Date

Brian's Activities – May 2006
May 22 to 26
May 26
  • Media conference re Lister Block project
  • On-site meeting with a resident
May 25
  • On-site meeting with a resident to consider property standards/long grass bylaw issues in Marion and Bond S neighbourhood
  • Meeting with staff to discuss traffic issues in the Aberdeen/Queen and Studholme areas
  • CPR Liaison Committee meeting
  • Public meeting to discuss proposal to close Glenside entrance to the Chedoke Golf Course
May 24
  • Meeting with staff to review GRIDS
  • Meeting with City staff and MPAC staff to discuss assessment of student housing
  • Meeting with staff and a resident
  • Meeting with staff re a Dalewood traffic study
  • Attend launch of Friends of Chedoke Adopt-a-Creek Program.
  • Council meeting
May 23
  • Social Services Committee  meeting
  • Meeting to discuss strategy for advancing the Poverty Round Table's work
  • Dinner with McMaster University President and Senior Administration, City of Hamilton Mayor and Councillors to discuss ways that the City and the University can work together better
May 22
  • Victoria Day – City Hall closed
May 15 to 19
May 19
  • Meeting with staff re closure of Glenside entrance to Chedoke Golf Course
May 18
  • Meeting with staff re Tom Street Park
  • Meeting with Arts Hamilton
  • Meeting with staff to discuss the cycling network around the McMaster Innovation Park and Chedoke Golf Course
  • Hamilton LACAC (Municipal Heritage Committee) meeting
  • Meeting to appoint a chair of the Hamilton Day Steering Committee (Brian was appointed vice-chair)
  • Special COW meeting re GRIDS
  • West Hamilton Innovation District Public Information Centre
May 17
  • Meeting to discuss legal issue around sale of a property
  • Glenwood School Walk and Roll fundraising event
  • Pedestrian Committee meeting
May 16
  • Poverty Round Table Steering Committee meeting
  • Planning & Economic Development Committee meeting
  • Monthly meeting re the Loretto property on King St. W.
  • Meeting with Churchill Fields Lawn Bowling Club
  • Meeting with residents re a Committee of Adjustment application
  • Strathcona Community Council meeting (walking tour with Murray Aikman)
May 15
  • Meeting to get staff's perspective re safety and liability issues with private use of a City brownfield property
  • Public Works, Infrastructure and Environment Committee meeting
  • Meeting with a resident re a Committee of Adjustment application
  • CityHousing Hamilton Board meeting
  • Meeting with the Main Street West BIA re traffic issues
  • Meeting to discuss forming a new King St West BIA
May 8 to 12
May 12
  • Meeting with a constituent re vacating space on Stuart St.
  • Meeting with the Mayor re the  Lister Block and GRIDS
  • Meeting with MPAC at Judy Marsale's office
May 11
  • TGAO (Town & Gown Association of Ontario) symposium in Brantford
May 10
  • Ground Breaking Ceremony for 87-89 King East
  • Meeting with staff to review the RFP process to sell 281 Herkimer St. (former CIBC building)
  • Meeting with staff and residents re a Committee of Adjustment application
  • Meeting with staff to prepare Peak Oil Council resolution
  • Meeting with Councillor Pearson t o discuss heritage issues with the creative reuse of the Smart Turner heritage building
  • Council meeting
May 9
  • HABIA meeting
  • Social Services Committee meeting
  • CityHousing agenda review
  • On-site meeting with staff to discuss making Locke Street between King & Main more pedestrian friendly
  • On-site meeting to discuss expansion of the West Town Bar & Grill
May 8
  • Meeting with staff and a resident to discuss Tom Street Park
  • Meeting with Downtown Renewal staff t o discuss the launch of a new CIP (Community Improvement Plan) to encourage more residential development above stores in BIAs and downtowns, and eventually across the City
  • Special COW meeting
  • AWWCA (Ainslie Wood Westdale Community Association of Resident Homeowners) meeting
May 1 to 5
May 5
  • Meeting with staff and the owner of the student development project on Main St. W. (former CNIB) to discuss a possible reduction in development charges - this building will be Canada's first LEED-certified platinum building incorporating energy and water conservation, thereby having less of an effect on city services
  • Meeting with HIEA (Hamilton Industrial Environmental Association) re tree planting
May 4
  • Two meetings with MPAC and a resident re property assessment
  • Meeting with the Mayor, Councillors Whitehead & Mitchell and Jack Santa Barbara re HPD (Hamiltonians for Progressive Development)
  • Meeting with a constituent
  • Meeting with McMaster Off-Campus Resource Centre staff and McMaster Students Union President to discuss bylaw enforcement, peer response, peer property management company
  • On-site meeting to discuss student housing development in Strathcona neighbourhood
May 3
  • Poverty Round Table Steering Committee
  • Meeting with staff to discuss the zero tolerance for noise policy in Ainslie Wood Westdale & the need for sharing record-keeping on visits to houses with Police
  • Meeting with a representative from Clean Energy, a company in the natural gas business, to explain the benefits of the HSR fleet sticking with natural gas as a fuel
  • Meeting with Parking staff re parking enforcement in Westdale
  • Provincial Gas Tax Transit Master Plan Steering Committee
May 2
  • Planning & Economic Development Committee meeting
May 1
  • Public Works, Infrastructure and Environment Committee meeting
  • Pesticide Sub-committee meeting
  • Meeting re a Ward 1 Committee of Adjustment application