Mayor's Blog

Asset Management in North Perth

Posted Date Monday, January 27, 2020

Through the Infrastructure for Jobs and Prosperity Act passed in December of 2017, the Province of Ontario issued Ontario Regulation 588/17 (known as “Asset Management Planning for Municipal Infrastructure”) in an effort to provide a more standardized approach to asset management planning in municipalities. Assets include a lot of things: roads, drains, buildings, bridges, computers, snow and construction equipment, playgrounds, sport fields and critical water...

Births, Recognitions and a Passing

Posted Date Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The last two months have been a very heady period for your Mayor and your Council.

Our community delivers absolutely fantastic Remembrance Day experiences/memorials – and, as Mayor, I would like to recognize the local Legion branch, with President Lindsey Matheson White and a remarkable crew of volunteers for their dedication and hard work. Kudos as well to the local Cadet corps, with whom I’ve interacted several times in the last 6 weeks, and who are a very dedicated...

Development Charges - Growth Paying for Growth

Posted Date Thursday, September 26, 2019

A lot can happen quickly in the municipal policy arena. It can be very complex. And for a first term Mayor, at times it can seem super busy.

So in this blog post, I want to share some information about Council’s recent efforts on development charges, which culminated in the passing of a new Development Charge Bylaw at the August 26, 2019 meeting of the Council of the Municipality of North Perth. I have a few stray other items I’ll pick up at the end of this post.

Development...

Budgets and Task Forces – It’s Busy Season!

Posted Date Thursday, September 19, 2019

Budget 2020 – Have Your Say!

It seems like it was just yesterday that my first budget season as Mayor was upon me! Immediately after my inauguration, things got busy on the budget front, and our current Council spent a busy few months understanding the work of the previous Council and working our way through a massive binder of budget data. We passed our 2019 budget in May 2019.

What is really unusual to me is that we operate for a period of time, from January until budget...

Mayor's Blog - Issue 1

Posted Date Thursday, August 08, 2019

As Mayor, and with Council’s help, I keep my eye on a number of priorities and ideas – and feel inspired to share a few of those with you via my new blog.

Affordable Housing

Shortly after my inauguration, Council joined with me to create 4 Mayor’s Task Forces to address some of the interesting challenges facing our community. One of these is Affordable Housing, and I admit that quite a bit of my bandwidth and thinking is devoted to this issue. I will continue to...