​The City of Vaughan is offering family friendly, drop-in leisure activities at community centres across Vaughan during the holiday break from December 24, 2011 to January 8, 2012.

Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua has announced that $20,000 from the money raised this year at the Mayor’s Gala and the Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua Annual Charity Golf Classic will be given to the City’s RecAssist fee assistance program.

​Vaughan Council has approved the key recommendations in a corporate structure review report entitled “Taking it to the Next Level.” The proposed changes to the municipality’s administrative structure will be funded without an increase in the City’s 2012 operating budget.

​The City of Vaughan has presented a record-breaking cheque to the United Way of York Region. In a special presentation at this week’s Council meeting, Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua and Members of Council presented a cheque to Daniele Zanotti, Chief Executive Officer of the United Way in the amount of $73,136.38.

In addition, the Mayor has made a commitment to donate a further $15,000 from the money raised this year at the Mayor’s Gala and the Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua Annual Charity Golf Classic. Another $1,030 was raised by the Pierre Berton Resources Library.

​The City of Vaughan has been cited as a leading example of a municipality implementing a local system for residents to appeal provincial parking and licensing offences by the Law Commission of Ontario. In its recent Modernization of the Provincial Offences Act report, the Commission recommends the wider use of Administrative Monetary Penalties, noting that Vaughan is one of only two municipalities to implement such a system for enforcing parking by-laws.

​The City of Vaughan’s Finance and Administration Committee will be discussing items relating to the 2012-2014 budget at an evening meeting on Monday, November 28. The public is invited to attend.

The meeting will be held at Vaughan City Hall, 2141 Major Mackenzie Dr., in Committee Room 242/243 from 7 to 10 p.m.  On the agenda is the Draft 2012 Capital Budget and 2013 Capital Budget Plan. A second evening meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 13.

​The sixth annual Vaughan Of a Kind art and craft show will be held on Saturday, November 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Vellore Village Joint Complex, located at 1 Villa Royale Avenue in Woodbridge.

The City of Vaughan will hold its second annual toy drive in support of the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish with an official launch taking place on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at St. John Bosco Catholic Elementary School. 

November is Diabetes Awareness Month and the City of Vaughan, in partnership with the Vaughan Community Health Centre, will provide workshops and screening sessions on diabetes, cholesterol and hypertension at select Vaughan community centres.

​Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua and Members of Council at a public meeting on October 25 congratulated the Woodbridge Strikers 98 ‘A’ soccer team for winning their age group at Schwan’s USA CUP, the largest international youth soccer tournament in North America.