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For this month's newsletter, I will highlight an important event hosted by my female colleagues called Women Leading, provide an update on budget deliberations and the downtown event and entertainment district, provide highlights of decisions before City Council this month and upcoming events in our community.

Highlights include:

• Budget Next Steps 
• Women Leading: Civic Engagement Forum for Immigrant and Refugee Women in Saskatoon
• Downtown Event and Entertainment District Funding Tools
• Black Bin Utility Update
• Governance Model of Appeal Boards
• Comprehensive Zoning Bylaw Review - Amendment Package Seven

City Council has been hard at work this summer with our regularly scheduled meetings and additional Special Budget Meetings. This newsletter provides an update on the budget, decisions before City Council this month, and a few ward specific updates.

A few highlights include:

• Discretionary Use Application – Private School – 1636 Acadia Drive
• Changes to Traffic Bylaw 
• Changes to the bylaw for fireworks 
• Road Renaming Follow-up
• Lac La Ronge Indian Band Urban Reserve Creation 
• Request for Internal Borrowing for Black Carts 
• Community Risk Reduction

This month's newsletter focuses predominantly on the upcoming Special Budget Meeting as well as what to expect on the City Council agenda. Other features in the newsletter include a few things happening in or nearby our ward. 

Items before City Council include:

• Special Budget Meeting
• Rezoning - Brighton Gate South
• Multi Unit Residential Recycling Contract Renewal  
• Corridor Planning Program

This months newsletter includes updates relating to:

• the Downtown District Plan
• Proposed changes on McKercher Dr
• Green cart updates
• Ward 8 updates, including rezoning, Living in Harmony Awards, public art.

This month's newsletter includes updates relating to:

• Ward 8 rezoning and discretionary use applications
• Community events taking place in Ward 8
• Updates from City Council
  • Downtown Event and Entertainment District and associated District Plan,
  • Delineating boundaries for the Northeast and Small Swale,
  • An update on the Home Energy Loan Program (HELP), and
  • The City’s Greenhouse facility.

Don't forget to keep an eye out for the printed newsletter delivered to every Ward 8 household this past week.

This month's newsletter provides an update on both October and November City Council meetings and a look ahead at budget deliberations, which begin on Monday, November 28, 2022. Topics of interest include transit, Downtown Event and Entertainment District, climate action updates and changes to City Council meeting schedules. 

I also want to take an opportunity to highlight the admission model changes at the Remai Modern. In October, admission is now by donation to the Remai Modern! This is due to a generous donation from the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation. I hope you get a chance to head over to the space and check out the new atrium piece by Nick Cave. This piece will be unveiled formally next week. 

This month's newsletters offers opportunities to participate in the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Community Association events, On Demand Transit updates and some "trash talk" (think waste utility). Read more for other City Council and Ward 8 updates.

Highlights include:

• Renaming of Shakamohtaa Street
• Downtown Event and Entertainment District
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

With a big newsletter outlining upcoming reports to City Council, ward specific news and community engagement opportunities, I will just jump right into the update.

Topics include:

• East Side Leisure Centre
• Edward McCourt Park Community Garden
• Downtown Grocery Store
• Zoning Bylaw Review - Infill Amendments 

In this month's newsletter, you will find an update on Monday's City Council meeting, engagement activities underway and general civic updates.

Here are a few items of interest on the upcoming City Council agenda:

• Vehicle Noise Mitigation Study;
• Comprehensive COVID-19 Update;
• Update on Home Energy Loan Program (HELP);
• Expansion of the Assisted Collections Program; and
• Approval of Recreation and Sport Tax Abatement Policy.

In brief, this post highlights five items of public interest that were discussed during the January 2022 City Council meetings.

Highlights include:

• City of Saskatoon 2022 - 2025 Strategic Plan
• Comprehensive COVID-19 Update
• Discussions on new White Buffalo Youth Lodge/City Centre Recreation Facility
• River Landing's Hoist the Hoops update
• Leave of Absence Policy for Members of City Council.