the right and click to watch the meeting streamed live on www.milton.ca I, along with a few other councilllors will do our best to “tweet” updates from the meeting for those who cant make it.
See you tonight.
Work to begin at Hwy 25 and Louis St. Laurent
Good news! Work is now scheduled to begin at the intersection of Hwy 25 and Louis St. Laurent to allow for a widened intersection and installation of a traffic signal as well. Work is expected to commence soon and be completed by June 2011.
This means that the extension of LSL towards 25 is almost ready to be used. This will help in alleviating traffic along Britannia Road east / west ( a route I take daily). What I will be looking for and asking for a timeline is the installation of a traffic signal at Thompson Road and LSL. With the new east / west route up and running, this means there will be more traffic going through this already busy intersection in the morning.
Here’s a map of the work area.
Traffic Calming Report
Here’s a little weekend reading for you. I thought given the intense desire on the part of many councillors for this report, they would have it up on their sites as well (hint hint 🙂 )
Over the course of the last municipal campaign and in fact over the past several years people have asked what we can do to stop speeding and make our streets safer. Million dollar question.
Do we put more police on the streets for enforcement purposes? Are speed bumps the answer? How can we narrow a road like Scott (Expressway as its been called) Blvd to get people to slow down, especially in school zones?
Town staff has returned a report that will be tabled at the Community Services Standing Committee this coming Monday night at Town Hall. I haven’t had the time to review it myself in detail (thats my homework for this weekend!) and I wanted to provide the link for you to download and read the report.
Here is the link to the agendafor Mondays meeting. There will also be a number of quarterly reports for 2010 from a number of departments including the Fire Department, Community Services, and Engineering Services as well. Other consent items include the Nassagaweya Tennis Club lease agreement, Milton Farmers Market agreement, and other staff reports on implementing all way stops at some intersections (Mowatt & Coates – Scott Blvd & Pringle). There will also be some presentations on the towns “Move More Milton” program and the concept design of Milton’s Fire Hall #3.
Here is the link to the traffic calming report from Town of Milton staff.
Residents are invited to speak to the committee by letting the town clerk know before 10AM on Monday and stand as a delegation. That means YOU have homework too!
Feel free to comment here or send me an email to mike@mikecluett.ca with your comments that I can direct to the committee on your behalf if you cant make it Monday. Of course you can also follow along at home by watching the meeting online (sounds nice to say that finally) I’ll put the link off to the right hand side for easy reference.
Getting back to the traffic calming ideas, the easiest solution to making our streets safer for drivers and pedestrians alike is for people to drive with care and abide by the speed limits, avoid illegal passing on streets, and to take more caution when driving. Most drivers do these things, but its the few that cause issues and concerns with Milton residents.
Will all of these solutions be perfect for Milton? Likely not. Each area in question will have to be assessed separately and not just cookie cutter solutions for all. As the report outlines, there are costs involved in each of these measures and will require extensive training of drivers in town to get used to them once/if they are implemented.
So take some time to review the report, submit your questions or concerns to me, or your councillor if you like, and watch the meeting on Monday night starting at 7pm.
I’ll see you at the meeting.
In case you missed the last council meeting, its now available on demand from the Town of Milton website.
Council Meeting February 28 2011
Here is link to the agenda for tonights council meeeting starting at 7pm at Milton Town Hall.
The governing body of the Town of Milton is Town Council, consisting of the Mayor and 10 Councillors who represent Milton’s eight wards. Milton residents elect members of Council for a four-year term of office. Milton Town Council deals with a number of varying issues that affect the daily lives of Milton residents including the following items:
- Matters requiring policy direction
- By-laws or by-law amendments
- Responses or actions to pertinent issues
Some of the items that will be discussed include:
- 4th Quarter 2010 Capital Variance Report
- A public meeting for proposed amendments to lands located at 3074 Main Street (Main Street / Bronte Street south west corner)
- A report that outlines the Region of Halton and a potential smoking ban for all publicly owned property.
- Halton District School Boards 2010 Long Term Accomodation Plan.
Remember as well if you cant make it tonight to Town Hall, you can watch the meeting streamed online.
http://www.milton.ca/council/councildocuments/councilwebcast.htm
Here you will be able to launch the viewer for the meetings and find links to archived council and committee meetings. Council meetings should/will have the TV Cogeco feed whereas the committee meetings will be recorded by a camera located at the back of the council chambers.
Drop me an email if youre watching online and let us know what you think. mike@mikecluett.ca or follow me on Twitter @mike_cluett