As a follow-up to my Council report from last week, there were two items I promised to circle back to, like how I circled back to the preposition at the end of that sentence. English teachers will find that last sentence fun. Hi Mom! The two items spoke to supporting local businesses and streetscapes. We […]

Back at it after Spring Break and Easter and all of those things, we had a full agenda on Monday, but got through it pretty quickly, partly because we got through this many things On Consent: Active Rehabilitation Lease Agreement at 65 E. Sixth Avenue (təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre) Part of the new TACC […]

The 2024-2028 5 year Financial Plan was formally adopted by Council on March 11. This is the last step of the annual budget process for Council, though Staff have a lot of work to do yet in submitting documents to the province and getting those tax notices out. I have written about different parts of […]

We had a pretty light agenda on Monday, and even with a good collection of public delegations we had a fairly short night by recent standards. Not that it wasn’t packed with quality content! We started with approving the following items On Consent: City of New Westminster and Fraser Health Authority Second Responder Program (Post-opioid […]

The fun part of the annual budget is the capital budget, because this is the part that pays for the things that we need to have a functional and fun city. Like the rest of the budget, our Capital Plan spending is estimated out over 5 years. We have a plan for the amount we […]

This is a blog. A dying media, but indulge me. I this in 2010 when blogging was something people did. I started writing about things going on in New Westminster and my volunteer work with the New West Environmental Partners under the title “GreenNewWest”. I then realized this was probably confusing to people because I […]