Every week, Bramptonist will round up the interesting items on upcoming city council and committee meetings, so you don’t have to bore yourselves paging through huge (and, if we’re being honest, tedious) PDFs and to make it easier for you to be a well-informed resident.

All meetings are open to the public (aside from items which are specifically marked as closed) and are generally held in the City Council Chambers, unless stated otherwise.

Taxicab Advisory Committee



April 23, 2:00 p.m.

Training Room WT-2A, West Tower



Issues in Brief

A discussion on insurance for ride-sharing operators

A presentation on current City efforts to regulate ride-sharing (page 10)

Read the Agenda here.

Council Workshop



April 24, 9:30 a.m.

Training Room WT-2A, West Tower



Issues in Brief

A presentation on the Downtown Reimagined project; it’s expected there will be detailed discussion on traffic operations

2018 United Way fundraising update

Planning notification presentation

*CLOSED MEETING* in order for council members to undergo diversity training

Read the Agenda here.

Brampton Community Safety Advisory Committee



April 24, 7:00 p.m.

Fourth Floor Council Committee Room, City Hall



Missing Person Communications Protocol

Report on page 38 on how the city can reliably communicate to the public on missing persons cases

Would be activated exclusively when the police ask for help

Would apply to any city department that deals with the public (i.e., Transit=Yes, HR=No)

City employees won’t be asked to conduct search parties during work hours

Issues in Brief

A brief presentation on the Brampton 2040 vision (page 12)

Presentation on Large Crowd Safety Protocols (page 21)

Presentation on the city’s open data GeoHub and possible use for community safety (page 29)

Read the Agenda here.

Committee of Council



April 25, 9:30 a.m.

Council Chambers, City Hall



Culture

Culture Master Plan Update, plan coming June 20 (page 74)

Performing Arts Plan with Brendan Healy, Artistic Director of Performing Arts for the city (page 81) 277 performances and 106,970 tickets sold at the Rose Theatre in 2017 101 performances and 22,202 tickets sold for performances at Cyril Clark and Lester B. Pearson Theatres in 2017 Challenges: lack of policy on facility usage, lack of guidelines on how to allow community groups to use facilities, lack of structure hurts accountability, lack of channels for community input



Issues in Brief

Announcement from the Festival of Literary Diversity (page 8)

A petition from seniors in southwest Brampton to add a new eastbound and westbound stop on the 511 Steeles Zum at Polonia Avenue (page 15)

The Downtown BIA is requesting services from the city for summer events (page 18)

Darnel Harris is asking council to consider adding a “greenway” on the sides of the Hurontario LRT (page 22)

Read the Agenda here.

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