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Downtown slowly reopening, farmers' market returns, patio causes headaches

22 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, Collingwood's municipal m..., downtown-BIA, Pointless legislation
Construction proceeds apace downtown. Susan and I walked downtown (with Sophie) early Saturday to see how the newly-re-opened first block looked, do a little local shopping, and to gander at the farmers' market on its first open weekend (and buy a few odds and ends there, and downtown, too).*...

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Tags: Collingwood Municipal Madness, patios, downtown, council, closed for business 4 Comments


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Public input on ward systems shut out again

27 April 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Election 2010, Collingwood's municipal m...
[font="Trebuchet MS"][size="2"]The chance for public input into the local election system was shut down last night by Collingwood Council in a 7-2 vote. The mayor and Councillors Edwards, Sandberg, Jeffrey, Foley, McNabb and Labelle voted no.

I had proposed a referendum question for the 2010 municipal ballot that read,...

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Tags: mayor, openness, public input, Collingwood Municipal Madness, council 0 Comments


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Downtown patios, again

09 March 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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An impassioned presentation on the benefits of moving the downtown restaurant patios to the curbside, last night, failed to move me. I still think it's a bad idea and I haven't heard any comments from the restaurant owners...

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Tags: patios, municipal madness, council, Collingwood, downtown 3 Comments


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A rushed budget?

08 March 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]The vote on the 2010 budget comes up tonight (March 8). While it's long overdue (it should have been presented in late 2009), I'm concerned that two of its foremost critics - Councillors Edwards and Foley - are both away from the table tonight.

I realize that, because of jobs, personal demands and other...

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Tags: budget, Collingwood, municipal madness, council 2 Comments


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A confederacy of dunces

03 March 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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I'm stupid. Or perhaps, if you want to split semantic hairs, my decisions are stupid. But I'm not at all sure how I can be separated from my decisions, intellectually speaking. Non...

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Tags: Collingwood, council, Sonny Foley, stupidity, municipal madness 2 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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Where's the '10 budget?

27 December 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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One of the last questions I asked in our final 2009 council meeting was, "Where's the preliminary budget for 2010?" Sometime in...

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Tags: municipal madness, council, Collingwood, mayor, budget 1 Comments


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Misconceptions about libraries

22 December 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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I normally don't engage in he-said-I-said-he-said with other bloggers. That's a bit incestuous for each of us...

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Tags: council, books, debenture, Collingwood, municipal madness, library 4 Comments


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User fees: the hidden taxes

19 December 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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Every year council votes on the rates for fees and services for the coming year. Sometimes we even debate them, assuming that...

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Tags: council, municipal madness, Collingwood, user fees, taxes 2 Comments


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Damn the iceberg, full speed ahead!

16 December 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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If a couple of our councillors were captain of the Titanic, I suspect they'd still chart a course full speed ahead after being told about the iceberg. That would be "new information" after all,...

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Tags: procedural bylaw, Collingwood, council, municipal madness 3 Comments



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