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News Release - City engaging public on 2022 budgets

UPDATE: With no registered participants the Oct. 25 virtual budget open house has been cancelled. The Oct. 27 open house will continue as planned.

 

 

The City of St. Catharines is introducing new ways, alongside established methods, for the public to learn more about and provide input on the 2022 budget.

Specifically, the City is preparing to host two online open houses, providing taxpayers the opportunity to ask questions of Budget Standing Committee (BSC) Chair Coun. Mat Siscoe, and BSC...

What’s open, what’s closed for Thanksgiving weekend with the City of St. Catharines

City Hall and administration buildings, alongside several recreation facilities are closed on Thanksgiving Monday.

The following City facilities will be closed on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021:

• City Hall
• The Citizens First customer service desk
• The St. Catharines Enterprise Centre remains closed
• City arenas
• City sports fields
• St. Catharines Kiwanis Aquatics Centre
• Port Weller Community Centre, closed Sunday and Monday
• Russell Avenue Community Centre
• Port Dalhousie and West St. Catharines older adult centres,...

Online tree giveaway registration set to launch Oct. 12

The City of St. Catharines is gearing up to give away more free trees this fall.

While fall’s tree giveaway will take place in a modified format with online ordering required – as it did for the spring giveaway – residents still have an opportunity to receive a free tree to plant at their own property, helping the City continue its efforts to grow the tree canopy in St. Catharines. Starting Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 9 a.m., residents can visit www.stcatharines.ca/trees to request a tree.

Five hundred trees...

City looking to public for input on 2022 municipal election

With about a year to go until the 2022 municipal election the City of St. Catharines is looking to voters for their input on how they would prefer to cast a ballot.

More individuals are participating in and engaging with their community at a distance, be it by phone, mail or online. With increasing resident comfort in new means of engagement the City wants to ensure voters can not only cast their ballot securely for City Council, Regional Council and school boards, but also that they can vote in...

Partnership delivers boost to City’s urban tree canopy

There is some new greenery at Cherie Road Park thanks to a team effort between the City of St. Catharines; Friends of Walker’s Creek; Friends of Malcolmson Eco-Park and the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority.

On Saturday, Oct. 2, community volunteers from both the Friend’s of Walkers Creek and Friends of Malcolmson Eco-Park gathered at the City park to plant approximately 550 trees and shrubs native to the Carolinian Zone. The new greenery come courtesy of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation...