Unlike a municipality that has an actual downtown where you park the car along the road and walk up and down on a sidewalk , we have large spread out plazas that have parking lots and spaces for our cars.
I am so fed up with people sitting idling their cars in fire routes , “just for a minute” . (more…)
I was checking into the Clinic locations and see that Bowmanville, Oshawa, Whitby and Pickering all have H1N1 Flu clinics.
Why doesn’t Ajax have an H1N1 Clinic of it’s own ? I just spoke to my Mother in Fonthill and she does not have to go to Welland to get her shot, she will go to the local firehall and get one. She is just as close to Welland as we are to Pickering.
I would like to know why Whitby does not have to share with Oshawa ?
We have enough of a population that our council keeps harping about another politician to pay at the Region level but no one makes enough noise about an H1N1 clinic in town ?
Will we get one on Monday for the people not deemed high risk ?
I was at the rally for Stephan Dion prior to arriving late for the presentation of the Draft Ajax Community Safety strategy , this plan will be presented to Council in October. It is a good plan on paper and I hope the aspirations in it are realised. Common themes raised by the large number of citizens in attendance was early intervention with youth and the need for more access to recreation programs for youth before they get into trouble. Building neighbourhoods and supporting communities. Traffic safety and feeling safe while getting around town. Getting to know your neighbours. (more…)
This is not being announced, it is just something I have been thinking about.
Back in the summer there were some community safety issues and when they make the press sometimes negative perceptions are floated around and then you hear “North Ajax” in a sentence about trouble and crime. (more…)
I was at the council meeting Monday September 10th - here is the agenda online with a link. The minutes are available also.
What the minutes do not tell you is that Mr. Carito was advised to get on the agenda and make his 5 minute delegation by his councillor- Mr. Joe Dickson. Mr. Carito has been dealing these issues for quite some time it seems.
Mr. Carito became frustrated when one of the first things he was asked if he “Contacted his Councillor” then “Have you called the Regional Police” .
The question and answer period continued but Mr. Carito was still asking questions and was reprimanded on the fact that he had his 5 minutes. It seems you have only 5 minutes to speak on issues of concern then the question from council members of course is not included in this 5 minutes but it does not state anywhere on the Town site that the resident does not get to have the last word.
We understand the fact that we can not have riots and near brawls– they keep that to the in-camera meetings 
However it was obvious to many that Mr. Carito’s frustration was from process and lack of guidance on protocol.
Why did the Mayor not know Mr. Carito had already attempted to deal with these issues before the last ditch effort of addressing Council?
This same meeting saw a by-law that says 4 more by-law officers have been hired.
Mr. Carito was followed up with as stated by by-law office. These issues are not easy to solve and I think Council needs to realize the fact that residents are looking for answers but if you don’t have the answers then just say - You don’t know. Most of the issues Mr. Carito is concerned with are happening all over and for lack of a better word– society in general.
I don’t have the answers for North Ajax but root issues need to be addressed and simply closing a walkway obviously has not solved anything. Mr. Carito made his presentation after that walkway was closed. I do know that people need to call police even after the fact because then they have the statistics.
Presentations of more positive nature have no time limit.
Here is what he had in his document to present. These are his words.
My name is Pasquale Carito. I have been a resident of Ajax for aprox. 9 years. I come here today to talk to Council about a number of safe community issues that are being overseen.
1. Fletcher runs north and south between Kerrison and Fishlock. This street has a higher volume of traffic, both auto and pedestrian, then the other residential streets. There are 2 schools located at either end of Fletcher however there is not one stop sign on Fletcher. It has become a drag strip for many a motorist. This needs to be address asap.
2. A new plaza was built at the south-west corner of Harwood and Rossland. Every since, the surrounding streets has had nothing but litter from people that frequent that plaza. Not a single day passes that I do not have to clean up trash off of my property. The streets are filthy, I never see a city worker cleaning the streets.
3. Numerous times through the last 3 or so years I have had to call on both Durham Police and the Bylaw office concerning a noise complaint. Both sides have been passing the buck so to speak. To this day I haven’t been notified on what was done about the situation.
4. My neighbourhood is not patrolled enough by Durham Police. I very rarely see them in the neighbourhood unless there is a problem. I feel if there was more of a police presence that situations would not be as they are today.