Federal government drops $598,430 into Burlington for 14 projects. Flashy new taxis on hand to celebrate the arrival of all that cash.

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April 1st, 2017

BURLINGTON, ON

 

This is not an April 1st story. It is absolutely true – every word of it.

Burlington’s Members of Parliament could hardly keep up with the pace.

They were scooting from place to place during the day, in the rain, handing out cheques right and left.

The Gazette caught up with Karina Gould the MP for Burlington and Minister of Democratic Institutions and Pam Damoff the MP for Oakville North Burlington at the Mainway arena,where they jointly announced federal funding for an impressive number of Burlington projects.

The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario had approved up to $598,430 for 14 projects in Burlington under Intake Two of the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program:

GreenUp trees in Beachway

The dunes in the Beachway are environmentally sensitive. Burlington Green has been plating trees to stabilize the land. Some of the federal government money is going to be used to build a dune crossing.

1. Improvement of Bayview Park – $123,000
2. Ireland Park Washroom Improvements – $13,320
3. Lowville Park Washroom Accessibility – $23,310
4. Millcroft Park Washroom Accessibility – $14,985
5. Orchard Park Washroom Improvements – $16,650
6. Dune Crossing at Beachway Park – $73,000
7. Mainway Arena Accessibility – $100,000
8. Appleby Ice Resurfacing – $25,000
9. Mainway Ice Resurfacing – $12,500
10. Mainway Rink Lighting – $41,666
11. Appleby Ice Sub-Metering – $8,333
12. Mainway Sub-Metering System – $5,000
13. Multi-Use Pathway at John Street – $135,000
14. Tansley Woods Sub-Metering – $6,666

These projects are planned for completion by March 31, 2018 and are part of the Canada 150 celebrations for what will be our Sesquicentennial.

Mayor Goldring has set a personal goal for the city and the Love My Hood program where he wants to see at least 150 small neighbourhood projects taking place in the city.

The Parks and Recreation people have come up with a neat program that wants to see small hand coloured Canadian flags in, ideally, every window in the city.

The Mayor and the other assembled dignitaries were give blank forms and a box of crayons to create their own flags.

Chris Allan at 150 announcement - flags

Chris Glenn, Director of Parks and Recreation hands out blank forms with an outline of a maple leaf along with a package of crayons that MP’s Pam Damoff and Karina Gould along with Mayor Goldring can use to make flags for the windows in their homes.

Mayor Goldring advised a disappointed looking of Parks and Recreation Director Chris Glenn that he had been kicked out of the grade 8 art class. Fortunately the Mayor had his wife with him – Cheryl, an accomplished artist in her own right, will probably be given the crayons and asked to produce a more than acceptable flag.

Burlington taxi 150 vehicle

Burlington Taxi is changing the colour scheme o three of its cabs and calling them Ambassador Taxis to recognize the 150 year of Canada’s birth.

The getting into a Sesquicentennial mode was made a little easier with the appearance of two Burlington Taxis, done up in a bright red and white theme. Scott Wallace said that he had changed the colour theme of three of his cabs that he is calling Ambassador Taxis that will be available to people who need transportation to high profile Love my Hood events.

Pam Damoff wasn’t happy with the standard photo ops that were taking place and wanted everyone to step into the ice rink for some picture. The Mainway arena is in her Oakville North Burlington riding. One photographer wanted her out on the ice. “I’m not going out on the ice” said Damoff. She rides a bike rather well – but I guess she doesn’t skate.

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1 comment to Federal government drops $598,430 into Burlington for 14 projects. Flashy new taxis on hand to celebrate the arrival of all that cash.

  • B. Wayne

    Seeing this list it brings to light the reported $210,000.00 waste of tax payers money spent on the road diet experiment. The majority of items on this list are for maintenance or updated accessibility. That wasted money could have gone a long way.