LATEST NEWS: According to the Toronto Star, despite the disruption that gridlocked commuter traffic Wednesday evening:
Full service resumes on Yonge subway line
This means our field trip to City Hall is on as scheduled. If you're going on your own down the Yonge subway line, you should get off at Queen Station, as for directions at Eaton Centre, and enter the lobby of City Hall.
Also, as it's almost certain to rain (P.O.P. 60% - 90%, 2 - 10mm rain), you may want to pack a poncho or an umbrella.
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This Thursday we're going on our first-ever field trip to City Hall, where we're scheduled at 10 a.m. to have a presentation on the City Council and its workings, their meeting place at the Chamber, and possibly a meeting with the elected official of the ward MicroSkills is in, at 200 and 250 Consumers Road, Councillor Shelley Carroll of Ward 33 Don Valley East.
Toronto's City Hall is the seat of the municipal government. It is where the councillors meet as a City Council to make decisions on various bylaws, budgets, elections, TTC fares, etc. Among the recent happenings there is the launch of the 311 non-emergency services and information telephone line. An interesting fact facing the City Council this year is the never-before $25 billion ($25,000,000,000) deficit facing us for 2009 - 2010.
Councillor Carroll is also Chairperson of the Budget Committee, an important post next to Mayor David Miller, and has been fancied to run for the position of mayor next year.
At the end of the presentation at City Hall, you are dismissed and are free to enjoy lunch with the pigeons (if there are any left) at Nathan Phillips Square and/or head to Eaton Centre to shop till you drop.
Those who would like to leave from the Southbound Platform of Sheppard-Yonge Subway Station are requested to be there before 9:15 a.m. You may bring a lunch/snack, a camera, your spouse's credit card, a big smile, and a friend. Welcome to our great city of Toronto!
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