I just sent the following email to New Westminster’s Mayor and Councillors, and thought it needed to be made public. Dear Mayor and Councillors, I was hoping to speak to you regarding the following at this evening’s Council Meeting, but alas the speakers list is full. I’m writing to you regarding the Council Code of…
New Westminster’s 2025 Property Tax Notices are out, so let’s talk property taxes! There will undoubtedly be millions of pixels devoted to complaining about 28% or 35% or 81% property tax increases over the last three years by certain anti-tax blowhards, so I figured I’d help put property taxes in context using numbers. Specifically, the…
Wherein the New West Progressives vote against a motion, do no work, then vote for accepting work staff did and claim it was “thanks to them” the work was done.
I had this letter published in the New Westminster Record, and I post it here because I own my words: Re: Should the City of New Westminster commit to ending homelessness? (Dec. 12, 2024) It was incredibly disheartening watching the council workshop where council discussed the Interim Housing Needs Report on Dec. 9. Shockingly, Coun. Paul Minhas asked…
Earlier today (October 28, 2024) New Westminster City Council debated a rezoning application coming for downtown New Westminster. During the debate, Councillor Daniel Fontaine stated the development would bring “four World Trade Centers onto that site” as a visualization of what sort of development would be coming. The development in question (88 Tenth Street —…
On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, a Special Council Meeting popped up on the City of New Westminster’s calendar. It would be held on Thursday, September 5, and had one item for discussion: “2025 Budget: Tax Rate Proposal”. Other than that, there was no information about what the meeting was going to be about. The timing…