Date

Brian's Activities – May 2005

May 23 to 27
May 27
  • Round Table on Poverty meeting
  • Meeting with staff to discuss development charges
  • Meeting with resident
May 26
  • Meeting with resident
  • Meeting with resident
  • Municipal Heritage Committee meeting
  • Hamilton Utilities Corporation Strategy Session
  • Meeting with resident
  • Meeting with staff re pesticide by-law consultation
May 25
  • Meeting with General Manager, Public Health and Community Services for monthly departmental update
  • Meeting with constituents re development charges
  • City Council meeting
May 24
  • Social & Public Health Committee meeting
  • Meeting with staff re preparations for new sign by-law
  • Strathcona Community Council meeting
May 23
  • Victoria Day Holiday
May 16 to 20
May 20
  • Hamilton International Airport site visit for an update on future plans
  • Bring City greetings to Unitarian Conference held at McMaster
May 19
  • Niagara Escarpment Commission meeting
  • Special Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting to discuss the new Downtown Zoning By-law
May 18
  • Pesticide Sub-Committee meeting
  • Strategic Planning & Budgets Committee meeting
  • Meeting with Public Health staff to discuss a report that demonstrates how financial investment in public health can result in significant payoffs in reduced hospital admissions, lost time at work, increased quality of life etc.
  • Meeting with constituents
May 17
  • Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting
  • Social & Public Health Committee agenda review meeting
  • Strathcona Community Council meeting
May 16
  • Westdale BIA walkabout
  • Public Works & Infrastructure Committee meeting
  • Special Council meeting to approve Fireworks Bylaw
  • Hamilton  Housing Board meeting
  • Launch of the Yellow Fish Program at St. Joseph's School (see www.brianmchattie.ca/news/news_yellowfish.htm)
  • Meeting with resident re a Niagara Escarpment Commission issue
  • Meeting with the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Urban Transit Association
May 9 to 13
May 13
  • Art Gallery of Hamilton preview tour
may 12
  • Children and Families Flagship planning meeting to discuss terms of reference
  • Meeting with staff and resident
  • Meeting with Economic Development staff to receive an update on the business retention expansion program for businesses in Ward 1
  • Mediation meeting led by Community Dispute Resolution Services
  • Public information meeting re closure of Dundurn Street for the reconstruction of the bridge over the CPR tracks
May 11
  • Meeting to discuss expansion and alignment of the Waterfront Trail from the Valley Inn Rd area along the Harbour shoreline where it would join up with the existing trail below the High Level Bridge at the Desjardins Canal
  • Expressway Implementation Committee meeting
  • Charette to discuss using former CIBC building as a library
  • City Council meeting
May 10
  • HABIA monthly meeting
  • Social & Public Health Committee meeting
  • Housing Agenda review meeting
  • Dundurn Merchants meeting
  • Arts Council meeting
May 9
  • Meeting with staff re Valley Inn Road bridge Environmental Assessment
  • Special COW meeting
  • Meeting with staff and Good Shepherd re status of meeting Ontario Municipal Board conditions for the development at 398 King Street West
  • Meeting with staff re an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board
  • Kirkendall Neighbourhood Association monthly meeting
May 2 to 6
May 6
  • Golf/Winter Sports Park Request for Proposal (RFP) Selection Committee meeting
May 5
  • Meeting with Planning staff to work on strategies to encourage the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board to build in naturalized areas of the school playground as they build new schools
  • Meeting with staff and the Centre for Community Study to discuss the ramifications of the approved new CBC Regional/Local Broadcasting Strategy and steps to secure a CBC radio station for Hamilton
  • Meet with staff from the Mayor's Office to discuss Ward 1 issues
  • Meeting with forestry staff and the Kirkendall and Strathcona tree committees to discuss the committees' recommendations
May 4
  • Meeting to discuss soccer and baseball use at Churchill and Kay Drage Parks; it was decided to reinstate 4 soccer fields and 3 baseball diamonds in the refurbished Kay Drage Park and to continue planning at Churchill Park with a commitment to take any new configuration to the community for comment
  • Meeting with staff to discuss Chedoke Avenue sewer problems
  • Strategic Planning & Budgets Committee
  • Meeting with Chief Librarian to prepare for charette for former CIBC building at Locke and Herkimer
May 3
  • Meeting to discuss departmental strategic plan
  • Agenda review for Social & Public Health Committee
  • Planning & Economic Development Committee meeting
  • Meeting with residents to discuss strategies to deal with parking problems and excessive speeding on their street
May 2
  • Meeting with staff to prepare for May 12 public meeting re Dundurn Bridge closure
  • Meeting with Vision 2020 staff to discuss the Triple Bottom Line approach to evaluating land use development options under GRIDS