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DEPUTATIONS REGARDING MOTION 19-G-104 - THE 2018 BUDGET AND BUSINESS PLAN YEAR-END REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 4.16 OF PROCEDURAL BY-LAW 2013-072, CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERED TWO EMERGENCY DEPUTATION REQUESTS BY MS. MOROZUK AND MR. THOMSON IN OPPOSITION TO MOTION 19-G-104 - THE 2018 BUDGET AND BUSINESS PLAN YEAR-END REPORT. UPON A VOTE OF CITY COUNCIL TAKEN, MS. MOROZUK AND MR. THOMSON WERE PERMITTED TO ADDRESS CITY COUNCIL.
Robb Meier provided a Deputation in opposition to motion 19-G-104 concerning the 2018 Budget and Business Plan Year-End Report.
Mr. Meier advised that listening to the debate two weeks ago concerning this motion was difficult to watch. He expressed his disappointment with the Committee choosing to further improve tennis courts and adding Wi-Fi in the downtown over the much needed investments on infrastructure for safe places that the community can walk and ride on. Mr. Meier commented that the Wi-Fi and tennis being luxury items and should not be fund from the bonus gas tax funds. He expressed that in his opinion the City has the ability to make investments that serve the most vulnerable people and for those who travel on bikes and by foot. Mr. Meier suggested that an ongoing service and maintenance for public Wi-Fi and tennis courts would be better suited for the City to engage in a public/private partnership.
Mr. Meier discussed the City's opportunity with the Official Plan and Transportation Master Plan that are currently under review. He commented on the 2014 Multi-Modal Active Transportation Master Plan and that he felt a lack of progress has been made in shifting the mode of single passenger vehicles to other modes of active transportation. He noted his concerns associated with the City's pushing these targets back 10 years. Mr. Meier provided suggestions for the use of the bonus gas tax funds towards active transportation in order to meet the previous set targets for active transportation and implementation of a connected n...
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