City Council

Ottawa City Hall. Photo by Devyn Barrie. Here’s a list (in numerical order of ward) of who’s running in Ottawa’s municipal election this fall, from the city elections office’s list of certified candidates. Mayor Incumbent Jim Watson will seek a third (or fourth, if you count his time in office pre-amalgamation) term. ...

https://twitter.com/dianedeans/status/968887106230734849 https://twitter.com/dianedeans/status/971745481922576384 _ (Here’s an excerpt from a post originally published on councillor ** Jeff Leiper' ** s blog . He says he’ll be supporting a motion from Councillors ** Diane Deans ** and ** Catherine McKenney ** to establish both a Council liaison for women. ...

It seems somebody has peed in council’s corn flakes. Over the past couple of weeks the behavior of city politicians has taken a cantankerous turn. What used to be healthy discussion and dissent has become outright angry and mean-spirited on more than a few occasions. ...

Six city councillors are calling for major reforms to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), the provincial oversight body for municipal planning. They say it undermines the city’s planning decisions and ability to create a healthy, sustainable city. Councillors Jeff Leiper, Tobi Nussbaum, Catherine McKenney, Mathieu Fleury, Riley Brockington and David Chernushenko signed a letter to Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi and Minister of Municipal Affairs Bill Mauro, which outlined their concerns with the current system. ...

_ (via City of Ottawa) _ Ottawa City Council and the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 279 have ratified a four-year collective agreement.  City Council voted in favour of the ATU Local 279 contract, which represents over 2,200 employees of OC Transpo including bus operators, Fleet Maintenance staff, Facility Maintenance, and Transit Safety and Enforcement Services staff. ...

The Ottawa Cultural Alliance today acknowledged and thanked the City of Ottawa for the 1.5% inflationary increase in the City’s cultural funding and for investments made to date in A Renewed Action Plan for Arts, Heritage and Culture (2013-2018) but is disappointed that the City is unable to make any additional investments in the City’s six-year Action Plan in its 2016 budget. ...

The flags at Ben Franklin Place will be lowered to half-mast from sunrise to sunset on Monday, October 19, the day of the memorial service for the late Al Loney.  Mr. Loney served residents of the City of Nepean and the City of Ottawa as an elected official for the Nepean City Council from 1973 to 1994 and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton from 1994 to 2000. ...

City Council today approved a settlement with several of the parties appealing the City’s new development charges that will continue to see growth pay for growth.  Development charges pay for the growth-related portion of capital costs for transit, new roads, water, sewers, drainage, emergency services, parks development, major indoor recreation facilities, libraries and growth-related studies. ...

Mayor Jim Watson presented a special Mayoral certificate to Ward 4 Kanata North Councillor Marianne Wilkinson this morning, in recognition and appreciation of her more than 25 years of service to elected municipal office.  “At Council and committee meetings, and countless public events, I always appreciate Councillor Wilkinson’s dedication and passion for service, as well as her focus and depth of experience,” said Mayor Watson. ...

Ottawa residents will have several opportunities in the coming weeks to take part in pre-budget consultations in advance of the City of Ottawa Budget 2016. These opportunities are in addition to Mayor Jim Watson’s telephone town hall held in June and the budget2016@ottawa. ...