Your Voice is Being Heard at City Hall
- peiyualex
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min read
Ward #Ipiihkoohkanipiaohtsi, Your Voice is Being Heard at City Hall!
Yesterday at City Council, I shared the common voice I heard during my 2021 election campaign with our new City Council and the city’s administration. This is one of my first official actions to ensure your voice is received at City Hall, and I will work to continually ensure your voice is received at City Hall.
Highlights of the items I shared:
1. The importance of investing in our neighbourhoods including maintaining our sidewalks and roadways, increasing frequency of snow removal on our neighbourhood streets, and the common desire to return the garbage collection frequency to weekly.
2. Our ward did not give City Council a blank cheque for the next 4 years. You do not want your taxes to keep increasing, your expectation is that Council considers the return on investment on every public dollar spent.
3. What you told me was most urgent for infrastructure improvements was next up. I communicated our ward’s most pressing issue of the need for a set of traffic lights at the intersection of Graydon Hill Blvd and Ellerslie Road, which was followed by expressing the need for a crosswalk near the Ellerslie Road Baptist Church, fixing the bump on the road in Callaghan that shakes houses every time a bus drives by, and replacing the crumbling sidewalks in Blue Quill Estates.
4. Recreation options close to our homes such as a swimming pool, spray park, and playgrounds.
5. The importance of public transit, the need to review the bus network redesign and the challenges it presents to our ward, including the need to put an end to lineups of idling busses at ‘unofficial transit centres’ at the entrances of MacEwan and Blackmud Creek.
6. Community safety such a forming a stronger partnership with area police, decreasing theft, and revisiting speed limits in residential neighbourhoods.
7. Supporting local businesses by reducing the time it takes for city permits to be processed.
8. The voice of our community must be heard regarding rezoning, neighbourhood initiatives, and other major decisions.
9. The importance of protecting our green spaces, and cutting the grass on city property.
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Thank you Jennifer. We had one good year if snow removal a few years ago when the department sent out trucks with blades Day and Night to clear streets down to asphalt , keeping streets level and rut-free when a freeze came. In the worst year, no machines came out out until someone figured it was finished. By the the roads were thick abd severely rutted, and frozen, and stayed that way because trucks can’t move ice only fresh snow. Please get to know whoever is organizing snow removal and ask what the plans are for this winter. Thanks, and welcome!!
