July 25 to 29

July 29

• Green Fleet Implementation Plan meeting with Environment Canada to request their assistance with the Plan including testing of green technologies

July 28

• Utilities Arrears Project Team Meeting
• LACAC (Municipal Heritage Committee) meeting
• Meeting with constituent
• Meeting with Environment Hamilton re a new project focussed on the north end of Hamilton

July 27

• Meeting with Hamilton Public Library staff, Library Board Chair and a constituent to discuss Locke Library
• Meeting with constituent to discuss aesthetics of weeds on the hi-level bridge/York Blvd as primary entrance to the City

July 26

• Citizenship Ceremony
• Meeting with Forestry staff and McMaste
• Meeting with NEC (Niagara Escarpment Commission) staff and the Mayor to discuss the new NEC
• Meeting with Hamilton Police Staff Sergeant of Beat 681 (Kirkendall) and Beat 682 (Strathcona) to look into ways to interact with the community

July 25

• Meeting with constituent
• Information  meeting re the Lister Block building

July 22

• Meeting with Art Samson, Dundas Councillor to brief Russ Powers, MPP on the opportunity to establish a CBC radio station in Hamilton and to discuss forming a National Park for the RBG lands

July 21

• No meetings scheduled

July 20

• Six month review of Bylaw Enforcement in the West End
• Meeting to better understand financial reporting issues in order to be more effective during City budget sessions and at HUC Board meetings
• Interview with  McMaster student re Alternative Justice research in Hamilton
• Meeting with staff and Strathcona Community Council re Strathcona heritage
• Meeting with staff re brownfields inventory and to discuss expanding the program with additional dollars
• Meeting with Hamilton Conservation Area

July 19

• Meeting with staff re Dundurn Castle
• Meeting with constituent re environmental issues in Hamilton
• Interview with a University of Toronto Research Assistant re public participation in environmental management within the municipal governments of Hamilton and Toronto
• Meeting with Hamilton Community Foundation re funding a feasibility study into establishing a Hamilton Parks and Trees Foundation
• Meeting to look at an alternative economic development strategy for Hamilton
• Meeting with pesticide company representative re the proposed pesticide bylaw
• Meeting to discuss the current status of our property standards work in Ainslie Wood Westdale, and whether we can pursue the special duty police model we have in place, but for property std officers property standards staffing arrangement

July 18

• COW meeting to consider the report of the 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid
• Information  meeting re the Lister Block building

July 15

• No meetings scheduled

July 14

• Meeting with HSR staff re national level transit initiatives re Canadian Urban Transit Association - Municipal Committee
• Meeting with McMaster staff to get un update on the design guideline workshop that is being organized by OPPI (Ontario Professional Planners' Institute) conference to be held in Hamilton in September
• Meeting with forestry and parking staff to discuss the front yard parking issue from a tree planting perspective;  lo oking at changing the policy that allows front yard paving for parking, to protect tree planting opportunities
• Meeting with constituent

July 13

• Monthly meeting with General Manager, Public Health and Community Services
• COW/Council meeting

July 12

• HABIA meeting
• Transit Master Plan Steering Committee meeting
• Tour of Hamilton Emergency Services Mechanical Division
• Meeting with staff to go over the plans for the proposed bike path through the CP Aberdeen Railyard

July 11

• West Harbour Trail committee meeting

July 8

• Meeting with Planning staff and a constituent interested in a site in Ward 1
• Meeting with Planning staff and a constituent to comment on proposal for a site in Ward 1

July 7

• Meeting with Forestry staff on site re a constituent's tree
• Meeting at Victoria Park with Parks and Forestry staff to examine some trees that are interfering with the multi-use courts
• Meeting with a constituent
• CityHousing Hamilton Board of Directors meeting
• Meeting with staff re parking near Earl Kitchener school
• Meeting to discuss licensing of student housing

July 6

• Meeting with Public Works staff to go over 2005 proposed capital projects for the ward
• Meeting with Finance staff re student housing taxation
• Media Announcement re McMaster Innovation Park (former CAMCO site)
• Meeting with staff and Centre for Community Studies re a CBC presence in Hamilton;  a report on attracting CBC Radio to Hamilton has been finalized and will be sent to the CBC VPs and Board
• Pesticide Symposium for stakeholders

July 5

• Planning & Economic Development Committee meeting (note that the Ainslie Wood Westdale Secondary Plan and Community Strategy were approved)
• Meeting with Open Space Development staff to discuss capital projects for 2006
• Audit Operational Review interview
• Interview with York University PhD student re thesis research

July 4

• McMaster Innovation Park Site Plan Development Steering Committee meeting