A Transit Windsor Hybid Diesel-Electric bus drives down Wyandotte St. East

The City of Windsor’s Operating Budget Committee has released its 2010 recommended budget.

As originally reported on windsoriteDOTca, taxpayers were anticipating a number of service cuts and rollbacks including unsettling recommendations to convert hybrid buses back to diesel, the turning-off of all of Windsor’s fountains and the elimination of a Veteran Appreciation Dinner.

Bert Weeks Memorial Fountain by mylocalfood (from our flickr pool)

The draft Windsor Municipal Budget for 2010 is out and ready for public consideration and there are some alarming devils in the details.

Draft budget cutbacks include plans to eliminate multiple flagpoles throughout the city, turning off public fountains, discontinuing a Remembrance Day dinner, and converting Hybrid Buses back to diesel (among other things).

City council agreed to go ahead with a further study concerning the proposed air cargo village at Windsor International Airport on Monday. This is one topic of local news that I haven’t followed too closely, mainly because I had no idea what an air cargo village was. I asked a friend, and he had no idea either. I decided to look into it further.