Date

Brian's Activities – February 2005

Feb 21 to Feb 25

Feb 25
  • Town & Gown Symposium - On Common Ground: Enhancing Communities Together (Guelph) – all day
Feb 24
  • Next Steps: Hamilton Focus on Poverty Reduction
  • HUC Board of Directors meeting
  • COW Budget Session
  • Meeting with HSR, McMaster and MSU re the McMaster bus pass
  • Town & Gown Symposium - On Common Ground: Enhancing Communities Together (Guelph)
Feb 23
  • Meeting with staff to obtain an update on the brownfields program
  • Meeting with constituents and staff
  • Meeting with HSR to discuss extending service to Frid Street businesses
  • City Council meeting
Feb 22
  • Social Services & Public Health Committee meeting, followed by agenda review
  • Melbourne Principles, 2nd conference call
  • Meeting with staff and AWWCA residents to discuss Westdale's designation as a heritage conservation district
Feb 21
  • HUC (Hamilton Utilities Corporation) all day strategy session
  • Main West BIA Board meeting
Feb 14 to Feb 18
Feb 18
  • Represent the Mayor at the Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society Annual Heritage Dinner
Feb 17
  • Niagara Escarpment Commission meeting
  • COW budget deliberation meeting
Feb 16
  • Meeting with staff to discuss a conflict resolution mechanism for City Council and Hamilton Utilities Corporation (HUC)
  • Meeting with golf course staff to discuss pesticide use
  • Presentation by Waste Management staff: Definitely not a Waste of Time
  • Meeting with HUC re his role on  the Board
  • COW budget deliberation meeting
Feb 15
  • Meeting with staff re Hamilton Utilities Corporation
  • Planning and Economic Development meeting
  • Meeting with staff to discuss using $10k set aside after Locke Street floods
  • Meeting with Planning staff to discuss timing of the City Hall Heritage Designation Report
Feb 14
  • Meeting with CityHousing Hamilton staff to review a city report outlining the sale of Hamilton Housing Corporation Singles and Semis
  • Tsunami Relief Task Force meeting
  • Meeting with Environment Hamilton re the One Tonne Challenge
Feb 7 to Feb 11
Feb 11
  • Meeting with Green Venture to discuss how the City can assist in augmenting their backyard tree planting program me
  • Meeting with newly assigned Hamilton Police Service Staff Sergeant to discuss speeding on Main St. & policing in the area
  • Meeting with staff and a resident re a program in Pittsburgh where poverty has been reduced; information to be used in the soon-to-be formed poverty task force.
  • Social Justice Meeting – a discussion was held between key community groups and staff about social service issues
  • Future Fund Board of Governors meeting
Feb 10
  • COW budget meeting (all day)
Feb 9
  • Interview by a University of Waterloo student about Brian's experiences and perspectives surrounding the implementation of Vision 2020
  • Meeting with resident
  • Meeting with resident
  • Interview with Councillor Collins and residents re the Canadian Realty Tax Survey conducted by City of Edmonton
  • Meeting with staff re access & equity
  • Special COW meeting to discuss Hamilton Utilities Corporation (Brian appointed a Director until December 31, 2005)
  • City Council meeting
Feb 8
  • Monthly HABIA meeting
  • Social Services & Public Health Committee Meeting, followed by agenda review
  • Meeting with Councillor Whitehead to discus meeting with Judy Marsales, MPP
  • Appearance on CHML re Cosmetic pesticide spraying and resolving Hamilton's poverty crisis
  • Monthly Arts Council meeting
  • Meeting with Judy Marsales, MPP and members of the McMaster and Mohawk communities to discuss Town and Gown issues and provincial legislation More Info
Feb 7
  • Meeting with two students and a teacher from Westdale Secondary School to discuss involving students in the political process through the creation of a Student Advisory Council
  • Meeting with staff to review a report regarding Disabled Persons Parking in Hamilton's BIAs
  • Meeting with Hamilton Conservation Area staff to review their budget
  • Meeting with staff on how to organise communities to engage in tree planting as part of the Trees Across Hamilton project
  • Meeting with staff re the Arts Cluster and how to advance a Hamilton Cultural Policy and Plan
  • Statutory Special Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting to hear presentations from the public on Setting Sail, the Secondary Plan for the West Harbour (see
    www.hamilton.ca/Planning-and-Development/
    west-harbour/default.asp    )
Jan 31 to Feb 4
Feb 4
  • COW Budget meeting – all day
Feb 3
  • COW Budget meeting – Departmental Overviews
  • The Mayor's Public Info meeting for Wards 1, 11 and 12  re the City budget and overview of the citizen's satisfaction survey.  See www.hamilton.ca/Finance/Citizen%20Survey.asp survey results.
Feb 2
  • Spoke at OPIRG's Transportation for Liveable Communities (TLC) forum along with City staff about city initiatives to support sustainable transportation. More Info
Feb 1
  • Brian off
Jan 31
  • Update by staff on Setting Sail (Secondary Plan for the West Harbour)
  • Meeting with Public Works staff re Locke Street Flood
  • Meeting with Judith Bishop, Trustee, Wards 1 & 2, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board to discuss closer relationship between the City and the Board
  • Update by Planning & Development staff  on the Secondary Plan for Ainslie Wood Westdale
  • Meeting re CNIB student housing development
  • Meeting with the Program Manager, Housing Development and Partnerships (city staff) and  representatives from the Hamilton Civic Coalition's Affordable Housing Group to discuss securing more housing in Hamilton
  • Golf Course/Ski Hill RFP Selection & Evaluation Committee meeting
  • COW budget meeting to hear public delegations