Other communities like Mississauga, Hamilton, and Ottawa have secured recent funding for billion dollar transit projects! We’ll also continue advocating to Metrolinx for better intercity transit — including rail

The Province shifted responsibility to producers in 2024, and since then we’ve been in a transition period. On Jan 1, Circular Materials takes over and they issued the new contract for recycling collection.

Here’s a web page with all the chronology: www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/living-he...

To be very clear, these changes were not a decision of Regional Council or staff.

Yesterday, Council asked the CEO of Circular Materials to present on the changes in our community. I also had the opportunity to speak with their leadership and will continue to advocate for a high quality service.

➡️ A service reduction from weekly to biweekly recycling collection starting in March

➡️ Less accountability to the regional waste management system and no oversight by the Region, including managing diversion of waste from our landfill

While there are several good parts of this change, including expanded items that you can recycle and putting the costs on producers, there are several concerns for #WR

ASE is a user fee, not a tax. Whether funded by the Province or Region, all taxpayers would be on the hook for road safety improvements — not just those who defy speed limits.

I continue to fully support ASE; however, the risks of continuing to hire new staff this fall could put jobs at risk and cause uncertainty.

We heard from our rural mayors today about how much speeding impacts in our rural areas — including 5 road fatalities in Wellesley in recent weeks.

Agreed. I’ll pass this along!

Construction is still active. Paving just went it on Monday / Tuesday. I haven’t been by yet, but I assume the contractor is still onsite.

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The best (gardening) week of the summer!