All right, good morning everyone. Welcome to our final meeting
of this. Quarter. Is that how that works? I just
have a couple of remarks. Actually, we got a nice
thank you letter from the Allora Festival with regards to
the Gambl Barn, where we make it available for their
festival every year. You know, they've got 4, 000 patrons
who go in there and they'd like to extend a
sincere gratitude for the County of Wellington General Support of
the Allora Festival, and in particular, for the use of
the Gambl Barnes. So congratulations to Council to continue to
do that and support this important festival in our community.
With that, the Roll Call, please, Mr. Wilson. Thank you.
Ordinary. Here. Councillor Corey.
Here. Hey, either. Here. All right. Any declaration peuniar interest.
Hearing it seeing non - confirmation of Council Minister Council
Waters. Thank you, Warden. Moved by myself and second by
Councillor Doug Breen, that the minutes of a Council meeting
held on May 28, 2026, be confirmed and recorded and
distributed. Thank you. I have the motion as read all
in favor. That is, Carried, thank you. Resolution to permit
presentations and delegations Councillor Cork. Yeah, you're working now.
Have you got it? All right, what was with Councillor
Dane, and we thought since you're such a caring individual,
you'd want to step up, but that's all right. Jeff
can do it. Go ahead, Jeff.
Councillor Dane is off with a severe foot issue. Okay,
I have the motion as red, all in favor. That
is Carig, thank you. Now it's my pleasure to have
the indigenous history inheritage gathering presentation committee here today. The
indigenous advisory committee. Welcome. Step up. I'll turn the floor
over to you. And we have a presentation, so I'm
getting shifted. Is that right?
Turned. On. Yeah. Good.
It's a bit of a spotlight on me right now.
Anikiwa, Badasegay Gizandija's Architract Dodom. I'm Jenny Matthews. I'm a
member of the Wim Kong First Nation located on Manitou
and Ireland, which are the homelands of the people of
the Three Fire Confederacy. I grew up in lines head
on the sogging peninsula on the Georgian Bay side. I
currently live in Ancastor, and I work in Guelph for
the County of Wellington Social Services. I'm here today as
a member of the Indigenous Advisory Committee, along with Colleen
Brunel. Melanie ElmQuist. And Kristen Simone's was not able to
be here today. The IAC attended the indigenous history and
historical gathering in Winnipeg at the beginning of March this
year. This gathering, this gathering was initially scheduled for June
2025, but was rescheduled to March of this year. June,
2025, marked a decade since the truth and reconciliation commission
presented the 94 calls to action. This event was meant
to provide space to reflect on the progress made and
discuss the path forward. It brings together diver's groups who
are working to amplify the distinct stories of indigenous people
across Turtle Island. Just as a side note, I normally
don't speak from notes, so I'm going to try to
turtle island for anyone that isn't familiar with that term
is we refer to that as all of North America.
So if you look at a map, it kind of
looks like a turtle. So when I'm, we're staying turtle
island, that's what we're referring to. So that's not Canada.
That's not the US. It's not Mexico. It's that whole
piece. All right. So we went on a field trip.
We went on a few field trips. So one of
the things here is I think it's important to look
at the 14 of the 94 calls to action have
been completed in a decade. So some have been started.
Some have been not started, but only 14 are what
are considered completed. So that is a low number, in
my opinion. Another reason it was important to have this
group together, to talk about what to do to move
that agenda forward. We went on a field trip to
the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Museum. This is
a small but impactable collection of testimonies, historical artifacts, and
the Bentwood box. The Bentwood box travelled with the TRC
to its eight national events throughout Canada where people were
able to put personal items into the box to symbolize
their journey towards healing and expressions of reconciliation. Thousands of
items from across the country including photographs. Reports, books, drums
knitted baby blankets, beaded moccasins, prayer shawls, suitcases, and a
warrior's bow with Eagle feathers were donated to this collection.
Each side of the box holds meeting and it was
very special to be able to see this piece of
history. The result is sacred fire outside, so we were
able to offer tobacco. The gathering started with smudging, and
then the national student Memorial Banner was brought into the
room. A Quillick was also lit, which is a traditional
oil lamp used by the Inuit as a source of
heat, light, cooking, and drying of clothes. I had never
seen one of these before, and I actually didn't know
anything about it. So it was really informative to be
able to see this. There are videos of the cloth
that can be viewed, but I can tell you from
my personal experience that a video will never capture the
impact of seeing the cloth. The cloth is 196 feet
long. It comes into the room. It passes by you
where you can see the names of real children in
which school they were at and did not return home
from.
After the cloth was brought into the room, we heard
from elders and survivors.
Who spoke about their experiences? We were surprised and disheartened
to hear. Of the increase of denialism of the residential
school experience. This is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic
facts, but residential schooling. In reality, there's confirmation that 4,
000 children died in residen. Schools. Sorry.
Thank you. I'm usually not the crying one. It was
disgusting the gathering that efforts made to combat this narrative.
Did I skip about denialism. Sorry. That's an important part.
Um, we were surprised and disheartened to hear of the
increase of denialism of the residential school experience. This is
the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts, thinking about the
residential school experience. This is the rejection or misrepresentation of
basic facts about residential schools to underline truth and reconciliation
efforts, including more controversial opinions that the system was well
- intentioned. Thank you ladies. It was discussed during the
gathering and the efforts that were made to combat this
narrative. It was a heavy night to start the gathering.
And it was highlighted the reality of many people in
the room. During the next day, they were amazing youth
who were talking about what they were doing in their
communities. We started with elders and we moved to the
youth. Okay, now I'm going to be a bit happier.
That was the morning program. I'm not going to lie.
I scoped out the room to find a table close
to the front. So I would be able to see
the keynote speaker for the day Phyllis Webstad. The founder
of the Orange Short Society. I wanted to see Phyllis
speak not to see her on the large screens. As
we were finishing lunch, I saw a petite woman walking
right towards us. I couldn't believe it. It was Phyllis.
I can only imagine how my face looked, but I
was starstruck. She was so gracious and stopped to speak
with us for a bit. To me, she's an inspiration.
She spoke to the attendees sharing her journey and story.
She is the student that had her orange shirt, her
grandma had bought for her. Taken when she got to
residential school. I think her sharing her personal experience opened
the eyes of a nation. She was warm and engaging
and shared her very personal experience of how residential schools
impacted her family. She spoke about choosing September for orange
shirt day because that is when children were taken from
their homes and sent to the schools. She in the
orange shirt society were continuously to bring awareness presenting in
school's workplaces and communities all across the country. She in
the orange church society have created storybooks, workbooks, lesson plans
for all ages, survivor videos, and much more. They are
a nonprofit organisation in all proceeds from the resources speaking
engagements and the licensing of every child matters trademark goes
back into the work that they do. We as the
IEC get asked by County staff, friends and family, where
to buy orange shirts that are reputable. Um, there are
many retailers who do donate a portion of the sales
to various indigenous organisations, but old Navy and Walmart are
two large retailers who directly support the orange shirt society.
Lighter. Star Wars. This was one of the lighter moments
of the conference Megan Link letter discussed the process that
he went through to create a Nyshinabe moan version of
Star Wars. He said he chose Star Wars because it's
a much love movie that generations could watch together. It
was really interesting to hear all that went into this
huge project. The version of Star Wars is available on
Disney streaming services. Louis Real. This was one spot close
to the heart of our chair Colleen Brunel. She had
only asked, this was her only ask and it was
to go visit this statue. I asked her if she
could give me a little information. I did limit her
to one or two sentences. She said for her, this
statue is about acknowledging the person who fought from A.
T. rights and reclaiming his rightful place after generations of
stigma against the matee. I will say the winter conditions
made it a bit challenging to have us all in
the photo. We managed it in the end. So this
is a time lapse of us trying to get that
photo, keeping in mind it's not warm like today. It
was about minus 36 in the beginning of March. The
human rights museum. This is a unique building and it
spiles from the base all the way up to the
top. Walking you through history. The failures, the successes and
those who champion human rights, both here in Canada and
abroad. There were so many interesting displays we were not
able to see everything. I wasn't sure what the museum
would be like, but there were so many exhibitions we
felt exhibits, sorry, not exhibitions. We all felt we could
have spent more time there. Final thoughts. In my over
22 years with the County of Wellington, I have always
commented that the County invest in professional development. This opportunity
was not only professional development, but personal as well. I
think it's important to share this wasn't just a conference
that we were sent to. It was a touchstone in
our professional and our personal development. It was informative. It
was moving. And without a doubt will enrich our perspective.
We will bring this to our ongoing work as the
IEC. McGwich for the support of this Council, CAO Scott
Wilson, Susan Farley and Louisa Artuzzo. They're continued to support
the continue to provide to us as employees and specifically
as members of the IAC. Viston resources there. My greatch.
If anybody has any questions were going to answer them.
Thank you very much Council. Comments questions. Well, thank you
for that. Obviously extremely powerful extremely touching, very informative. Thank
you for going. Thank you for the time to do
this. And, um, very on behalf of County Council are
very pleased to be able to help support this and
continue the work. So again, thank you very much. And
it's clearly very personal for you folks. Um, that's a
really good thing. All right. Thanks very much.
Okay. Uh, resolution first and second reading of the bylaws
Councillor Lloyd. Thank you, Warden. Moved by myself and seconded
by Councillor Doug Breen that the bylaws 5983 - 26
and 5986 to 26. And 5990 to 26 be taken
and read the first and second time by the clerk
and that they be given consideration in the committee of
the whole. I have the motion as read comments questions.
Call the question all in favor. That is Carried. Thank
you. Resolution moving Council to commit to the whole Councillor
Davidson. Yes, Warren, we by myself, seconded by Councillor Turton
that Council now go into committee of the whole.
I have the motion as read all in favor. That
is Carried. Thank you. Closed meeting. Um, who would that
be? Councillor Ballantine. Welcome. It's a long one. Okay. Move
by myself. Second to buy Councillor Jeff Duncan. That Wellington
County Council move into a closed meeting for the purposes
of considering the following subject matters. Acquisition and disposition of
land by the municipality. Labour relations are employee negotiations, litigation,
or potential litigation. Advice that is subject to solicitor client
privilege. Information explicitly supplied incompetence by Canada, a province or
territory or a crown agency of any of them. Trade
secret or scientific technical commercial financial or labour relations information,
supplied inconfidence, which if disclosed could reasonably be expected to
prejudice the competitive position or interfere with the contractual or
other negotiations of a person, group, or organisation, or a
position, plan, procedure, criteria, or instruction to be applied to
any negotiations, carried on or to be carried on by
or on behalf of the municipality or local board. That's
it. Alrighty, I have the motion as
red all in favor. That is carried. We are going
in closed.
All right, please take your seats. Dave. Dave, no soliciting.
Okay. Okay, we're all here. We're getting ready. Okay. Hello.
Is that on. Not using that. Okay, we're getting ready
to go here now. I want to thank you for
your patience for that closed meeting. We have nothing to
report out at this time, so I'm moving to the
Rhodes Committee. Council Davidson. Welcome, sir. The floor is yours.
Thank you. Still morning, so good morning, everyone. Rhodes Financials
and various projections were presented to committee. Minister of Recoveries
are a head of the budget expectations as a result
that the sale of sand and salt to our lower
tier municipalities. And that's all, of course, is offset. Because
our operating expenses for the purchase of the sand assault.
So they kind of a wash. Fuel costs are at
56 percent of the 1. 3 million dollar budget. We
use more fuel because of the amount of ploughing we
did because of our lovely winter snowstorms. And of course,
the fuel costs are actually higher. And then anticipate it.
So if you'll cost it up there. Continuing with winter
control, we still have October, November, and December to deal
with. And they've averaged between 2. 1 million and 3.
2 million over the previous five years. We have approximately
1. 7 million left in our budget. So we could
expect to go over budget, which will be funded through
with your control reserve. Open Capital Projects are there for
your review as well. The total approved budget for 67
projects is 150. 5 million dollars. The next report was
a request for proposal for construction management services for the
new Aaron Garage. The construction management model allows the county
to enter into a single agreement with the construction manager
to be an advisor during preconstruction and assume the role
of general contractor for the construction period. Daycon construction limited
of Guelph are recommended to continue their work into construction
phase at a total contract amount of 13 million 225,
503 dollars and 52 cents exclusive of HST. We'd actually
received update plan for the allura garage in February. We
had a report in Council Sauce Mestimates for the rehabilitation
works of that garage of nearly 2. 2 million dollars.
Staff continued to refine the costs and for foundation and
structural improvements and the new cost estimate came in at
1. 7 million dollars. After the past two winters, the
need for more storage of sand and salt is important.
And it would not be enough at this location with
the plan works. So staff explored an alternative solution of
constructing a coverall or a fabric building on site with
site work costs added in the new Coverall building. It's
estimated to cost 1. 44 million dollars to construct. And
the new build would allow 15, 000 tons of material.
To be stored for winter use at this location, 2,
500 in the barn, and a further 12, 500 in
the new coverall. So that is going to increase the
amount of sand and salt we have in that location,
which is a great thing for our county. Committee, appreciate
staff's efforts to look for alternative solutions while we're doing
costs and increasing our capabilities. Our next report was on
the Aaron Glenn commercial plaza and road improvements and Wellington
Road 124 in Aran. Site plans are included in the
agenda for your parousal. The primary entrance is going to
be on County Road 124. The roundabout will be constructed
between the Glalklin Road and Aaron Park Drive. On the
124. And all construction costs will be born by the
proponents, not the County. Council is being asked to approve
the roads upgrade amending agreement to allow this to take
place. And we had another update on the Speed Data
from the past ASE locations. The data shows that the
average speeds have increased since the end of ASE, but
still remain below the speeds observed prior to the ASE.
And these results that we have given to us are
consistent with the results we had in March. Additional traffic,
calving measures have been put in place and some other
works are still ongoing. And if you recall, this data
is going to be collected until September. So we'll actually
get to see how our traffic common measures are faring
as well. And with that warden, I have moved by
myself, seconded by Councillor Turton, that the June 9th, 2026
minutes of the roads committee be received and referred to
Council for adoption. Cute. I have the motion as read
comments questions. Councillor Campbell. Thank. You. Through you, Warden, I
would respectfully request that I am number four. Be withdrawn
from that motion. For separate discussion. Okay. Number four. Should
we just deal with that first. Okay. Everybody all right.
We're going to pull four and deal with it first.
Would you like to speak to it. Thank you, Orton.
So item number four, for those of you that are
hurrying through your agendas is the new Aaron Rose Garage.
At the committee meeting, it was requested by myself that
the backup documents for tender submissions be included in the
package as they had been in the previous package. Question
was asked whether that was just for me or whether
it was for other members of Council. The clerk proceeded
to send an email out saying this request has been
made. If you'd like this data, please let me know.
13 days later, on Monday of this week, that data
was released. With a correction to this whole bed amount
reducing it. By 61, 972 dollars. So the dollar amount
read this morning is incorrect. If you review the document
that was provided by DaCon, there's another mathematical error and
their potential. I suspect very highly that it's a typo.
But under the electrical contract, there's a further savings of
637, 000 dollars. 217, which I don't believe is there.
But I have a serious concern about the fact that
this was not shared with committee. The five members of
Council that were given an update on this on Monday
of this week, only one of them was a member
of the roads committee. And he's not here today to
speak to it. But I seriously think this should be
the fur, should be reviewed by staff. Sent back to
committee with the proper numbers and then voted on. Thank
you. All right. Anybody else thoughts or comments on that.
Councillor O'Neill. Councillor O'Neill, like just my head goes this
way. It just comes out. Thank you, Wharton. Um, further
to Councillor Campbell's. Comment about, I think it's just a
table. It's in the, there's five of us got this.
It's in the electrical. Miller. S bid is 117, 383
complete. Yake is 754 600 complete. As Councillor Campbell mentioned
it's probably a typo. I'm guessing Miller's is 1. 17
million, but I don't know that. So we've got wrong
figures here. I completely agree with Councillor Campbell that needs
to be looked at closer. All right. You want to
make that motion to defer item four. Absolutely. You're worship.
I would motion that item for be deferred back to
committee. For review. Second of my Councillor Neal. Anything further
on item four. Call the question to defer all in
favor. For, sorry, did you want to say something, Matthew?
Did I miss you? Well, you've got two arms. You
can vote either way. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So that's
going to go back to committee. Understood. All right. Thank
you. So going back to the rest of the roads
minutes and a further comments or questions on that. Councillor
Ballantine. I just want to thank County staff and Council
for their ongoing support of rich community experiences within the
County, um, as noted, uh, they've taken into consideration the
allura festival and the use of the gambl barn and
also thought of a solution that's going to provide better
winter control, um, for our residents. And so the, the
allure festivals also shared a letter with Council to thank
them and acknowledge that they appreciate the use of the
acoustically significant, I guess is the way that you would
put it for the Gambl Barn for that festival. And
we know that that's a great draw for the County.
Um, so I appreciate Council support for that as well
as, um, the staff for thinking outside the box. Thank
you. Councillor Lloyd. Thank you Warden through you. Um, the
ongoing work that's being done on Getty Street in Ilora.
I really appreciate that we have a staff that is
willing to work with us, talk with us about the
situation of getting it prepared for completion and recognising that
what was there, which was historic is being now, uh,
covered over with what could be termed as some sense
looking like a NASCAR, uh, drive - thru. So, um,
I really pleased and appreciate the fact that our staff
is willing to work with our community and with the
construction company to see if we can come to a
little bit more of an appreciative look or a nicer
look along that strip. Thanks. All right. Thank you. I
will call the question then. Councillor Duncan, you got something
to say. Go ahead. Um, just a question for clarification.
So just on the, uh, the new roundabout that's proposed
on, um, uh. Just outside of Iran on 24, the
Solmer, uh, new one there between the 10th line and
Aaron Perk drive. Um, so I just wanted to clarify
if all of the lands that are required for the
roundabout, are they all within like the County's municipal right
away and all Solomer's lands? Like is there. Wasn't any
discussion of the roads meeting that, you know, that we're
needing additional lands to the north of the right way
there. So that would be one question. Yes. Um, the
other one is, uh, so this project to be frank
has come up probably the staff have been aware of
it for a long time, but, uh, as far as
the public is aware, this has come up very quickly.
Um, you know, basically hit the roads committee agenda, uh,
two weeks ago. Um, I don't think many members of
the public were aware that there was, um, contemplation of
a major roundabout at this location. I've indicated I'm supportive
of it. Um, but, um, you know, it's, uh, as
indicated, it's Solomar's, you know, there are going to be
the proponent. They're paying for it. And they're going to
be managing the construction aspect of the, of the project.
Um, but, um, it's not, it's a couple, after a
couple of members of public indicate to me, you know,
it was when we put out the large County projects
that are coming up for the year, this was not
identified in there at all. Technically it's not a County
project, but you know, let's face it, it's on the
County Rightway creating a roundabout on our, uh, you know,
on our, on our roadway there. Um, so for the
communications in the future for this going forward, uh, there
will be some, uh, some road closures involved, not all
the time, just basically when they come to do the
concrete work and they paving, uh, but the road closures
and all the communication detour route are the County, are
we going to be looking after the communication of that
going out? Um, and, uh, you know, putting out, uh,
what we would typically put out for all the work
that we had to do. For instance, in Mapleton for
the closures there, um, so just wondering, A, if the
additional lands that are required or, you know, everything's on
our right away and on the sawmer land and be,
who's going to be doing the communication part of the,
uh, of the project. Thank you. Kudo, please. The warden
to Councillor Duncan. All lands are, there's no further land
requirement for the roundabout. Uh, as far as communications goes,
that's a very good point that this was not listed
as one of our major projects for the year. Uh,
so that is noted. Um, we will have our communications
folks involved because there will be especially with a road
closure and so on to, you know, have posting on
social and, um, other community notices. Councilloid. Thank you. This
is another question too. Mr. Kudo, when we have another
third party building something on our roads, um, I'm sure
we have certain criteria that has to be met like
a rolling curb for large farm vehicles to move through
it. And that it's built at a size that allows
the farm vehicles to go through that area. Is it
that, uh, they're paying for it and we're supervising how
it's done or like, how is that relationship work with
us. Councillor Liu, Idea. There's a great deal of oversight
on our review, like sure, in this case, the developers
come up with their design. It's been reviewed by our
staff, even through our consultants have and to meet our
County roundabout standards. So it'll be built to the standard
that the county's built other roundabouts. On our road network.
Anything further. Councillor Duncan. Just on that issue, I do
want to just commend the Rode staff. I'm the Rose
Community meeting. I raise some questions about it. Uh, you
know, just, um, you know, who'd peer reviewed this and
the, uh, traffic counts involved on the, uh, and the
stretch of roadway and that the, there's another, the fully
new signalized intersection, just a little bit away from this.
And if that distance works. Anyways, the staffer great getting
back, uh, to me with the background data, um, basically
at the end of the day, you know, the traffic
experts of indicated that this will function properly. And I
saw within the county's standards. So appreciate that. And also
the County Road staff in the last week or two.
I mentioned an email to Don when it rains up
pores at a variety of, uh, call a minor issues
from local residents that the County has dealt with, uh,
very expeditiously. Just want to thank publicly, Don. And his
staff that got out to deal with a feudal issues.
Thanks, Tom. Anything further. I will call the question all
in favor. That is carried. Thank you, Mr. Davidson. Solid
waste services committee. Councillor O'Neill. Welcome, sir, the floor is
yours. Thank you, Warden. Um, we're still in the morning.
Good for us. This is for our meeting of Tuesday,
June 9th, 2026. It currently looks like we'll have a
positive variance of between 800 to 100, 000 dollars at
year end. The allura transfer station has some minor works
to be finished. And we expect that, uh, project to
commend under budget. Going to go now to the tire
collection report issue. As you can see in the report,
the province has changed. The tire recycling target from 85
to 65 percent for the producers. It seems that once
the producers get to 65 percent, they stop collecting tires
in a timely manner. The County does not have to
accept tires as the businesses that sell and install them
do that. We have done it as a convenience to
our residents and we accept up to 10 tires per
day from a resident. Not all municipalities are accepting tires.
And some are pausing collection as well until the holige
issue is corrected. Right now, registered tire haulers are not
responding to our calls to come and pick up the
accumulated tires that we have stockpiled. And we are not
the only ones not getting responses from the haulers. The
provincial regulation amendment to address this issue has not been
approved as of this date. The consultation period has ended
and we hope to see the amended approved before the
snow tired change. So the snow tire changeover that always
generates more tires being brought to our facilities. We are
full and staffer recommending to temporarily stop accepting tires until
the regulation amendment passes. And the backlog is reduced. If
the pause is passed by Council, staff will ask anyone
bringing tires if they can cape them in the near
term. And we'll accept them from residents if they can't.
While asking them not to bring any more until our
backlog is removed. And the committee approved that recommendation. Our
solid waste service division has received a promotion and education
award for the County's business recycling campaign. When the producers
took over responsibility for recycling province - wide, the IC
and I sector was ignored in the new program. County
staff went door to door, used messaging in various media
to get the word out and help our businesses either
get a fee exemption card or receive a recycling cart
to allow them to continue recycling services. Congratulations to Saltway
Service and the County's communication team for getting the word
out. I will now get into the curbside Collection Contract
RFP results and recommendation. You've all read the report. If
there are any questions, none, okay thanks. Okay. Planned implementation
date. It is July 1st, 2028. It is two years
away. It is for garbage organics, leaf and yard waste.
It does not include residential recycling. Residential recycling is no
longer our mandate. Circular materials has it. Staff recommendation is
to stay with a four day per week pickup schedule
using an automated cart collection system. A five - day
schedule was asked for in the RFP with the hope
that substantial savings may be realised. That was not the
case. And the savings of 20, 000 per year was
not enough. As 20 percent of our residents would see
a shift in their collection day. And that would probably
not line up with the recycling pickup day. Staff and
committee members agreed. Two service updates we will see with
the new contract in 2028 hour. Same day pickup of
leaf and yard waste as your regular collection day. Pet
waste will now be accepted in the Green Organic Greenbin
Organic Collection in 2028. Every week we'll have organic collection.
And every second week will either be recycling collection or
garbage cart collection. Only two streams will be on the
Collection schedule each week and only two streams will be
at the curbside. The 14 downtown Corps locations will have
manual bag pickup. Not user bag pickup, not yellow user
pay for garbage. And the current smaller organics cart. For
residential and commercial in the 14 downtown course. Hybrid trucks
will be used in those cores. High retrucks are not.
Electric and whatever. Hybrid trucks are automated and manual collection
capable trucks. And they will be used in the downtown
cores. The IC and I sector. That the County pays
for separately will go back to blue boxes in the
downtown cores. Businesses outside the downtown areas that use a
recycling cart will continue to do so. With this recommended
proposal, the apartments above commercial buildings have recycling carts from
circular materials. And if we put everybody in upstairs apartment
with a garbage cart and with a larger composting cart,
there will be a problem with upper level residents, manhandling
those carts. Down the stairs. We can't do anything about
the residential recycling, but we can believe we can work
with the garbage and organic pickup issues that are under
our control in those downtown cores. Yellow user bags will
no longer be needed in the cart collection system. In
your report, it talks about the net revenue of 1.
5 million. That is after the gross sales minus the
price of the bags minus the price of the. What
we pay the retailers to sell them. So it would
be a 1. 5 million dollar revenue. We'll have to
go on the tax levy. And the above changes will
not happen until July 1st, 2028. A reminder of recycling
change is coming in ago, recycling carts are going to
be delivered in July. Collection begins the week of August
10th or 17th. Depending upon whether you are a week
A or a week B collection schedule. Organics will always
be collected weekly. Recycling and garbage will be on opposite
weeks to each other. That is my report for our
June committee meeting, moved by myself, seconded by Councillor Shawn
Watters, that the June 9th minutes of the Saltway services
committee be received and referred to Council for adoption.
Thank you, sir. I have the motion as read. Comments,
questions. You're looking forward to giving this for a while.
Okay. Councillor Seeley. Thank you, Warden. Um, just seen frustrations
online with the collection. Um, I'm starting to see rhetoric
where people are, you know, the streets are missed two,
three times. And they're, you know, whether they fall through
this. They then claim they'll just, uh, buy the Costco
bags. Abandoned their sorting and diversion tactics and just take
it all to the transfer station, which is, you know,
disappointing because, you know, we've worked very hard to increase
the capacity at the landfill site. So, you know, we
hear the challenges from waste management about staffing this, the
other thing. How can we, as the County build something
into the contract to ensure that the quality of the,
of the collection is where we want it to be.
Because really all it is you receive calls, DOS. I'm
sure you apologise. And but the real mechanism for us
to ensure that this habitual, whether it's the same road
or other roads, quality service has, in my opinion, deteriorated
lately. And I want to see it go back to
where it was. Councillor Celia, you're talking about recycling in
particular. No. Garage. Garbage? Garpness, sorry, garage inter. Okay. All
right. Is there anything further. Or did you. Want to
speak to that at all. Through you, Mr. Warden. Excuse
me. Um, there are mechanisms to deal with ongoing service
issues. And, uh, those are to be expected by any
vendor, um, I'm pleased to say that the new curbside
collection RFP has provisions to require the service provider to
have up - to - date software, which gives real
- time data GPS tracking. It's a much improved system
over the current one, which can ensure that routes are
completed on a daily basis. Um, that being said, if
thunder the current contract, if there's any areas that are
receiving inconsistent service, we can escalate that with our contractor.
And that sets in motion a whole series of steps
that the contractor takes to ensure that collection is given.
And so there's additional checks, for example, the driver checking
in saying, we've collected this location. So that's to address
ongoing service issues at a given location or a given
road. Um, further to that, both the current and the
next contract has provisions for penalties to be used. It's
not a step that we take lightly, but, uh, where
we feel it's warranted. Penalties can be levied on a
per day or per incident basis. Thank you. One of
the myths I heard was that, uh, there is a
GPS unit in the current vehicles, but, uh, because we
do both sides of the road collection. That if they
drive down that road, it would indicate collected. And that's
how maybe there's some missing A is that true. Uh,
and B, is that being corrected, and I guess I'll
throw a C in there. I would really appreciate, um,
what you just said in some, either in an email
that I can, you know, inform the public, yes, we
hear your concerns of the miscollection. Here's the improvements. Not
necessarily the penalty component, but, you know, the GPS units,
this is the improvement on, you know, our goal is
to, uh, reduce the amount of miscollection. I would be
all great information that we can push out to the,
to the residence. Through you, Mr. Warden, I'll try to
get to A, B, and C. Um, so yes, there
are GPS on the vehicles. That indicate that the road
has been travelled. Each direction. Now, the new software that
will be required by the next curbside collection contract will
improve the system, build upon it. And it'll be much,
much more sophisticated in order to ensure that all rights
are completed. Um, there will be alerts to advise that,
you know, part of the route has been missed, which
I believe is not a function of the current system.
Um, and yes, absolutely. We can provide a description of
the mechanisms in place to ensure service accountability. And I
believe I'm forgetting what B was. All right.
Don't go away. Councillor Lloyd. Thank you, Warden, for you.
I appreciate that the bulky items was looked at and
not recommended based on 12 inquiries. Um, it's good that
we did look at it because we do have a
neighbour immunicipality that does bulky item pickup, but I can
appreciate that based on 12 requests, um, we're not having
a large uptake of residents that want that service. Thank
you. Council Bomert, I'm sorry, you were up before. Did
you have something? Thank you. Councillor C. All right. What
a team. Councillor Duncan. Uh, thanks, Warden. Um, I just
wanted to mention there about the, uh, solid waste services
for the award from the municipal waste association. Our communication
staff and the solid was service. So they did such
a tremendous job in getting out the word on the,
uh, you know, transition period for the blue box and
getting the ICI sector, you know, on board. But I
do want to, I do want to thank County Council
and the word in particular. Um, when this kind of
came up 18 months ago, um, talking with the warden,
like he indicated this is, you know, it's just not
fair. You know, these folks pay two to three times
a tax rate that the residential people pay and we're
pulling, you know, we're pulling this service. And anyways, I
just want to say, you know, this was such a
good thing for the County did, you know, like rather
than turning the clock back, you know, you have all
these businesses and, uh, people in the recycling program for
years and then just, uh, you know, this kind of
basically abandoning them. Um, and which I thought this was,
uh, it was, it was great for us to get
this set up. And then the rollout of it, that
was the award part. Like that was, that was fantastic
in getting that. So. Steve could work at you in
your committee and to staff. Councillor Valentine. Yeah, I just
want to note appreciation because of the complicated messaging that's
going on. Because we have two things kind of happening
at once. You know, the province taking over the blue
box program and trying to help people understand that we're
not shepherding that any longer. And if it's not working
quite right, we can try to help, but we actually
are not the people that are in charge. And then
that's being overlaid with the negotiation of a new contract
for our Green bins and our garbage pickup, which is
convoluting the complaints that we're seeing from residents. And I
understand that that change is difficult for people, um, to
absorb when you're only getting a little bits of information.
But I really want to commend the County for their
ability to be, uh, supportive for residents when they have
questions and concerns, as well as trying to get the
communication out as clearly as possible. And I also think
that our residents are going to be extremely happy about
the same day leaf and yard waste pickup because I
know we definitely hear a lot about those bags sitting
on the side of the road for a week or
10 days. And people wondering whether they're ever going to
be picked up. So I think that's a real benefit.
Thanks. Any further. And I want to echo that as
well. Same day, yard and waist is a big deal.
And the pet pickup is huge. So some nice improvements
in this new contract. What did I say?
Maybe I've got a business. Maybe I've got a business
on the side. Het waist pickup. Thank you for that
correction. Clerk. Thank you. Warden. Just regarding the, uh, the
changes to the tire pickup and our role in looking
after. Tires that are left at our landfill sites. I
think it's really too bad. I mean, with all the
changes that are happening with our garbage and waste pickup
and recycling that's going on at this point, that we
have added to it, you know, it's the last thing
our residents need is one more confusing factor to do
with ways management. And this with the tires is just
a gratuitous one as far as I'm concerned. And I
think the province is really fumbled the ball in terms
of number one reducing what they find acceptable in terms
of recycling tires, dropping it from 85 percent to 65
percent that they would find 65 percent recycling at this
point acceptable, I find unacceptable. So I just, I hope
the province is listening. I hope they respond to our
urging that they will, uh, get the thumb out and
get going, get this regulation amendment done and get one.
Point of confusion out of the mixture at our waste
management. Thank you. Okay. Is there anything further. I will
call the question all in favor. That is Carried. Thank
you very much. Opp Councillor Lennox, please. That's a big.
Word. Welcome, sir. The floor is yours. Thank you, Warden.
Um, here to present the. Uh, on the minutes of
the OPP detachment board. Really the first major item on
the agenda, of course, is the financial statements and variance
projections. And if you go through those, you will find
some, some variances throughout the year. But, uh, relatively small
and some of most of them are expected to be
sort of seasonal. Or work themselves out through it. The
course of the year. The big unknown, of course, is
the reconciliation, which is to come later in the year
from the OPP. Um, we do have seen in recent
years and are continuing to see increasing calls for service,
which increases the costs associated with MPP service contract. So
this will come out more clearly when we do get
the reconciliation. But, uh, I think, uh. I'm not concerned
about whether we're going to be within budget this year
or not, but I do think that we should be
expecting as our population grows as our communities grow that
our policing costs are going to continue to grow as
well. So just wanted to put that out there so
that people are thinking about it as we approaching budget
season. Uh, with that said, we'll move on to the,
uh, detachment board procedural bylaw. So we've had some robust
discussion here about some of that and they proceed drill
bylaw with the necessary revisions. Came to the board and
the board approved them as presented. Uh, we've been moved
on to the detachment commanders report, which is the usual
monthly report. Uh, there really wasn't anything that I wanted
to highlight in particular. Out of that, although it hasn't
showed up in the report yet, but, uh, we have
seen in recent days, unfortunately, some traffic fatalities, which we'll
show up in future months reports. Um, please, everybody stop.
At stop signs. Look. And make sure that it's safe
to pass. Uh, we've seen too many tragedies at intersections
in the recent days and weeks. Um, having said that,
we also have the annual report. You may remember their
annual report had a slightly different format. This is now
a province wide format that we're getting this annual report
in, which has still many of the same information that
we had previously. But this is something that can be
shared with the members of the public, members of your
local municipality, uh, to get the information out as to
remind people what a safe community we have to live
in and that the police are there to serve and
to remind people, you know, to, to call on the
police when they need them. And there are really citizens
partners in keeping our community safe. So everybody has a
role to play. And I think it's absolutely important that
we remind people of that, that it's not an adversarial
relationship. It's a cooperative one. I don't really want to
point anything out of the parking ticket or the false
alarm revenue report. Those are just standard features of our
thing. Though perhaps the warden would like me pointing out
that most of the parking tickets are in welfare mossa.
I'm not sure. With that said, I have a motion
move by myself. Second to the Councillor Breen that the
June 10th, 2026 minutes of the Wellington County OPP detachment
board be received and referred to Council for Information. I
think you're funny, eh? I have the motion as red.
Comments questions. Councillor Anderson. Councillor Bumer. Thank you, Warden. Um,
thank you, great report Councillor Linux. You know, when we
talk about road safety, I was in Harrison yesterday and
I walked across the street and I saw a bumper
sticker in the back of a car. So I really
wanted to share that with you. It said, sorry for
driving so close in front of you. So road safety.
Thank you. Councillor Bumer. Thank you, Warden. Um. Last month
you were reporting on some changes in how the black
cats would be used by the OPP detachment. And I
just wanted as many updates on that. Because that's, that's
a resource that I know the County invested in to
make sure they were deployed. Used in a proactive manner
to determine where the problems are when we get a
report. And I didn't know if the updates on how
that change is going to roll out across the County.
Yeah. Thank you, Councillor Bulmer. Uh, so part of the
discussion that the board was that the OPP were, I
mean, we've seen the reports. They've been struggling to get
the black cats deployed on a significant way. And they're
finding it quite a significant staff, draw on time to
do so. So they were making the recommendation that perhaps
if we, if we put this, these tools in the
hands of local municipalities, they could maybe gather the information
and share that with the OPP and continue to use
this as a resource for speed enforcement. But we didn't
really think that we should, at the police service board
should be making decisions on behalf of local municipalities. So
we tasked the OPP detachment commander and Don Kudo to
start the discussion. I know that's discussion has started, but
I don't think it has gotten to the local municipality
yet. But the, the intent that we were looking for
was to get some widespread deployment of these across the
county. Hopefully this is a win - win for our
local municipalities in that they're doing other traffic monitoring that
these could be useful tools for as well. And, uh,
gather up that information and make sure that we're responding
to those, uh, speeding complaints in the most appropriate way.
Councillor Seeley. Thank you, Warden. Just following up on our
phone conversation. Puslinsh, we had Highway 6 closed due to
a transport truck crash. It was a lengthy closure, which
required a lengthy cleanup. And beyond the initial response, which
is an emergency, that's not what I'm talking about here.
Um, the road gets closed. It causes a detour. So
an initial response, wherever the traffic has to go, that's,
that's acceptable. It's the prolonged post emergency component that, um,
in that situation kilometer and a half down, there's a
truck route to Council for the east, sorry, correction, westbound
traffic. Another kilometer, two down the road. There's Westbound heavy
truck. What we're seeing on these closures is they're choosing
the first road and all this heavy truck traffic is,
uh, impacting our municipal infrastructure common theme today. So my
question would be further to our conversation. What's the process
for us to start that conversation with the police service
support? Or to the OPP, because to me, it would
be a policy and internal policy that they could adopt
that says, you know, they direct traffic to heavy truck
routes. Yeah. And Councillor Seeley and I did have a
conversation about this. And I think we agreed that the
initial emergency response needs to not be impeding where traffic
goes. Just trying to resolve the issue. I don't have
a real solution to offer at this point, but I
do think there may be opportunities to, if this is
a routine thing, especially with 401 travelling through your municipality.
Perhaps the designated routes that could be established to, I
do see that in other places. And that might be
a collaboration effort that would lead to making sure that
as much as possible, the roads that are built withstand
the heavier traffic are absorbing that. Okay. Anything further. I
will call the question all in favor. That is carried.
Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Social services ambulance
Councillor Anderson, Flora's yours, sir. Thank you, Warden. I present
to you today the socialist joint services and enabled committee
meeting as of June the 10th. And we had a,
uh, we started off. We had. One. Gotta get my
papers in order, which I've got too many papers. Great.
Fantastic. We had a written delegation from the Guelph Wellington
Poverty Elimination Collaborative. And they're basically the delegation was writing
to support the corresponding near the end of the meeting
for consideration, which was brought forward by our chair councillor,
Boosityal, that the Joint Social Service Lynamics Committee of the
County of Wellington requests the province of material to amend
Ontario works. And the interior disability support program rules to
allow individuals expering homelessness to receive and accumulate the shelter
portion of their benefits and to establish a mechanism such
as a reserve to score account that allows the portion
of the benefits requested to be made available to be
held and used for the first and last month's rent.
And other housing related costs necessary to secure and stabilize
housing, such as renders insurance key deposits, essential movements, expenses,
and so on. So another, this is another format. I
think it was initially brought out by the city of
Toronto. Uh, I think it's another way that social services
from the Ontario has to help assist these people, you
know, relocate without the being on the expenses of the
taxpayers. So, um, that, uh, corresponds was supported by the
committee. And we're setting it on as a, to try
to talk to the ministries who look at this as
another opportunity to enhance their services and the responsibilities. So
I thought I would bring that four. There was an
interesting discussion on that. Moving forward. We had the next
was the land eminence paramedic services. The first quarter, the
2026 budget variants report. And early indications indicate that there's
going to be a negative variance at the end of
the year. Um, and it can be expected. It's been
2026. But we're going to have a, you're in projection
will be coming at our next second quarter, which will
be in the end of September. So I'll be coming
forward and our committee meeting in September. We also talked
about the, um, the services response performance in 2025 and
the performance plan to 2027. Golf Wellington paramedic services in
2025 were able to meet the target response times. Um,
that were established in 2024, despite there was an eight
percent increase in calls. So the, the committee, um, basically
it's, it's called a response time performance plan. Um, what
they're looking as they're looking at setting the same targets
and compliances, um, to be the same in 2026. The
next, we had some questions also in our, it was
in our, um, May committee meeting about the, uh, the
joint service services and land AMS committee and reporting regarding
to the paramedic stations that we're looking at building in
the future. And there was a report back, uh, from
Chief DURP that basically stated that based on the consultant
report that was done in 2024, the recommendations still stands
that they're going to be standard standardized two - bay
garages. And all the lower township municipalities except for the
Fergus grudge, which be a three - bay garage because
of, uh, just of true volume. So the, just had
some clarity and questions that was brought forward from that.
We also have, and we've talked about this as the
Aboyne child care construction project. Everything's on schedule and the
projected opening date. Will be November the 26th. So hopefully
we'll see a lot of people there at that event.
Two or number seven. We dealt with the tender award
for 46 Vancouver driving Guelph. It was awarded to, uh,
collared properties construction and Cambridge, Ontario, the total tender amount
of 182, 995 dollars exclusive HST. And this is to
increase the unit capacity in this billing to change over
from three bedroom layout programs to a five bedroom layout
program because the demand for housing. This is an opportunity
we can do it in house without having to do
a rebuilt. So it's very financially feasible to do that.
We also talked about another tender. It was on 12
Sunset Road and Guelph. And the, uh, the tender for
that one is going to be to stone cast landscape
in Ontario for their tender remote of 89, 263 dollars
and 55 cents. And this is for repaving and curb
repairs and install, um, three - ways containers. To that
event. We had a financial statement upgrade. The variance projections,
as of May 31st of 2026. And we're looking currently,
we're looking at a County savings in the amount of
69, 000 dollars up to this point. So that's a
good moving forward with that. We have in front of
you also, Louisa was able to hand out the social
services and department guide. For 2025, the annual report. It's
a good read. It gives you a great description of
what we've been doing and achieving in 2025. It basically
aligns the responsibility and goals and objectives and also provincial
performant measures as well as the service delivery data for
the many programs that each division achieved within the 2025
budget. So good read for that. And if the meaning
would like a copy of that, I do have a
copy here. I'll give that to you for you to
have. It's also in the report. Number 11 is request
for the hundred percent County municipal discretionary funds from the
city of Guelph. This is for the daytime space, food
and security at stepping stones. Um, the city has made
a commitment of the 850, 000 dollars per year. And
in the past, we as the County have always supported
basically many programs for security programs along with the city
of Guelph with a 10 percent total cost. And that
10 percent total cost is calculated because we find that
the people that are using the shelters and using the,
uh, daytime space, and a lot of those numbers have
come up from our server Count Time Wheat list. Mr.
Warden. That is my report on social services. And I've
mover by myself and second by Councillor Mary Lloyd that
the June 10th, 2026 minutes of the Joint Social Services
land an ambermitte. We received and referred to Council for
Adoption. Thank you. Thank you. I have the motion as
read. Comments questions Councillor Davidson. Yes, Warren. I'd like to
talk a little bit about the response times. You know,
we have the, uh, response times in front of us.
And we've talked for many years about Aaron and how
Aaron's response times have been traditionally not good. If you
look at Aaron's response time for 2025, which actually is
the best of the last five years at 12 minutes
and seven seconds. In comparison with Mapleton, Mapleton and Aaron
had been pretty close to the response times throughout the
entire time except for one year. But Mapleton's response times
right now is 13. 15. Which is the longest time
in the County right now. We're very hopeful that the
new 12 hours that's been added to Minto is going
to maybe shift that in 2026 that that comes online.
But I just want to point out how this response
time puts tremendous strain. On our volunteer firefighters to be
there at the scene and waiting for the paramedics to
show up. And I just had to praise our volunteer
firefighters for all the work that they do. It's very
difficult job. They're leaving wherever they are, work, home family
to respond to whether it be a crash or some
other emergency. And I just, how important they are to
the community. But it also takes a toll on our
volunteer firefighters to respond to these tremendously difficult situations. And
they don't have the same expertise as a paramedic would
have. And they can't transport like a paramedic can to
get these people to the hospitals. So one side I'm
praising our voluntary firefighters and I'm looking out for them.
But on the other side I'm looking at our response
time in the township of a Mapleton is getting worse,
not better. Although I'm hopeful for that 12 hours that's
coming. I'm very concerned that as we continue down the
road, Mapleton is going to be left behind, especially when
we're talking about paramedic stations. To help increase and make
things better. And Mapleton is far beyond. It's still not
one of the last ones to get built. Thank you,
Warden. Anything further. Councillor Bomer. Thank you, Warden. If I
could speak to that point, that concern that was raised
by Councillor Davidson rest assured that was discussed. At the
committee meeting, the concerns that not all numbers are going
in the right direction in the county. Notwithstanding the may
be meeting the targets overall. We don't see that they're
based on the breakout numbers. We're not seeing it all
panning out like that in every part of the county.
So what their crest was made of the city of
Guelph to bring back an updated report in September to
try and get a sense of how these changes they've
instituted this year are affecting the response time. So we'll
have an opportunity through the budget process to say, Hey,
look, this is working or it isn't working. And we'd
like, we'd like to see increased investments for next year.
Instead of having to wait all the way till June
next year to possibly influence 2028 results, our goal, the
committee was to get that information on the table in
2026 so we can get the changes made in 2027
instead of having to wait another whole year. So I
hope, I hope that bears some fruit. The chief did
commit to bring back in term, um, response numbers. So
that we could have that discussion prior to budget time
this year. So thank you. Councillor Duncan. Just same topic.
I do want to thank Councillor Bomer and Kassanor Lloyd
that were on that committee. Um, so this was something
that came up and it was a push to get
these numbers back sooner. So if there's a trends or
things that we need to address, right? We can, we
can get it done sooner. Um, so normally the iron
numbers have been on the, on the bottom end, uh,
so, you know, when I saw the Mapleton number there.
And to be frank, I think the reason one of
the main reasons probably your number is better is over
the last number of years, you know, the paramedic service,
you know, they've invested into additional staffing at the Hillsburg
facility. Um, you know, the new supervisor position they brought
on, um, and, you know, they've increased the number of
staff there. So, you know, that's, that's, that's part of
it. So what worries me though is the, uh, financial
pressure that the city is under with the, uh, with
the, with that file. And, you know, how does that
going to impact or not impact the county moving forward?
Um, and, you know, one of the things as well
is just the timing of the, of the stations, you
know, by getting this data and getting it earlier, um,
you know, I don't think the timing of the station
rollout is necessarily cast in stone. Like if it shows
like the different priority over from when the study was
done in 2024 and that's, I basically updated the numbers
from 2018, you know, I would hope that the committee
and the city would be paramedic service being flexible with
looking at, you know, that order of the station. Maybe
that has to change. All right. Anything further. I will
call the question all in favor. That is carried. Thank
you. Heritage and seniors. Use every second word in your
report, please Doug. Out all the nouns and see how
that goes. Good afternoon everyone. Um, Mr. Warden, I have
the presentation of the June 10th meeting of Heritage Sr.
Committee. And of course, the Library Committee as well. So
we'll start with Heritage and Sr. And of course, as
always begin with the seniors. Uh, we had our financial
statements. There was some good news there that as of
May 31st grants and subsidies are actually trending ahead of
budget primarily due to some funding of, uh, high intensity
needs costing and some various other things. We also had
some, uh, construction funding, um, for reconciliation from last year
as well. Before you start looking for things to spend
that money on, though, all of this is for things
that have already been done and spent. And there's no
real, uh, new boon here or anything like that. It
just means that we have had support for projects that
we have already done. So we thank the province for
support and all of those. All in all, very positive
financial situation and hats off to the staff for pulling
all that together for us. We did have more Ministry
of Long - Term Care Inspections. I think I say
that pretty much every month when I get here. Again,
it's good that the ministry is keeping an eye on
the industry generally. And it's also good that our shortcomings
are rare. And for the most part, uh, administrative in
nature. So basically again, a fairly good news report there.
We want to move on to the Museum in the
Archives. Again, the financial, the key line and the last
is on the last line of each point in the
report does say that there is no variance anticipated. So
the budget is under control there as well. Within the
update, uh, it's included for your perusal. I'm not going
to read the whole thing to you. I'll leave out
each and every alternate points as I go here if
you want. But the high point to include that we
had 19, 000 visitors year to date, which is up
from 14, 000 in 2025. It's a significant up in
the last months are all included in to you. But
please do look at them because they are very, very
interesting. The museum will be open. These are announcements on
Canada Day and also on the August Long weekend. Lots
of activities, lots of good things to come and be
involved in. And through the summer, we have a lot
of activities. Um, we had our emerging insights. I want
to mention that again. We've had the insights art show
there for a number of years through the allura Fergus
Arts Council. We had 25 work selected from 100 submissions
of essentially high school students. The award winners are all
listed in there for your approval as well. But the,
uh, the evening was fantastic. The quality of the work
was really, really good. And it's all still there for
you to look at. July 11th, we're launching as if,
remembering the 90s. It's falling the decade series of the
60s, 70s. And of course in 1950s. I would like
to point out two things that I have trouble having
the 90s as nostalgia. But here we are. And that
I want to note that they left out Gen X
in the 1980s entirely. And as usual, we're being ignored.
I'm kidding, of course. It will be a great display.
The 90s obviously had a lot of good and interesting
things to look at. So please do come and see
that beginning on July 11th. Barries and bears was last
weekend, uh, over 750 people able to attend that. It
was fun, food and football. Uh, the European style football,
of course. It was a great event by all accounts.
I was away on work. But, uh, many of you
were there. And I heard it was fantastic. And hats
off to the staff for pulling that together as well.
Speaking of football, we had a viewing event for the
Canada Qatar game. I was there for that. It was
tremendous. It was, uh, it's, I'm always happy when I
drive down that road and I see that the people
on the property. I'm really happy when I see that
it's kids running around, uh, that's exactly what was happening
with that event. We had, uh, I don't know, probably
close to 50 or 60 people actually sitting watching the
game. And then a bunch of kids running around having
an impromptu soccer game. So it was really, really good.
Uh, we had a Model T collectors club, 30 vehicles,
30 Model T's, not surprisingly out there. And of course
320 students for the First World Education Day, which have
been running for several years and continues to be a
big hit. Uh, on the housekeeping side, we have inventory
update going on. Um, there's been a bunch of research
on the nursing sisters. And we have a lot of
information about that. There's actually a play being written. And
somebody was interested in research on that. And they approached
us and we were able to help with that. And
we've been cleaning out our attic, which is also our
archival storage area. For the summer activities, as I said,
there's lots to do and see. Uh, we have poor
house tours. Museum at work tours. We've seen an increased
interest in seeing how the museum actually works. And people
want those sort of backstage tours. And we're happy to
give them those. Um, we've got the July 11th Wellington
Multicultural Festival. So you can see the 90s and the
multiculturals all at the same time. Please do come out
to the Multicultural Festival. Most of you have been to
that before. Uh, we look forward to seeing you there.
And then of course September 19th, it's a ways off
in the future. But there is a bike ride, if
you like to ride bikes to support rural hospice and
the allura cataract trail we association, it's anywhere from 10
kilometers to 100 kilometers depending on your ability. It's non
- competitive. You can bring a tricycle. You can bring
anything you want. You know, the big penny far things,
things, if you got one. September 19th, that's coming up.
The archives had a very busy month. I won't go
into the details because they are attached. Uh, the strategic
action plan. If you haven't had a chance to review
that, please do. It's very lengthy, but the really good
information in there, please take the time to read it.
Um, and I'd like to point out a couple of
things in the report. One is that there are many
good comments from the public in there. Please do take
the time to look at those. And there was excellent
use of the word bifurcation, which may be very, very
happy. Without further ado, Mr. Warden, I have a motion
here. Moved by myself, seconded by Councillor Mary Lloyd that
the June 10th, 2026 minutes of the Heritage and Seniors
Committee be received and referred to Council for Adoption. Just
some inside baseball on that 80s thing, Doug. I've seen
it. And what they're going to do is wait till
you retire and put you on display. I have the
motion as red. Comments questions. Call the question all in
favor. That is Carried. Thank you very much. Mr. Warden,
that brings us to the library board. Very important, but
relatively short report here. Again, financials are all in order.
We did pass our procedural bylaw. It was after some
discussion. There was lots of interesting chat around what was
in it and how we should handle our activities going
forward. If you haven't looked at it, please do have
a look at it. It's in the, uh, it's in
the package. Want to mention a few activities. We gave
away 3, 600 trees at the libraries during the Green
Legacy tree giveaway. Discover Aaron Magazine has a great article
regarding the library in Aaron. If you haven't seen that,
go digging for it. It's easy to find on the
internet. Or I can send you a link. Wellington Terrace
and the library in the Museum have all been working
together. I mentioned this last month, but I think it's
worth mentioning again. There's a great symbiotic relationship between the
staff and the geography of everyone kind of being there
together on that campus, which quite frankly, when we started
that campus is what we were hoping for. We've got
volunteers from the senior centre working in both the library
and in the museum and then the museum and the
library are sending our staff over to do activities within
the senior centre. So it's a great symbiotic relationship. It's
working both ways all three ways and everybody's benefiting from
the geography and the staff and the willingness of people
to actually do extra things. So I wanted to point
that out because it's a big deal. One of those
things you don't think about with libraries is how important
it is to have computer access. People either don't have
computers or they don't have good internet. And it seems
like a small thing, but we all got those census
forms in the mail. We all have to go online
and do them. And there was people who literally went
to the libraries so they could fill out their census
form. So it's something you probably don't think about. The
pause for stories is still going well. It's a great
program where kids can interact with library books at animals
at the same time. And now that school is out
of course libraries are very much in. We've got reading
clubs. We've got programming. We've got performance. There's a million
things for people to do. I want to refer to
the Wellington County Library highlights here. Again, I'm not going
to read it all to you. But it's short. It
shows that everything is awesome and everything is getting busier.
And, uh, we're really happy with how things are going
in our library board. And we've got a lot of
summer events and a lot of activities. And they're all
listed in there as well. And that's it for me.
Uh, I have a motion by myself. Second, by Councillor
Mary Lloyd as well, that the June 10th, 2026 minutes
of the Wellington County Library Board be received and referred
to Council for information. I have the motion as read.
Comments questions. Call the question all in favor. That is
Carried. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.
Planning Councillor Seeley. Welcome, sir. The floor is yours.
Thank you, Warden. I'm proud to present the June 11th
minutes. Took a minute. Huh? Huh? All right. Sorry. Warden.
We start with our financial report for Mr. DeHart. We're
projecting a 150 to 200, 000 negative variants on the
year. It's still relatively early. I'll remind Council that we
typically see a lot of applications at the end of
the year to beat the increase. So we're expecting to
see that as well. But staff did indicate 40 to
50K savings on staffing budget line. And just prior to
the pending of the reports County did receive another gravel
application, uh, so that will help offset that, uh, minor
negative variance. Green Legacy is doing well. Um, else do
I have here? Regency management will show a minor negative
variance as well, but that all is inclusive of that
projected 150 to 200K. Next, we've moved on to the
GIS. The GIS is changing for the County. They're moving
to a new software that will go live in August
and we will run both in parallel for approximately a
month, 30 days to work out some wrinkles. And then
the old system will be terminated. So if you know
of any of your local tiers that rely on that
software, make sure you get in contact with the county
to bring everybody up to speed that we are transitioning.
Next we talked about our five year trails plan. Last
time it was updated was 2013. I don't know if
my notes are wrong, but that would make it more
than a five year plan. The focus is going to
be on the passive lands for the trail network. So
looking forward to that report coming back, uh, some of
the components will be improving parking spaces at the trails
as well as removing barriers to improve accessibility to the
trails. Next, we heard about our northern nursery. Apparently the
challenges with the Northern nursery. It's next to the Luther
Marsh area. The road access is not year round. So
staff are not obviously able to access during the winter.
So staff are going to report back on some options
to relocate possibly the northern nursery. And we look forward
to that report. And lastly is the, uh, climate heat
initiative. And Karen has a report on the agenda for
that. So with that, Warden is my report and I
have a motion moved by myself, seconded by Camel Cork.
But the June 11th, 2026 minutes of the planning committee
be received and referred to Council for adoption. I have
the motion as red comments questions. We'll call the question
all in favor. That is Carried. Thank you, sir. Economic
development Councillor Duncan, police. Flora is yours, sir. Good afternoon,
everyone. So here's our update for economic development meeting from
June 16th. Just in regards to the financials, basically the
two sections. So for that economic development operations, we're expecting
positive areas between 80, 100, 000. And for the rural
transportation portion, overall, uh, tracking towards a positive variance of
between 20 to 30, 000 dollars. Onto the main actual
report. Just wanted to talk about good news right off
the top. There's an investment attraction under that category that
we look at. So the County, um, we applied for
a CAN expert community investment program, Grant. And we are
successful in securing 54, 000 dollars in federal funding. And
I will support about 60 percent of the cost of
an investment readiness project So this is something that, uh,
to be frank, we've had on the back burner a
little bit for a little while at the economic development,
just with the needs of the transportation file and staffing,
uh, that this now, this is a project that we
identified to move forward with. And now it's good to
see that, uh, what 60 percent of it will be
funded. Just one of the things here was the Community
Improvement Funding. There was three applications for Wellington North Projects.
And there's three applications there. I'm not sure if it's
Councillor Breen or somebody had indicated that, uh, any fixing
up in Wellington North is probably money well spent. So
I'm not sure if that was. No? Oh, okay. Um,
just under the tourism portfolio, the Wanted County, we had
a tourism experience development program. Um, there's a grant call
that went out. We had about, uh, 30 applications about
nine were selected. And they're receiving microgrants of between 1500
to 3, 000 dollars for the most of the ones
that weren't selected. They were either they didn't, uh, they
didn't fit at all. Or the good news was, is
for many of them are software able to tee them
up to other, uh, programs or other initiatives to help
them out. The spring rural romp was held on May
30th. It's a record number 18 farm and food destinations
across Northern Wellington County. As we reported that each of
the stops had between 100 to 300 visitors, um, and
some of them indicated that, uh, between 50 percent of
the visitors were all first time people coming. So TATS
off to, uh, the spring roll romp crew for having
that, uh, this year. And as I mentioned before, that
many locations you had to actually kind of pick which
ones you wanted to go to because it was so
large you would not be able to really get to
them all at one time. Uh, the trade tracks showcase
happened on May 22nd in Centre Wellington at the sportsplex.
The Friday we saw about 2000 students from, it was
over a dozen school boards, I believe, that attended on
the Friday. Friday weather was awesome. Saturday weather was horrible.
It was, uh, so the public showcase part was cancelled
on a Saturday. Um, even, even with that though, what
was really good for, even though it's geared towards youth,
about almost half the exhibitors reported to us that, um,
they had made, uh, workforce relation connections there, including potential
summer students, co - op placements, apprenticeships, um, so it
was successful also for the vendors that were there and
for the institutions that were there. So that was, that
was good news. Um, the, uh, economic development, uh, economic
developers conference of Ontario, uh, it's actually going to be
in, uh, Wellington County. It is September 9th and 10th.
It's the, so it's the EDCO. They have a regional
conference in our area. Uh, once a year and this
year, they had, uh, it was reported out back in
the fall that they had chosen, uh, Wellton County. And
so the links in your agenda there for how did
register. There's a, um, a pre day on the 9th
and then that main conference is on the 10th. And
they have a need agenda that's set up for that.
So I urge you to take a look at that.
I believe, um, staff are going to be sending out
a typical conference invite to Council on that. Just for
the ride well update. We had, um, 954 rides. Don
in May, which represented, uh, just over a thousand passengers
for, for the program. Um, the main thing with the
transportation portfolio, though, really is just the, uh, regional transportation
study. So that still is going ahead. That's the Bruce
Duffer in grey Wellington regional transportation portion. And the final
report is expected to come to Council in the follow
26. Um, and one of the main things though, uh,
we have recommended and some of the direction that's taken,
um, that interim approach be taken with the ghost line.
So as reported last several months, that's what's going on.
Wellton County, we've already actually approved and have set aside
our 25 percent of the funding for the ghost line.
So the other 25 percent is from grey and the
other 50s from the province and the other two partners
to date have not, um, committed to that. So stay
tuned for what will happen with the, uh, with the
ghost line. And we had the smart city's office report.
It's the last items there on the agenda. I just
wanted to indicate that the amount forest library is having
a, uh, a food pantry installed similar operation to the
other ones that we have. Obviously, it's a local group.
It's the Mount Forest family help team housing essentials lived
experience pathways people that are doing that. Um, so, um,
that, that will be up in operation this summer. So
again, it's for people to pick things up. It's also
to provide a draw - off spot for members of
the public that wish to, uh, wish to donate. Um,
for the agricultural support piece that we do under the
Smart Cities, the experiment acres, um, mentioned, uh, about one
of the applicants with the 10 year old chicken farmer.
And that got picked up by the press. And that
in turn actually got picked up by the Wellington Federation
of Agriculture and the Ontario Federation Agriculture. And they shared
that, um, that story about, uh, about our program and
about the young farmer on their social media posts and
some of their platforms. So that was, uh, really good
news to see. The last piece here is just the
County and it's to do with the counties internet readiness.
Program. So I just want to, um, call out Justine
Danyard here. She's over here. The only words I can
use is that she's been dogged in trying to, um,
keep Roger's feet to the fire with the, uh, internet's
rollout. And not so much the physical rollout of it.
Just where are they at with it? What's the timing?
What's going on? And so, um, through Justine's work, um,
staff meant last month with infrastructure Ontario. They actually attended
the meeting along with the Rogers communication people to receive
an update on the high speed internet project. So by
background, 2021, the province launched this accelerated high speed internet
program and it changed the model for internet service providers
wishing to access government funding. So it's a shift from
that swift model. Um, municipalities were no longer involved. And
in 2022, Rogers communications was contracted to undertake high speed
internet expansion to uncertain areas of the entire County of
Wellington. Um, so the update is that Rogers is continued
to work locally through the subcontractors, the subcontractors are supposed
to be, uh, branded with Rogers thing. So that gives
you the public a bit more idea of what's, you
know, where they're working. And the installations progressing in a
south to north general direction and expected that postal inch
will be the first member municipality to be completed. Um,
they said, you know, the end of 26 for Post
Lynch. You know, we'll see. But, uh, the deadline for
all this work being completed though has been extended. Uh,
it was supposed to be the end of last year.
And now it is extended to the end of 28.
So, um, I understand it's sort of push lunch and
ear and qualifier masa and then working its way, uh,
way north. County staff of Astora follow - up meeting
in the fall to track this progress. Um, and one
of the main things that you can do, and if
you're putting things out to public, um, there's a link
there to on our website for the interior high speed
internet map. And people can either type in their address
or they can look it up. And it will show
they're in a colour coded map. What's the status of
the internet that's in your area, whether it's, uh, under
construction, whether it's still coming, um, so I would urge
you, if you have any way that's asking about that
project in general, um, Justine's good first plane to contact
for that. Um, but the website is, is good for,
um, trying to track where, where Rogers is at. Um,
it is sort of unfortunate though. It did take us
a long time to be able to set up this
meeting just to get basic information, you know, how are
you making out? What areas are done? Um, and even
some of that has still been a little bit difficult
to ascertain. With that, I have a resolution here by
myself and seconded by Councillor Steve O'Neill at the June
16th, 2026 minute. So the economic building committee be received
and referred to Council for adoption. I have the motion
as read comments questions. Councillor Lennox. See, I saw you
this time. Thank you, Warden. I just wanted to add
a little bit to the context with regard to Swift.
So, uh, Swift had the initial project. So we're spread
across the County. There was three or four or five
projects. I just forget the exact number. Those were all
completed. And then through the provincial and federal programs where
these ones are now, the Rogers was given a contract.
To cover most of Wellington County. Now there was some
places already served. And then there were some areas, particularly
an area in Minto in the centre of Minto. I
kind of called it like the donut hole. That was,
that Rogers did not have the contract to fill. And
that was given from the provincial government to swift to
fill out that gap plus some others across southwestern Ontario.
And those are completed or virtually completed. So if there's
areas that are not covered by or the Rogers contract,
please let me or through Justine Swift know that this
is. We're based on the information the province gives us
in terms of underserved premises. And we're out filling those
gaps. With the provincial money to do that. So if
there are gaps that you know about, please communicate with
Justine or myself. And we'll try to fill it. But
if it's within the Rogers delineated contract, there's really nothing
we can do about it at this point, but weight
impatiently. We are not alone. Uh, this is a thing
that's happening widespread across the province where the deadline of
last December is long passed. Even with the big providers
of Bell and Rogers, a lot of the work has
not been completed. Even though it wear well past the
deadline already. And now I didn't hear of a firm
date of 2028 yet. I heard it was still open
- ended. But if they've committed to a firm date
of 2028, I hope that's the final date. So, but
again, happy to continue that dialogue. And try to get
those gaps filled. I know that donut hole in mental
that filled. I'm sure they're very happy now. Thank you.
Anything further. Councillor Lloyd. Thank you, Warden. And on that
comment, um, we have a number of residents that live
just off beady line in Centre Wellington that are still
continuing to have underserviced inabilities to have their cell phones,
uh, connect to a service. It's difficult when you have
an alarm system in your home. If you don't have
those dedicated airwaves and wireless programs that are in place.
And so the residents of that area are still suffering.
Um, and we're looking at probably 2, 000 homes in
that area. So it's a big gap and it's a
real issue. And, uh, the residents there are not happy
that they're not able to have a solid, stable signal.
Councillor Lennox. Sorry, Warden. I just wanted to follow up
on that comment in that swift is also undertaking a
study of southwestern Ontario cell coverage. So we're committed significant
dollars to do a study over the next couple of
years. Starting already in May of this year to identify
those gaps to make the case to our partners, you
know, the Rogers, the bells. And the provincial and federal
government CRTC, that there are still significant gaps in cell
coverage, in rural Ontario. I mean, I know that when
I drive from here to home, when I crossed the
Irvin Rivers north of Fergus, there's no coverage there. There's
many other pockets like that. Uh, so, you know, again,
let's keep the dialogue open. This is a study that's
being undertaken. We will share that information. When it's completed.
But, uh, the purpose is to advance the cause of
cell coverage like we did with the internet service. And
just to follow up on that, some of there have
been some pretty good successes with Swift over the years.
We've been at this for a while. First iteration welfare
must. I got 12 million bucks. We did Everton, Eden
Mills, parts of Rockwood. So they're grinding along, but the
few gaps we need to get to, but there has
been some pretty good success. We just need to get
that finished. All right. Anything further. I will call the
question all in favor. That's carried. Thank you, sir. Councillor
Campbell. See if you can wrap this up by 1230.
Floor's yours, sir. Thank you. I'll do my best. Good
afternoon. Everybody reporting on the FNHR meeting of June 16,
2026. We started our meeting off with the renewal of
the Bad Ockle lease. So the bad arc community centre
in push Lynch is the only owned property by the
County that's run as a community centre and it's run
by a local community board. Pretty much a housekeeping issue,
but the lease was up for renewal. Very little discussion.
We approved it. We moved on. We then reviewed and
approved the establishment of a joint compliance audit committee for
the 2026 2030 term of Council. This is done in
conjunction with the lower tiers. And these are the people
that are going to be called into audit your financial
statements as a candidate should somebody challenge them. So it's
a legislative requirement that we create this committee and that,
uh, bylaw that's on there today does that. We then,
uh, reviewed the Wellington County Joint Accessibility Committee minutes. Chair
Matthew Bumer was what excuse me, Matthew Bumer was with
us. He gave us an update on the meeting. We
always appreciate when Matthew attends and shares that with us.
We then moved on to review the Countywide Financial Statements
to May 31, 2026. Um, as well as the year
today variants projections, uh, very detailed report on operational and
capital. So only two notables that I would bring forward
to projected surplus for this calendar year is between 500K
and 2. 3 million as to date. And of course,
we know Ken is notoriously conservative in that number. But
anyways, that's what he's presented. And the other area of
notice development charges year to date or down 25 percent.
To what they were last year. We then moved on
to the summary of contract towards June of 2026. Uh,
this is staff awarding. Contracts up to 500K provided that
they meet the lowest price criteria and that they were
within the original budget. Uh, there was 10 contracts that
were approved and they run from skid steers to heat
pumps. So I mean, it's kind of all over the
map, but it's there for you to read. We then
moved on and reviewed the provincial development charges reduction program.
We passed a resolution. Supporting member municipality applications and that
we continue to support our own community housing development fund.
We then moved on and reviewed and approved an update
to the County Cash Investment Policy. Fairly large document, two
changes to it. Basically, uh, and one requested by the
committee, um, so what we're looking at is pretty, I
can't even speak anymore. Principle protected notes. So it's within
the existing bylaw at 40 percent and staff are recommended
we move this up to 70 percent committee adjusted the
50 percent back to 40 percent. So basically what this
does is give staff latitude to put more money into
PPNs because we're seeing basically double the returns historically over
the past five years. So it's not to say that
they're definitely going to go to that limit, but it
moves that bar up. That should they choose to do
so. It's within the policy. And that documents in your
package and all the changes are highlighted in red, including
about three paragraphs of verbiage about what PPU pans are.
Um, anybody that's censors in the 40 versus the 50,
the six institutions that we can buy those people ends
from. So. So that was approved by committee. We then
reviewed and received for information that changes over our employee
assistance plan to tell us starting in July of this
year. So this was a staff decision it was made.
Based on staff's input on this, we're getting a better
program for less money. With less constraints. So that's being
rolled out basically even as we speak. So that was
received by the committee for information. We then received a
report for information on the OSHA changes coming into place.
These are changes head protection and elevated work safety requirements.
So it's early days on those one of them takes
effect December, but staff are working on how that would
apply to staff in terms of what headgear is currently
being, um, worn. And what we actually have for elevated
work platforms. Uh, that employees are working off. And finally,
we reviewed and received a report on the health and
safety team. So if you recall last month, uh, we
announced that Nicole Void had moved up to assistant director
of HR. Staff have made a change to that position
so they're not going to backfill another manager of health
and safety. Nicole's going to carry on in that role.
Focusing on the health and safety so we don't lose
any continu. We don't lose any momentum in that. And
her replacement, which is being recruited now will be a
supervisor of health and safety and wellness. So again, a
staff internal change. And that's my report. So I have
a motion by myself, seconded by Councillor Valentine that the
June 10th, 2026 minutes of the administration finance and HR
committee be received and referred to Council for adoption. Thank
you. I have the motion as read comments questions. I
will call the question all in favor. That is Carrie.
Thank you. Now this is a little unusual, but I'll
put it out there. We had an item earlier today
on the Aaron Garage that we deferred. Mr. Wilson has
asked to speak to Council on that item. Is there
an appetite to do so? Everybody all right? Okay. Mr.
Wilson, floor yours. Thank you, Warden. I've been in this
business a long time and I don't recall ever having
to ask Council to give further consideration to an issue.
But, um, just given the timing of our meetings, we
won't be meeting regularly again until September. The prices that
are in part of the earring grudge tender are a
little bit time sensitive. The longer we delay, the less
reliable those prices will be the more, will be likely
to get into winter construction, which will be adding to
the cost. So. Uh, I believe Mr. Turk would like
to be able to answer any questions. You may have
about the figures that we're discussed earlier. Mr. Mulhold and
Mr. Grinnemer also here. If there were questions, I should
have tried to intervene earlier in the discussion when it
was happening in the Roads Committee, but I was, uh,
asleep at the switch. So if Councilwood permitted, and it's
certainly up to Council because you've already voted to defer.
If you would permit Mr. Turk to give some explanation
of his numbers, I'd appreciate it. Is there an appetite
to hear from the Mr. Church. Yeah. Yep. People and
the people who moved in second into deferral are okay
with this. We're not reconsidering yet. We're just letting its
emotion to allow them to speak. Then we could reconsider.
We haven't asked to reconsider yet. So, um, just to
remotion to allow this to be. Yeah. Let's do that.
Let's make it. I'll put a motion on the floor.
Thank you, sir. Motion to allow the delegates to adjust
an item we've considered. Second, my Council Sealy all in
favor. That is carried. So just to go back to
the deferral, just to your point, I don't know if
you want to reiterate there were some concerns about the
numbers and when you got them. I don't want to
speak on your behalf. Maybe tell us again why you
ask for the deferral. So to clarify my stance is
the fact that. At the roads meeting, it was requested
that we get the backup. The backup was only shared
with five members of this Council. And when it was
shared on Monday of this week, it was acknowledged that
there was a reduction in the price of the contract,
which is positive news. Please don't misunderstand my comment. Um,
but it wasn't shared where the balancer council. So the
report that was presented as part of our agenda and
presented by the chair had an incorrect number in it.
Also on that backup. And again, I will restate, and
I'm sure I'm about to be confirmed. That the typo
on the report that shows a potential savings of another
637, 000 dollars, which I really don't believe is there.
But my issue is the timing. And the fact that
if a contract changes and is going to be presented
to this Council, why all of Council was not made
aware of that contract change, why it wasn't changed in
the agenda, why the chair of the committee wasn't even
aware that the contract price had changed. And that only
five of us that requested the additional backup after that
meeting were made aware of it. It's a committee of
16. We're making a 13 million dollar decision. On incomplete
and inaccurate information. That's why I asked for the deferral.
Thank you. So. I don't know how you want to
answer that. Please up to the mic because we're streaming.
Just introduce yourself for everybody. There we go. All right.
Thank you everyone for taking the time to hear me.
I'm Ryan Turkwithawn Construction. First off, I apologise for the
typo. I've printed a copy of Miller's electrics quotation. They
were the high bid. And I am mistyped. That's completely
on me. They were high bid and not relevant. In
the numbers that we've presented. We've been pushing really hard
to advance this project. We were supposed to break ground
in the fall of last year. We've had a number
of challenges with municipal approvals for our site plant approval
and our permit. We're to point now, we're ready to
go. And I'm concerned that if we lose this summer,
I have almost 1, 600 cubic metres of concrete to
poor in this foundation. You guys have seen an Arthur
and other structures. The foundation walls and the footings are
huge. If I have to pour and construct the foundation
in the cold weather, I pay a winter premium on
every metre of concrete that I buy. And we have
to tarp and heat the concrete so that it cures
properly. We're all here. So I want to take the
time if there's questions and the more information I can
provide to you. This is an open book process. I
would love to still hit the ground this summer and
take advantage of the warm months that we have. This
project is bigger than other sites. We have quite a
bit of site civil work to do for stormwater management,
grey water management. And the sanitary system. To lose the
summer months, I'm going to be increasing the GMP to
deal with the winter working costs. Frost removal and the
tarping and the heating. If the chance that I can
at least get a summary of what can make that
clearer to you or the financial reports, I'm certainly happy
to do so. I issued a revised GMP earlier this
week that brought the GMP down by approximately 63, 000.
Though that's based on two items being removed from our
scope. We had allowed for asphalt to be installed under
the second salt dome that is no longer going to
be demolished. So that's going to stay. So I backed
out the cost for that asphalt. I also had cost
in for the second entrance into the property, which has
been completed by the County staff. So those two items
were backed out of the GMP, reducing the GMP by
63, 000. Again, if the way that I can answer
questions or help keep this project moving, that is our
goal. Go ahead, Mr. Wilson Wilson. Mr. Turkey, do you
confirm. New GMP. Off memory, it's 13, 163, 000. I
didn't bring my glasses to the podium here. One million,
13, 163, 531 dollars. Okay, so the issues in the
room. Number one is the timing of the information as
it went out. Agreed. Okay. We've got that issue. So
now that we've recognised that, we've recognised the typo. The
issue now is, is there an appetite to find a
way around this deferral to get them to work. Or
do we want to maintain the deferral? As the mover
of the deferral, what, and I'm not trying to put
you on the spot. But what would you need to
allow this to go ahead? If Council is satisfied with
the numbers as they stand. I have no interest in
deferring this project if it's going to add to the
costs of the project. My point is simply we are
a Council of 16 people. We all deserve the information
up front before any decision is made. We now have
confirmation from the gentleman, the prepared it. That the numbers
are correct. So as long as we correct the motion
to the correct amount, I will back down on the
deferral. I'm not trying to delay the project. I'm not
trying to stop the project. But I think we need
to make a valid point that when new information comes
out, it's shared with everybody. Not just the people we're
bold enough to ask for. It. And that's, that's a
strictly reasonable point. And especially a project of this magnitude
Councillor Duncan. I was just going to say, I think
the message, what, I think the message has been received
on the, uh. On the sending out of the information
after, after that meeting. Um, you know, I would be
supportive of us doing a reconsideration, bringing us forward. Um,
you know, in the last 18 months, there's somewhere between
850, 1, 000 new homes have been built out that
section of the County. The sooner this garage can get
going, you know, I can continue the excellent work that
the roads committee does. Um, are the roads committee. The
road staff does, uh, and, you know, and looking after
the service needs of those people. Uh, you know, one
of the reasons of bringing this garage forward and not
doing an amalgamated, uh, job, right, was that this would,
um, allow us to maintain or enhance the service level
for our residence. So, um, I think, I think we
all know too. Everyone knows here. If you can construct
something in the nicer weather in the summer and fall
months, especially the critical parts of pouring, uh, concrete that
it's best for the project in the long run. So,
um, I think we should do a reconsideration. Council Breen.
In my mind, the only reason to defer a motion
is if there's new information that's going to come that
might change the outcome of the motion. And I'm reasonably
confident. I could be convinced otherwise that we've now got
the information that we've, that we needed. And if we
defer this till 2029, I think we're going to end
up making the same decision. We're just going to end
up costing us more money. So I think probably the
right course here, unless there's something that I'm missing. And
I accept that that's a possibility. That's for something I'm
missing. I don't think that waiting until September is going
to change anything except make it cost more money. So
I do think that there's been a message sent that
I assume has been received. And I think it's an
important one. But I think we need to separate that
from this. And that I think it's probably time to
have a motion for, uh, reconsideration. Um, I think Councillor
Duncan sort of insinuated that he'd be willing to pass
it or sorry to make it. I'd be willing to
second it. If it makes more sense to make the
original people do it. I don't care. But I think
we should move on. It procedurally doesn't matter who does
a reconsider. You all voted. Okay. Um, I'm going to
put the motion on the floor cause we're actually talking
about it before we're getting there. Did you want to
make that motion Councillor Duncan then? To reconsider the deferral
seconded by Councillor Breen Councillor Lennox. That's correct. Thank you,
Ward. And I agree that deferral doesn't necessarily have to
happen here. But I am quite disturbed by the fact
that we were asked to vote on a motion, which
had incorrect information. I find that very disturbing. If that
information was available, then why was that motion not corrected?
And I don't know where the accountability for that lies.
But I do believe there needs to be accountability for
it. Okay. Point made. Um, motion on the floor. So
one is to reconsider the deferral to get the project
moving ahead. Two other items in the room is the
timeliness. In terms of when the information went out and
who it all went to. And how that occurred. And
had a report with an incorrect number. Correct? Okay. So
back to the reconsideration motion. It's a funny look. Back
to the reconsideration motion. Which would undefer it and pass
it with the correct numbers. Yes, sir. We're going to
reread the motion before we pass it with the correct
number. So the ambiguity. Okay. So we've got to mover
and a second. Can I have the motion red please
with the correct number? Or can I read it or
you read it? Who's got it? Oh, voting on reconsideration.
Well, okay. All in favor. To reconsider the deferral. Thank
you. Sorry. Now motion for. Approval of the project. Stated.
I'm going to get it red so we know we're
talking about. So it's item four on the roads agenda.
Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Read it, please. Get the
right number, eh? The motion will read that the construction
contract for the Aaron Garage bewarted to Dawn construction limited
of Waterloo at the total contract amount of 13, 163,
531 dollars. Excluding HST at 13 percent and that the
budget is outline in the financial summary be approved and
that the warden and clerk be authorized to sign the
necessary construction agreements. That is the motion on the floor.
Any further comments, questions. Mover and seconder. I thought I
had those already for this one. Move by Councillor Davidson,
second by Councillor Turton. All in favor. That is carried.
Thank you and the takeaway is in the room. We'll
probably bring it back to Rhodes. We'll look into, it's
an absolutely legitimate concern if the incorrect number, we will
look back into that. All right. And the timing. Thank
you for your presentation, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you, Evan,
for your time. All right. Thank you. Go ahead. Council
Wilson would like to speak. Thank you Council. I believe
the right course of action was ultimately taken. And I
hope there's no mistake about who's responsible. For this, uh,
issue, this lack of information getting to Council. It's my
responsibility. Okay. Um, free to move along then. Moving
into proposed proposed bylaw resolution, refer to Council, Mr. Turton,
please. Thank you, Mr. Warden. Resolution has moved by myself.
Second by Councillor Greg Davidson. That bylaws 5983 - 26.
And 5986 - 26 to 5990, 26. Be considered and
referred to Council by 3rd Reedy.
I have the motion as read. Call the question all
in favor. That's barely carried. Thank you. We're moving into
reports from staff. And, but just before we move on,
I just want to thank Council for their indulgence in
moving back on that. I think it is the right
decision. Any deferral might have cost. And as long as
you're comfortable with those numbers. All right. Would you like
to give us a little update on the home energy
efficiency retrofit program request for proposals. Welcome. The floor is
yours. Karen. Thank you. And good afternoon, everyone. So in
the planning report, um, Councillor City had mentioned that we
have an RFP that was posted for the home energy
efficiency transition program. This is our home energy retrofit financing
program where, um, uh, so we've put out an RFP
for the third party administrator and reviewed those submissions. We
are fortunate to have five very competitive submissions on that.
And we have selected enviro centre as the winning proposal
on that. So the recommendation is that in virocenter, um,
that the proposal from in viral for an upset limit
of 550, 130, 000 dollars be awarded the third party
heat administrator contract. So he's got a resolution. If you
have something for me, Mr. Seelen, then we'll talk about
it. Gotcha. Cared when I thought they'd come again. Uh,
so the resolution is moved by myself. Second of all,
Councillor Cork that proposal from Enviro Centre for an upset
limit of 550, 130 dollars be awarded. The heat third
party administrator contract. Thank you. There is the motion as
read comments, questions on that. I think we've seen this
a few times. Go ahead, Councillor O'Neill. Council.
Thank you, Warden. Um, again. I appreciate that Enviro Centre
had got 97 score. But we don't have any figures.
Again, what did our second place group at 89 get,
what was their price. So maybe their price was higher.
Maybe it was lower, but we don't know. We still
don't have the information. And I really don't appreciate that.
So I'd like more information. Maybe windfall was 600, 000.
So the right of the running, maybe it was 200,
000. I think we need more information on that. Any
thoughts. Um, sure. I can respond to that. Yep. Please.
Uh, the upset limit for the contract. It was 556,
000 dollars was posted in the RFP and the submissions,
all five submissions came in within a few thousand dollars
of each other and very close to that, that limit.
And I don't know if Eric wanted to add. Did
you want to come up here, please?
Thank you and through your chair. Uh, the five bids
received, I will list the pricing in order from lowest
to highest. The lowest price we received was for 547,
000. The second lowest was 550, 000. The third 553,
460. Then 555, 999 dollars below the listed price and
the fifth in highest was for exactly 556, 000 dollars.
Thank you. Thanks, Warden. I just don't know why those
numbers couldn't have been placed on this report. Reasonable question.
Should have been. Yeah. Who Ken. Cavalry. So I just
want to ensure that Council understands the difference between an
RFP and a tender. And an RFP, it's a request
for proposal. And so in the proposals come in with
packages that have a scoring attached to it. And pricing
is just one of them. And, uh, so it's not
our typical practice to show the pricing of, uh, each
bid in an RFP. That is tender process. So the
two different types of processes. So if Council wants to
see more, uh, information on RFP processes, then we would
have to change the way we do think, but price
is not to determining factor. Alone in an RFP process.
Go ahead. Thanks, Warden. Um, I guess I would say
that the solid waste service contract. Being an RFP. Had
a full summer price. Disclosure all the way through it.
Okay. So I'm going to ask that maybe that item
about putting all the numbers together. Be referred back to
AFNHR. And we can decide whether we want it. Change
the policy or not Councillor Campbell. Thank. You, Warden. So.
Just on the same vein, and I appreciate the update.
And I don't have a problem supporting this. But I
think what Councillor Neal is looking at, I'm putting words
in a smoth is some consistency on the information that
Council receives. So normally we do get pricing. We also
normally get a financial backup sheet that says this is
how we're going to pay for it. So I mean,
if this was under 500, 000 dollars, it could have
been improved by staff. We wouldn't even have seen it.
We'd have driven on with a contract. But because it
crossed that 500, 000 dollar threshold normally treasury gives us
a listing. Now I appreciate this is a multi -
year contract. And it's only a hundred thousand dollars a
year, which is not a lot in our pot. Um,
but normally the background to this that says, okay, here
was the pricing. Here's our recommendation to award. And here's
how we're going to pay for it. So that component
also missing out of this particular document. So no issue
passing it today, but I just think some consistency in
the way the reports are coming out with the level
of detail would make life a whole lot easier, especially
when you're getting a report the day before Council meeting.
There's no committee review. There's no chance to talk about
it. Here's the numbers and we're voting on it tomorrow.
Make sure you show up on time. And I'll, by
the way, we're not doing pictures. You know, I'm saying
like it just. Anyways, I've had my spiel. Thank you.
Okay. So we're going to put that on the next
AFNHR food review. Okay. Got it. Okay. Where are we?
Did we vote. Okay. Mover in seconder. So with that
information and understanding the distinction we've been making and those
two processes, we will bring it back to eighth and
HR to make sure the more fulsom information. On other
items like this and forward. That'll go to that committee
and then back through. Fair enough. Then I will call
the question all in favor. That is carried. Thank you
very much. Thank you, Karen. Appreciate it. Resolution to committee
of the whole rising report Councillor. Oh, see, I wasn't
going to embarrass you this time. Councillor Cork. Thank you,
Warden. Moved by myself and seconded by Councillor Seeley. The
committee of the whole rise. It's Council to report and
confirm the action taken in committee of the whole. Thing.
I have the motion as red. Called a question all
in favor. That is carried. Thank you very much. Resolution
to adopt action of Councillor Lloyd. Through you, Warden. I
have a motion move by myself. And seconded by Councillor
Shawn Watters that the action's taken in committee of the
whole today be confirmed by this committee, this Council and
the minutes from the committees be adopted. I have the
motion as red. Call a question all in favor. That
is Carried. Thank you very much. Resolution for third reading
of bylaws Councillor Cork. Thank you, Warden. Move by myself
and seconded by Councillor Anderson. The bylaw is 598 326
and 598 626 to 599. Oh 26 be taken as
read a third time. By the clerk and pass. I
have the motion as read comments questions. Call the question
all in all in favor. That's carried. Your mic's on,
you confuse me. No motions. All right. Well have a
good summer everybody. And this meeting is officially adjourned. Thank
you. Thank you. Thank you.