Municipalities are constantly being portrayed as the biggest stumbling block in solving the housing crisis. The issue than many are having is the incredibly high infrastructure bill to meet the needs of the new builds. Unless the federal and provincial governments change how they fund...
Last night at our Budget Meeting we heard from the ABCs - the City's associations, boards and commissions - St. Catharines Public Library Board (SCPL), FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Board, Niagara Airport Commission, Meridian Centre and Canada Games Park. Each of the ABCs were asked to...
Last night (Monday, October 16) at council - we agreed to remove the Watson Statue from City Hall front lawn. The removal of the statue is a long time coming. I want to thank Mayor Siscoe for bringing the motion to council and for his leadership that...
The federal government recently announced that they would be removing GST on purpose built rentals to help address the housing crisis. Almost immediately some folks started questioning how giving ‘rich’ developers a break on GST would help the housing crisis and instead of seeing the news...
There is regular call by some of my colleagues to "find significant savings" in our city budget. This sounds great and honestly most of us are constantly looking for ways to save money and decrease our budgets. It is something we all must do. My issue...
Last night at Council (August 14), we hopefully had our final motions about the 2023 property taxes and now we'll be able to focus on the new multi-year budget for 2024 to 2026. I've already talked about the budget and the decisions made - you can...
I'm sure many of you have read in the St. Catharines Standard or listened to 610 CKTB, that on Monday, July 24, there is a motion being brought forward to reconsider the 2023 City of St. Catharines budget...
Very excited that City of St. Catharines, Niagara Region, and Niagara Regional Housing (NRH) announced the development plans at 320 Geneva St.. The plans include building more than 80 units of supportive and affordable housing over three phases. In my opinion, this is a great example of two levels...
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of speaking at the City of St. Catharines Pride Flag Raising. As the City's first openly gay councillor - it was a very special and humbling experience. At the flag raising the City presented a $5000 cheque to PRIDE Niagara...
On Monday night (May 15th), Council approved two CIP (Community Improvement Plan) incentive applications for one for 88 James St. and one for 10 Pleasant Ave. 88 James St. recieved a TIF (Tax Increment Finance Program) incentive of a 45% annual tax rebate over a 10-year...
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