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Milton Gets Some Stimulus Money …

I was honestly jealous that Mississauga got close to $100 million in Federal and Provincial stimulus money.  Fortunately, my jealousy did not have to last too long.  Milton today got almost $15 million for the Arts & Entertainment Centre, and for the expansion of the Milton Sports Club. 

Lisa Raitt, Halton’s MP, mentioned that $6.7 million was for the Sports Club expansion. It’s not clear to me whether that’s from the $15 million or in addition to the $15 million.  Rumour is that this is just the first instalment.  Of course Milton will have to fork out money itself too (this represents at most two-third of the cost, likely less).  But these projects would have happened regardless of the stimulus.  This way Milton gets some help.

I am really excited about these.  Milton does need an Arts & Entertainment Centre.  Desperately.  As for the sports club, I’ve blogged about it in the past and would really like to see some diverse offerings.  However, even if the sports club does not offer any new activity, this would still be exciting.  Regardless of what the expansion offers, Milton is a diverse enough town that plenty of residents will benefit from the expansion. And that is good enough for this Miltonian. 

4 Responses to “Milton Gets Some Stimulus Money …”

Chris Newell on June 15th, 2009 8:02 am:

Here’s hoping that we can continue to expand the facilities for our kids, parents, and families in general, to at least keep up with the population growth. Growing up in Milton, there was never much to do, so we got into petty mischief, nothing illegal, but certainly not the most rewarding things we would have done, had we had the opportunity to do better things.

Chris Newell
http://MiltonBlog.ca

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Mike Cluett on June 15th, 2009 1:22 pm:

I agree that we need things to do for our kids as this town grows. With a nine year old and a one year old child, I wonder what theyll be doing to pass the time when they are old enough to go out on their own.

While having an arts & entertainment centre would be nice, I have questions as to its importance right now. We are still experiencing unprecedented growth in town and infrastructure should be the number one priority and when its begins to level out, then looking at something of this nature.

The problem is with all this growth people want everything right away but it does take time and items need to be priortized.

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Zeeshan Hamid on June 15th, 2009 5:37 pm:

I have heard (from reliable sources) that at times the town has approved hundreds (or more) of homes with 30 seconds of deliberations. Something’s gotta give. In this case it was infrastructure. While it understandably doesn’t make sense to build infrastracture before people move into the town (doing so would burden existing residents), it also does not make sense to wait for people to move into a community before infrastructure projects start. For starters, before approving a large housing project the town should :-

1. Make sure that road projects will start soon after the builder breaks the ground. This will ensure money from developer fees flows quickly to develop infrastructure.
2. Approve schools etc on the first phase. In HVE it wasn’t until the 5th phase
3. Coordinate with school boards, hospitals and other agencies
4. Extending the previous item, really really campaign the region and the Province for funding

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