by Paul | Jan 21, 2024 | Our Community
HRM Council is currently working through the budget for 2024/25. This budget will be developed through the end of March 2024, and is planned to be ratified by HRM Council in April 2024. I plan to document this process as we go through it, including some of the more...
by Paul | Oct 8, 2022 | Our Community
Updated: 15-Oct-2023Lower Sackville has a housing shortage. At this point we have about a 0% vacancy rate. One of the solutions for this is to build more places for people to live, and that’s exactly what’s happening in Lower Sackville. I talk more about...
by Paul | Oct 1, 2022 | Our Community
HRM Council is currently working through the budget for 2023/24. This budget will be developed through the end of March 2023, and is planned to be ratified by HRM Council in April 2023. I plan to document this process as we go through it, including some of the more...
by Paul | Jul 31, 2022 | Our Community
Over the past number of years I have had several conversations with people around Lower Sackville. These conversations have influenced municipal actions in Lower Sackville and they have influenced my decisions. Many of these conversations happened on your doorsteps...
by Paul | Dec 31, 2021 | Our Community
Happy New Year! I wish you the very best in 2022! Since it is New Years Eve, I want to have a look forward at where we can go, and have a look back to see what got us here. There are a lot of good things currently happening, and there are a lot of things that can be...
by Paul | Aug 23, 2021 | Our Community
Ever since I’ve been in office, I’ve been working on housing insecurity, and so has the municipality. To say that this is a complex issue is an understatement. Legislatively, housing is a provincial responsibility. More important than that, however,...
by Paul | Jul 16, 2021 | Our Community
The “Red Book” is the set of municipal design guidelines that HRM uses when building streets, sidewalks, and more. This book specifies the rules for how something should be built, and not why it should be built. It will talk about the dimensions of a sign,...
by Paul | May 8, 2021 | Our Community
On Tuesday, April 27, a new video appeared on Facebook that talked about a water park coming to First Lake. Splashifax (https://splashifax.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/Splashifax) is working to set up a water park on the shores of First Lake, by the Sackville...
by Paul | Jan 17, 2021 | Our Community
HRM Council is currently working through the budget for 2021/22. This budget will be developed through the end of April 2021, and will be ratified by HRM Council in May 2021. The schedule of budget meetings is below. I plan to document this process as we go through...
by Paul | Dec 31, 2020 | Our Community
Hi I send out my newsletters every few weeks (typically a few days before the Council meeting, so that you will see what we will be talking about, and so that you can share your opinion about it with me). I also want to publish a Happy New Year blog post and, rather...
