Vacuum Leaf Program is moving ahead
This has been a challenging season for the Vacuum Leaf Program with having three disruptive snow storms during the program. You would have received a colour coded notice card in the mail in the early fall with the pick-up dates for your area. Green and Yellow have now been completed. Crews have now moved into the Blue Zone, which included the Mineola’s and parts of Port Credit. They are working diligently to get the program completed.
I would like to thank our residents for their patience and understanding during this challenging season.
Stephen
Park People is working with the City to bring their Walk in the Park program to older adults and seniors living in Mississauga. They currently are accepting applications for community walk leaders with a working deadline of January 3rd.
Full details about the program, volunteer role, online application and associated training can be found on our webpage. Parks staff will be posting in city-owned facilities.
To help get the message out, it would be greatly appreciated if you could take a few minutes to share this opportunity widely amongst your networks. I
Jill Kelly
Project Manager | Park People
jkelly@parkpeople.ca | office: 416-583-5776 | cell: 416-899-5439
City Builder’s Lab | 401 Richmond St. W., Studio 119, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
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Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. We have already experienced the impacts of climate change with increased flooding, ice storms and some of the hottest summers on record, but we are taking action! Together with my colleagues on Council, we recently approved the City’s Climate Change Action Plan. It contains ambitious yet practical steps that will help us combat climate change over the next 10 years.
The plan has two main goals – 1. Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80 per cent by 2050 with the long-term goal of becoming a net-zero community; and 2. Increase resilience and the capacity of the city to withstand and respond to current and future climate events
In total, the Plan contains 21 key actions that are grouped under five ‘action pathways’:
- Buildings and Clean Energy
- Resilient and Green Infrastructure
- Accelerating Discovery and Innovation
- Low-Emissions Mobility
- Engagement and Partnerhips
You can stay up to date on our progress by following @MilivingGreen on Twitter, @SaugaGreen on Facebook or by visiting theclimatechangeproject.ca.
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Please be advised that staff are currently changing over the trucks to start up the Vacuum Leaf Collection Program (VLCP) tomorrow. Crews will continue their in the YELLOW zone and then move forward through as many zones as possible, depending on the weather.
The process will be slow due to possible frozen and wet leaves however, crews will do their best to collect as many leaves as possible.
I will provide an update to you indicating how the program is progressing during the week.
Stephen
Borrow a hotspot device to connect a computer, phone or tablet to wireless Internet for free. Use your library card to borrow a hotspot for up to 7 days at a time.
Hotspots are available at Central Library, Cooksville Library, Frank McKechnie Library, Malton Library, Mississauga Valley Library and Woodlands Library.
Use your library card to use a Chromebook or laptop. They can be used anywhere inside the library. They must be returned 30 minutes before closing or late fees will be charged.
Chromebooks are available at Cooksville Library, Malton Library and Sheridan Library.
Laptops are available at Central Library, Frank McKechnie Libary and Woodlands Library.
If you do not have a Mississauga Library card, you can get a virtual library card to access digital items such as ebooks, audiobooks, movies, music, magazines, newspapers and more.
Winter weather continues to interfere with the City’s Vacuum Leaf Collection Program (VLCP). The City has successfully completed the first sweep of collection throughout qualified neighbourhoods, but this weekend’s snowstorm has required us to postpone a second collection. At this time, equipment and staff must continue to be dedicated to snow clearing operations across the City.
The situation is challenging. We understand that managing yard waste on residential properties is difficult and arduous, but snow covered, frozen or excessively wet leaves will damage City equipment. This week and next, weather conditions are being closely assessed to determine if a second collection is at all possible.
We are hopeful for warmer temperatures and no additional precipitation in immediate days ahead, but in order for the City to conduct a second collection, weather conditions must be appropriate. If the weather conditions are right, the City will resume the VLCP.
Our Citizen Contact Centre continues to be available to residents for updates on the status of the VLCP. For information, please call 3-1-1.
At this time, please consider discarding leaves via the Region of Peel yard waste collection program, which continues until December 12 City-wide.
MiWay will continue to accept printed tickets until April 30, 2020 – four months longer than initially planned – in response to feedback from customers who requested additional time to use their remaining tickets. There are no refunds or exchanges on MiWay tickets.
In February 2019, MiWay launched a “Go Paperless with PRESTO” campaign to inform the public that
Tickets have been part of Mississauga’s transit system for decades so there may be many residents with small amounts that they’ve kept on hand. By extending the deadline to April 30, 2020, MiWay customers will have had 15 months to use up their remaining tickets.
Many customers have already made the transition to PRESTO, as it is the easiest way to pay a fare on MiWay. PRESTO is less expensive than the cash fare and you can buy or load a card online, by phone or at various PRESTO Service Locations across the GTA, including 29 Shoppers Drug Mart locations in Mississauga.
December 3, 2019
Please find below an update on our winter operations related to the event that began Sunday December 1, 2019:
- Based on the accumulations of 10-12 cm received across the City and the snow stopping at 1500 December 2, 2019, our service levels will be as follows:
- Priority Roads, priority sidewalks and bus stops – 0300 December 3, 2019
- Secondary Roads – 1500 December, 3, 2019
- Priority roads have been plowed and salted;
- Priority sidewalks have been completed at least twice with some touch up work continuing this morning;
- Bus stops have been completed at least once however, contractors are being called back in for works that have not been completed as outlined in the contract;
- Windrow program has been making good progress and should be completed this afternoon;
- Secondary plowing and salting has also progressed well and will be finished in advance of our above noted level of service.
Staff will be out today checking all routes to ensure they are safe for our residents. A reminder to our secondary road residents that the plowing may not achieve bare pavement, as per our Council approved service levels.
The forecast shows small amounts of snow for the next few days and then warming temperatures and rain Sunday and Monday. Staff will assess conditions later this week and early next week to see if it will be possible to restart the Vacuum Leaf Collection Program (VLCP).