Analysis/Opinion. Next week’s Committee of the Whole (COW) is, unlike last month, a lot of little things. Perhaps some housekeeping before the August recess in council meetings. Note: due to a recently announced re-organization of departments and job titles, some […]
Continuing from our first article on some big-ticket items coming up at the June 10 and June 11 Committee of the Whole meeting at City Hall, a few more items deserve attention: a report on the Live and Play Plan […]
There are a fewer-than-normal number of agenda items due to be discussed at the next Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting, but three items may have a huge impact on how the city looks down the road. And if you […]
Two items of interest at the Committee of the Whole meeting on May 13–14. One deals with the owner of a property on Brant Street opposing the Heritage Burlington Advisory Committee’s request to designate his property as heritage. The other […]
With 11 delegations to Burlington’s Committee of the Whole on May 13 it looked like it would be a long day, again. However, the mayor and councillors managed to get through a robust agenda on time. Whether it’s on budget […]
The City of Burlington has closed access to the northern part of King Road, as it has done for several years, due to the migration of Jefferson salamanders. The salamanders’ migration path takes them across the road and into shallow […]
The Committee of the Whole (COW) is scheduled for two days next week, on Mon., March 4, 2024, and Tues., March 5, 2024; this article will focus on the reports and issues on the agenda for the Environment, Infrastructure, and […]
Another jam-packed Council of the Whole (COW) meeting on March 4 and 5 lies ahead with the regular committees, 15 consent items, nine legal confidential items, and the ever-popular Statutory Public Meetings. Consent items are staff reports and bylaws that […]
For two and a half hours, the Feb. 6 Committee of the Whole heard from 16 written public comments and eight delegations regarding a request by developer Johnsson Studio for a bylaw amendment to convert a property at 336 Appleby […]
The city’s new Committee of the Whole sat for two straight days, Feb. 5 and 6, where we saw some signs of fatigue, and a few minor gaffes and giggles (i.e. forgetting dates and order of procedures) from councillors creep […]
