“Mr. [former TNRD CAO Sukh] Gill did not expense half-a-million dollars for his own purposes and walk away with it,” Christian said. “This is about how he paid for different things that we had.” Christian pointed to successive meetings as to a reason why dining expenses would be charged by Gill on behalf of directors. In those circumstances, Christian said, it wasn’t only Gill who charged the expenses, but also the TNRD’s finance director, Doug Rae, or director of development Regina Sadilkova. KTW did not analyze expenses via those staffers’ taxpayer-funded credit cards. Christian said costs for dining in such cases are subsequently assigned to directors and included in the annual statement of financial information report. Christian referred to KPMG audits and the regional district’s audit committee, upon which he sits. He would not comment on behalf of that committee, citing “consistency of messaging.”
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Almost exactly a year ago, a team of American affordable housing experts from the Urban Land Institute came to Toronto to offer up ideas for breaking the logjam on retrofitting our huge portfolio of aging slab apartment buildings that collectively provide reasonably priced accommodation for hundreds of thousands of people.
They spent a few weeks studying this far-flung assembly of buildings, some privately owned and others run by Toronto Community Housing. Then, at a well-attended and upbeat session at the Munk Centre, the group offered solutions, which have subsequently been packaged up in a report. Senior municipal and council officials were in attendance, and there was plenty of talk about not just nosing this fix up the city’s priorities ladder but launching a pilot project with ten buildings. “You need to think about the next 60 years,” former New York City chief planner Purnima Kapur told the audience.
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We all want to live in safe, healthy, and strong communities. Making sure we have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and healthy local food to eat are the biggest steps we can take to keep our communities thriving.
Communities across Canada now have a tool to help them achieve these goals, while working to prevent the worst impacts of climate change that threaten our communities. West Kootenay EcoSociety has created the 100% Renewable Energy in Your Community Playbook & Toolkit that shares the non-profit organization’s experience and lessons from five years of work to bring nine local governments in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia together to commit to 100-per-cent renewable energy in their communities by 2050 and develop a transition roadmap.
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There was little disagreement or even debate on Monday as Saskatoon city council considered and then voted unanimously in favour of several high-profile projects and initiatives. Here’s a rundown of what the city’s elected representatives approved this week.
1. PACE financing
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Homeowners looking to make their properties more efficient could be able to secure city-backed loans as early as August, after council approved the province’s first property assessed clean energy program.
Council unanimously backed a recommendation that the $500 administration fee be waived for people with low incomes but a Saskatoon Environmental Advisory Committee representative said that doesn’t go far enough.