CLEAN AND GREEN SATURDAY APRIL 20, 2013 In 2013, April 20 will be the day when thousands of Londoners will work together to help ‘clean and green’ neighbourhoods and parks around our city. We will pick up litter, remove graffiti and plant trees. Numerous designated meeting sites have been identified where volunteers can register, receive [...]

It is crunch time.  The final council session on the 2013 budget is Thursday night.  What lies ahead?   Only the mayor knows for sure We are currently at 1.2% tax increase representing 5.6 million dollars.   We have limited some reserve contributions.   We have deferred any additional contributions to the economic development fund [...]

Background Councillor Paul Hubert commissioned the Centre for Organizational Effectiveness to conduct the second annual City of London Budget Survey.  The objective of the survey was to garner as much feedback as possible on this year’s budget deliberations in an efficient and accessible manner. Methodology Questions were deliberately framed in a way similar to how [...]

Sometimes there are strange confluences in life.   This week was one of them.   I got my T4 slip from my employer as did my wife and we got our tax bill at the same time. Here is the challenge.   Find your T4 slip and look in box 22.  That is the income tax taken over the [...]

NEWS RELEASE  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Councillor invites Londoners to participate in 2nd annual budget survey January 30, 2013 For the second year in a row, City of London Councillor Paul Hubert has launched a survey in the midst of budget deliberations.   He is inviting as many Londoners as possible to participate and give further feedback [...]