Trudel Administration: one year already!

The problem of budgetary restrictions was a major subject of Borough Mayor Claude Trudel’s speech. He highlighted the financial difficulties and solutions that his Administration tried to apply to address this issue.

The Mayor then described the numerous initiatives undertaken by his Administration. Citing concrete steps taken in the consultation and information phases, Claude Trudel reminded the attendees of the success of Citizens’ Tuesday nights and also mentioned the information sessions on the problems faced in Henri-Duhamel Street, where two meetings and various scenarios submitted enabled the establishment of a new configuration of the street to lessen the impact of traffic, especially during rush hour. Moreover, an information session held in the L’Île-des-Sœurs community presented the various ongoing development projects.

The town hall meetings, the next one of which will be held on December 4 at the municipal workshops on Dupuis Street, have become increasingly popular. Question periods during council meetings have also changed.

Other measures were also taken to serve the population as explained by Claude Trudel: the new free Accès Verdun card for exclusive use in the local libraries and the increase of opening hours, as well as the implementation of the Bonne Bouffe policy in the installations of the borough.

As for the environment and public works, the borough got involved with the Minister of the Environment to ensure the protection of green spaces in the Douglas Hospital area while continuing with the re-structuring work of the infrastructures, sidewalks and pavements in several areas of the borough, of which major works are now being carried out in the following streets: Bannantyne, Melrose, Godin, Verdun, Joseph and Champlain boulevard.

In the next few months, housing projects on Gaétan-Laberge Boulevard will be announced. The mayor also spoke of the Bell Canada project to move its headquarters in the North Point of the Island, insisting that this will represent revenues for the borough.

And the future seems well planned with the strategic development plan containing some 75 concrete measures which were selected after consultations with about ten community organizations.