Correspondence from newsletter editors to Ward 9 Aldermans office regarding the length of his September newsletter submission.

Below you will find the shortened version proposed by newsletter editors. From: Editors, Ramsay Newsletter To: ward09@calgary.ca Subject: P6: Gian Carlo, Ramsay Newsletter Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:56:45 -0600 We did a quick edit to shorten your article. I hope it meets with your approval. -Pam Dalsin/Elizabeth Newton; Ramsay News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: EAWARD9@calgary.ca To: Editors, Ramsay Newsletter Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:32:35 -0600 Subject: RE: P6: Gian Carlo, Ramsay Newsletter
Hello Pam, We do not approve the edited version of our September newsletter edition. Please remove the entire article from the September newsletter. Best, Jacqueline Brown

Team Ward 9
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Editors, Ramsay Newsletter To: eaward9@calgary.ca Subject: RE: P6: Gian Carlo, Ramsay Newsletter Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:57:16 -0600
Dear Jacqueline; We are sorry to hear that the edit was unacceptable. Elizabeth Newton, my new co-editor and I worked on it for almost an hour. Ramsay's September's news is typically very crowded due to the lack of an August issue, so things pile up. In fact, we had requested that Mr. Carra keep his articles to less than 500 words, if possible, to which he had agreed. It was two pages long and we had it edited down to a full page, but, due to your lack of approval, we will remove the article. Sincerely, Pam Dalsin, c.c. Elizabeth Newton

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After a surprisingly quiet (but much needed) August break the season is drawing to a close and the pace is picking up again at City Hall. Your Team Ward 9 is working on several issues that affect Ramsay: Lilydale Team Ward 9 met with the Lilydale ownership group this spring. They agreed that relocation is exactly what they wanted and asked until December of this year to complete a corporation-wide assessment that would offer clarification of how and when theyd best be able to move, with the general agreement that a three to five year window was realistic - not ideal

but, realistic. Team Ward 9 will be meeting with affected neighbours this fall to discuss these time lines, a strategy to ensure that Lilydale is compliant with the established relocation schedule, as well as a strategy to ensure that they are held to good neighbour standards in the interim. Stampede and Ramsay Exchange The rumours are true, the Stampede has purchased the former Ramsay Exchange lands. In acknowledgement of community concerns, the plan is to establish a larger buffer between animal-related Stampede uses and eventual redevelopment than was contemplated by the Torrode plan. The redevelopment portion of the site will be undertaken by the company that emerged out from the wreckage of the Torrode empire - New Urban Developments - and I will be working to ensure that pen is not put to paper without meaningful community engagement. Your Community Association Board Back in January I attended a Ramsay Community Association meeting during which I made some strong statements that were met with mixed reactions. I stated that a Community Associations strength lies not in reactively saying, "No" to development propositions and issues, but instead in proactively working with all community members to forge a vision of what their community is and should become. In having a vision that the entire community supports, the role shifts from protecting the community from change, to working with proponents of change to fit their aspirations into the best outcome for our community. The real path to meaningful representation of the community lies in saying, "Yes, and this is how we would like to see it done" and we work on it, together. . The Stampede Experience Every year the protocols regarding how we handle Stampede are adjusted to minimize the impact of that crazy ten days on the community of Ramsay. Please contact us at ward09@calgary.ca or call us at 403-268-5330. The Provincial Election The biggest issue on your City Councils plate this fall is the Budget for the next three-year cycle. I was very pleased to see that the broad themes driving the Neighbourhood's First mission of your Team Ward 9 were supported in the feedback we received from the public in the, "Our City, Our Budget, Our Future", consultation. The question remains as to whether our civic bureaucracy has taken that input, the fairly clear direction of our City Council, and the much more austere parameters we gave them to plan with over the summer. I believe that the best expression of our collective ideals is to focus on an interdisciplinary, neighbourhood-focussed, community council that is supportive of their civil service. The roll of Cities (and Calgary specifically) within the context of Alberta is an issue that will hopefully be meaningfully addressed this fall when Calgarians go to the polls to help determine the outcome of the PC leadership race and then the nature of our next Provincial government. As Calgarians we can transform our City Government such that we change our course and begin to build a prosperously sustainable city of vibrant neighbourhoods - a City that we can actually afford. Further, we can restructure our civic bureaucracy into a civil service specifically designed to achieve such ends. As individuals, during the next Provincial Election, we can tell our Government that we need to empower our City with the ability to be the master of its own fate. The prosperity of Calgary is a boon that we must responsibly share with the rest of the Province (and the rest of the Nation), the $0.08 that trickles back to us from every dollar that gets taxed out of Calgary pockets is far too little to be fair, responsible, or sustainable. I hope every citizen of Ramsay asks their Minister Dennis and their other potential MLAs what they will do to help put the City of Calgary and the neighbourhoods of Ramsay onto a sustainable path. Rest assured that I spend a lot of time doing that myself but its important that our elected representatives hear this message from the general citizenry. Lastly, I fully expect that by the time you read this my long-anticipated website will finally be live: www.gccarra.ca. Please write in and let us know what you love best about Ramsay. Team Ward 9, being Jacqueline, Lindsay, and I, are standing by at your service. We're expecting an exciting fall season that begins to see the transformation we're committed to achieving in Calgary. -Gian-Carlo Carra Calgary City Councillor, Ward 9 Office: 1-403-268-2430 Mobile: 1-403-875-7409 Email: ward09@calgary.ca Web Site: http://www.gccarra.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/gccarra