Date

Brian's Activities – March 2005

Mar 29 to Apr 1
Apr 1
  • Tourism Board of Directors meeting
  • Council Information Session - Report of the RBG Review Committee
  • Interviews of citizen applicants to Canadian Pacific Railway-City of Hamilton Liaison Commitee
Mar 31
  • COW Budget meeting (all day)
Mar 30
  • Represent the Mayor at the opening of the new Career Development Centre
  • Golf Course/Ski Hill RFP Selection & Evaluation Committee meeting
Mar 29
  • Information meeting with Wesley Urban Ministries re Management of Alcohol Program
  • Meeting with staff and constituent re a student residence in Ward 1
  • Gas Tax Steering Committee Meeting
Mar 28
  • Easter Monday – City Hall closed
Mar 21 to Mar 25
Mar 25
  • Good Friday – City Hall closed
Mar 24
  • Meeting with Councillor Collins and city staff re a heritage housing project
  • Municipal Heritage Committee meeting
Mar 23
  • Meeting with HUC to discuss HUC energy conservation plan and how to assist low-income folks
  • Meeting with city staff to hear a presentation by a McMaster graduate student on his research on a different form of taxation (Land Value Taxation)
  • Meeting with city staff to discuss creating a new tax class for income properties used for student housing
  • Meeting with the City's legal staff to discuss whether a student lodging home bylaw could be implemented in Hamilton, after the recent appeal to the City of Waterloo student lodging home by-Law
  • City Council meeting
Mar 22
  • Social & Public Health Committee meeting
  • Bring greetings on behalf of the Mayor at the McMaster Smiles Campaign event
  • Tsunami Relief Task Force meeting
  • CPR Interviews of applicants for citizen appointments
Mar 21
  • Meeting with constituent
  • Bring greetings on behalf of the Mayor at the launch of the SISO (Settlement and Integration Services Organization) Civic and Resource Centre
  • Hamilton Housing Board Meeting
  • Meeting with constituent
  • Meeting with planning staff to discuss rezoning of a Ward 1 site
Mar 14 to Mar 18
Mar 18
  • Not in the office
Mar 17
  • Niagara Escarpment Commission meeting
Mar 16
  • Ward 1 10 year capital budget
Mar 15
  • Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting
  • Meeting with constituent to discuss an internship program for youth & women
  • Meeting with constituent
  • Meeting with city staff and Councillor Bratina re redeveloping the Tivoli
Mar 14
  • Meeting with constituent
  • Housing Agenda Review
  • Meeting with city staff and the Mayor to discuss strategy on attracting a CBC radio station to Hamilton
Mar 7 to Mar 11
Mar 11
  • Represented the Mayor at the Ontario Government's announcement to select three Ontario communities to serve as models under the province's Best Start Plan (the District of Timiskaming in northeastern Ontario, the rural areas of Lambton and Kent in southwestern Ontario and Hamilton's urban east end)
Mar 10
  • Pesticide Sub-Committee meeting
  • Via Rail Co-ordination meeting to discuss possible station locations with VIA and their needs in terms of a business case for station
Mar 9
  • Meeting with Forestry staff to update them on the Trees Across Hamilton project
  • Meeting with Trustee Judith Bishop, City staff and HWDSB staff to discuss future use of tennis courts at Westdale High School
  • Meeting with President & CEO of Hamilton Utilities Corporation to learn more about the dividend policy and how best to communicate with City Council
  • Meeting with Trustee Judith Bishop and City staff to discuss traffic issues surrounding Ward 1 schools
  • City Council meeting
Mar 8
  • HABIA monthly meeting
  • Social & Public Health Committee meeting
  • Meeting with Staff Sergeant Scott Rastin to work on a response to apartment building dwellers re student problems
  • Arts Cluster meeting to discuss possible funding from the Bay Area Arts Stabilisation Fund
  • Arts Council monthly meeting
Mar 7
  • Meeting with HUC (Fibrewired) to learn about wireless internet access system and applications within the City and to discuss how to fund such a program in Hamilton that would make it the first city in Canada with this system
  • Meeting with staff from Forestry and Traffic re beautification on traffic islands by McMaster
  • Meeting with the new City Cycling Co-ordinator to discuss the status of bike lanes on King Street West between Macklin and Cline
  • Meeting with Ben Bull to discuss how the Green Berets community group can better share their ideas with the City
  • Meeting with the Director of the Health Protection Branch to discuss the community consultation plan for the pesticide bylaw
  • Meeting with Mayor DiIanni to talk about HUC, HSR downtown terminal and the TH&B station
  • Kirkendall Neighbourhood Association monthly meeting
Feb 28 to Mar 4

Mar 4

  • Phone call to Water and Wastewater staff to get an update on the Woodward Ave energy creation project and dredging plans for sediment in Windermere Basin
Mar 3
  • Meeting with Executive Director of  Festival of Friends to discuss in further detail the present situation that Creative Arts and the Festival of Friends finds itself in
  • Meeting with constituent re small business, participatory budgets & transportation
  • Interview with a University of Boston student "The Ability of Local Governments to Engage in Sustainable Energy Development: A Comparative Approach."
  • Meeting with Waste Management staff to discuss advancing waste reduction in Ward 1 and on McMaster's campus
  • ASPECT Public Information Centre More Info (comments welcome until March 31)
Mar 2
  • Meeting to discuss HABIA's use of ebay to market themselves
  • Strategic Planning & Budgets Committee meeting
  • Appearance on Cable 14's Hamilton Hotline
Mar 1
  • Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting
  • Meeting Hamilton Utilities Corporation ( HUC) to discuss City – HUC interactions around a project to create alternative sources of energy at Woodward sewage treatment plant
  • Meeting with staff re development issues on a ward 1 lot
Feb 28
  • Tonnes for Trees media launch More Info
  • Meeting with Dave Christopherson, MP Hamilton  Centre to discuss working together on federal issues in Ward 1
  • COW Budget Session