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Is the Town of Milton doing an “outstanding job?”

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Milton town hall

In the May 9th edition of the Milton Canadian Champion, town CAO Mario Belvedere said the town of Milton was doing an “outstanding job” managing growth and roads over the past several years.

Visit Mike Cluett’s Milton blog to read the articles and subsequent comments from readers presenting a slight difference of opinion on the matter.

Maybe the Town needs a little help getting ready the next time it decides to pat itself on the back.

Where will Ward One go?

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Milton town hall

The following post is by Mike Cluett. Please visit Mike Cluett’s Milton blog

Is the town making the right decision by looking at changing the ward boundaries in Milton?

By the sounds of this letter to the Champion last week, they might be jumping the gun. Milton resident Robert Harris states that the Town of Milton should wait until the Region of Halton completes its “Sustainable Halton” plan before making changes to how the town is divided up. Here’s the letter…

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WLU coming to Milton?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The following post is by Mike Cluett. Please visit Mike Cluett’s Milton blog

I was able to take sometime tonight to attend a Milton Town Council meeting and as the old saying goes…

Breaking news!!!!

Milton CAO Mario Belvedere is making a presentation to council about the proposed education village in Milton. During his report he made official that Wilfred Laurier University has entered into a memorandum of uderstanding to work on bringing a campus to Milton.

The proposed site would be on Tremaine Road south of Derry Road and north of Brittania on the west side.

There’s still a lof of work to be done to get this rolling more but its the first step to bringing a university to our town…

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Federal Budget Benefits Municipalities

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Jim Flaherty delivers the budget

The following post is by Mike Cluett. Please visit Mike Cluett’s Milton blog site here:

A couple of days ago, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty released his third budget. This is something unheard of for a minority government being able to have this many budgets without being defeated. In many cases, they’re doing a good job and while most Canadians don’t want an election, they seem comfortable with our MP’s in this minority situation.

Here are a couple of items that I pulled from the budget. All in all, it is a pretty sound plan for the coming years. Some of the big highlights for towns and cities are as follows:

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