Just a couple of observations and questions if I may.
I noticed the Town of Greater Napanee is holding budget meetings in March, according to a notice in a local paper. Earlier this month the City of Kingston announced that its budget for 2018 had been approved. Why is it that Napanee doesn’t begin budget deliberations and pass a budget until a third of the year has gone by? It stands to reason that a budget should be set before the year begins.
The town has purchased a sidewalk plow and clearing the sidewalks of snow. Great! Shortly after the plow had cleared the sidewalk in front of my house and I had cleaned my driveway, the street plow barreled by and filled in the sidewalk and the end of my driveway. Is it not possible to co-ordinate plowing or to slow the street plows down? The sidewalk plow returned later to clear the sidewalk a second time.
A deputation to council earlier this year requested that the speed limit on Bridge Street West from Center Street to York Street be lowered to 40 km/hour. The OPP, after monitoring traffic for a period of time, determined that excessive speed on this section of Bridge Street was not excessive. Council then turned down the request to lower the speed limit. I would submit that traffic on this section of the street and west of York Street (where the speed limit is, in fact, 40km/h) often travels well in excess of the posted limits.
Keith Chapman