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Earlier this month, Town staff members attended a special presentation at the NSCC Amherst Community Learning Centre. This was, in fact, a follow-up visit, having first met with the second-year Business Administration students at Town Hall when they came in to hear about operations management and procurement processes at the Town of Amherst.
“We hosted the Business Admin class in January after their instructor Lisa Gower reached out,” said Jason MacDonald, CAO for the Town of Amherst. “During our presentation to the students I referenced the Town’s strategic plan several times, and that’s when Lisa asked if she could use our plan as a key component for the work in the Strategic Decision-making class.”
On March 25 2024 at approximately 4:42am in the morning the Amherst Police Department responded to a burglary alarm at a business on Church Street in Amherst Nova Scotia. Upon arrival Officers determined that someone had broken the glass to the front door of the business and a break-in had occurred. During the incident it was determined that high valued electric bicycles had been stolen from inside the business.
At Amherst Town Council’s regular meeting on Monday night, three items were presented relating to residential development in town.
First reading was given to a development agreement for a 20-acre portion of 305 Church Street, to allow a residential development and to schedule a public hearing for Wednesday, May 15 – 5 p.m. in Council Chambers.
A Land Use By-law amendment for a re-zoning of 11 and 13 Industrial Park Drive was also given first reading. This motion states that zoning of the subject properties be changed from Highway Commercial to Mini Home Zone, and that a public hearing be paired with that mentioned above, on May 15.
With the purchase of the Marshview Drive property recently completed and an RFP now developed for real estate services, a number of additional decisions were made in order to continue with this project to create approximately 30 building lots for executive-style homes. Those include details such as lot price, minimum dwelling size, pedestrian access, and time limit for commencement of construction.
At its regular meeting on Monday night, Amherst Town Council approved this fiscal year’s tax rates as well as the 2024-2025 general and water utility operating budgets.
The general operating budget was set at slightly over $22 million, and the water utility’s operating budget was set at just over $2.6 million. The overall tax rate remains the same as the previous year.
“Our Town staff has worked very hard over the last few months to produce our 2024/25 operational budget – as they do every year,” said Mayor David Kogon. “We are so pleased to be able to present a balanced budget that enables us to enhance our service capacity to citizens as well as make meaningful contributions towards our strategic priorities to enhance the town going forward, without raising the tax rates.”