CP Scoop - December 11th, 2023

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MUNICIPAL NEWS

Council and Committee of the Whole Meetings

Due to several members of Council being unable to attend in person, the Town of Carleton Place Council will hold its Council and Committee of the Whole meetings via live stream only, tomorrow, Tuesday, December 12th, 2023, starting at 6:00 p.m. The agenda and associated documents for the meetings are available on the Town’s website. Members of the public can view the meeting online via Zoom or a live stream on the Town Hall Facebook page.

These are the last regularly scheduled meetings of 2023. Committee of the Whole will begin at 6:00 p.m. followed by Council so that all items can be approved before the end of the year.

The first regularly scheduled meetings in 2024 will be on Tuesday, January 9th, 2024.

Miller’s Crossing & Coleman Central Neighbourhood Park Plan Open House

The Town of Carleton Place Recreation & Culture Department invites residents to attend an Open House for public consultation on the park developments at Miller’s Crossing (Fanning Street), and Coleman Central (Nelson Street East) on Tuesday, December 12th from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

This event will take place at the Carleton Place Arena (75 Neelin Street) in the Bob Rintoul Hall.

Come view the preliminary designs and share your feedback! No registration is necessary.

 

PROVINCIAL NEWS

Ontario Connecting Children and Youth in Eastern Ontario to Care Close to Home - $40.5 million boost in funding to expand pediatric services in Ottawa and the surrounding area

Ontario is investing more than $40.5 million to increase access to pediatric services for children and youth in Eastern Ontario so they have the care they need, when they need it, right in their own community. This is part of the Ontario government’s investment of an additional $330 million each year in pediatric health services at hospitals and community-based health care facilities across Ontario.

Ontario Unveils Plan to Build Modern Schools Faster - New measures will reduce construction timelines by nearly 50 percent and get shovels in the ground faster

The Ontario government is introducing new measures to build modern schools faster that will cut construction timelines by nearly 50 percent to meet the unprecedented pace of growth across the province. In Ontario, the average school construction timeline is four (4) to seven (7) years, which comes from an obsolete capital process that has not been meaningfully overhauled since 2010-11.

For the first time, Ontario will ensure school boards are building schools in nearly half the amount of time it took before through a faster, transparent, accountable and clearer process that prioritizes shovel-ready projects. School boards will follow a more streamlined process to identify and dispose of unused property, generate more revenue to reinvest back in schools, create schools in mixed-use buildings like condominiums and use existing buildings in their communities.

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