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Steve Assaff replies to the mayor's web site comments

08 April 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood's municipal m...
I received a nine-page letter today from Steve Assaff, today, responding to comments on the mayor's website about the Admiral Collingwood project.

Steve, as many of you know, is the would-be developer of the downtown Admiral Collingwood project. That was supposed to be the jewel of the downtown - commercial and residential infill growth,...

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Tags: Collingwood Municipal Madness, development, Admiral Collingwood, Assaff 1 Comments


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More wasted tax dollars

01 April 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood's municipal m...
Back in December, Councillors Jeffrey and McNabb took offence at the mayor ruling in a procedural matter in the patio discussion. I wrote about it in a blog piece back then, noting:
[quote]The discussion spun its wheels in...

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Tags: Collingwood Municipal Madness, budget, tax dollars, waste, lawyers, legal fees 0 Comments


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Budget points to ponder

03 February 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]Collingwood's budget process changed in 2010 after a recommendation from staff who found the budget committee the mayor had created arbitrarily at the start of his term to be cumbersome. The fragmented presentation of the budget at regular evening council meetings that resulted from his change was...

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Tags: council, budget, Collingwood Municipal Madness, discrepancies 0 Comments


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The contentious budget

22 January 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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Collingwood's budget process has started and, as usual, the smallest amounts have proven the most contentious. Most of the larger items...

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Tags: taxes, Collingwood Municipal Madness, spending, budget committee, mayor 13 Comments


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Mayors are from Mars, Councillors are from Venus

04 May 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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If there ever was proof that the mayor and I are from different planets, the weekend...

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Tags: mayor, budget committee, Collingwood Municipal Madness, deputy mayor 2 Comments



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