Good morning Burlington, A reminder that Burlington City Hall is closed today for the Easter Monday statutory public holiday. For more on what’s open and closed, please see this City of Burlington news release. For more on what’s happening this week, please see my full weekly update for April 10-16,
*Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — April 6, 2023 — The City of Burlington’s Tyandaga Golf Course will open for the 2023 season on Saturday, April 15. Tyandaga Golf Course will begin taking tee-time bookings on Tuesday, April 11. Tee times
MY TAKE: Thank you Minister of Health and Ontario Deputy Premier Sylvia Jones for meeting with OBCM Chair Mayor Bonnie Crombie, myself and Mayors Cam Guthrie, Josh Morgan, Darrin Canniff, Bryan Peterson yesterday afternoon. We had a very productive discussion on what matters to us all – caring for residents
MY TAKE: Congratulations to our Recreation, Community and Culture department and staff on this wonderful recognition! And thank you to all of our stakeholder partners whose collaborative efforts with the City helped make this amazing community hub a reality! • •
Our weekly series “Budget Briefs” lets residents know how our community will be benefitting from specific investments in Burlington’s approved 2023 Operating and Capital Budget. • • • During 2023 Budget deliberations,
*Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — April 3, 2023 — City of Burlington administrative services will be closed for Good Friday, on Friday, April 7, and Easter Monday, on Monday, April 10. For a list of which City services and facilities
Welcome to the Mayor’s Monday Mailbag, an initiative Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward and the Mayor’s Office launched to share weekly answers to questions from the public we’ve received through our main email inbox at mayor@burlington.ca or the Mayor’s social media platforms. At the end of the month, we publish a
Good morning Burlington, This week will be a shortened one due to the upcoming Easter holiday. Please note that City Hall will be closed this Friday (April 7) and next Monday (April 10) for the Good Friday and Easter Monday holidays, respectively. For more on what’s happening this week, please
Mayor’s Strategy and Communications Intern Nadia Hansen reflects on her time in the Burlington Mayor’s office. Nadia joined my team in May 2022 and we extended her contract with us seeing how quickly she adapted and picked up new skills and excelled in them. She was a true asset and
*Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — March 31, 2023 — The City of Burlington and BurlingtonGreen are hosting Earth Day activities at various locations throughout the city. Earth Day Tree Planting Event In partnership with BurlingtonGreen, a tree planting event will
Our weekly series “Budget Briefs” lets residents know how our community will be benefitting from specific investments in Burlington’s approved 2023 Operating and Capital Budget. • • • We’re making major improvements
Good morning Burlington, It’s committee week! Our April 2023 Standing Committee cycle starts tomorrow (Tuesday, March 28) with the Community Planning, Regulation & Mobility (CPRM) Committee meeting. The Corporate Services, Strategy, Risk & Accountability (CSSRA) Committee meeting will be held Wednesday (March 29) and there will be no Environment, Infrastructure
*Please see below a news release issued by the Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) caucus. March 23, 2023 Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) would like to thank Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy for the 2023 Ontario Budget: Building a Strong Ontario. Through the budget consultation process,
Grateful to my Council colleagues for approving, at our March 21 meeting, a motion put forward by myself and Councillors Paul Sharman and Rory Nisan directing staff to find alternatives to accommodate additional parking in the former Robert Bateman High School adaptive reuse project that minimizes the impact to existing
*Please see below a news release issued by the Region of Halton. The Regional Municipality of Halton For Immediate Release March 23, 2023 Halton Regional Council is developing a Strategic Business Plan that will guide the Region’s work over the next four years. To seek input from the public, the
Welcome to the Mayor’s Mailbag – March 2023 roundup. The Mayor’s Monday Mailbag is a weekly initiative Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward and the Mayor’s Office has launched to share answers to questions from the public we’ve received through our main email inbox at mayor@burlington.ca or the Mayor’s social media platforms.
At our Burlington Council meeting on March 21, we unanimously passed a resolution I brought forward calling on the Provincial government to help end homeless in Ontario. A similar resolution was brought forward by myself and Halton Regional & Milton Town Councillor Colin Best at our Halton Regional Council meeting
*Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — March 22, 2023 — Applications for the 2023 temporary patio program are being accepted starting today, March 22. Business owner/operators that would like to install a temporary patio on municipal property in the downtown during
At our Burlington City Council meeting on March 21, we unanimously approved continuing our temporary outdoor patio program on private property for the 2023 season, and directed staff to start an application process to implement a plan for the use of public property in the downtown for temporary outdoor patios.
At our March 21 meeting, Burlington City Council unanimously approved endorsing the City of Burlington 2031 Municipal Housing Target Pledge in support of our commitment to meet the Province of Ontario’s 2031 housing target for our city of 29,000 homes. This was done as a result of the City of