Council Preview
ShareBy John Swartz Orillia Council meets early Monday November 18 at 12:30 p.m. because they have a Public Meeting on
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City of Orillia
A Bunch Of Reviews
This concert came right in the middle of Lightfoot Days, so my plan was to stay until they did the first piece of the second half.
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2025 Budget Preview Days Three and Four
Terry Fox Circle repaving, $515K (from reserves). This will repave the circle and expand the roadway nearest the water to allow barriers between traffic and the trail.
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
Zachary has a small tour of Ontario and Quebec the last half of the month. His show here is at the Opera House Nov. 27
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MAT Does It Again With Gypsy
The play happens in Gord’s Room, so there is plenty of room for you…
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2025 Orillia Budget Preview Day Two
Most notable about the Sustainable Orillia presentation is they are represented by a new president, Sarah Patterson and a new vice-president, Danny Epstein.
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2025 Orillia Budget Preview Day One
Staff expect the take to go up by $675K and say new revenue from tickets resulting from speed cameras will make up $500K of that.
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Council Preview
Since the system was changed, the aver age of councillors has gone down considerably, and well below age 65.
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Council Budget Preview
Staff say capital spending is going down considerably from previous years to $43.9 million for 109 projects.
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
The first circuit would light up just the trunk. Then they could say ‘just fooling’ and throw the second switch for the rest of the tree. He kind of of looked at me sideways. I don’t think they’re going to do that.
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