HRM Budget 2024/25

HRM Council is currently working through the budget for 2024/25. This budget will be developed through the end of March 2024, and is planned to be ratified by HRM Council in April 2024. I plan to document this process as we go through it, including some of the more...

Lower Sackville Developments

Updated: 15-Oct-2023Lower Sackville has a housing shortage. At this point we have about a 0% vacancy rate. One of the solutions for this is to build more places for people to live, and that’s exactly what’s happening in Lower Sackville. I talk more about...

HRM Budget 2023/24

HRM Council is currently working through the budget for 2023/24. This budget will be developed through the end of March 2023, and is planned to be ratified by HRM Council in April 2023. I plan to document this process as we go through it, including some of the more...

Summer 2022 Survey

Over the past number of years I have had several conversations with people around Lower Sackville. These conversations have influenced municipal actions in Lower Sackville and they have influenced my decisions. Many of these conversations happened on your doorsteps...

2022 – Looking Forward and Looking Back

Happy New Year! I wish you the very best in 2022! Since it is New Years Eve, I want to have a look forward at where we can go, and have a look back to see what got us here. There are a lot of good things currently happening, and there are a lot of things that can be...

Housing Security and Affordable Housing

Ever since I’ve been in office, I’ve been working on housing insecurity, and so has the municipality. To say that this is a complex issue is an understatement. Legislatively, housing is a provincial responsibility. More important than that, however,...