by Sharon Collingwood | Feb 7, 2025 | Build Better, Open Government |
I apologize for not presenting all the questions and comments at the end of Wednesday’s Climate Momentum talk posted below. There were female speakers, but unfortunately they were at the back, and I couldn’t capture their questions from my position at the...
by admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Build Better |
Something was different about the last meeting of Climate Conversations, held last week by Climate Momentum. It followed the regular pattern: a short speech, followed by discussion in small groups. Like the two previous meetings, it dealt with a serious topic,...
by admin | Feb 25, 2024 | MZO, Open Government, Preserve farmland |
Final tallies – 141 closed meetings between Sept 2018 and May 2023, 57 months. Almost 2.5 per month. At the 126 meetings with votes, there were 408 votes. Of those, 276 (67.6%) were properly conducted, 132 (32.4%) were illegal. Council acted illegally nearly...
by admin | Jan 7, 2024 | MZO, Open Government, Preserve farmland |
On Friday we attended the Ontario Professional Planners Insitute disciplinary hearing for Chris Pidgeon, planner for the City of Stratford’s Xinyi project in 2018-21. The hearing was a result of Get Concerned Stratford’s complaint of 2021; in an...
by admin | Apr 18, 2022 | Open Government |
It’s the nature of city government to want control. That’s not always a bad thing, but how much control is needed in City discussions with residents? The Stratford City website has been a bone of contention for years. Posts are sometimes unclear. Things are hard to...
