Selwyn Township has endorsed a reconstruction concept for Ward Street in Bridgenorth.
Jason Armstrong, on behalf of Engage Engineering presented a report to council outlining their recommendation for the reconstruction plan at Tuesday afternoon’s council meeting.
The project will encompass the majority of downtown Bridgenorth on Ward Street from Champlain Road to just north to the James A. Gifford Causeway.
Armstrong told council that the recommended project would include a typical three lane cross section on Ward Street from Gore Street to Bridge Street and a two lane cross section on Ward Street from Gore Street to Champlain Road.
Project highlights also include:
• Community Improvement Space on Both Sides
• New Asphalt, Curb & Storm Sewer
The Lakefield Community Food Bank Volunteers were back into the swing of things on Tuesday morning. The Lakefield Food Bank is hosted out of the St. Johns Baptist Church every Tuesday. In 2024, they served 270 households, 275 adults and 213 children. Each week in 2024, on average the Lakefield Food Bank served 82 households, averaging 206 people. Though the holiday season is over, there is still a great need for donations to many local food banks year round.
The Township of Douro-Dummer held a special council meeting on Thursday morning to take a look at the second part of the first draft of the 2025 budget. A meeting was previously held on Thursday January 7 to start the budget process and was reported in the January 10 edition of the Lakefield Herald.
The Tuesday meeting covered the proposed budgets for the Public Works and Fire and Rescue Departments. Administration was on the agenda, but it was deferred to the Thursday meeting due to time restraints.
create a structure that aims As reported previously, staff was using the consumer price index (CPI) which was set at 1.6 per cent in September of 2024 to develop the 2025 budget.
The numbers arrived at in the first budget draft would see an increase of the tax rate of 3.3 per cent. This means the residential impact per $100,000 of assessment works out to a $15.06 per annum increase and the impact on a median property valued at $256,000 would see an annual increase of $38.56
Trent Lakes council voted not to sell an unopened road allowance to the Kawartha Nishnawbe and that it be sold to a couple who own abutting land.
Applicants Jonathan Seffelaar and Linda Post had applied to purchase the unopened road allowance between Concession 1, Lots 5 and 6 in Harvey Ward in the municipality. Council deferred the request in May 2024 until there was consultation with the Kawartha Nishnawbe Council.
When staff circulated the proposal to the Kawartha Nishnawabe they advised Trent Lakes that they are committed to secure any land that becomes available to them regardless of its size or zoning as part of reconciliation efforts so they did not support the sale to the applicants.
Jessie Clark, Director of Corporate Services/Clerk for the municipality said that the First Nation has indicated that this land is part of their ancestral territory which is why they object to the land being sold to Seffelaar and Post.
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