All Entries Tagged With: "Neco Cockburn"
Company Offers OC Transpo Discount Articulated Buses
Chicago’s loss may be Ottawa’s gain, as Manitoba bus company offers articulated buses at a discount rate: “Bay Councillor Alex Cullen, the transit committee chairman who pushed for the proposal to be considered by the transit committee, said the deal has a tremendous payback.” “But Kitchissippi Councillor Christine Leadman, the only committee member to dissent [...]
Council Imposes Two-Year Wage Freeze For Mayor And Councillors
However, the part of the motion tabled by College Councilor Rick Chiarelli that would have frozen the “compensation structures” of non-union staff failed 10-12: “It lets us at least show leadership and will help during discussions with other levels of government, he said. And when we sit down with unions and make our position, then [...]
Councillors Seek Time To Mull Wage Freeze
As the old saying goes, the devil is in the details. Ottawa City Councillors want more time to address this proposal: “Chiarelli said the city needs to show the public that we are prepared to lead in cutting costs at the city and demonstrate to unions that will be involved in upcoming negotiations “that we’re [...]
Proposed Water And Sewer Rate Changes Run Counter To Conservation Principles, Say Councillors
What is the point of conserving water if the City of Ottawa targets you with water bill increases? Innes Councillor Rainer Bloess said the principle is ‘right’, but the application is to the disadvantage of the low user and benefits the high-volume user, which runs counter to our whole conservation principle.” “There’s no intention whatsoever to [...]
Proposal Asking Voters To Support Homeless Strategy Voted Down
Despite being defeated at the City of Ottawa’s Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee, Alta Vista Councillor Peter Hume’s motion to include a homeless strategy referendum question on this fall’s municipal ballot will be debated by full Council: “Hume told the committee that without creating a collective understanding of all of our citizens, we are [...]
Council Suspends Conflict-Of-Interest Rules For Consultants On Two Projects
City cedes to Councillor Jan Harder’s and Councillor Rainer Bloess’ request to suspend conflict of interest rules to hire consultant already contracted by the City of Ottawa: “Stantec was hired by the city for a servicing study there in 2005, but has since been hired as a design engineer by a major landowner in the area.” “The bylaw [...]
Osgoode Councillor Plans Fight To Hold Ward
27 year municipal politics veteran decides to give it another go: “A councillor for the former township of Osgoode from 1983 to 1997, Thompson was mayor of the former Osgoode Township from 1997 to 2001. He has been on Ottawa council since then, and is also a director and past chairman of the Rural Ontario [...]
Council Holds Line On Boundaries
College Councillor Rick Chiarelli pulls motion following in-camera legal briefing: “His motion called for council to adopt the staff recommendation of an 842-hectare expansion, which outraged community groups, residents and some councillors who said it amounted to giving in to developer interests.” “It starts to be problematic if we keep making symbolic-type decisions now that [...]
‘Our Ottawa’ Takes Aim At City Council
Self- proclaimed non-partisan group of 200 community leaders from across Ottawa, including Past President of the Federation of Citizen Associations Bob Brocklebank (pictured above) want to take on Councillors voting for an urban boundary expansion: “Our Ottawa is a non-partisan group of community organizers from rural, urban and suburban areas who care deeply about this [...]
Journalism student enters mayoral race
Candidate wants to see an expansion of the city’s needle exchange program: “Taylor, 32, is a third-year journalism student at Carleton University who was born and raised in Ottawa. He took 11 years off between high school and university and travelled, visiting 45 countries on five continents.” “He’d also like to expand the city’s needle-exchange [...]
