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Mayor Jim Watson invites residents to call into a pre-budget Tele-Town Hall on Thursday, June 25. Residents will be able to ask questions and share their views before City staff begins developing the draft Budget 2016, which will tabled later this fall. ...

The City of Ottawa today received the Fraud and Waste Hotline Report tabled at Audit Committee by Auditor General Ken Hughes.  The Office of the Auditor General identified instances reported to the City’s Fraud and Waste Hotline in 2013 and 2014 which resulted in a range of management actions from discipline and suspension to termination. ...

** Fewer persons accessing shelters – but longer periods of homelessness point to a missing key ingredient in solutions to homelessness: affordable housing. ** The latest _ Progress Report on Ending Homelessness _ (attached), summarizing the state of homelessness in Ottawa at the end of 2014, was released by the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa on ...

Ottawa property owners are reminded that the payment on the final property tax bill, which was mailed out in late May, is due on Thursday, June 18, 2015.  You can now view, print and pay your property tax bill by visiting ottawa. ...

The Vimy Memorial Bridge has received the prestigious Gustav Lindenthal Medal from the International Bridge Conference. The bridge was designed by Parsons for the City of Ottawa.  The medal was presented during the conference awards dinner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This annual award recognizes outstanding achievement in bridge engineering that is also esthetically and environmentally pleasing. ...

Mayor Jim Watson and City Manager Kent Kirkpatrick presented the 2015 City Manager’s Award for Excellence (CMAE) at today’s City Council meeting. The annual CMAE, now in its ninth year, is comprised of four categories and represents the highest distinction employees can receive through the City’s corporate recognition program. ...

The Ottawa Police Service is seeking public assistance in locating missing boater Nicola Colasante, 57 years old of Ottawa. A family member last spoke to him at approx. 10:00am this morning. At approximately 11:30am, a call for service was received about a boat without anyone on board. ...

Mayor Jim Watson proclaimed AccessAbility Day in Ottawa at the opening ceremony to kick off a day of consultations, presentations and discussions. The goal of the 2015 AccessAbility Day was to begin the important period of public input and feedback on the City’s new multi-year (2016-2020) accessibility plan. ...

Today, the City of Ottawa released 11 Royal swans onto the shores of the Rideau River for another season on the Ottawa waterway. The swans will make the Rideau River their home until the cold weather returns in late October. ...

The first hours after a child goes missing are crucial to their safe recovery. That’s why it’s so important to spread the word. The Ontario AMBER Alert program utilizes social media to effect the dissemination of child abduction information. The viral power of social media enables us to reach hundreds of thousands of Canadians within mere moments of an alert going out. ...