Monthly Archives: May 2012 »
Chronicle Herald: School board passes budgets for 2012-13
From the article: The Halifax regional school board has passed a budget that means fewer jobs and $10.2 million less to spend for the upcoming year. The board passed general and supplementary fund budgets
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OpenFile: How are roads funded in Nova Scotia?
From the article: For Nova Scotian communities to have any sense of oneness with their neighbours and to have any activity within those communities, there must be roads. And if there must be roads,
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Declassified “Metro Centre Limited Liability” report
First of all, I have to commend a staff member with HRM’s communications department: She saw I was looking for this report, and she emailed it to me. It is declassified, so I (like
Read More »Chronicle Herald: All Halifax council votes to be recorded
From the article: Halifax regional council will now record all votes, from the controversial to the mundane. Until now, any councillor could ask for a recorded vote on an issue, but the default position
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Chronicle Herald: Council gives up trying to recoup $360,000 in concert loans
From the article: City hall will pay the nearly $360,000 owing to the Halifax Metro Centre, one of the loose ends left over from the cash-for-concerts scandal last spring. The decision Tuesday marked council’s
Read More »Agen-duh: Council agenda preview for May 29, 2012
/ Proclamations; Cellular tower petitions; “No” delivered to Birch bear Run Homeowner’s Association; Temporary Council relocation; Street repair tender; Greater Halifax Partnership agreement; Revisiting cultural arts funding; Record all Council votes?; Concert Scandal report;
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OpenFile: Halifax Harbour Islands
From the article: They’re mostly uninhabited now, but for more than 250 years, the islands in and around the Halifax Harbour have been central to the defense of the city, and were owned or
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OpenFile: Mayor will not chair concert cash debate tomorrow (today)
From the article: Because of a “perceived” conflict of interest (not an actual contravention of the Conflict of Interest Act, he sustains) mayor Peter Kelly has recused himself from tomorrow’s in camera discussion of
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Metro Halifax: Halifax’s deputy mayor wants all council votes recorded
From the article: Halifax regional council is set to debate whether or not their votes should be recorded for posterity on Tuesday. A motion from Deputy Mayor Bill Karsten last week requested that all
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Chronicle Herald: HRM seeks innovative funding for Metro Transit services
From the article: With Metro Transit’s expenses outpacing its revenues by more than double this year, the city finds itself looking at the same three options whenever it wants to expand. And none of
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