Council Preview: Dec 19, 2018
Welcome to another Middlesex Centre Council meeting preview for December 19, 2018! I’m sorry this one is coming to you later than usual. You can find the meeting agenda here, which has a special start time of 5:30pm. We’ll be starting with a presentation from Middlesex Centre’s independent human resources contractor, Marianne Love, on what she has found for salary increases in 2019. This is a report Council receives annually.On average there is a 1.84% increase proposed for similar municipalities in 2019, and a median of 1.89%. Overall she is recommending a 2% increase in the salary grid for Middlesex
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Council Recap: Dec 12, 2018
I live-tweeted this council meeting, so I have taken those tweets and edited them down into bullet points. If something doesn’t make sense, let me know and I’ll make the needed edits. Paula Lombardi, our municipal counsel, is currently going over various acts that apply to municipal government. She has already said she will be providing an opinion on the recent Ontario Open for Business Act. The most recent changes to the Municipal Act force municipalities to have policies on tree canopies and natural vegetation. The new Councillors look dumbfounded. Welcome to being a creature of the Province! 😆Paula ended
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Council Preview: Dec 12, 2018
Hello! We have a Special Council Meeting called for this week to help get the new Council all caught up on all that our staff do and what they are up to. As the Clerk put it, Each department will have a PowerPoint Presentation to present to Council. It will go as follows: The Municipal Solicitor (lawyer) will have a presentation first. We will then move on to: Clerk’s Department Land Use Planning Building Services Public Works & Engineering Community Services Fire Services The only staff report is the 2019 Council meeting agenda. Barring any massive conflicts, I anticipate this will
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Council Recap: Dec 5, 2018
There isn’t much to report since the agenda was so scant, but I will give you a quick overview of the evening instead! All the new Council members arrived early to get our Council headshots taken, along with group photos with the Clerk and then with all the senior staff members. The ceremony eventually began a little late, and we entered the Coldstream Community Centre as bagpipes played. We were all seated in the same formation Council members will take at normal Council meetings. A student from Medway High School led all those in attendance in singing O Canada, and
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Council Preview: Dec 5, 2018
This week features the first, and likely the shortest, meeting for the 2018-2022 Middlesex Centre Council. Here is the full agenda which, as you can see, should be very short. The Councillors-Elect have already been provided an opportunity to say which boards and committees they would like to sit on, and you can see that we did very well recruiting citizens for the various boards as well! This first meeting serves only to: Swear in the new Council members Appoint Council members and residents to the various boards and committees To appoint the Committee of Adjustment (all of Council) and
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