Thèmes électoraux de Hampstead 2009

 

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Recommandations du Maire Steinberg pour Conseil Municipale

Afin de nous assurer que la ville de Hampstead continue d’avancer dans la direction que nous l’avons conduite ces quatre dernières années, nous avons besoin des candidats d’élite au conseil. Il est crucial que nous élisions des travailleurs passionnés, engagés, dévoués et intègres.
Je ne pense pas que des listes de candidats proposés sont une bonne idée dans les petites villes, c’est pourquoi les candidats que je recommande sont indépendants, ils travaillent à leurs propres projets. Cela nous garantie que tous les segments de notre communauté sont bien représentés.

Recommandations du Maire Steinberg

Statistiques des présences du conseil

MAIRE William Steinberg	3 séances manquées
Conseiller David Sternthal	21 séances manquées

Présences du Conseil (de novembre 2005 au 31 juillet 2009)

États financiers

États financiers de la Ville de Hampstead 2008 (version complète)

Carte de rues repavé

Cartes de rues / chemins repavés 2006 – 2009

 

Dans les medias (en anglais seulement)

[David] Sternthal’s numbers ‘outlandish’

Letter to the Editor in the Suburban (August 2009) by Hampstead Councillor Clifford Borden.

It is regrettable that I must address some of the outlandish and false claims made by David Sternthal in regards to the financial situation and spending habits of Hampstead published in last weeks Suburban opinion page. Sternthal’s claims run counter to the facts , as know by our auditors, our finance head Charles Ohayon, and our director general Richard Sun. For example … Read more …

Battleground: Hampstead

Article in the Gazette by David Johnston (September 8, 2009)

They say in politics that you should keep your friends close - and your enemies even closer. This is what Hampstead Mayor Bill Steinberg has done with David Sternthal, the town councillor running against him this fall for the mayor's job. When Sternthal shows up for tonight's regular September council meeting, he will have to sit down in the seat immediately to the left of Steinberg - not three seats to the right of the mayor, his old spot. Steinberg introduced the seat change in July, after he learned that Sternthal, his arch-enemy in council, had declared his mayoral candidacy in the Nov. 1 municipal elections. Across Quebec, similar monthly council meetings set to unfold this week spell the start of hundreds of other municipal campaigns. Read more…

Steinberg is Correct

Letter to the Editor in the Suburban (September 2, 2009) by Hampstead resident, Syd Cohen.

Hampstead Mayor William Steinberg, in his article titled Promises made, promises kept, states that the town has a surplus of “over $1,500,000” while his opponent, Councillor David Sternthal, in his opposite article titled Why I am running, states that the “Town owes over $16 million in debt.” A quick glance at the audited financial statements of the town shows that the “accumulated surplus” of the town is $2,137,602 therefore, the mayor is not only correct but is being conservatively correct. Read more …

Hampstead Mayor William Steinberg will not put election signs on public property

Article in the Monitor (August 17th 2009).

Hampstead Mayor William Steinberg announced today that he will not put any election signs on public property. He will limit his signs to the lawns of private residences. In the 2005 election campaign, Hampstead was blanketed with a glut of signs of all sizes. Residents made hundreds of complaints but the election law permitted the signs and nothing could be done. The freshly elected Hampstead council passed a resolution in February of 2006 urging the Quebec government to change the election law to limit the number and size of signs. Read more …

New water-gate invention expected to save Hampstead hundreds of thousands of dollars

Article in the Monitor (July 16th 2009).

The Town of Hampstead just announced that it has recently acquired a new Water-Gate system designed to stop the flow of water in the case of water main breaks and divert it back to the street. This new acquisition is expected to save the Town hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in potential insurance claims for flooded basements. Hampstead will be the first town on the island to use the Water-Gate flood water diversion system. Read more …

With Grey!

Editorial by Beryl Wajsman in the Suburban (July 15, 2009).

What little remains of our civil liberties in our personal lives is due to the efforts of a handful of Canadians. The imposition of politically correct attitudes and affects combined with the overbearing reach of the control state have made public officials, for the most part, feckless and weak. Pandering rules principle. Paramount among those who continue to seek to make law the shield of the honest and the staff of the innocent and not just a two-edged sword of craft and oppression is Montreal lawyer Julius Grey. He has devoted his life to the vulnerable and nearly-vanquished, and time and again to the only causes worth fighting for, the lost ones. In Quebec, he is singularly responsible for keeping the flame of individual conscience and consequence alive in the face of collectivist lockstep. He has said many times and in many places that “legislating niceness is not very nice.” When he said those words he was not talking only about the endless stream of nanny-state rule and regulation. He was also talking about the demonization of people for the views they hold. The suffocating rush to conformity that poisons every aspect of our public debate. Last week Julius Grey almost became a victim of these maladies we oppose so vigorously. Grey has been acting as counsel to the Town of Hampstead. Read more …

Shocking tactics

Letter to the Editor of the Gazette by William Steinberg (July 17, 2009).

Re: "Not Democracy" (Letters, July 15). Councillor David Sternthal has accused me of not respecting democracy by using my veto power. The exact opposite is true. A mayor has veto power to ensure that something cannot be passed by a minority of council when one or more councillors are absent. This power is not absolute, as the majority may overturn the veto at the following meeting. This is the third time in four years that I have used a veto and it has never been overturned. In fact, this is the second time that Sternthal has tried to get his agenda passed when councillors were absent. It is ironic that he tries to take advantage of the absences of councillors who seldom miss meetings, when he has missed more meetings (21) than any member of council. Democracy is best served when elected representatives attend meetings and respect the wishes of the majority. Read more …

Hampstead's lawyer has right to back Harel

Editorial in the Gazette (July 21, 2009).

Some members of Hampstead's city council have chosen to ignore, or else do not understand, an elementary fact of democratic life: That it is possible to dispute someone's political choices without doubting his or her professional capacities. Lawyer Julius Grey is, we believe, certainly misguided in backing Vision Montreal candidate Louise Harel in this fall's Montreal municipal election. But the attempt to have him dismissed as Hampstead's lawyer in a court case, because of this, was far more sorely misguided, and more evidently so. Read more …

With Grey and Bravo to Steinberg

Letters to the Editor in the Suburban.

Promises made, promises kept

By Mayor William Steinberg Special to The Suburban.
http://www.thesuburbannews.ca/content/en/2087

Demerged mayors snub agglomeration council

CBC News (December 1, 2006).

The mayors of Montreal's demerged suburbs say they're boycotting future agglomeration council meetings until the province intervenes to give them more decision-making power. On Thursday, the mayors walked out of a special agglomeration meeting about the Montreal budget, and vowed to skip out on any other meetings until Quebec reviews the agglomeration council's function. The council, which manages shared municipal services across the island, includes Montreal city councillors and demerged city boroughs. Demerged city boroughs have long complained they have no voice on the council, and now that Montreal has tabled its 2007 budget, they say they're fed up. Read more …

Hampstead pursues lower local tax effort, while curtailing water usage

Article on montréalexpress.ca by Martin C. Barry (January 16, 2008).

In its latest annual budget, the Town of Hampstead is opting for an environmentally-friendly approach that encourages residents to save water and pay less tax while doing so. Read more …

Le projet de loi 22 procure à Hampstead des avantages importants

Communications du maire (1 aout 2008).

Lors de ma campagne à la mairie, un des engagements que j’ai annoncés était de me battre pour un conseil d’agglomération plus juste. Pour atteindre cet objectif, j’ai été le premier des maires de banlieue, avec la mairesse Tutino de Baie-D’Urfe, à boycotter le conseil d’agglomération, une mesure qui allait ensuite être adoptée par tous les maires et qui a amené le gouvernement du Québec à se pencher sur la question. Il aura fallu ensuite 18 mois de négociations difficiles pour que nous réussissions à obtenir un excellent arrangement dans le projet de loi 22, adopté par l’Assemblée nationale le 28 juin 2008. Lisez plus …

Hampstead mayor coped with severe hearing loss as a student

Interview with Mayor Steinberg in Inspirations by Mike Cohen (Fall 2008).

William (Bill) Steinberg recently returned to Hampstead Elementary School for one of his regular visits. More than 50 years ago he was a student there as a special needs student, having been born with a sensorineural hearing loss, with damaged hair cells in the cochlea. Today, he is the mayor of Hampstead and a successful businessman. Read more …

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