Elizabeth Whitten is a St. John’s-based journalist and The Independent’s St. John’s municipal politics reporter. She’s previously worked for allNewfoundlandLabrador and Downhome Magazine, and her work has been published by CBC, The Overcast, and the Toronto Star. She’s currently writing a book about how Dr. Cluny Macpherson invented the gas mask in World War One.
Crown land is leased, Naloxone kits for City staff, there’s uproar over the housing plans at 20 Janeway Place and plans for Mount St. Francis Monastery apartments move forward.
A psychiatry clinic is coming to the east end and techNL’s Innovation Centre has permit fees waived- and a position on the Shea Heights Community Centre Board of Directors is filled.
There’s parking relief, travel expenses approval, but mostly it was Council signing off $1.7 M in Community and Capital Grants – to this reporter’s joy!
Some workers are getting a wage bump and buckle up, we’re talking about traffic calming, and Council is planning to bring in a Code of Conduct – just in time!
Council votes to lease and sell plenty of City land, the heritage designation for parts of the Presentation Convent has been stripped away, and historic Mallard Cottage is getting some work.
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