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The plan for divvying up more than $37 million for “strategic initiatives” over this term of council cleared its first hurdle on Tuesday.
A report prepared by city manager Kent Kirkpatrick, based on input from Mayor Jim Watson, committee chairs and councillors, was received and immediately referred to various council standing committees and the transit commission for debate over the next month.
“All of your individual and collective input has been an important part of this process,” Kirkpatrick told the committee, which is chaired by the mayor.
Some of the initiatives outlined in the report are contained in other plans previously approved by council, including the transportation master plan, the infrastructure master plan and the official plan, he said. Others come from the priorities and needs articulated by residents and by councillors, including those highlighted on the campaign trail last fall.
“Those best reflect, in our view, community and neighbourhood priorities,” Kirkpatrick said.
There are 63 initiatives in all.
Some were widely expected, such as the additional $2 million a year for the city’s housing and homelessness plan and an additional $125,000 a year to plant more trees. Both were campaign pledges made by Watson.
The office planning the 2017 celebrations looks to be getting an additional $1.4 million in 2015, and another $1.4 million appears earmarked for the economic development strategy, which includes things such as more money for Invest Ottawa, Events Ottawa, and developing a “House of Sport”.
There’s also $300,000 set aside to review the taxi bylaw, which should interest many with the recent entrance of Uber into the Ottawa market.
The proposed list also includes a bunch of items that belong in the main budget, according to some councillors. For example, council will be asked to spend $2 million on a cycling plan and $1.1 million on pedestrian projects in 2015. These were already approved in the transportation master plan passed during the last term of council, leading many to believe that the spending would have been automatically part of the main budget — not initiatives to be negotiated at a later date.
Council’s committees and the transit commission will discuss and vote on the strategic initiatives that fall under their respective portfolios at upcoming meetings. This is also when members of the public can make comments on the proposed initiatives.
In theory, committees could add or subtract items, but as has been the case during the budget process that is very difficult.
“We only have about $37 million to deal with, so it’s not as if we have the financial capacity to veer off of a lot of the priorities we’ve established over the last couple of years,” Watson said after the meeting.
The priorities reflect what Watson says he hears about most from the public: transit, transportation, parks and recreation, innovation and economic development.
“If someone has a new priority, happy to entertain that, but you (have) to figure out where the money’s coming from,” Watson said.
The proposed list of strategic initiatives will be discussed at the following committee meetings:
Council will have the final say on July 8.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
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A report prepared by city manager Kent Kirkpatrick, based on input from Mayor Jim Watson, committee chairs and councillors, was received and immediately referred to various council standing committees and the transit commission for debate over the next month.
“All of your individual and collective input has been an important part of this process,” Kirkpatrick told the committee, which is chaired by the mayor.
Some of the initiatives outlined in the report are contained in other plans previously approved by council, including the transportation master plan, the infrastructure master plan and the official plan, he said. Others come from the priorities and needs articulated by residents and by councillors, including those highlighted on the campaign trail last fall.
“Those best reflect, in our view, community and neighbourhood priorities,” Kirkpatrick said.
There are 63 initiatives in all.
Some were widely expected, such as the additional $2 million a year for the city’s housing and homelessness plan and an additional $125,000 a year to plant more trees. Both were campaign pledges made by Watson.
The office planning the 2017 celebrations looks to be getting an additional $1.4 million in 2015, and another $1.4 million appears earmarked for the economic development strategy, which includes things such as more money for Invest Ottawa, Events Ottawa, and developing a “House of Sport”.
There’s also $300,000 set aside to review the taxi bylaw, which should interest many with the recent entrance of Uber into the Ottawa market.
The proposed list also includes a bunch of items that belong in the main budget, according to some councillors. For example, council will be asked to spend $2 million on a cycling plan and $1.1 million on pedestrian projects in 2015. These were already approved in the transportation master plan passed during the last term of council, leading many to believe that the spending would have been automatically part of the main budget — not initiatives to be negotiated at a later date.
Council’s committees and the transit commission will discuss and vote on the strategic initiatives that fall under their respective portfolios at upcoming meetings. This is also when members of the public can make comments on the proposed initiatives.
In theory, committees could add or subtract items, but as has been the case during the budget process that is very difficult.
“We only have about $37 million to deal with, so it’s not as if we have the financial capacity to veer off of a lot of the priorities we’ve established over the last couple of years,” Watson said after the meeting.
The priorities reflect what Watson says he hears about most from the public: transit, transportation, parks and recreation, innovation and economic development.
“If someone has a new priority, happy to entertain that, but you (have) to figure out where the money’s coming from,” Watson said.
The proposed list of strategic initiatives will be discussed at the following committee meetings:
- Agriculture and rural affairs, June 5, 10 a.m.
- Planning, June 9, 9:30 a.m.
- Environment, June 16, 9:30 a.m.
- Transit commission, June 17, 9:30 a.m.
- Community and protective services, June 18, 9:30 a.m.
- Information Technology subcommittee, June 25, 9:30 a.m.
- Finance and economic development, June 29, 9:30 a.m.
- Transportation, June 30, 9:30 a.m.
Council will have the final say on July 8.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mpearson78
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