2022 Budget Wraps Up
“I think it’s very important that we all remember that this is the two year total of 2.94 (percent)..”
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Council Preview
If council wants to do so, staff recommend limits be lowered for 2023 because it will cost $635,000 to post 1350 required signs…
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Annexation Open House
ShareBy John Swartz Orillia last expanded its borders 35 years ago, and because of provincial regulations related to several provincial
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Traffic And Parking Study Survey Results
ShareBy John Swartz Results from an online survey in October about Orillia’s traffic and parking in the downtown and on
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2022 Budget Preview, Part 2
ShareBy John Swartz Orillia council meets in budget committee Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The full day meetings will deal
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Analysis: Library to Open Sundays
Strictly speaking, the board can take the money and stay closed on Sundays, but I don’t think the board has dummies sitting at the table.
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2022 Budget Preview
ShareBy John Swartz Orillia Council begins the 2022 budget meetings Monday at 1 p.m. The deliberations are spread over 6
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Residents All Pumped Up
Residents are afraid they will have to live with the construction for longer than they thought because of the delay they perceive, and there is some as stated above because of the getting rid of groundwater delay.
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Council Preview
… unfairly prepared because Fallis was not interviewed by the integrity commissioner, “contrary to what is stated in the recommendation report,”
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Higher Tech Library Services
“Our list of needs is around $10,000 right now, but we can use materials into eternity, so if we make more than $12,000 we’ll be happy,”
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