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[1:36] as well.

[1:59] » You stand in the planning.

[2:12] Thank you.

[3:35] We may stand. >> We acknowledge and are honored to be on

[3:38] the land of the most great people. This territory is covered by treaty n that

[3:42] was made and helped build this community. We recognize the history of

[3:46] this land in its original stewards and we commit to learning from them and

[3:50] working towards reconciliation.

[4:11] Please also note that this meeting is being live streamed. The content may be

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[4:26] agenda.

[4:39] » Moved by councelor, seconded by councelor that the agenda be approved as

[4:43] amended. >> All in favor?

[4:47] Great. declaration hearing interest and general out

[4:53] seeing none we'll move right into presentations and I believe we'll have

[4:56] to move to B because we don't have Maddie here right now so

[5:02] » is Good that.

[5:23] Okay. So, our first presentation is a food cycle presentation municipal food

[5:27] waste diversion program and we have Maddie who's just joining us.

[5:32] Hello. Can you hear me? Okay. >> So, Maddie, go ahead. The floor is

[5:37] yours. >> Perfect. Thank you so much. I'll just

[5:39] share my screen.

[5:49] Okay, I believe you can see that. Okay. So, good evening, mayor, members of

[5:55] council, and staff. Thank you for having me. My name is Maddie from I am the uh

[6:00] programs account executive at food cycle science and I'm here tonight to discuss

[6:03] a framework for sustainable food waste management uh for the town of caps

[6:08] casing. So food cycle science is a proud Canadian company and we're based in

[6:13] Ottawa Ontario. We were founded in 2011 by a team of engineers, scientists and

[6:18] food waste experts and we are just 100% focused on food waste diversion

[6:22] solutions. And so to do that we've created the food cyclare. Uh we provide

[6:27] our solution to the retail level. So you can find us um in stores. We also

[6:32] partner with businesses, not for-profit organizations, schools, and finally

[6:36] municipalities like yours, which is of course the reason I'm here today talking

[6:40] to you. So to date, we've partnered with more than 175 municipalities across

[6:47] Canada. We're in nine provinces and two territories from rural uh remote and

[6:52] small communities to densely populated cities helping them divert their food

[6:56] waste and save on waste management costs. In Ontario, we have 110

[7:01] communities. So, it's our most populated province of partnerships. Um and nearby

[7:06] to those municipalities that would be closest would be um Cochran, Kirkland

[7:11] Lake, and Horn Plane. So over the last few years, the issue

[7:17] surrounding food waste has become a common topic of discussion for many

[7:20] reasons. Uh one of the reasons is that when food waste is improperly disposed

[7:24] of in the landfill, it produces the greenhouse gas methane. It produces so

[7:29] much methane that if worldwide food loss and waste were actually a country, it

[7:33] would be the third highest greenhouse gas emitting nation behind China and the

[7:37] US. So it's very substantial. And then when we're talking about, you know,

[7:41] reducing our carbon footprint, really food waste isn't something that we

[7:44] should be ignoring. It truly is the lowhanging fruit to making an impact.

[7:49] And the solution is extremely simple and it's right in front of us. You can buy

[7:53] less, you can use your leftovers, but then when the time comes to dispose of

[7:57] what's left, you can do that properly. So, how does this impact municipality

[8:02] like cap scing? Well, since food waste makes up about half of household waste,

[8:07] it actually causes landfills to fill up very quickly. Um, as you know, operating

[8:11] a landfill is very expensive for municipality. And so, you do of course

[8:15] want to try and extend the lifespan for as long as possible. Um, and then, you

[8:20] know, as mentioned, when organic waste is put into the landfill, it produces

[8:23] methane gas. Uh and with the major focus being put on our emissions, um reducing

[8:28] our food waste is going to be a priority given it's a solvable challenge. We're

[8:33] seeing across Canada some provincial governments are putting pressure on

[8:36] municipalities to implement source separate organic programs and we do

[8:40] expect these pressures will just increase. And then the community level

[8:44] food waste in the garbage means more frequent collection trip collection uh

[8:48] or uh trips to the disposal site. It also causes odors which is unpleasant

[8:53] for us of course but it's really attractive for animals like bears and

[8:56] raccoons who do love to rubbish through our trash and obviously that can cause

[9:00] some issues. So ultimately if we remove food waste from the garbage we can

[9:04] eliminate all of these concerns and greatly reduce the amount of waste in

[9:07] the community. Now at this point I'm sure you're

[9:11] thinking yes this is a problem but haven't you solved it already? And sure

[9:15] there are a few solutions out there. So there's green bins which are common in

[9:18] big cities with high population density and the right infrastructure. However,

[9:22] these can be cost prohibitive or operationally challenging to implement

[9:26] especially in more rural or remote areas. We also just see across the

[9:30] country green bins struggle to get high participation rates. So it means they

[9:34] aren't necessarily solving the problem. And then some people in your community

[9:38] might backyard compost. And I'm sure we'd all agree this is really the ideal

[9:42] solution. Uh but unfortunately backyard compost composting has some issues. It's

[9:47] not um feasible for everybody depending on your living situation. It's not a

[9:51] year- round solution and there's still the concern about it attracting bears

[9:55] and wildlife to your backyard. And then finally, you could continue to put

[9:58] organic waste into the landfill, but as mentioned, the long-term impacts are

[10:03] costly and harmful to the environment. So with the food cyclinger, we make food

[10:08] waste easy to manage and do that right in the home. Um, I think this is

[10:12] actually supposed to play. There we go. Uh, so essentially, uh, the Food Cycle

[10:16] is just a kitchen appliance. It's about the same size as an air fryer. It's

[10:19] really simple to use. You put your food waste into the machine, push the button,

[10:23] and then in a matter of hours, uh, it's been recycled. So, it handles all types

[10:28] of food waste, including dairy, meat, bones, and pits. It can be used anywhere

[10:32] with a plug. So, most people will keep it in their kitchen, but you could put

[10:35] it in a basement or a heated garage if you had one. Each cycle takes about 4 to

[10:40] 8 hours to complete. So an overnight cycle is the best time to run it. And it

[10:44] uses about 1 kilowatt hour of power, which would cost about 10 to 15 cents

[10:49] per cycle. The resulting um end product that you're left with is a nutrient-rich

[10:54] resource that has many beneficial um uses, and I'll go over that in the next

[10:58] slide. So um as I said, it's a nutrient-rich

[11:04] byproduct that you're left with. We call it foodalizer. It's just your food waste

[11:08] that's been um reduced in weight and volume, leaving it, you know, completely

[11:12] dry and an inert biomass, but still has uses. So, you can add it to your garden

[11:17] soil right at home like a fertilizer. You could add it to any type of backyard

[11:21] composting system. Um, it integrates well into a leaf and yard waste system.

[11:26] You could drop it off at a compost site, a local farm, community garden, or, you

[11:31] know, if you had a green bin, you can add it to that. But there really are so

[11:34] many uses um for it. And um we at Food Cycle Science will help your community

[11:39] figure out the best way to manage it as well.

[11:42] So from an environmental standpoint, when you look at the carbon footprint of

[11:45] the food cycler, the impact is really clear. So over a 7-year period, which is

[11:50] about the lifespan, the food cycler has a net negative carbon uh it has a carbon

[11:54] footprint. So the graph on the left breaks down those emissions. And of

[11:58] course, there are some upfront emissions that you encounter from manufacturing,

[12:02] energy use, and end of life disposal. Um but these are far outweighed by the

[12:06] emissions that are avoided from food waste just not ending up in the in the

[12:10] landfill. So it results in a net negative carbon footprint. Um and that

[12:15] you can feel good about using this. So in addition to the environmental

[12:19] impacts, the traditional method of managing organic waste uh meaning a

[12:23] green bin or something similar um is a heavily burdened system with costs at

[12:27] every step. But, you know, the food cyclinger is a decentralized approach

[12:31] that avoids unnecessary additional costs from um, you know, labor or greenhouse

[12:36] gas emissions from trucking an improper food waste breakdown. Um, so the food

[12:40] waste that's created in the home can just be managed right there in the home.

[12:45] Now, for residents, one of the b biggest benefits we hear is how easy and clean

[12:49] the experience is. So, you know, typically food waste is associated with

[12:52] an ick factor. Um, it's smelly, it's wet, it's moldy, it creates a bit of a

[12:56] mess. But because the food cycler turns it into a dry, sterile, and odorless end

[13:01] product, the ick factor is gone. So you're not going to have smells from

[13:04] your uh kitchen garbage can anymore. But of course, one of the best reasons or

[13:10] the best results of using the food cyclinger is now there's just a lot less

[13:13] garbage going to the curb. So on average, households are putting out

[13:17] about 35 less garbage bags per year um as a result of using the food cyclinger.

[13:22] And so here's a photo I wanted to share. It's um one of our residents in Ar Prior

[13:27] um sent this to us after using the food cyclinger for a week. So it's just that

[13:30] little bag of garbage uh she was left with at the end of the week. So made a

[13:34] big difference in her life. So our food cyclinger program is an

[13:39] established and proven solution for food waste management uh with the results to

[13:43] prove it. We have participation rates over 90% um a recommendation rate of

[13:48] about 96% and then finally on average households are diverting about 250 kg of

[13:55] food waste per year. So to put that into perspective if every occupied household

[14:00] in capiscasing had a food cycler we can estimate that you would divert about 947

[14:06] metric tons of food waste from your landfill each year which is a a big big

[14:11] number. So, our med school programs uh it begins with a 12-week pilot phase to

[14:17] test the viability of our solution in your community before you consider maybe

[14:21] going full communitywide. Um so, how it works is residents would sign up to

[14:26] receive a fully subsidized food cyclinger from you um the municipality

[14:30] and then over 12 weeks they use their food cyclinger at home and they track

[14:34] the number of cycles that they've ran um each week. At the end, participants keep

[14:38] their food cyclinger and keep using it. um we get them to submit that that data

[14:43] to us along with answering a few more brief questions so we can measure the

[14:47] program success. We then compile all of the results into a final report or a

[14:52] study, a feasibility study um and present that back to you um along with

[14:56] staff so that we can you know evaluate the program and make changes and plan

[15:01] for any future expansion. So for the initial pilot I would

[15:06] recommend about a 100 household program. I think that would be a great place to

[15:09] start and we would ideally start with the Eco 3 because it's flexible. So, we

[15:14] have two models. The Eco 5, I believe, is what your public works team is using.

[15:18] Um, we can, you know, chat about which model would be best, but I think for the

[15:22] purposes of this, the Eco3, um, makes most sense to start. So, if you fully

[15:27] subsidize 100 Eco3s, that would be an investment of about $30,000 plus

[15:32] shipping and taxes. Um, but of course this is just a starting point. So happy

[15:36] to chat more and figure out what would be the best for your needs and your

[15:39] budget. So included in that program uh with the

[15:44] pricing is our team support. And so I think this is really where we stand out.

[15:48] You know, most programs don't fail because of the tools, they fail because

[15:51] of adoption. Residents are confused and small frustrations add up quickly. So we

[15:56] don't just drop off equipment and leave. Um, we assign a dedicated program

[16:00] manager to your community and we provide res ready readyto use communications.

[16:04] Um, and making sure that residents just have everything they need to get started

[16:09] from day one. Um, we also do our best to take uh staff like the workload off of

[16:14] staff's desk because we know implementing a program like this is a

[16:17] lot of work. So, we're handling troubleshooting questions, warranties

[16:21] questions, um, just making sure that your staff don't have to um, do any of

[16:26] that. Uh and so yeah, I would welcome the town of Capus casing as a partner in

[16:31] the fight against food waste as I think your community would be a great fit for

[16:34] this uh the benefits of this program. All I ask is my presentation uh be

[16:38] accepted as information and if there's any interest in partnering with us on a

[16:42] pilot program that you refer to staff for a report and recommendation.

[16:47] So thank you so much. I'll stop sharing my screen and I'm happy to answer any

[16:51] questions. >> Thanks Mandy for the presentation. I

[16:54] believe we received presentation on this probably about three two three years

[16:59] ago. Um and uh I'm not sure if it was yourself but thanks for coming back and

[17:04] not forgetting about us. Are there any questions from the table? Go ahead.

[17:09] » If the landfill site is using the methane for uh generating energy, does

[17:17] that methane count as excess methane? Uh if well it depends on what kind of

[17:24] system but um if they were using the methane to like a gas capture kind of

[17:29] landfill I think that wouldn't count as a methane excess methane but

[17:35] » that's not detrimental that methane is not detrimental to the entire it's being

[17:40] burned and used for energy. >> Yes, I think that's the point. Yeah. Of

[17:43] a gas capture. Yeah. Thank you.

[17:50] » Thank you very much for the uh for the presentation. Um just just a couple

[17:56] questions. One financial but also one uh more technical about the logistics of

[18:02] the use of the uh of the device. Um one of the other I backyard compost and do

[18:10] it year round even cap spacing and and uh find a way to make it work. But one

[18:16] of the I think the primary frustration I have is when you do not have access to

[18:20] the compost for many many many years. What is the turnaround time to generate

[18:25] usable compost with this particular device?

[18:29] » Yeah. Oh, that's a great question. I wish I had a number off the top of my

[18:32] head, but I it I don't I think it's I have the answer in um a soil amendment

[18:39] guide. So, we've created a resource that we can use, but it does turn around

[18:42] quicker because you're shrinking the size of the food waste. So, it's just

[18:46] really small particles. Um, it does help your backyard composter get up to speed

[18:51] faster and then turn around quicker. So, yeah, you're not going to be waiting

[18:55] months. It would be like years. It would be like uh maybe 3 months, but I can

[19:00] actually get you the numbers and I'll send you that guide as well so you can

[19:03] look at it. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. Um the other

[19:08] the other question I had was you you threw out a figure around um saying for

[19:14] capacics specifically if everyone in town were to use this device to divert

[19:19] the food waste from the landfill be about let's say thousand tons to make it

[19:23] uh simple. Um, do you have supporting information or um, uh, spreadsheets or

[19:32] model uh, modeled information that can be used to calculate uh, cost benefit in

[19:37] terms of >> um, the the saved uh, capital cost in

[19:43] terms of deferring the need to expand or build a new uh, landfill to support

[19:48] staff to uh, to uh, do an analysis to show the the benefit on a life cycle

[19:54] basis of such an advice. >> Yes. Yeah, we do. That's a great

[19:57] question and so I'm happy to work with staff on that. We've created um a

[20:00] calculator using um it wasn't created by us. It was a third party um

[20:05] environmental consultant um called Cambium. So they put together a

[20:09] calculator um so that we can you know talk to municipalities, get waste data

[20:13] and then figure out what you know that's going to look like in terms of the ROI

[20:17] of um for a landfill. So happy to do that if there is interest.

[20:23] » Perfect. Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions? Bruce,

[20:27] » happy to date any restaurant. Yeah, please.

[20:31] » So, the units that we that I was talking about today are too small for

[20:35] restaurants. Um, but we are in the process of developing a larger unit that

[20:39] would be applicable for restaurants. So, it would cycle about 75 L of food waste

[20:44] per day.

[20:48] » What about grocery stores also? Yeah. So, the unit that the 75 L is a

[20:54] little bit too small for grocery stores. I mean, it depends on the size of the

[20:57] grocery store, but um we currently don't have one that is that size.

[21:02] » Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you.

[21:04] » Any other questions? >> All right. Well, thanks very much,

[21:08] Maddie, for your presentation and uh we'll take it in for information. We'll

[21:12] get back to you if there's interest. >> Thank you so much for having me. Hope

[21:15] you have a great rest of your meeting. >> You as well.

[21:22] All right. Now we have a presentation from East Link. Um, and we have a Amanda

[21:27] in the audience. So for yours, Amanda, >> evening

[21:33] for the opportunity for being able to present in front of all of you this

[21:36] evening. So East Lake is very excited uh that we have launched mobile services

[21:41] here in Spacing. Uh, it's a long time coming. So uh, we are very excited about

[21:46] this upcoming launch. So, we're going to go through a few things uh with this

[21:50] launch and what this means for our customers here in the community.

[21:56] So, we're going to go through what is the East Link mobile network, uh what

[22:01] our launch plans look like, and how we plan on showing up.

[22:07] So, East Link is a mobile network. It's a virtual mobile network. So the way

[22:13] that this works with MBNO, which is a footage term that you'll hear me uh

[22:17] using throughout this, is a mobile virtual network is where we purchase the

[22:22] ability to essentially resell services uh on the existing national platforms

[22:27] that are available from Telos. So Eastlink is able to operate as a mobile

[22:32] virtual network operator in this case here in County Spacy, which means that

[22:36] we can operate without building our own home towers for the first seven years.

[22:40] Through that time, over that span of seven years, we're taking the revenue

[22:44] that is brought in from the mobile customers and reinvesting and building

[22:48] our own towers in the community as well. So over the seven years, there is an

[22:52] investment into the community. That's how the program works. And the design

[22:56] behind this and the reasoning behind MDO in the first place and why the

[23:00] government has allowed this to happen through CRTC is that it allows more

[23:04] competition within the community, which means consumers get a better price. So

[23:08] it helps drive down price on your telecommunication services which is what

[23:12] the government and CRTC is looking for out of this program. So the way that

[23:17] this works as well uh we can actually go to the next slide. Sorry.

[23:22] So we are launching uh it was anticipated that we would launch at the

[23:26] end of June. We actually launched on Tuesday July 7th. So mobile is now

[23:31] available here in the community. Uh, I will be set up at Model City Mall this

[23:36] week and we will be able to answer questions for any of our customers here

[23:41] in town. Not even only on the mobile side, but also our existing customers.

[23:45] Over the last little while, there's been an investment in the community, not only

[23:48] from the mobile standpoint, but we've also upgraded our services in the

[23:52] community. Max speed used to be 350 megabytes speed. Now, we offer gig

[23:56] service in cap. So, that's very exciting and it's a big investment on East Simp's

[24:01] part. on.

[24:07] So the timeline was a little bit different. It was anticipated that we

[24:10] were going to launch in June. We would presented in June. Uh now everything

[24:14] kind of lines up with a a big week in July. So uh we've also done um obviously

[24:20] this presentation we're here in the community this week uh and doesn't add

[24:25] all. And we have also agreed to do a sponsorship for Catholics this coming

[24:31] weekend which is obviously a fun and exciting initiative here in the

[24:34] community. We've done the event before and it was a lot of fun to get to talk

[24:38] to some of our customers moving forward in the fall. Uh

[24:42] anticipating that we would be here on a quarterly basis set up so that people

[24:46] have a place that they can actually come to and ask questions about their bill,

[24:50] about services, about mobile services. And that's kind of the plan that we take

[24:55] with these MBN launches. So we've now launched MBNO in uh Elliot Lake, Blind

[25:01] River, Cochran, and Cascading.

[25:07] So as I said, this is how we plan on showing up. So cap phrase, the the idea

[25:11] behind how we do this is always that we want to be present in the community.

[25:16] It's not a, you know, come into town, we launch mobile services, get out and then

[25:21] not come back again. The idea is to maintain that momentum and continue

[25:25] being present in the community. We have representatives that work in this

[25:29] community uh and that are proud to represent the Eastland brand. So that

[25:33] will continue. And then obviously with spreading the

[25:37] word being able to in front of all of you is part of that. and then any type

[25:42] of uh local media. So whether that's paid advertising through Facebook uh and

[25:47] through Meta, those are things that we do in order to be able to get the word

[25:51] out that mobile services are launching. Each of our customers uh would have

[25:55] received an email as well from our marketing team indicating uh that mobile

[25:59] services are launching. It allows them to be able to bundle their services

[26:03] which actually lowers their bill. So it's an exciting opportunity for

[26:07] customers here. Now our team as well will be present. So, I'll be here as

[26:11] well as one of our uh representatives and we'll be able to answer those

[26:15] questions that come up from consumers. Other than that, that is pretty much it

[26:20] in a nutshell. We just wanted to be able to represent the company and be able to

[26:24] proudly announce that his mobile services are now available in caps.

[26:30] » Well, thank you very much, Amanda, and welcome to our community, and again,

[26:32] thank you for the sponsorship, Capra. Much appreciated. Are there any

[26:36] questions uh for anybody? Go ahead. Um, thank you for the presentation. I was

[26:41] just curious, so other than coming this week to the mall, do you guys plan on

[26:46] having a physical office here on the mall? So, at the moment, no. But that

[26:51] doesn't mean that things will change. So, as basically the company continues

[26:55] to grow and we continue to be able to offer more products that are available

[26:58] to consumers, the the writing is on the wall of expansion continuing without

[27:04] with the company. So over time, yes, I can see that potentially happening down

[27:09] the road. As of right now, our plan is to continue to come on a quarterly basis

[27:14] from a sales perspective, but also be able to answer any questions at any

[27:18] time. Uh I've had communication with some members of uh the team here at the

[27:24] city or at the town and I've been able to have great discussions with them. So

[27:28] now it just opens up further opportunities for us.

[27:31] » Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks very much for the presentation

[27:36] and just a question about the cost model or service model uh east might be

[27:42] pursuing as compared to some of the other providers. Is it the is the

[27:45] attempt to uh and maybe it's contained by the infrastructure you you lease or

[27:51] or or purchase on? Will you be uh in the the same vein as a as a Bell or a Telus

[27:59] in terms of um higher price point uh products and plans or is the intent to

[28:06] be a discount service um you know like the uh like a smaller niche provider? I

[28:12] think FHO might be an example of of something where you can offer people who

[28:16] don't have the demand for uh unlimited features who want something uh smaller

[28:22] and more affordable. >> What's absolutely so great question uh

[28:26] the idea is always that we are going to lead the market. So we want to make sure

[28:31] that uh the price point that we're coming to the table at is very

[28:35] competitive. part of FBNO the process with FNO is that it drives down actually

[28:40] that price amongst competitors as well because when we're able to come in and

[28:45] sell that product uh the same product that other teleos are are selling for a

[28:50] reduced price point that helps bring down that cost overall. So, as an

[28:55] example, when we launch MBNO, the plans that are available can start as low as

[29:00] 20 gigs of data and then they can go up as high as uh 60 to 80 gigs. And in

[29:05] those plans, they're all rollover data as well. So, consumers are able anything

[29:09] that's unused will roll over to the following month and continue to build

[29:13] for them as well. So, uh the plans are very competitive. Plans range in about

[29:19] the $50 mark for a full service plan. Uh, and then there's also savings that

[29:24] are available. If you are an existing ESLink customer, you will save on your

[29:28] WLAN services as well. There's a $10 discount on your Wland services.

[29:34] » Thank you. >> Welcome.

[29:38] » Thank you very much for your presentation.

[29:40] » Thank you very much.

[29:45] » All right. Uh, moving right to start with the finance announcer Dennis.

[29:50] » Yeah. The first item is a request to fers the insurance recommendation by

[29:55] council approve addition of serial security insurance coverage coalition

[30:00] obtained through the council broker broker link at an individual criminal

[30:05] cost of $10,31 purpose of this report recommend that

[30:11] cashing add cyber security insurance coverage to existing program and qualify

[30:18] financial protection start related to incidents and technology based business.

[30:24] Um are there any questions or comments on that? I think I thought we already

[30:28] had it but then um yeah what what's the deductible and coverage on on this?

[30:38] I don't remember the deductible any we received it just

[30:59] » I thought the same thing as you so when cars

[31:02] » there's there's minimal coverage right now but let's say you had an incident

[31:06] that you know 10,000 Your insurance premium is not a lot if

[31:12] you ever get a cyber attack. >> I've been through it with another

[31:14] corporation. Although that's that's cheap because it costs a lot more

[31:18] » pay the rent. >> But from with your experience, you

[31:21] figure this is a good deal. >> Absolutely.

[31:30] » Well, the aggregate cost. So the land is 2 million.

[31:34] » It's what million is there? 2 million and up. That's uh I know I've heard

[31:40] there are some companies that have had to go and pay Bitcoin and all that just

[31:46] 2 million is not a lot. When you're talking

[31:51] and see if a little bit additional maybe a little bit additional would cost that

[31:55] much more >> maybe like the $5 million coverage.

[32:01] What's our what would be like how do you assess exposure to uh a cyber security

[32:06] is it in terms of >> in terms of what the the risk is

[32:10] » I think once we do uh purchase the uh the insurance they do a lot of testing

[32:17] and and actual >> um

[32:21] I'm lost words here scenarios where they will test our systems to see if we have

[32:27] any weaknesses that could be prone to cyber attacks. Uh, and they will

[32:32] continue testing on a regular basis. Uh, >> and they'll send you information. Don't

[32:38] » That's right. So, they do a full analysis they did and and they check

[32:41] everything from pay to receiving uh electronic uh transfers to just our

[32:50] emails, anything that's technology based. So, we have a large

[32:56] infrastructure of technology. So I think this is the right step to go to and and

[33:01] it will be tested. Our fire will probably be tested on a regular basis at

[33:07] the same time which we already do but the the insurance provider will do that.

[33:13] The the other thing that would be perhaps just like any other insurance is

[33:18] to understand how much effort that goes into prevention uh could reduce premiums

[33:25] or reduce the obligation to pay deductibliedness by having certain

[33:30] policies in place certain protections in place.

[33:34] » Exactly. Uh so understanding how much flexibility there is to um to control uh

[33:40] how how much we we you have to pay for such a a protection is would be good to

[33:45] understand as well. uh Northern Ontario wires is going through this uh this

[33:51] effort there's a I mean it's regulated where uh small utilities because of the

[33:56] exposure these attacks affecting um the electrical distribution network are

[34:01] putting in a lot of effort to uh to uh to to minimize any any such uh event

[34:08] from preventing electricity that's why I was asking

[34:12] » from our standpoint what is the impact of shutting down wastewater treatment or

[34:16] shutting the drinking water system as a result of an attack. I suspect it's like

[34:21] the impact could be in the millions. So, it's

[34:24] » probably pretty important to >> I think that my recommendation would be

[34:27] start with this insurance premium now and do the risk

[34:33] management the testing to see if we do have some vulner vulnerabilities

[34:37] anywhere. So then after that we can tailor the the coverage that we need.

[34:42] Any idea what the cost would be to cover those vulnerabilities to correct them?

[34:46] There's probably some cost involved with that.

[34:49] » Yeah, I don't have an idea. >> Not much. May not only be the premium,

[34:52] but they come in and say, "Well, you got to do this, do that,

[34:55] » can make it easily add another $20,000, but I don't."

[34:59] » Yeah. So, we won't know until we do the >> assessment, they exercise on the

[35:04] assessment to know what our risks are. >> I know the hospital went through this.

[35:09] Uh >> that's what

[35:11] » yeah about 3 4 years ago maybe maybe >> it was pretty uh intense really tough.

[35:15] » I bet you they'd love to have paid that >> our insurance did uh come up with uh bit

[35:21] of the money which was good. Out of pocket I believe was uh the hospital was

[35:26] almost $2 million >> and the rest was covered. It was all

[35:30] through bitcoin. It was all rushing out. So

[35:32] » they had some of the personal information from uh some people. So this

[35:38] will make the recommendation we go ahead with that. Um second item is for

[35:42] information correspondence from ministry of municipal affairs housing changes to

[35:47] strong mayor framework recommendation that council received the correspondence

[35:50] from ministry of municipal affairs and rehousing regarding some changes to the

[35:55] strong mayor framework as as information. the town

[36:01] correspondent waited June 23rd 26 from the honorable

[36:07] » uh black uh minister of minister affairs and housing regarding some changes to

[36:14] the strong framework that is that regulatory amendments have been made to

[36:18] the building regulation 53rd/22 under the municipal act 2011 these amendments

[36:25] come to force June 22nd 2046 six and apply to Trump mayor Mis. Any questions

[36:32] or comments on that? >> Not related to this one. I did have one

[36:36] more I just remembered I wanted to ask about the previous item. Uh and it was

[36:41] just whether the the insurance cost was going to be a 20 26 budget line item or

[36:48] uh for future >> 2026.

[36:51] » It will be a 206 add. >> Yeah.

[36:55] » Our premium starts out with July 1st. >> Okay. So you have half of the year and

[36:59] half the others to really >> So it's only it's only a $5,000 increase

[37:04] add-on for 2020. Okay. Thank you.

[37:11] Report. There's no other questions. >> All right. Plate services council

[37:17] Newton. >> I have one for tonight. Mr. Mayor for

[37:20] information letter from Minister Ministry of Municipal Affairs and

[37:24] Housing Amendments Parkland dedication regulation

[37:29] recommendation. The council received the correspondence from the Ministry

[37:34] of Municipal Affairs and Housing regarding amendments to Ontario

[37:38] regulation 509/20 community benefits charges and apartment

[37:44] land as information and John would you want to put that face

[37:49] on this one? >> Yeah. Um basically the government it's

[37:54] one of their many amenities to the plan that help streamline development housing

[37:58] development uh basically created in Frank allows developers uh the

[38:03] opportunity to propose lands that be dedicated to for parkland versus

[38:08] municipal planning um professionals that would kind of dictate where they're

[38:14] giving you more of an opportunity to developers to

[38:20] recommend something that may not be as suitable for um development but such as

[38:25] easements or restrictions. Uh maybe you could

[38:30] dedicate that instead of using clients plan. You also have to have uh an

[38:35] opportunity for a kill process that land tribunal and you also um if it's right

[38:42] uh there's some u

[38:48] notice noticing and um

[38:53] sorry to the case

[38:58] required to do that now. So we'll have to review our official plans in the

[39:02] process of being uh uh the draft. So we'll have to make sure

[39:07] that any provisions that are in the official plan would likely change the

[39:11] plan or dedication part. We'll have to review the extend process procedures and

[39:17] also our site control make sure that

[39:22] identification is uh reflected and also um

[39:29] sorry I lost I guess my apologies the heat the heat

[39:35] and also we don't actually have a frontline meditation bylaw so we have

[39:39] policies and provisions within our plan of the new filing capac doesn't actually

[39:43] have that dialogue aligning to how our clients think you. So in the event that

[39:50] we do um decide to move forward with this because we have a PL sub division

[39:54] that's establishing itself and we want to designate X amount of land for a park

[39:59] we have to come up with a

[40:04] question

[40:09] any questions on this be it for myself.

[40:12] » All right thanks C Newton protective service and emergency management counc

[40:17] » thank you Mr. May there um four items on the agenda

[40:22] for the committee. The the first is a for information item is the fire

[40:26] department left a report for June. Um trusting u everyone had a chance to read

[40:34] it. Highlights are just that there were 15 calls in in June including a

[40:39] structural fire and a scrapard fire that destroyed 23 vehicles and 84 calls here

[40:44] to date. And uh the NFPA um course for pump operator training is uh 85%

[40:52] complete. Uh was there highlights uh from my perspective? Not that they

[40:58] built. >> No, you you were you were right. Uh

[41:04] yeah, we we did respond to two major incident. Uh like you read uh we did

[41:11] respond to a scrapyard fire that destroyed 23 cars. Uh it was out of town

[41:18] but because we signed an agreement few months ago with the province uh this

[41:24] fire we're going to be able to recoup the cost of this fire. Okay. Um

[41:30] and I'm pretty happy that uh most of the staff did complete their pump operator

[41:36] course. Everyone that was registered to the course took the did complete the

[41:40] course and the testing we had issue with the testing with the scheduling the

[41:46] testing and the testing will be done in August. We just received I think it's

[41:50] last week the confirmation from the province

[41:54] that to be honest uh June was a month >> question on the covering for the the

[42:03] fire outside the town. You said we will be reimbursed at what rate of pay?

[42:09] » Uh almost $600 per hour >> 200

[42:14] » six >> 600 $600

[42:18] » per truck

[42:21] and what's that? >> Say uh it's the office of fire marshall

[42:26] that's going to reimburse us. >> Okay.

[42:29] » Yeah. >> Is that

[42:32] enough? it to be honest because of the cost the

[42:37] because of the capital cost of our pumper uh it will never be enough man

[42:43] it's it's a starting point

[42:49] » so to top of my head uh for this fire top of my head

[42:56] I think we're going to be able to recoup around $8,000

[43:12] Thank you very much. >> Perfect.

[43:16] » Any other questions or the report? >> All right. Uh next item on the agenda is

[43:24] um just to report on levels of service for interventions outside of casing

[43:32] limits. Um this is for council discussion and

[43:36] consideration. Uh there are two recommendations.

[43:41] Recommendation number one recommended that municipal council give

[43:45] consideration to continue to allow the CAP fire department to respond outside

[43:49] municipal boundaries of the town of CAP in accordance with its operational

[43:53] procedure ops 34 out of town boundaries response that was developed by the fire

[43:58] department. And the recommendation number two is

[44:01] recommended that council enter into a mutual aid and automatic aid agreements

[44:07] with the following municipalities. Township of Valita Hardy, Township of

[44:11] Obisatica, Township of Bloom Beam, Township of Folk Strickland, Township of

[44:16] Rock Falls, Town of Hurst, Town of Coffin, Township of Matis Balote.

[44:23] Um, automatic aid agreements would allow a town of Cap to continue providing

[44:28] expectation services within the municipality of the town of Tohovatica

[44:33] and the municipality of the township of Belita Cardi.

[44:37] And recommendation number three, it is recommended that council make the

[44:42] necessary representations to the government of Ontario to obtain support

[44:45] for the indirect costs incurred by the town of Cath for interventions outside

[44:49] its territorial bound boundaries, excuse me, as outlined in the attached report.

[45:03] question. Um the automatic agreements will allow town cap to continue

[45:09] providing extra services within the news township of San Township.

[45:16] Why only those two >> because the has its own and so does

[45:22] » okay >> it's exactly that.

[45:26] » Okay. Um

[45:31] » can I can I add one thing to this?

[45:37] actually these two municipality doesn't have any extrication tools and I don't

[45:42] know since when but for years and years we do respond uh on these two

[45:48] municipalities uh for extrication and it's just to um

[45:54] signing automatic automatic aid agreement it's it's just to uh make sure

[46:00] that we have the proper uh agreement in place because extrication it's a

[46:06] municipal responsibility. It's not a provincial responsibility. Currently we

[46:12] do that as good corporate citizen, good neighbor. Uh but it's a local

[46:18] municipality responsibility. So if we sign a automatic agreement with them,

[46:23] that's mean when they when an election happen in these two

[46:29] municipalities, we're going to get called. We're going to respond as we do

[46:33] today, but uh the local township will claim the province and we will be able

[46:41] to recoup this amount. Okay. And yeah, this is one of the

[46:47] reason >> but but the town the municipality will

[46:51] only reimburse reimburse us the amount that the provinces province allows.

[46:56] » Exactly. What if what if those costs are a lot higher? Uh I see you go there and

[47:03] there's an employee suffers and it's on weekly redundancy for years and years

[47:09] and years. Who picks up that bill? >> It's the

[47:17] the other cost that the town of CA could get over the years.

[47:27] If it's that it's my recommendation number three, uh because the amount of

[47:32] the province that's going to pay the local township and the local township

[47:37] will reimburse us will to be honest, it will never be enough. So recommendation

[47:43] number three, we have to do proper uh the proper we have to do representation

[47:48] the province to uh increase the cost uh the amount that

[47:54] they would pay or it's something that we we could stop

[48:00] doing it.

[48:06] » All right, please. Um, but don't you think the the leverage we have here is

[48:11] in is in the in stopping doing it? I mean, if if our fear is that our own

[48:18] members are, you know, could could could be dangerously affected by an

[48:22] extrication in a neighboring community, our leverage to the province is, you

[48:27] know, there we can't do it for 600 bucks. That's not and so we're going to

[48:32] stop doing it. And in the stopping doing it, maybe places like Oakadic and

[48:38] Valerita can maybe get a grant to purchase their own extrication equipment

[48:41] and then maybe have uh those services within their own community and we're not

[48:46] necessarily affected by by the extrication of of people out of a

[48:52] vehicle and that we we experience more and more going forward. So I think I

[48:57] think honestly the solution to it would be to pull out of it to say, "Hey, we're

[49:02] going to operate these services within our own community because that's what we

[49:06] pay for. Those are the services we provide to our own community and um if

[49:12] if something does happen within our community, then we know what we're we're

[49:16] up against. But, you know, if we're responding to motor vehicle uh accidents

[49:19] along the highway everywhere and it's increasing at uh dramatic pace until

[49:26] there is plenty of highway 11, I don't know what you know what it's going to

[49:29] look like in the future, but certainly wouldn't that be the the ideal situation

[49:33] we want to reflect to the government. I just

[49:39] » uh the only thing I can say

[49:47] deep

[49:54] because they were responding in Ed Clara and Mariam and Spalty between Mawa and

[50:00] Deep River and did it stop and the province did nothing about that nothing.

[50:07] So if you're driving now between Madawa and Deep River

[50:13] east of Biset Creek to Deep River, uh now it's fixed because Ranchil took

[50:19] over but for probably two three years it's probably more h it has no

[50:26] extrication services and the province didn't do anything because that was a

[50:31] mun responsibility.

[50:36] It's a topic that >> I find the liability I find the

[50:39] liability for the blue spelling is risk is too high. It could be very very

[50:46] expensive. It may never happen. There is a certain amount of of risk there. The

[50:50] other thing is what do we do with the other villages the other towns the ones

[50:55] that we do have in no there's

[51:03] » okay the other town. Okay. So recommendation number two has two topics

[51:09] okay one it's for edificucation for valarity and foracetica

[51:15] okay this is for education but the other topic too is about automatic aid for

[51:21] water shuttle okay outside of

[51:26] the the area protected by hydrants and also it's to conclude mutual agreement

[51:32] which we don't have uh with any municipality

[51:36] when we need more resources on scene for working fire, structural fire. Okay. Uh

[51:44] down south uh to be honest, most of the municipality they have both type of

[51:49] agreements in order to subsidize uh the additional resources when it's

[51:55] needed. I I will give you just a quick example.

[52:00] Okay, for a house fire in meal 20 regular bungaloo, okay, when it's fully

[52:09] involved, okay, we need an average 400 gallon of water per minute. Okay, our

[52:16] tanker truck, we have one tanker, can shuttle between 80 to 110 gallon per

[52:24] minute. So we're we need more water each time we have a working fire outside of

[52:31] the uh the area protected by addressance. Okay, it's why we need

[52:37] automatic agreement for water shuttle and mutual aid agreement for staffing.

[52:45] So recommendation number two has two different meanings here.

[52:52] Oops. >> Number two, uh, if you're starting to

[52:56] travel down the burst and conquer, that's long distances,

[53:01] very long distance. I've traveled them 35 years, seen a lot of accidents along

[53:06] the highways. Now you're really opening up a can of orders for them. We at night

[53:12] time, early morning, late night remove everything like that. It's a high risk.

[53:19] » Okay. Uh have we ever thought about using local contractors? They all have

[53:23] garbage pay everyone.

[53:27] Why can't we use them?

[53:31] » A few thing about that. Okay. Few thing about that. First of all, mobile

[53:35] contractor. Yes, they could have water tanker. The tank it's normally too big

[53:41] to do fire >> water shuttle. Okay. Because in order to

[53:46] fire a shuttle, a tank should be between 1500 to 2,000 gallon. Larger than that,

[53:52] that will screw up the water shuttle process. This is the first thing. Okay.

[53:58] For in term of mutual aid, as an example, okay, I think it's two months

[54:03] ago, Earth had a major fire downtown. Okay. They needed more resources. not f

[54:09] not right from the get-go for what 3 4 hours later after the fire started. So

[54:16] time in in this case time it's not in the essence okay last in 2024 we were

[54:24] called in Cochran and we went in Cochran okay it's sometime it's just to provide

[54:31] additional resources to because the local resources need to rest need a

[54:36] break it's the reason why so the distance sometime it's not really the

[54:44] main priority it's to be able to do some staffing rotation.

[54:51] » Well, we have enough staff to rotate on our end protecting our account

[54:58] » at no time. At no time, we will leave we will we will let uh the community

[55:07] without proper fire protection at no time. And if we're called I don't know

[55:13] in I don't know in in matise for to provide support and we can't we don't

[55:19] have enough resources at that time sorry we can't go it's not an obligation we're

[55:25] not obliged to

[55:29] but it's us that we have the most uh number of working fires per years on

[55:37] the highway 11. So sometime we could re we could request a

[55:42] bit more than they will we will provide.

[55:56] Mutual aid agreement.

[56:18] I think we're doing that right now. Um, so and um

[56:24] » what what does what does it entail for capis casing to become to to enter into

[56:29] an agreement of mutual aid?

[56:35] » So they they will help us and we in turn will help them. I think we're already

[56:39] doing that. >> So I I don't know why we need the

[57:02] Okay. All these things are written in a mutual agreement. Okay. So, okay.

[57:18] Okay.

[57:30] Okay.

[57:36] Exist support in in the exceptional case.

[57:43] It's the reason why. Okay.

[57:54] » One one of the other reasons for formalizing

[57:57] um an agreement in this is otherwise there's nothing necessarily ensuring

[58:03] that there is a commitment to receive aid or to provide aid. So organizations

[58:09] will if you're evaluating someone's emergency response capability and you

[58:14] say well we we count on this company or this town to provide us uh response

[58:21] services. Okay. How do you know they're going to come? we have a mutual

[58:26] agreement and insurance companies will rely on that um to say okay you can you

[58:32] can say you have this additional support potentially to help you respond to in

[58:37] the absence of it being formal so I don't think you can just to say that

[58:41] something has happened or we're doing it anyway outside of an agreement isn't

[58:45] necessarily something that can be relied on their insurance benefits to being

[58:48] able to say you have a breed that's another reason for listen not

[58:55] example Okay.

[59:00] Okay.

[59:05] Okay. That was a commercial building downtown. Okay. Threetory building.

[59:13] Okay.

[59:22] Cat pumper. that that they were flowing water 80 firefighter on scene. Okay. For

[59:28] 24 hours. How can I with our current resources? How can I get 80

[59:34] firefighters? Totally impossible. How can I get four pumpers? Totally

[59:38] impossible.

[59:44] Planning in case of a fire for 31 Queen Street right behind uh I think it's CIBC

[59:52] Bank. Okay.

[59:57] Three pumpers. I think it's 30ish or 40 firefighters.

[1:00:03] Okay. As with and I can't justify you. I can't justify I cannot justify to you to

[1:00:10] have a department with three pumpers, 50, 60 firefighters. The cost will be a

[1:00:17] astronomical for one fire, three or five fires per years. No, I prefer paying

[1:00:24] each time mutual aid. And by the same token, we we're going to save money

[1:00:31] because we're not required to have a huge department.

[1:00:40] » Is there any question? >> So, so you you mentioned that that um in

[1:00:46] the mutual aid agreement uh WSID is written into that. So, you you're

[1:00:50] covered under WSIB. Correct. >> Wait. Yeah. Wait.

[1:00:55] » So why wouldn't you be able to have the same kind of uh arrangements around uh

[1:01:01] extrication? >> A very good question.

[1:01:17] It's negotiation. So we can negotiate that with the other

[1:01:22] the other municipalities. It's all about negotiation.

[1:01:29] I just want to remind you that in ext if we go back to the extra extrication

[1:01:36] topic

[1:01:39] profile extrication

[1:01:44] it's going to cost between $50 to $75,000

[1:01:49] just for the equipment. the initial training would be around $20,000

[1:01:55] plus the skills maintenance. So it's very expensive. So for smaller

[1:02:00] municipalities, it's probably better to conclude an agreement with us. Uh and

[1:02:07] just uh having us responding when it's required.

[1:02:16] Go ahead. Are all the other municipalities are they all included

[1:02:21] already? >> No, they're not equipped for

[1:02:25] extrication. You're talking doing a motor vehicle extrication. If it's that

[1:02:30] they're not equipped with fire, any fire or anything like that.

[1:02:36] » They have pumpers and they have tankers. Some has only a pumper, some as boat.

[1:02:44] » All right. Bruce, does your question relate to are they in favor of agreeing

[1:02:48] to us? >> I want to guess

[1:02:55] open

[1:03:00] just

[1:03:04] my recommendation number two is to start a discussion with other municipalities.

[1:03:16] No. >> So this is I guess strategic is to one

[1:03:21] enter into or open the discussion to uh enter into appropriate agreements to

[1:03:28] there is negotiation with those agreements too if there especially uh

[1:03:31] when it comes to cost like the extreation. So there is uh there can be

[1:03:35] a question of what is the appropriate compensation to supplement what we would

[1:03:40] get from the province by doing it outside the municipal boundaries. And

[1:03:43] three, the third recommendation is to pursue appropriate compensation either

[1:03:48] through the province or some other arrangement uh through the agreement if

[1:03:53] it can be

[1:04:00] you bring to us the example of the mutual aid agreement that the WSID of

[1:04:07] the other municipality covers our firefighters.

[1:04:13] I saw both. I saw the two types. I saw that the local municipality when they go

[1:04:21] and support the other municipality assume their own WSIB responsibility and

[1:04:26] I saw that it's the other municipality that could assume I saw both. Okay. But

[1:04:32] again, it's negotiation.

[1:04:36] have a hard time to how do you put somebody from one payroll to another

[1:04:40] payroll and telling them under WSID? I just don't understand

[1:04:45] what you're saying and I think it's a good idea. It's just a recording.

[1:04:53] » I never saw in action when the local municipality wanted to charge

[1:04:59] the other one. I never for WS universa but I just saw the written ones.

[1:05:05] Okay. >> A copy of the written one.

[1:05:09] » I don't have a any copy with me now. >> No no but

[1:05:16] » one of the one of the ways in which one of the ways in which I think it

[1:05:20] would work is similar to u say for example I think of of the mill huge

[1:05:25] individuals with procurement of hot services.

[1:05:29] uh or any corporate uh corporation doing so, you want to ensure that the the

[1:05:33] company you are hiring has WSAB coverage is in good standing with WSIB.

[1:05:38] Alternatively, if if depending on the size of them or if they're just scaling

[1:05:43] up a new uh a startup, they may not have that kind of uh administrative

[1:05:49] infrastructure in place and you can come you can say you can fall under our WSID

[1:05:54] cover. So, so one organization submits the claim and allows it to be done for

[1:05:58] an injured worker. >> Something like that.

[1:06:00] » Something like that is how I could see it working. I don't know if it applies

[1:06:05] to each day before you don't die. Now, who's going to be here? like

[1:06:10] if if I'm negotiating a contract, I would be thinking, all right, if we go

[1:06:15] to respond in your community and support uh an emergency response incident,

[1:06:20] uh would you cover if there is a an injury up to including a delayed PTSD

[1:06:26] response, something like that, then it will fall under your municipalities WCIB

[1:06:30] and uh benefits insurance policy. And if

[1:06:35] it's written into agreement then have to get some involvement for

[1:06:43] » I don't know the the details of it but conceptually that's

[1:06:47] a good idea the negotiation started there would be a longer

[1:06:51] no >> it's just for WSI purposes so for the

[1:06:55] full time WSI is based on their up to the maximum but for WID coverage for a

[1:07:02] municipality it is uh for each volunteer firefighter, the municipality needs to

[1:07:08] pay the maximum coverage per fire volunteer firefighter. So say we have

[1:07:13] 21, we need to pay the maximum. So if it would be um included in your mutual aid

[1:07:18] agreement then it would be my understanding that both municipalities

[1:07:22] would need to supplement their numbers and that could be

[1:07:28] » so it's not just you can't just decide today I'm going to pay for 15 or like

[1:07:33] because I have an incident right we have them on a roster this is how many we're

[1:07:36] paying >> and and it's paid on a yearly basis I'm

[1:07:40] not sure how that would differ that's for volunteer group right but couple

[1:07:44] times different but most of our surrounding

[1:07:46] municipalities are also on on a volunteer group basis

[1:07:51] whereas we have a foundation. Thanks for the info. It sounds like

[1:07:56] there's a I mean there's obviously interest in protecting uh not incurring

[1:08:00] unnecessary liability while at the same time uh continue to provide uh you know

[1:08:06] a service for our neighboring communities and also be in receipt of of

[1:08:11] that mutual service when it's appropriate. So again, that won't be in

[1:08:15] the details. So uh we can't do that unless we have an endorsement to go talk

[1:08:20] about these with with the other communities and formulate an appropriate

[1:08:24] policy for us that works. If we're in support of continuing to do that, um you

[1:08:30] can we can bring all this information to the table that everyone's interested in

[1:08:33] understanding as part of them. >> It's all a meeting in itself just to go

[1:08:37] through the Yeah. >> Yeah.

[1:08:40] I don't think it's a thing to decide tonight.

[1:08:43] » Well, I this was just for consideration. I don't think there's an ask right now.

[1:08:48] It was simply to hear the concerns and and uh give direction to continue.

[1:08:54] » Yeah. >> Is that what is that all because there's

[1:08:56] no >> direction decision the hard direction

[1:08:59] that's being requested other than to discuss and consider? And and I think to

[1:09:04] your point, I mean, what what we're talking about here also lends really

[1:09:08] well to the next your next item on there as well for lift assists and for the for

[1:09:13] dies. >> So is there any other discussion on this

[1:09:18] first just on the low service and and uh responding outside of town cap? Has

[1:09:23] anyone talked to the volunteers themselves? They volunteer perhaps Jason

[1:09:28] have they volunteered to go hold on. I think that may be an important item you

[1:09:32] got to check on cuz now you're going to need it could be

[1:09:38] standard period to find away from their family have volunteers.

[1:09:42] It's a probably it's two different work groups. One is a permanent work group,

[1:09:46] one's volunteer work. Maybe have communication before we go too move

[1:09:51] forward.

[1:09:55] Like any other workplace policy, it's important, I think, to gather feedback

[1:09:59] from from the employees. But ultimately, it's

[1:10:02] the the direction or it's a policy setting that occurs at our level. And uh

[1:10:08] if if we feel it's important to provide the service, then that's really just a

[1:10:12] condition of continuing to be But that's not true, K. That's not true because our

[1:10:16] volunteers are for CAT. you're adding on to something beyond

[1:10:21] that. >> Well, well, from what I'm hearing, we're

[1:10:23] not adding on. It's already It's already three to five. It's already three to

[1:10:26] five calls. It's only three to five calls a year and you already provide

[1:10:29] that service anyway. We're just talking. >> All I'm saying is to have a have

[1:10:33] communication with the crews and ask them if they're for this.

[1:10:38] » Saying it's important to consult with them regarding policy, but but we don't

[1:10:43] give workers a veto over what our policy directions are. So if there's a

[1:10:48] consideration of links to volunteers, we have to think that it's part of the risk

[1:10:54] that costbenefit analysis for sure whether you're going to do something or

[1:10:57] not if that's uh if you're not if you're afraid or not where volunteers come.

[1:11:03] But policy comes first and then we consult on that policy to see if it

[1:11:06] continues to make sense and we're just trying to inform ourselves as to what

[1:11:09] the policy should be that we set uh in regards to these types of incidents.

[1:11:19] Appreciate the comments. Uh any other discussion or uh questions about this?

[1:11:26] Okay, we'll move on to the

[1:11:32] No, I'm good. I took notes. Uh I took note

[1:11:43] letter with other details. It's just to start the top the result the report was

[1:11:49] just to start the conversation the discussion at council level.

[1:11:56] » All right. Third item on the agenda. This is a request to enter into an

[1:12:01] agreement for the provision of third response services with Cochran District

[1:12:05] Services Board within the limits of the town of Capiscation. Recommendation is

[1:12:10] that council receive the report entitled agreement with the Cochran District

[1:12:14] Service Board and authorize the clerk and the mayor to execute the agreement

[1:12:18] with CBS. Furthermore, the council direct the fire chief to proceed with

[1:12:22] the implementation of the third response services in accordance with the timeline

[1:12:28] outlined in the report.

[1:12:38] » Yes. Uh this topic was brought um productive services

[1:12:55] what I'm talking about here is very simple. Okay. Uh it's and you will see

[1:13:01] we already doing it on a part-time basis. Okay.

[1:13:18] CPR. So, noral sign uh short of breath, chest pain. Okay,

[1:13:26] the list it's it's I put the list in the report. Okay, so it's uh it's it's I

[1:13:32] think it's at at the last page. Okay. Uh we uh when when we did the work with CD

[1:13:42] SAB we determined that the department would respond to an average of 200 calls

[1:13:47] a year less than one call a day to these type of calls. Okay. The dur the average

[1:13:53] duration of one of these calls it's be it's around 20 minutes that doesn't

[1:13:59] create any burden on our workload. So uh and the training required to do that

[1:14:06] it's a it's the it's a first medical first responder which is a 40

[1:14:12] hours course provided by DAB. Um it has for the training it has no

[1:14:21] cost. It's all paid by DAB. We already have all the equipment. Uh what when I

[1:14:28] did the analysis uh I expect that would cost us around $400 per year of diesel

[1:14:37] uh 200 calls an average of 20 30 minutes max that like I said that will not

[1:14:43] create any burden on our workload and the calls happen during the day during

[1:14:48] the night. Uh going back to the WSIB or the PTSD topic. Okay. I did some

[1:14:58] research. I consult one of the largest the second largest department in Canada.

[1:15:20] They since then, so five, seven years after they implement a proper medical

[1:15:27] first responder course and since then because staff are trained properly at

[1:15:33] the right level, they don't have a single out of 2600 firefighters a single

[1:15:39] firefighter on PTS is due to medical response. Okay. So I did I did the did

[1:15:46] the I did the research on that. Um what else? What can I currently

[1:15:53] currently when we don't have any ambulance in town? Okay we do call we do

[1:15:59] get called for medical emergency medical uh when life people have like their life

[1:16:07] is threatening. Okay, we get the call. We do respond.

[1:16:12] Okay. Um, what else? Uh, what else did I miss here? Um,

[1:16:24] it's different than lift assist. I'm not talking about lift assist. Lift assist

[1:16:30] or fire related call. Because even if we don't do tiered response,

[1:16:37] we will still doing lift assist because it's an assistance to another the

[1:16:43] another agency. Okay. What I'm talking about is if public are on scene and we

[1:16:49] showed up at the same time, we will support them package the patient and the

[1:16:54] ambulance and the ambulance leave and respond go back the station. If for any

[1:16:59] reason we show up first we will administer what is as per the protocol

[1:17:05] as per what the level of training that firefighter has and we will as soon on

[1:17:10] scene they we they will package the patient put in the ambulance leave to

[1:17:16] the hospital. Okay. Uh currently it's happen it's happened we do medical

[1:17:24] call and one show up on the package and they leave. So that we instead of doing

[1:17:29] a few times a year, we're going to do it 200 times a year.

[1:17:35] » We uh I got I did receive a lot of comments from the full-time staff. Okay.

[1:17:43] Oh, by the way, doing that will not create any overtime at all. No

[1:17:49] backfilling because that will be done on shift. Okay. It's only the on shift

[1:17:54] firefighter that will respond to med calls.

[1:17:57] Also uh if we are on a working fire or if we

[1:18:03] are not available for any reason because it's not our core services we will not

[1:18:08] do it we will not provide this level of service okay so when I receive

[1:18:18] Wait.

[1:18:26] Agreement.

[1:18:46] Okay.

[1:18:51] Okay. By doing that, that's mean we would get

[1:18:56] called more often within our town limits. Okay. within our town limits and

[1:19:03] because we're going to respond to motor vehicle collisions a little bit more

[1:19:07] often. I expect be 30 times more than what we do now within our town limit.

[1:19:12] That's mean we're going to be able to claim 30 times

[1:19:18] $600 >> to the we're already doing it right now,

[1:19:23] but we're not getting paid. >> Oh, currently no. Currently we don't we

[1:19:28] don't respond to this these motor vehicle collision. We respond only when

[1:19:32] extrication is required in our town limit.

[1:19:35] » Okay. >> Okay.

[1:19:44] » Okay.

[1:19:58] Um, so you say it's going to take you 40 hours to get everybody up to snuff. How

[1:20:04] long is the pumper course? >> Uh, 40 hours.

[1:20:09] » Yeah. You know, we've been working on the pumper course for the last two and a

[1:20:15] half years, three years, and we're just doing we're 80% 80. Well, okay. So, two

[1:20:21] years, one one year, whatever. Like, we're 80% complete. What makes you think

[1:20:25] we'll be able to complete the 40hour course to like shouldn't we be shouldn't

[1:20:31] we be addressing our our core our core race all night? Uh, so fighting

[1:20:37] fires, making sure that we can hold a gun, a host,

[1:20:41] » you know what I mean? >> Okay. And I'm just putting that out

[1:20:45] there because I mean it's the obvious. Sorry.

[1:21:02] because of their personal schedule. Okay. So, first responder course will be

[1:21:09] done on the full-time full-time firefighter schedule when they

[1:21:14] are at work. So I would say six eight weeks to be

[1:21:20] completed.

[1:21:26] » They're providing the training. >> Provide the training.

[1:21:29] » Oh, they're not paying the full cup.

[1:21:36] » They're already

[1:21:41] » on >> Oh,

[1:21:43] » yeah. The trans. >> Okay.

[1:21:46] Article five of the project agreement. All medical training cost and cost

[1:21:52] associated with the maintenance of equipment and staff qualification shall

[1:21:56] be the exclusive responsibility of CD SAB.

[1:22:12] Come on. Um, it's a chef.

[1:22:20] » Uh, when when I when I started to work on that, I got a lot of comments from

[1:22:28] the full-time staff about the mo mostly about the implementation. Okay. And the

[1:22:34] implementation will be done on three three different phases. LAR

[1:22:41] starting to respond to motor vehicle collision within our town limit. Okay,

[1:22:45] this is the first the second phase after training is fully completed. So January

[1:22:51] 1st that's going to be sh a shadowing period for uh three months. So they're

[1:22:57] going they're going to respond at the same time then the ambulance the

[1:23:01] paramedics and they're going to shadow them. They're going to just support them

[1:23:05] see what they do just to make them more much more comfortable. Okay. And the

[1:23:12] last phase, phase number three, that it's the full implementation.

[1:23:30] Fore

[1:23:41] service.

[1:23:53] Okay.

[1:23:59] service.

[1:24:05] Okay.

[1:24:17] This is just to name a few that we know.

[1:24:36] See today it's good the relationship between peric and firefighter is good

[1:24:42] because firefighter are not there to steal peric jobs

[1:24:49] would have been a different story but now it's we're past that.

[1:25:03] Any

[1:25:07] other questions or uh

[1:25:12] yeah well two weeks it's uh the recommendation for

[1:25:25] » all right recommendation stands. Uh fourth item

[1:25:34] is a request to enter into an agreement with global medic to accept the donation

[1:25:39] of a wildland fire skid system. Recommendation is that council enter

[1:25:45] into the agreement with a global medic. >> Okay.

[1:25:52] See, Global Medic, it's a nonprofit organization

[1:26:03] municipal all across Canada. Okay. Global Medic provide to uh fire

[1:26:12] department what it's nameland fires kit. It's a

[1:26:17] It's a It's a It's a water tank, portable pump,

[1:26:22] high pressure portable pump with hoses. Okay. And it's used to fight brush and

[1:26:30] forest fire. When I say brush fire, we have a ton of brush fire br we have a

[1:26:35] ton of possibility of brush fire around town. So within our town limit, I said,

[1:26:40] "Okay." So they want to they contact us and they offered to us uh this piece of

[1:26:46] equipment Timmens will get will get two uh they at as today they already

[1:26:52] distributed 600 fire kit throughout the country. Okay. And the value of the fire

[1:26:59] kit it's around $6,000. So I put few pictures here. Okay. On page uh page

[1:27:06] page four of the report. Okay. So uh that doesn't this to use the system.

[1:27:14] It's not required to have a specific training. Uh it's not a specific it's

[1:27:20] not a special piece of equipment. It's just an add-on an addition to our piece

[1:27:25] of equipment that we it will be useful to protect our community.

[1:27:35] I'm available for a question.

[1:27:40] I've seen the I mean this one's pretty straightforward. There's no uh there's

[1:27:44] no cost fills a gap. We've already had some uh say rush fire, forest fire

[1:27:50] incidents. Um >> okay, that's

[1:27:56] how transh.

[1:28:04] » It's a good question. uh if we get this piece of equipment we will get probably

[1:28:10] by the third weeks or last week of August. So the brush fire season will be

[1:28:16] almost over. So it's either first of all I will contact my colleague at public

[1:28:22] work to see if he has an available trailer. If not for 202 2027 I will

[1:28:29] budget a trailer to put this kid on it. >> Yeah. You have some you have some pretty

[1:28:35] good welders in there.

[1:28:40] They're very they're very kind.

[1:28:50] I think >> I think it's a great opportunity and tr

[1:28:55] to be honest we should we should uh accept this donation and this donation

[1:29:01] is made or will be made with no uh with no uh with no condition. We're going to

[1:29:09] own it.

[1:29:16] That's good. That's unless there's any other

[1:29:20] questions, comments, concerns. That's it for executive services agenda.

[1:29:24] » Thanks, Council Mon. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh,

[1:29:30] so request 2026 capital budget amendment presented a road intersection upgrade

[1:29:35] and deferral of Niagara Street in St. Clair Avenueing project. The

[1:29:40] recommendation is that council approve the peneti road intersection upgrade

[1:29:45] project as a 2026 capital expense increasing the 2026 capital budget

[1:29:51] expenditures by approximately 189,000 and that council approved the

[1:29:56] postponement of the Niagara Street and Sinclair Avenue resurfacing project from

[1:30:01] 2026 to 2027 and that the associated 2026

[1:30:07] construction budget allocation of 23 35,000 for the Niagara Street and St.

[1:30:12] Clair Avenue resurfacing project be removed from the 2026 capital budget

[1:30:17] resulting in an estimated net reduction in 2026 capital expenditures of

[1:30:22] approximately 46,000. Before I open up to question, I think

[1:30:27] this is uh Paul's last meeting, so I'd like to thank him for uh his service at

[1:30:33] the town of Caps. Any questions on that? Is that subject?

[1:30:40] » Is the um engineering done for street? >> Um no. So we got a draft uh last week.

[1:30:48] So we need to review and then go through with the engineers. We expect uh maybe

[1:30:54] another month to six weeks before the design would be completed for that

[1:30:59] project. So this is allows us a little bit more time to refine the design and

[1:31:03] be confident with um the but that we would um

[1:31:11] see there's not that that much structure work being done. Is this a project that

[1:31:17] could possibly be pushed forward once we know the estimated costs

[1:31:25] » could earlier than >> you're referencing Niagara and St.

[1:31:30] Clair? >> Yes.

[1:31:31] » Well, the idea was to do that project this year.

[1:31:34] » Um, this is just a means of um potentially

[1:31:41] saving a little bit of money this year by moving that project to next year.

[1:31:44] there's a appetite for uh councils looking to move forward with it this

[1:31:48] year. >> I'm just thinking of what it's going to

[1:31:50] cost extra next year. >> The cheapest time to do it is now.

[1:31:56] » Yeah. So yeah always uh always you know that's why we would like to continue um

[1:32:03] reviewing projects like uh in person and those designs are all nearing

[1:32:09] completion that they be consideration for for this year's construction season

[1:32:13] still

[1:32:19] » there any other questions? Well, just one, what's the driver for

[1:32:24] this? Is it was it to flag off cost saving opportunities as a result of

[1:32:29] » the pretty much the snow removal budget went overboard or is

[1:32:34] what's coming up? >> Yeah. So, a little bit we we had

[1:32:38] approved this project the the Bville intersection upgrades that we council a

[1:32:43] few meetings ago where it was approved to proceed. Um I had originally had it

[1:32:48] as an operational cost that we were going to divide the certain elements

[1:32:51] through operations. Um seeing that I need to save some money operationally.

[1:32:58] Um and then talking with the auditors and knowing that this project more of a

[1:33:03] capital project was an operational project. Moving this into capital saves

[1:33:08] operational money. plan to not overextend on our capital commitments

[1:33:13] for this year is to remove a project of similar scope in uh in cost. Okay.

[1:33:20] » So I didn't want to just say let's spend another 200,000 on this. Let's spend

[1:33:24] 200,000 by removing another house next year. Okay. Thanks.

[1:33:30] If I remember correctly, they said the Niagara speak already

[1:33:37] the engineering was approved and >> it was the the construction was

[1:33:41] approved. >> Yeah. So construction was person and

[1:33:44] then >> so yeah just to uh clarify the Nag St.

[1:33:51] Clair is just a resurface area. It's not an underground for

[1:33:57] the first >> and we have enough for Nords. The Nords

[1:34:02] uh is it probably qualifies for that and that wasn't in the budget in the first

[1:34:08] place. So >> yeah look at that. Uh I think we got on

[1:34:15] another project so we can continue to because

[1:34:20] » buying year after year. So we're going to move that to the north person

[1:34:32] that sh

[1:34:43] we have we have enough for streets that have that desperately need some

[1:34:46] attention. Um I think that's addressed through the asset management. Okay.

[1:34:56] » So Jamie's the one putting cones on all the

[1:35:04] » Any other questions?

[1:35:08] » Thanks. Economic development and community wellbeing and recreation.

[1:35:14] » Thank you Harvard. Um so a request for recreation department's monthly report

[1:35:19] for June 206. So the recommendation is uh that council be the recreation

[1:35:25] department remained um the recreation department remained exceptionally active

[1:35:30] throughout June supporting major community events maintaining key

[1:35:34] recreational assets and preparing for a busy summer season. Staff played a

[1:35:38] significant role in the successful KDHs 90th reunion St. Jamington helping

[1:35:44] deliver events and infected visitors celebrated Korean pride and showcase

[1:35:48] local uh facilities. The town's recreation infrastructure continued to

[1:35:53] see strong utilization. Um the ball fields hosted extensive you school youth

[1:35:58] and adult programming demonstrating their importance as one of capac's most

[1:36:03] heavily used summer recreation assets. pool staff focused on launching summer

[1:36:07] programs, organizing cap kids parks and sports programs, and coordinating

[1:36:12] registrations for swimming lessons and junior lifeguards.

[1:36:16] Um, the town's parks and outdoor activities remain important gathering

[1:36:21] spaces throughout the month. The splash bat and welcome families and school

[1:36:25] groups for side park hosted community events and staff completed extensive

[1:36:29] maintenance on tennis court pickle ball courts playgrounds and other outdoor

[1:36:33] facilities to ensure they remain safe and enjoyable for residents. staff also

[1:36:38] led several strategic initiatives including work on the cap specing

[1:36:42] cemetery uh columbarium

[1:36:47] expansion project and efforts to modernize cemetery record management

[1:36:51] seasonal students contributed significantly to cemetery visitation and

[1:36:55] maintenance helping preserve a respectful and welcoming environment for

[1:36:59] Pacific um just I just add a little quick note

[1:37:03] here our community remains vibrant healthy and um well loved. So thank you

[1:37:09] to everybody involved. You don't even have time to uh look over the report of

[1:37:14] all our successes. >> A lot of great activities took place

[1:37:18] here. Was was your busiest June ever? My first June here.

[1:37:27] Very busy.

[1:37:32] » Any questions, comments? No. >> Just one comment. It it's great to walk

[1:37:37] around the style at night time and if anyone ever says there's nothing new

[1:37:42] because they don't want to do it. >> You go by the golf course jam. Baseball

[1:37:47] feels jam bad. Soccer fields jam bad. Uh pickle ball same thing. Like there's

[1:37:54] lots of things that do good on you guys.

[1:38:02] Um, next item on the agenda is for

[1:38:06] information capacity economic development monthly report for June July

[1:38:10] 2026. So, a couple highlights here. Of course, CAP raise uh great success.

[1:38:16] Again, sponsorships and funding are up. Um, they've exceeded their expectation

[1:38:23] by a lot of money. In addition, CAP raise received $55,000 in funding from

[1:38:29] the government of Ontario through the Experience Ontario program. So, we know

[1:38:33] that um the people working in our exev department uh they're working very hard

[1:38:40] and uh we see great success there. Congratulations to them and those teams

[1:38:47] and her welcome center is very welcoming.

[1:38:50] Is there any questions, comments about that?

[1:38:54] That's all for me. >> Thanks Emry. Uh health council one item

[1:38:59] Mr. Mayor it's a request for support for the MRI weight times to access

[1:39:04] diagnostic imaging services recommendation that council receive

[1:39:08] correspondence from Mike Vashel or Mr. Wakefield regarding NR times and access

[1:39:13] diagnostic imaging services and caps facing and surrounding areas. And

[1:39:16] further council direct administration to prepare letters of support advocacy

[1:39:21] regarding improved access to MRI and diagnostic imaging services for the

[1:39:25] resident space and surrounding areas and further that the advocacy letter be sent

[1:39:29] to the ministry of health der health north and local member of provincial

[1:39:33] parliament and other appropriate health partners. The letters attached that Mr.

[1:39:38] has said um I know the hospital's working towards the MR and I believe

[1:39:43] yours though still >> it's a matter of time but it's nice to

[1:39:46] have letters to speed things up. >> Yeah,

[1:39:49] » that's all I have. >> I think the last time we met with

[1:39:51] Minister Jones was last year around MRI and and her indication was get a

[1:39:57] » apply, >> you know, get a a program together, get

[1:40:00] a plan together and so we're just waiting to be with them.

[1:40:04] » So it's good that Shantal is working on that night. Thank you.

[1:40:08] » That's it. Okay. So that concludes the committee the whole adoption of the

[1:40:12] minutes. We have a motion uh minutes of the joint committee of the whole and

[1:40:16] council meeting held June 15th. >> Moved by councelor man, seconded by

[1:40:19] councelor Jennison that the minutes of the joint committees of the whole and

[1:40:22] council meeting held on June 15, 2026 be adopted.

[1:40:27] » All in favor carried. correspondence and average

[1:40:31] update. They have a request for to zone programmed for highway 11 north. So,

[1:40:37] anybody want to tackle this one? Do >> you have any comments on that?

[1:40:42] » Oh, yes. I read through it and we're going to read a little bit, but that's

[1:40:47] fine. Um the um request kind of puts into jeopardy. We we already have

[1:40:55] monopolies on highway construction and I don't think we want to see monopolies on

[1:41:00] highway towing uh hearing that think maybe something can be done. Um I've

[1:41:07] spoken to other Mr. Murray and Twitter but others they say the biggest thing

[1:41:13] that takes time is not actually the records but the OTP doing their

[1:41:18] investigation getting there. That's what takes the most time. by hearing that the

[1:41:23] only thing I would like in the letter of support that we want there in the last

[1:41:28] um second last paragraph um

[1:41:41] I would had at the end in consultations with all stakeholders

[1:41:48] » and I don't remember exactly what it But it's to make sure that all the

[1:41:54] stakeholders, the co- truck operators, the trucking companies, uh, everybody

[1:42:00] has the OP, everybody. >> Yeah. They put a plan together, not just

[1:42:05] by one group. Mhm. But at the end costs are involved and

[1:42:13] there's some astronomical to sometimes >> and then and there's also the example

[1:42:19] what happens in Toronto which is pretty sad.

[1:42:24] Just a comment on that. It is I thought it was interesting how they bring a

[1:42:28] different perspective to our highway issues about having a difficulty turning

[1:42:33] around anywhere on corridor 11 because they don't have a paved sidewalk

[1:42:40] shoulders and that uh this is another aspect of why it's important to also get

[1:42:46] our two plus point. Oh, definitely it's important because there would be less

[1:42:51] accidents, less >> but even for them when they

[1:42:56] Yeah.

[1:42:59] Yeah, >> it's one company asking for this and I

[1:43:02] think you have to listen to everybody both of this probably

[1:43:10] just to add to that agree with the you know the obviously

[1:43:14] the monopoly concern around it guaranteeing business to one to provide

[1:43:19] benefits. I support in principle the MTO reviewing the restricted tolling zone

[1:43:25] subject to broad consultation with all the all the appropriate stakeholders for

[1:43:29] sure. Um I guess I take I take the the concern of this word that it's really

[1:43:34] about unregulated driver with wasted uh towing that is that is occurring that is

[1:43:40] that is uh that's causing the issues and uh but I I still think we should from a

[1:43:46] regional safety perspective still ask the MTO to review how best to address

[1:43:51] this. >> Yeah.

[1:43:54] » Poland. >> Yes. So uh so there's no problem in in

[1:43:59] changing the resolution to have it reflected the way that um council has

[1:44:05] has gi

[1:44:09] uh for information notice aerial herbicide projects

[1:44:13] for us. We haveformational letter appreciation

[1:44:18] from the found for grocery donations. We have information correspondence from

[1:44:24] Minister Minister of Northern Economic Development Growth and OHF Seek

[1:44:29] opportunities. I think that's uh a nudge to maybe get some applications uh for

[1:44:36] some of the projects we might have out there. Um so we'll we'll definitely take

[1:44:40] that in consideration um for information correspondence from

[1:44:45] for in regards to Northern Shield Energy Corridor.

[1:44:51] Does this does the proposed route pass near Cal?

[1:44:54] » Yeah. >> Yeah. It was very vague when initially

[1:44:57] announced it had it on a map and you know it had it in Alberta and it had it

[1:45:02] in Sarnia because if it went through Ontario you hope that you might have

[1:45:06] been close to that but it is I think it's following the history. It would

[1:45:11] only make sense to to to follow the existing uh a lot of lines that are

[1:45:15] there today. Rightways are there, infrastructure to get from the highway

[1:45:20] to there

[1:45:23] at all. No, there's

[1:45:26] » there's going to be uh it's it's initial stages and there's going to be some

[1:45:31] consultation obviously that's going to have to happen and who knows how long it

[1:45:34] might take but certainly >> sir it sounds like if it is going to go

[1:45:39] there would be opportunity for some economic development outreach just for

[1:45:43] you know staging jobs and the construction of the

[1:45:46] » so if consultations occurring we can make those pitches and kind of sounds

[1:45:51] like the energy

[1:45:55] Yeah, in central east central not going back.

[1:46:07] So all in all good news. Uh for information and thank you letter from

[1:46:10] the Timmons District Hospital and that would conclude that we have a

[1:46:15] committee the whole recommendations mill staff report nil motions and notice of

[1:46:19] motions. We have motion to approve a one-year extension of the sports palace

[1:46:24] skate shop in session agreement. >> Moved by councel second by councelor.

[1:46:29] Whereas Tony Cap spacing entered into a sports palace skate shop concession

[1:46:33] agreement with Mike Bowden for the provision of skate shop services at with

[1:46:36] sports palace and whereas the committee reviewed the matter at its meeting held

[1:46:40] on June 15, 2026 and recommended that the existing agreement be extended for a

[1:46:46] one-year period. And whereas the town wishes to maintain uninterrupted skate

[1:46:50] shop services at the sports palace for the 2026 2027 season. And whereas the

[1:46:56] concessionire has advised the town of his intention to retire following the

[1:46:59] 2026 2027 season. Noras the one-year extension will provide the town with

[1:47:06] additional time to evaluate future service delivery options and develop an

[1:47:09] appropriate succession plan for the continued operation of the sports palace

[1:47:14] skate shop. Now therefore, be it resolved that council approve a one-year

[1:47:18] extension of the sports palace becoming session agreement with my potent

[1:47:21] effective August 1st, 2026 and expiring July 31st, 2027. And further that all

[1:47:28] terms and conditions of the original agreement remain in full force and

[1:47:32] effect except as amended by this one-year extension. And further that the

[1:47:37] clerk be authorized to execute the one-year extension agreement on behalf

[1:47:40] of the corporation of the town cap state. All in favor?

[1:47:46] Carried. Motion approve the 2026 capital budget amendments for Brenville Road

[1:47:50] intersection upgrades in Niagara Street Sinclair Avenue reservicing project.

[1:47:54] » Moved by councelor Newton, seconded by councelor Dennis that council approve

[1:47:58] the Brunettville Road intersection upgrades project as a 2026 capital

[1:48:02] expense increasing the 2026 capital budget expenditures by approximately

[1:48:06] $189,000. And that council approved the

[1:48:10] postponement of the Niagara Street and St. Clair Avenue resurfacing project

[1:48:14] from 2026 to 2027 and that the associated 2026 construction budget

[1:48:20] allocation of 235,000 for the Niagara Street and St. Clair Avenue Resurfacing

[1:48:25] project be removed from the 2026 capital budget resulting in an estimated net

[1:48:31] reduction in 2026 capital expenditures of approximately $46,000.

[1:48:37] » All in favor? Carried. Motion to support and review

[1:48:41] the restricted towing zone for highway 11 and northern corridor.

[1:48:44] » Moved by councelor, seconded by councelor man. Whereas highway 11 is a

[1:48:49] critical transportation corridor for the northern Ontario supporting res

[1:48:52] emergency services, commercial transportation and key economic sectors

[1:48:56] including mining, forestry and energy. And whereas the town caping has received

[1:49:00] correspondence from Walton Payton LLP legal council for mate Oker requesting

[1:49:06] that the long lap ring zone highway 11 northern

[1:49:11] corridor be designated as a restricted towing zone under the towing and storage

[1:49:15] safety and enforcement act 2021. And whereas the correspondence identifies

[1:49:20] concerns regarding the absence of a formal towing protocol along Highway 11

[1:49:24] and north, including longer weight times, duplication of towing efforts,

[1:49:28] roadside solicitation, inefficient response, and increased safety concerns.

[1:49:33] And whereas many sections of Highway 11 in Northern Ontario are single lane

[1:49:37] highways in each direction and delays in clearing disabled vehicles or collision

[1:49:42] scenes can create significant safety risks, traffic disruptions, and impacts

[1:49:46] to emergency respon. And whereas a regulated towing framework

[1:49:51] may assist in promoting faster and safer housing clearance, ensuring appropriate

[1:49:55] training and equipment standards, supporting transparent and fair towing

[1:49:58] practices, and reducing the time emergency personnel are required to

[1:50:02] remain on scene. Now therefore, be it resolved that council courts town caps

[1:50:06] and received the correspondence from Walton Heighten LLP regarding the

[1:50:10] request for a tow zone program for Highway 11 North and further that

[1:50:14] council support in principle a review by the Ministry of Transportation of the

[1:50:18] establishment of a restricted towing zone or similar related towing framework

[1:50:22] for Highway 11 Northern Corridor and to have proper consultations with all

[1:50:28] stakeholders and further that a copy of this resolution beed to the Ministry of

[1:50:32] Transportation. The sorry, Minister of Transportation,

[1:50:36] Minister of Northern Economic Development and Growth, Ontario

[1:50:39] Provincial Police, James VOP Detachment Board to the Ministry of Transportation

[1:50:44] Tollbone Pilot Program, FA NAMA in effectiveness follows along the Highway

[1:50:48] 11 urban corridor. >> All in favor?

[1:50:54] General items and new foreman. And with that, I'd like to welcome our you

[1:50:58] foreman, Mai, who's sitting in the back there. Welcome to the team. No, thank

[1:51:02] you.

[1:51:05] » Actually, that that wasn't new new form and it was new business. There was none,

[1:51:08] but you are new business today. >> Security.

[1:51:12] » Okay. We also have a motion for cyber security. Sorry.

[1:51:16] » Moved by councelor Dennis, seconded by councelor man that council approve the

[1:51:19] proceeding with the addition of the purchase for cyber security insurance

[1:51:23] coverage with the liability amount of $2 million.

[1:51:27] » All favor. Uh bylaws no motion approve the

[1:51:32] confirmatory bylaws. Sorry. >> Move by council seconded by councel that

[1:51:36] bylaw number 4709 being a bylaw to confirm the proceedings of council be an

[1:51:40] accident that the fulfill be a fixed there too and that the bylaw be signed

[1:51:44] by the mayor and clerk. >> All in favor

[1:51:47] carried motion to adjurnn. Moved by council me seconded by

[1:51:52] councelor Dson that the meeting be adjourned at 7:51 p.m.

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