Water, sewer utilities will increase in 2024: City Finance
Jan 17, 2024 — Contrary to gravity and the laws of plumbing, water and wastewater will be going up this year. Three City utilities will be going up this year — City council decided officially at its Jan. 9 regular meeting — with water and wastewater rates, as well as resource recovery rates, increasing in the utility budget after a staff review.
Taking on the risk: project aimed at reducing threat of wildfire in ...
Jul 20, 2022 — Nelson has been rated by some wildfire experts as being one of the most high risk towns for a wildfire interface forest fire in B.C., noted a local forest development manager.
Keeping count: municipal election results officially tabulated and ...
Oct 26, 2022 — The results were in. Again. The official results of the 2022 Nelson Municipal Election were released to the outgoing city council — the new council and mayor are not sworn in yet — on Tuesday afternoon during the regular business meeting of council, and there weren’t many changes. Current and outgoing Mayor John Dooley still...
Together Nelson — Community Based Action Plan To Reduce …
Mar 19, 2021 — Nelson is a great place to live. But not everyone is thriving in our community. Close to 2,000 community members live in poverty in Nelson – friends and neighbors – children, youth, adults and seniors.* Together Nelson is a community-based initiative that was launched in the Fall of 2020 to better understand local poverty...
Communities receive funds to assist Emergency operations
Dec 5, 2022 — Whether residents need shelter from intense heat, or emergency personnel need to communicate during disasters, communities must prepare to cope with extreme events like wildfires and floods. Ten projects are helping to ensure that locations within the Columbia Basin are well equipped to do so, with support from Columbia Basin...
Stage setting for continued building boom in city in 2022
Mar 19, 2022 — Nelson is in the early stages of another robust year for construction, according to early statistics from the city’s Development Services department. Building permit statistics for the city for the first two months of the year show an increase over 2021, also considered a very active construction year in the city. Digging...
Taking it outside: the way for another season on the deck in the ...
Nov 11, 2021 — The merit of patios in the downtown was on deck for council as the need to retain the vibrancy of the Baker Street experience was debated. A motion to extend the model of allowing sidewalk and street patios to operate for free was brought forward to city council Tuesday night during their regular monthly business meeting in council chambers.
Talk of snow removal and ‘Snowmagedon’ stirs of flurries of …
With snow removal costs doubling in the early part of this year after “Snowmagedon,” the city has opted to bump the snow removal budget up for the remaining part of 2022 — Creative Commons photo. It may be a little early to be thinking about a snow day with forest fires still burning in the ...
Trash talking: complete review of waste management in city …
There was a lot of trash talking at the final regular meeting of the outgoing council. Mayor John Dooley put forth a notice of motion for consideration at the next (new) council meeting at the Oct. 25 meeting in council chambers regarding a complete review of the waste management strategy in …
In brief: All-candidates forum fields voice for council hopefuls
Oct 13, 2022 — Nelsonites received a brief window into the political soul and aspirations of 15 candidates for municipal office during the chamber of commerce’s all-candidates forum Wednesday night. The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce’s all-candidates forum attracted over 160 people to the Prestige Lakeside Resort for 60- to 90-second...