{"id":16170,"date":"2015-02-04T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16170"},"modified":"2015-04-05T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T13:32:49","slug":"montreal-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreal-executive-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall Executive Committee Round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montreal\u2019s executive committee focussed on renovations, soccer and Montreal\u2019s 375th<\/sup> Anniversary at the January 14 meeting.<\/p>\n

City Hall Renovation<\/h2>\n

Loans for almost eight million dollars were approved for the renovation of City Hall, with half of that coming from the agglomeration.<\/p>\n

Municipal Courthouse Renovation<\/h2>\n

The renovation of the Municipal courthouse will cost $8,500,000, with six million coming from the agglomeration.<\/p>\n

A renovation permit for an 1840\u2019s structure in Ville Marie was also granted.<\/p>\n

Mountain River Walk<\/h2>\n

Councillors also approved 31 M$ in funding for a Mountain to River walk to honour Montreal\u2019s 375th<\/sup> birthday, all of which will be paid for by the agglomeration.<\/p>\n

Gilles-Villeneuve Circuit Improvement<\/h2>\n

The agglomeration will also pay 30 million dollars to improve the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit for the Formula 1 Grand Prix. The approval of a contract to bring the Formula 1 to Montreal until 2024 was approved at a previous meeting on December 17.<\/p>\n

Diane de Courcy’s New Job<\/h2>\n

Diane De Courcy was given a contract in camera for $95,000 a year over two years for an unspecified mandate. De Courcy heads\u00a0Je Vois Montreal<\/em>, which has become Je Fais Montreal<\/em>.* A budget for $125,589.40 was set aside for 2015.<\/p>\n

Soccer<\/h2>\n

A public tender for multimedia equipment in the Montreal soccer stadium was discussed behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

TEQ Inc. was also given another three million dollars for the Soccer Centre of Montreal project in an in-camera discussion.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Note: This article appeared on page 12 of today’s Suburban<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*The original article made an incorrect assumption about\u00a0this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Municipal Courthouse Renovation The renovation of the Municipal courthouse will cost $8,500,000, with six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4cO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3193,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/verdun-councillors-active-since-election\/","url_meta":{"origin":16170,"position":0},"title":"Verdun Councillors Active Since the Election","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"December 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Borough of Verdun has already held two council meetings since the election, a special one on November 18 and the first regularly scheduled one on Tuesday, December 3. 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