Date

Brian's Activities – January 2005

Jan 24 to Jan 28
Jan 28
  • Meeting with Russ Powers, MP to discuss federal issues effecting Ward 1
  • COW budget meeting
  • Meeting with HUC (Hydro) and staff re Trees Across Hamilton project
  • COW budget meeting re departmental overviews
Jan 27
  • COW budget meeting (all day) re boards & agencies
  • Municipal Heritage Committee meeting
Jan 26
  • Meeting with Heritage staff re a work plan for supporting Heritage District designations in Strathcona & Westdale, architectural plans for the Locke CIBC building to be renovated into a new Locke St. library and designation of this building as a heritage building
  • Tour of McMaster Campus in relation to the Campus Master Plan
  • Meeting with constituents re getting HSR service to Frid St.
  • Expressway Implementation Committee meeting
  • City Council meeting
Jan 25
  • Social & Public Health Committee meeting followed by agenda review
  • Meeting with staff to review the Cultural Policy process
  • Celebrity Server at Living Rock - Soupfest
  • COW budget meeting to hear public delegations
Jan 24
  • Reading at George R. Allan School to celebrate Literacy Week
  • Meeting with city staff and Hydro One to discuss Tree Removal/Trimming
  • Meeting with Emergency Services staff
  • Meeting with Hamilton Port Authority and Biox staff for an update
  • COW budget meeting to hear public delegations
  • Meeting with Hamilton Police Service Beat 691 (Ainslie Wood Westdale) Officers
  • Ward 1 Community meeting – participatory budgeting
Jan 17 to Jan 21
Jan 21
  • Tourism Hamilton Board of Director's Meeting
  • Residential Intensification Workshop hosted City of Hamilton Planning & Development staff.  The purpose of the workshop was to identify development strategies and possible City actions (all types) that can be taken to facilitate residential intensification on the more challenging sites in the City.
Jan 20
  • Niagara Escarpment Commission monthly meeting
Jan 19
  • Meeting with Planning & Development staff and constituent
  • Corporate Administration Committee meeting
  • Pesticide Sub-Committee meeting
  • Meeting with Ontario Works Program Managers
  • Strategic Planning & Budgets Committee meeting
Jan 18
  • Planning & Economic Development Committee meeting
  • Meeting with Green Venture to their role in assisting in a City education program on pesticides
  • Meeting with Public Works staff to get an update on Setting Sail
  • Meeting with staff re McMaster University bus pass
  • Strathcona Community Council meeting including a Trees Count Presentation by Environment Hamilton More Info
Jan 17
  • Media conference to announce McMaster purchase of Camco site More Info
  • CityHousing Board Meeting
  • Meeting with the Director of the Health Protection Branch to prepare for Pesticide Sub-Committee meeting
  • Current Budget review
Jan 10 to Jan 14
Jan 14
  • COW – Budget department overview of Public Health & Community Services, Hamilton Emergency Services and Corporate Services
  • Meeting with Mayor's Office staff and McQuesten Legal Services to analyze data about the movement of Ontario Works clients throughout the GTA; this is in support of making the case that Hamilton should be in the GTA social services pooling arrangement
Jan 13
  • COW – Budget department overview of Public Works, Infrastructure & Environment
Jan 12
  • Meeting with the Port Authority to discuss improving the City - Port Authority working relationship
  • Meeting with Legal Department staff
  • Meeting with SPRC (Social Planning & Research Centre) to discuss SPRC's mapping of census data and mapping of poverty in Ward 1
  • Meeting with Councillor Jackson and Legal Department staff re the Toronto Election Finance Task Force Report
  • City Council meeting
Jan 11
  • HABIA (Hamilton Association of Business Improvement Areas) monthly meeting
  • Meeting with the General Manager of Public Health & Community Services to discuss the working relationship in Brian's new position as Chair, Social Services and Public Health and also to discuss how to move forward with the Poverty Task Force and Social Development Strategy agendas
  • Agenda review for social & public health
  • CityHousing Agenda review
  • Meeting with staff to discuss developing affordable housing projects similar to those that received 2004 CMHC awards contained in a new booklet produced by CMHC
  • COW – Budget Department overview of Economic Development and Planning & Development
  • Arts Council monthly meeting
Jan 10
  • Meeting with Hamilton Civic Coalition - Affordable Housing group to look at ways that CityHousing Hamilton could work with this group of community stakeholders to create new affordable housing possibly by using school sites no longer required by the Board
  • COW – Budget department overview of City Manager's Office and Corporate Services
  • Meeting with CBC Radio representative, City staff and Hamilton-based Centre for Community Study to discuss the process in gaining a larger presence by CBC in Hamilton, either through a bureau or a full stand-alone station
  • Status of Women Committee meeting
  • Kirkendall Neighbourhood Association Meeting, including a Trees Count Presentation by Environment Hamilton More Info
Jan 4 to Jan 7
Jan 7
  • Tour of the Ronald McDonald House
  • Meeting with constituent to discuss municipal budget
  • HABIA meeting re big box development
Jan 6
  • Special Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting
  • Teleconference with the ICLEI  Canada Working Group to discuss the implementation of the Melbourne Principles. More Info.
Jan 5
  • Corporate Administration Committee meeting
  • Strategic Planning and Budgets Committee meeting
  • Special Council meeting to discuss Tsunami victims disaster relief plans
  • Meeting with Team McHattie to discuss formation of Ward Council
Jan 4
  • Public Works, Infrastructure and Environment Committee meeting
  • Meeting with staff to prepare for ICLEI and the Melbourne Principles teleconferencing call
  • Meeting with staff to discuss plantings in Ward 1