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		<title>What I learnt the last four years on City Council</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions I have been asked lately goes something like this.  So, now that you have been a councilor for one term what have you learnt?
Here are some of the things I have learnt during my first term on council;
1.	The authority of power of a councilor is different than those of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To run for re-election or not to run</title>
		<link>http://jacsiemens.com/wordpress/?p=175</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time to decide if I will take another run at City of Steinbach council or not. Actually the decision has already been made and I have handed in my nomination papers. I will run again.
The last 4 years have been a lot of fun and time of learning, getting to know our community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library, Investment in our community</title>
		<link>http://jacsiemens.com/wordpress/?p=172</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jake Epp Library expansion
The plan is to expand the Jake Epp Library originally built in 1996 with 8,000 sq ft. The plan is to add approx 10,200 sq ft to the building bringing total sq footage to just over 18,000 sq ft
Work is to be started in 2010 with completion in mid 2011. Expansion will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Tax or not to Tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This plan represents work completed by administration with direction given by this council. This is the last time this council will work through the budget process from start to completion within it’s current mandate.
When we set to work on this budget during our summer study session, we looked at a variety of issues that faced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Echoes Article Jan/Feb 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just thinking….						January 2010
Here we are a new year started and trying to come to terms with getting the correct year number whenever we write it down.  Even though this is a new year I am finding that, as I age, more time is spent in reflecting on where I have come from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council study session Nov &#8216;09</title>
		<link>http://jacsiemens.com/wordpress/?p=163</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just concluded our City of Steinbach Council Study Session in which we discussed our 2010 budget.
The agenda was spent reviewing our capital and operational projects that we feel the City needs.  What I found interesting was the different opinions that were shared by the Mayor and councilors against how staff viewed the priorities. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Fall and it&#8217;s busy</title>
		<link>http://jacsiemens.com/wordpress/?p=157</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall is that time of year when we get busy with meeting of many kinds. Not only does council get busier with 2010 budget meetings, attending fundraisers and just the business of council. But all around us activity levels just pick up again after a summer of relaxed meeting times. Minor sports, group functions, lessons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Bike Lane Signs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the new &#8220;Share The Road&#8221; signs on Loewen Blvd, McKenzie and Hespeler that have gone up recently.
As a community I think it is important to provide places for our cyclists to ride along our roadways.  The signage should be a start.  At some point logos painted on the roadways will indicate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who does need help in Steinbach?</title>
		<link>http://jacsiemens.com/wordpress/?p=152</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steinbach is a growing vibrant community this is demonstrated in our building permits taken out, our summer in the city festival that had a great first year and our census figures that grow at each count making us the third largest community in Manitoba.
Southeastern Manitoba has not been affected by the economic turndown to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whistler in June</title>
		<link>http://jacsiemens.com/wordpress/?p=150</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year I have been fortunate to attend the FCM conference in Whistler BC. FCM stand for Federation of Canadian Municipalities. This conference is attended by most of the major centers of Canada. Each day we hear from different party leaders and meet to discuss issues that effect us at the national level.
On Friday we [...]]]></description>
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