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H.R.M. District 3 Councillor’s
Communiqué
August 2010 - Issue # 153
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PORTERS LAKE WATERSHED STUDY
As reported in August 2008, Issue # 129, before
the Community Visioning exercise for the Porters
Lake area can proceed, a servicing analysis needs to
be undertaken. The study is to assess options for
servicing the lands within the Lake Echo / Porter's
Lake / Chezzetcook Servicing Study Area with central
water and/or sewer. The study has been designed to
identify appropriate locations and examine options
for the provision of central water and small scale
wastewater management systems, determine if the
flows from central servicing can be assimilated by
receiving waters, design a conceptual level
distribution system and determine order of magnitude
capital costs. The initial report on this process
was provided to Council in February / March 2008. Go
to:
www.halifax.ca/council/agendasc/documents/080304ca82.pdf
Since then, HRM staff have developed the Terms of
Reference for the study. It has been coupled with
the watershed study for the Upper Tantallon / St.
Margaret's Bay area in order to gain a better
consultant's bid price.
There were 4 bidders for this Tender #10-017 -
Stantec, Conestoga Rovers & Assoc., AECOM, and CBCL
Ltd. The contract was posted and awarded to CBCL on
April 16th. Expect more details to unfold as the
consultants will be engaging in several community
contact sessions.
A questionnaire on surface water use in the Porters
Lake area is available at
http://www.surveymk.com/s/plwsurvey, please
complete the questionnaire if you have an interest
in using the surface waters in the study area. A
similar survey for Lake Echo will be posted early
next year.
If you want more details about the project, please
contact either
myself, or HRM's Maureen Ryan at
ryanm@halifax.ca
. If you have queries about the surface water
quality questionnaire, please CBCL Limited at
421-7241: Gordon Smith at
gordons@cbcl.ca.
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FRENCH SCHOOL IN OUR AREA ?
On June 7th, a community meeting was held in
West Chezzetcook with the Superintendent and some
members of the CSAP ( Conseil Scolaire Acadien
Provincial - Provincial Acadian School Council ). A
committee has been started and its goal is to
revitalize the French language and culture in our
area. They will be pursuing a French School for the
Eastern Shore in the near future. Their short-term
goal is to open a French 4 Plus Program this
September 2010 that would be run by the CSAP.
To get more information, please e-mail :
acfees@yahoo.ca
with your name and contact information. Or call
Nicole at 827-4842 or the CSAP Regional Office at
433-7045.
Your child must be 4 years old by December 31st,
2010, and qualifies for French learning. The program
is expected to run Monday to Friday for 6 hours and
it will be free to those pupils. It will also be
done on a first-come, first-serve basis as space may
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SATURDAY COMMUNITY TRANSIT
Once again, Community Transit will offer
Saturday service during the summer months until
Sept.4th Labour Day Weekend. For more details on the
summer schedule, go to:
www.halifax.ca/metrotransit/documents/porterslakejune29.pdf.
Our current transit weekday schedule is being
monitored for review for some possible service time
adjustments. If rider ship remains low, then some
service changes will be recommended, Local
notification about any pending bus route
alternations and schedule service time adjustments
will be done before they come in effect in November
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2010 HRM COMMUNITY GRANTS
HRM Community Grants Program awards annual
grants to registered non-profit organization as a
modest assistance to community-based volunteer
initiatives. This year, 98 applications were
received requesting $836,125.00 in total. But only
73 requests were granted with aid totalling
$464,948.00
A complete detailed copy of this year's Council
report is available at :
www.halifax.ca/council/agendasc/documents/100622ca1131.pdf
Here is a list of grants that were awarded to local
organizations in our district area:
$15,000 - Eastern Shore Ground Search & Rescue.
$14,000 - Seaforth Community Hall Society.
$6,725 - North Preston Downey Road Cemetery Society.
$2,500 - Lawrencetown Sew-ciety Guild.
$1,885 - West Chezzetcook - Grand Desert Community
Interest Group.
$1,500 - Black Ice Hockey & Sports Hall of Fame
Society.
$1,500 - Cole Harbour Parks & Trails Association. |
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Sincerely,
Councillor David Hendsbee
H.R.M. DISTRICT 3 COUNCILLOR
PRESTON/LAWRENCETOWN/CHEZZETCOOK
1 Chamberlain Drive,
Westphal, NS, B2Z 1B1
829-2465 ( Home Office )
483-0705 ( Cell )
490-4050 ( Hfx. City Hall
) 829-3620 ( Fax )
david@hendsbee.ns.ca &
hendsbd@halifax.ca
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