{"id":186301,"date":"2023-10-12T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=186301"},"modified":"2023-10-12T17:12:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T21:12:25","slug":"tensions-flare-over-budget-parks-at-cdn-ndg-borough-council-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/tensions-flare-over-budget-parks-at-cdn-ndg-borough-council-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions flare over budget, parks at CDN-NDG borough council meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The C\u00f4te-des-Neiges\u2013Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce (CDN-NDG) borough mayor and opposition councilors found themselves at odds on parks and the borough budget during back-to-back council meetings Tuesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tensions began to flare during the 5:30 p.m. session, in which council members gathered to pass this year\u2019s budget<\/a>. <\/span>Although the budget passed, both Ensemble Montreal councilors voted against it.\u00a0<\/span>Snowdon councilor Sonny Moroz said he couldn\u2019t approve the budget in good conscience without more information sooner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moroz and borough Mayor Gracia Kasoki Katahwa also butted heads over green space<\/span>. The Snowdon councilor asked about whether the administration assessed the impact of <\/span>proposed changes to Mackenzie-King Park<\/span><\/a> on the environment and vulnerable populations. The proposal includes a new astroturf field. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Kasoki Katahwa <\/span>argued the youth of C\u00f4te-des-Neiges are a vulnerable and underserved group, and that to deprive them of an astroturf sport field would demand taking action against the many private schools allowed to have similar fields, inaccessible to the public. <\/span>\u201cThe City of Montreal must be coherent in the way we make our ecological transition,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Toward the close of the following meeting, there was another tense exchange between the mayor and Ensemble Montreal councilors, this time over the closure of Camillien-Houde Way to cars by 2027. Moroz\u2019s fellow Ensemble Montreal councilor, Stephanie Valenzuela, proposed a motion asking the city to study the impact of the closure on borough residents.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Projet Montreal amended the motion to focus more on collaboration with the City to make the surrounding streets more secure, Valenzuela expressed her desire to withdraw the motion, but was overruled. The amended motion passed 3-2 with the support of Projet Montreal councilors. <\/span><\/p>\n

The mayor justified the decision by saying that impact studies were already part of the city\u2019s process in proposing the change, leading to a heated back-and-forth between her and the opposing councilors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next meeting takes place on Nov. 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the Centre culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce, a shift from the regular location at the borough's Acc\u00e8s Montr\u00e9al office.<\/p>\n

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The C\u00f4te-des-Neiges\u2013Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce (CDN-NDG) borough mayor and opposition councilors found themselves at odds on parks and the borough budget during back-to-back council meetings Tuesday night. Tensions began to flare during the 5:30 p.m. session, in which council members gathered to pass this year\u2019s budget. Although the budget passed, both Ensemble Montreal councilors voted against it.\u00a0Snowdon councilor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":186307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[31333,1414,31340,29577,31339,31334,31336,31337,31338],"radio":[28325],"origine":[274,1145,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186401,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186301\/revisions\/186401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186301"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=186301"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=186301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}