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agenda.
» Moved by councelor, seconded by councelor that the agenda be approved as
amended. >> All in favor?
Great. declaration hearing interest and general out
seeing none we'll move right into presentations and I believe we'll have
to move to B because we don't have Maddie here right now so
» is Good that.
Okay. So, our first presentation is a food cycle presentation municipal food
waste diversion program and we have Maddie who's just joining us.
Hello. Can you hear me? Okay. >> So, Maddie, go ahead. The floor is
yours. >> Perfect. Thank you so much. I'll just
share my screen.
Okay, I believe you can see that. Okay. So, good evening, mayor, members of
council, and staff. Thank you for having me. My name is Maddie from I am the uh
programs account executive at food cycle science and I'm here tonight to discuss
a framework for sustainable food waste management uh for the town of caps
casing. So food cycle science is a proud Canadian company and we're based in
Ottawa Ontario. We were founded in 2011 by a team of engineers, scientists and
food waste experts and we are just 100% focused on food waste diversion
solutions. And so to do that we've created the food cyclare. Uh we provide
our solution to the retail level. So you can find us um in stores. We also
partner with businesses, not for-profit organizations, schools, and finally
municipalities like yours, which is of course the reason I'm here today talking
to you. So to date, we've partnered with more than 175 municipalities across
Canada. We're in nine provinces and two territories from rural uh remote and
small communities to densely populated cities helping them divert their food
waste and save on waste management costs. In Ontario, we have 110
communities. So, it's our most populated province of partnerships. Um and nearby
to those municipalities that would be closest would be um Cochran, Kirkland
Lake, and Horn Plane. So over the last few years, the issue
surrounding food waste has become a common topic of discussion for many
reasons. Uh one of the reasons is that when food waste is improperly disposed
of in the landfill, it produces the greenhouse gas methane. It produces so
much methane that if worldwide food loss and waste were actually a country, it
would be the third highest greenhouse gas emitting nation behind China and the
US. So it's very substantial. And then when we're talking about, you know,
reducing our carbon footprint, really food waste isn't something that we
should be ignoring. It truly is the lowhanging fruit to making an impact.
And the solution is extremely simple and it's right in front of us. You can buy
less, you can use your leftovers, but then when the time comes to dispose of
what's left, you can do that properly. So, how does this impact municipality
like cap scing? Well, since food waste makes up about half of household waste,
it actually causes landfills to fill up very quickly. Um, as you know, operating
a landfill is very expensive for municipality. And so, you do of course
want to try and extend the lifespan for as long as possible. Um, and then, you
know, as mentioned, when organic waste is put into the landfill, it produces
methane gas. Uh and with the major focus being put on our emissions, um reducing
our food waste is going to be a priority given it's a solvable challenge. We're
seeing across Canada some provincial governments are putting pressure on
municipalities to implement source separate organic programs and we do
expect these pressures will just increase. And then the community level
food waste in the garbage means more frequent collection trip collection uh
or uh trips to the disposal site. It also causes odors which is unpleasant
for us of course but it's really attractive for animals like bears and
raccoons who do love to rubbish through our trash and obviously that can cause
some issues. So ultimately if we remove food waste from the garbage we can
eliminate all of these concerns and greatly reduce the amount of waste in
the community. Now at this point I'm sure you're
thinking yes this is a problem but haven't you solved it already? And sure
there are a few solutions out there. So there's green bins which are common in
big cities with high population density and the right infrastructure. However,
these can be cost prohibitive or operationally challenging to implement
especially in more rural or remote areas. We also just see across the
country green bins struggle to get high participation rates. So it means they
aren't necessarily solving the problem. And then some people in your community
might backyard compost. And I'm sure we'd all agree this is really the ideal
solution. Uh but unfortunately backyard compost composting has some issues. It's
not um feasible for everybody depending on your living situation. It's not a
year- round solution and there's still the concern about it attracting bears
and wildlife to your backyard. And then finally, you could continue to put
organic waste into the landfill, but as mentioned, the long-term impacts are
costly and harmful to the environment. So with the food cyclinger, we make food
waste easy to manage and do that right in the home. Um, I think this is
actually supposed to play. There we go. Uh, so essentially, uh, the Food Cycle
is just a kitchen appliance. It's about the same size as an air fryer. It's
really simple to use. You put your food waste into the machine, push the button,
and then in a matter of hours, uh, it's been recycled. So, it handles all types
of food waste, including dairy, meat, bones, and pits. It can be used anywhere
with a plug. So, most people will keep it in their kitchen, but you could put
it in a basement or a heated garage if you had one. Each cycle takes about 4 to
8 hours to complete. So an overnight cycle is the best time to run it. And it
uses about 1 kilowatt hour of power, which would cost about 10 to 15 cents
per cycle. The resulting um end product that you're left with is a nutrient-rich
resource that has many beneficial um uses, and I'll go over that in the next
slide. So um as I said, it's a nutrient-rich
byproduct that you're left with. We call it foodalizer. It's just your food waste
that's been um reduced in weight and volume, leaving it, you know, completely
dry and an inert biomass, but still has uses. So, you can add it to your garden
soil right at home like a fertilizer. You could add it to any type of backyard
composting system. Um, it integrates well into a leaf and yard waste system.
You could drop it off at a compost site, a local farm, community garden, or, you
know, if you had a green bin, you can add it to that. But there really are so
many uses um for it. And um we at Food Cycle Science will help your community
figure out the best way to manage it as well.
So from an environmental standpoint, when you look at the carbon footprint of
the food cycler, the impact is really clear. So over a 7-year period, which is
about the lifespan, the food cycler has a net negative carbon uh it has a carbon
footprint. So the graph on the left breaks down those emissions. And of
course, there are some upfront emissions that you encounter from manufacturing,
energy use, and end of life disposal. Um but these are far outweighed by the
emissions that are avoided from food waste just not ending up in the in the
landfill. So it results in a net negative carbon footprint. Um and that
you can feel good about using this. So in addition to the environmental
impacts, the traditional method of managing organic waste uh meaning a
green bin or something similar um is a heavily burdened system with costs at
every step. But, you know, the food cyclinger is a decentralized approach
that avoids unnecessary additional costs from um, you know, labor or greenhouse
gas emissions from trucking an improper food waste breakdown. Um, so the food
waste that's created in the home can just be managed right there in the home.
Now, for residents, one of the b biggest benefits we hear is how easy and clean
the experience is. So, you know, typically food waste is associated with
an ick factor. Um, it's smelly, it's wet, it's moldy, it creates a bit of a
mess. But because the food cycler turns it into a dry, sterile, and odorless end
product, the ick factor is gone. So you're not going to have smells from
your uh kitchen garbage can anymore. But of course, one of the best reasons or
the best results of using the food cyclinger is now there's just a lot less
garbage going to the curb. So on average, households are putting out
about 35 less garbage bags per year um as a result of using the food cyclinger.
And so here's a photo I wanted to share. It's um one of our residents in Ar Prior
um sent this to us after using the food cyclinger for a week. So it's just that
little bag of garbage uh she was left with at the end of the week. So made a
big difference in her life. So our food cyclinger program is an
established and proven solution for food waste management uh with the results to
prove it. We have participation rates over 90% um a recommendation rate of
about 96% and then finally on average households are diverting about 250 kg of
food waste per year. So to put that into perspective if every occupied household
in capiscasing had a food cycler we can estimate that you would divert about 947
metric tons of food waste from your landfill each year which is a a big big
number. So, our med school programs uh it begins with a 12-week pilot phase to
test the viability of our solution in your community before you consider maybe
going full communitywide. Um so, how it works is residents would sign up to
receive a fully subsidized food cyclinger from you um the municipality
and then over 12 weeks they use their food cyclinger at home and they track
the number of cycles that they've ran um each week. At the end, participants keep
their food cyclinger and keep using it. um we get them to submit that that data
to us along with answering a few more brief questions so we can measure the
program success. We then compile all of the results into a final report or a
study, a feasibility study um and present that back to you um along with
staff so that we can you know evaluate the program and make changes and plan
for any future expansion. So for the initial pilot I would
recommend about a 100 household program. I think that would be a great place to
start and we would ideally start with the Eco 3 because it's flexible. So, we
have two models. The Eco 5, I believe, is what your public works team is using.
Um, we can, you know, chat about which model would be best, but I think for the
purposes of this, the Eco3, um, makes most sense to start. So, if you fully
subsidize 100 Eco3s, that would be an investment of about $30,000 plus
shipping and taxes. Um, but of course this is just a starting point. So happy
to chat more and figure out what would be the best for your needs and your
budget. So included in that program uh with the
pricing is our team support. And so I think this is really where we stand out.
You know, most programs don't fail because of the tools, they fail because
of adoption. Residents are confused and small frustrations add up quickly. So we
don't just drop off equipment and leave. Um, we assign a dedicated program
manager to your community and we provide res ready readyto use communications.
Um, and making sure that residents just have everything they need to get started
from day one. Um, we also do our best to take uh staff like the workload off of
staff's desk because we know implementing a program like this is a
lot of work. So, we're handling troubleshooting questions, warranties
questions, um, just making sure that your staff don't have to um, do any of
that. Uh and so yeah, I would welcome the town of Capus casing as a partner in
the fight against food waste as I think your community would be a great fit for
this uh the benefits of this program. All I ask is my presentation uh be
accepted as information and if there's any interest in partnering with us on a
pilot program that you refer to staff for a report and recommendation.
So thank you so much. I'll stop sharing my screen and I'm happy to answer any
questions. >> Thanks Mandy for the presentation. I
believe we received presentation on this probably about three two three years
ago. Um and uh I'm not sure if it was yourself but thanks for coming back and
not forgetting about us. Are there any questions from the table? Go ahead.
» If the landfill site is using the methane for uh generating energy, does
that methane count as excess methane? Uh if well it depends on what kind of
system but um if they were using the methane to like a gas capture kind of
landfill I think that wouldn't count as a methane excess methane but
» that's not detrimental that methane is not detrimental to the entire it's being
burned and used for energy. >> Yes, I think that's the point. Yeah. Of
a gas capture. Yeah. Thank you.
» Thank you very much for the uh for the presentation. Um just just a couple
questions. One financial but also one uh more technical about the logistics of
the use of the uh of the device. Um one of the other I backyard compost and do
it year round even cap spacing and and uh find a way to make it work. But one
of the I think the primary frustration I have is when you do not have access to
the compost for many many many years. What is the turnaround time to generate
usable compost with this particular device?
» Yeah. Oh, that's a great question. I wish I had a number off the top of my
head, but I it I don't I think it's I have the answer in um a soil amendment
guide. So, we've created a resource that we can use, but it does turn around
quicker because you're shrinking the size of the food waste. So, it's just
really small particles. Um, it does help your backyard composter get up to speed
faster and then turn around quicker. So, yeah, you're not going to be waiting
months. It would be like years. It would be like uh maybe 3 months, but I can
actually get you the numbers and I'll send you that guide as well so you can
look at it. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. Um the other
the other question I had was you you threw out a figure around um saying for
capacics specifically if everyone in town were to use this device to divert
the food waste from the landfill be about let's say thousand tons to make it
uh simple. Um, do you have supporting information or um, uh, spreadsheets or
model uh, modeled information that can be used to calculate uh, cost benefit in
terms of >> um, the the saved uh, capital cost in
terms of deferring the need to expand or build a new uh, landfill to support
staff to uh, to uh, do an analysis to show the the benefit on a life cycle
basis of such an advice. >> Yes. Yeah, we do. That's a great
question and so I'm happy to work with staff on that. We've created um a
calculator using um it wasn't created by us. It was a third party um
environmental consultant um called Cambium. So they put together a
calculator um so that we can you know talk to municipalities, get waste data
and then figure out what you know that's going to look like in terms of the ROI
of um for a landfill. So happy to do that if there is interest.
» Perfect. Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions? Bruce,
» happy to date any restaurant. Yeah, please.
» So, the units that we that I was talking about today are too small for
restaurants. Um, but we are in the process of developing a larger unit that
would be applicable for restaurants. So, it would cycle about 75 L of food waste
per day.
» What about grocery stores also? Yeah. So, the unit that the 75 L is a
little bit too small for grocery stores. I mean, it depends on the size of the
grocery store, but um we currently don't have one that is that size.
» Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you.
» Any other questions? >> All right. Well, thanks very much,
Maddie, for your presentation and uh we'll take it in for information. We'll
get back to you if there's interest. >> Thank you so much for having me. Hope
you have a great rest of your meeting. >> You as well.
All right. Now we have a presentation from East Link. Um, and we have a Amanda
in the audience. So for yours, Amanda, >> evening
for the opportunity for being able to present in front of all of you this
evening. So East Lake is very excited uh that we have launched mobile services
here in Spacing. Uh, it's a long time coming. So uh, we are very excited about
this upcoming launch. So, we're going to go through a few things uh with this
launch and what this means for our customers here in the community.
So, we're going to go through what is the East Link mobile network, uh what
our launch plans look like, and how we plan on showing up.
So, East Link is a mobile network. It's a virtual mobile network. So the way
that this works with MBNO, which is a footage term that you'll hear me uh
using throughout this, is a mobile virtual network is where we purchase the
ability to essentially resell services uh on the existing national platforms
that are available from Telos. So Eastlink is able to operate as a mobile
virtual network operator in this case here in County Spacy, which means that
we can operate without building our own home towers for the first seven years.
Through that time, over that span of seven years, we're taking the revenue
that is brought in from the mobile customers and reinvesting and building
our own towers in the community as well. So over the seven years, there is an
investment into the community. That's how the program works. And the design
behind this and the reasoning behind MDO in the first place and why the
government has allowed this to happen through CRTC is that it allows more
competition within the community, which means consumers get a better price. So
it helps drive down price on your telecommunication services which is what
the government and CRTC is looking for out of this program. So the way that
this works as well uh we can actually go to the next slide. Sorry.
So we are launching uh it was anticipated that we would launch at the
end of June. We actually launched on Tuesday July 7th. So mobile is now
available here in the community. Uh, I will be set up at Model City Mall this
week and we will be able to answer questions for any of our customers here
in town. Not even only on the mobile side, but also our existing customers.
Over the last little while, there's been an investment in the community, not only
from the mobile standpoint, but we've also upgraded our services in the
community. Max speed used to be 350 megabytes speed. Now, we offer gig
service in cap. So, that's very exciting and it's a big investment on East Simp's
part. on.
So the timeline was a little bit different. It was anticipated that we
were going to launch in June. We would presented in June. Uh now everything
kind of lines up with a a big week in July. So uh we've also done um obviously
this presentation we're here in the community this week uh and doesn't add
all. And we have also agreed to do a sponsorship for Catholics this coming
weekend which is obviously a fun and exciting initiative here in the
community. We've done the event before and it was a lot of fun to get to talk
to some of our customers moving forward in the fall. Uh
anticipating that we would be here on a quarterly basis set up so that people
have a place that they can actually come to and ask questions about their bill,
about services, about mobile services. And that's kind of the plan that we take
with these MBN launches. So we've now launched MBNO in uh Elliot Lake, Blind
River, Cochran, and Cascading.
So as I said, this is how we plan on showing up. So cap phrase, the the idea
behind how we do this is always that we want to be present in the community.
It's not a, you know, come into town, we launch mobile services, get out and then
not come back again. The idea is to maintain that momentum and continue
being present in the community. We have representatives that work in this
community uh and that are proud to represent the Eastland brand. So that
will continue. And then obviously with spreading the
word being able to in front of all of you is part of that. and then any type
of uh local media. So whether that's paid advertising through Facebook uh and
through Meta, those are things that we do in order to be able to get the word
out that mobile services are launching. Each of our customers uh would have
received an email as well from our marketing team indicating uh that mobile
services are launching. It allows them to be able to bundle their services
which actually lowers their bill. So it's an exciting opportunity for
customers here. Now our team as well will be present. So, I'll be here as
well as one of our uh representatives and we'll be able to answer those
questions that come up from consumers. Other than that, that is pretty much it
in a nutshell. We just wanted to be able to represent the company and be able to
proudly announce that his mobile services are now available in caps.
» Well, thank you very much, Amanda, and welcome to our community, and again,
thank you for the sponsorship, Capra. Much appreciated. Are there any
questions uh for anybody? Go ahead. Um, thank you for the presentation. I was
just curious, so other than coming this week to the mall, do you guys plan on
having a physical office here on the mall? So, at the moment, no. But that
doesn't mean that things will change. So, as basically the company continues
to grow and we continue to be able to offer more products that are available
to consumers, the the writing is on the wall of expansion continuing without
with the company. So over time, yes, I can see that potentially happening down
the road. As of right now, our plan is to continue to come on a quarterly basis
from a sales perspective, but also be able to answer any questions at any
time. Uh I've had communication with some members of uh the team here at the
city or at the town and I've been able to have great discussions with them. So
now it just opens up further opportunities for us.
» Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks very much for the presentation
and just a question about the cost model or service model uh east might be
pursuing as compared to some of the other providers. Is it the is the
attempt to uh and maybe it's contained by the infrastructure you you lease or
or or purchase on? Will you be uh in the the same vein as a as a Bell or a Telus
in terms of um higher price point uh products and plans or is the intent to
be a discount service um you know like the uh like a smaller niche provider? I
think FHO might be an example of of something where you can offer people who
don't have the demand for uh unlimited features who want something uh smaller
and more affordable. >> What's absolutely so great question uh
the idea is always that we are going to lead the market. So we want to make sure
that uh the price point that we're coming to the table at is very
competitive. part of FBNO the process with FNO is that it drives down actually
that price amongst competitors as well because when we're able to come in and
sell that product uh the same product that other teleos are are selling for a
reduced price point that helps bring down that cost overall. So, as an
example, when we launch MBNO, the plans that are available can start as low as
20 gigs of data and then they can go up as high as uh 60 to 80 gigs. And in
those plans, they're all rollover data as well. So, consumers are able anything
that's unused will roll over to the following month and continue to build
for them as well. So, uh the plans are very competitive. Plans range in about
the $50 mark for a full service plan. Uh, and then there's also savings that
are available. If you are an existing ESLink customer, you will save on your
WLAN services as well. There's a $10 discount on your Wland services.
» Thank you. >> Welcome.
» Thank you very much for your presentation.
» Thank you very much.
» All right. Uh, moving right to start with the finance announcer Dennis.
» Yeah. The first item is a request to fers the insurance recommendation by
council approve addition of serial security insurance coverage coalition
obtained through the council broker broker link at an individual criminal
cost of $10,31 purpose of this report recommend that
cashing add cyber security insurance coverage to existing program and qualify
financial protection start related to incidents and technology based business.
Um are there any questions or comments on that? I think I thought we already
had it but then um yeah what what's the deductible and coverage on on this?
I don't remember the deductible any we received it just
» I thought the same thing as you so when cars
» there's there's minimal coverage right now but let's say you had an incident
that you know 10,000 Your insurance premium is not a lot if
you ever get a cyber attack. >> I've been through it with another
corporation. Although that's that's cheap because it costs a lot more
» pay the rent. >> But from with your experience, you
figure this is a good deal. >> Absolutely.
» Well, the aggregate cost. So the land is 2 million.
» It's what million is there? 2 million and up. That's uh I know I've heard
there are some companies that have had to go and pay Bitcoin and all that just
2 million is not a lot. When you're talking
and see if a little bit additional maybe a little bit additional would cost that
much more >> maybe like the $5 million coverage.
What's our what would be like how do you assess exposure to uh a cyber security
is it in terms of >> in terms of what the the risk is
» I think once we do uh purchase the uh the insurance they do a lot of testing
and and actual >> um
I'm lost words here scenarios where they will test our systems to see if we have
any weaknesses that could be prone to cyber attacks. Uh, and they will
continue testing on a regular basis. Uh, >> and they'll send you information. Don't
» That's right. So, they do a full analysis they did and and they check
everything from pay to receiving uh electronic uh transfers to just our
emails, anything that's technology based. So, we have a large
infrastructure of technology. So I think this is the right step to go to and and
it will be tested. Our fire will probably be tested on a regular basis at
the same time which we already do but the the insurance provider will do that.
The the other thing that would be perhaps just like any other insurance is
to understand how much effort that goes into prevention uh could reduce premiums
or reduce the obligation to pay deductibliedness by having certain
policies in place certain protections in place.
» Exactly. Uh so understanding how much flexibility there is to um to control uh
how how much we we you have to pay for such a a protection is would be good to
understand as well. uh Northern Ontario wires is going through this uh this
effort there's a I mean it's regulated where uh small utilities because of the
exposure these attacks affecting um the electrical distribution network are
putting in a lot of effort to uh to uh to to minimize any any such uh event
from preventing electricity that's why I was asking
» from our standpoint what is the impact of shutting down wastewater treatment or
shutting the drinking water system as a result of an attack. I suspect it's like
the impact could be in the millions. So, it's
» probably pretty important to >> I think that my recommendation would be
start with this insurance premium now and do the risk
management the testing to see if we do have some vulner vulnerabilities
anywhere. So then after that we can tailor the the coverage that we need.
Any idea what the cost would be to cover those vulnerabilities to correct them?
There's probably some cost involved with that.
» Yeah, I don't have an idea. >> Not much. May not only be the premium,
but they come in and say, "Well, you got to do this, do that,
» can make it easily add another $20,000, but I don't."
» Yeah. So, we won't know until we do the >> assessment, they exercise on the
assessment to know what our risks are. >> I know the hospital went through this.
Uh >> that's what
» yeah about 3 4 years ago maybe maybe >> it was pretty uh intense really tough.
» I bet you they'd love to have paid that >> our insurance did uh come up with uh bit
of the money which was good. Out of pocket I believe was uh the hospital was
almost $2 million >> and the rest was covered. It was all
through bitcoin. It was all rushing out. So
» they had some of the personal information from uh some people. So this
will make the recommendation we go ahead with that. Um second item is for
information correspondence from ministry of municipal affairs housing changes to
strong mayor framework recommendation that council received the correspondence
from ministry of municipal affairs and rehousing regarding some changes to the
strong mayor framework as as information. the town
correspondent waited June 23rd 26 from the honorable
» uh black uh minister of minister affairs and housing regarding some changes to
the strong framework that is that regulatory amendments have been made to
the building regulation 53rd/22 under the municipal act 2011 these amendments
come to force June 22nd 2046 six and apply to Trump mayor Mis. Any questions
or comments on that? >> Not related to this one. I did have one
more I just remembered I wanted to ask about the previous item. Uh and it was
just whether the the insurance cost was going to be a 20 26 budget line item or
uh for future >> 2026.
» It will be a 206 add. >> Yeah.
» Our premium starts out with July 1st. >> Okay. So you have half of the year and
half the others to really >> So it's only it's only a $5,000 increase
add-on for 2020. Okay. Thank you.
Report. There's no other questions. >> All right. Plate services council
Newton. >> I have one for tonight. Mr. Mayor for
information letter from Minister Ministry of Municipal Affairs and
Housing Amendments Parkland dedication regulation
recommendation. The council received the correspondence from the Ministry
of Municipal Affairs and Housing regarding amendments to Ontario
regulation 509/20 community benefits charges and apartment
land as information and John would you want to put that face
on this one? >> Yeah. Um basically the government it's
one of their many amenities to the plan that help streamline development housing
development uh basically created in Frank allows developers uh the
opportunity to propose lands that be dedicated to for parkland versus
municipal planning um professionals that would kind of dictate where they're
giving you more of an opportunity to developers to
recommend something that may not be as suitable for um development but such as
easements or restrictions. Uh maybe you could
dedicate that instead of using clients plan. You also have to have uh an
opportunity for a kill process that land tribunal and you also um if it's right
uh there's some u
notice noticing and um
sorry to the case
required to do that now. So we'll have to review our official plans in the
process of being uh uh the draft. So we'll have to make sure
that any provisions that are in the official plan would likely change the
plan or dedication part. We'll have to review the extend process procedures and
also our site control make sure that
identification is uh reflected and also um
sorry I lost I guess my apologies the heat the heat
and also we don't actually have a frontline meditation bylaw so we have
policies and provisions within our plan of the new filing capac doesn't actually
have that dialogue aligning to how our clients think you. So in the event that
we do um decide to move forward with this because we have a PL sub division
that's establishing itself and we want to designate X amount of land for a park
we have to come up with a
question
any questions on this be it for myself.
» All right thanks C Newton protective service and emergency management counc
» thank you Mr. May there um four items on the agenda
for the committee. The the first is a for information item is the fire
department left a report for June. Um trusting u everyone had a chance to read
it. Highlights are just that there were 15 calls in in June including a
structural fire and a scrapard fire that destroyed 23 vehicles and 84 calls here
to date. And uh the NFPA um course for pump operator training is uh 85%
complete. Uh was there highlights uh from my perspective? Not that they
built. >> No, you you were you were right. Uh
yeah, we we did respond to two major incident. Uh like you read uh we did
respond to a scrapyard fire that destroyed 23 cars. Uh it was out of town
but because we signed an agreement few months ago with the province uh this
fire we're going to be able to recoup the cost of this fire. Okay. Um
and I'm pretty happy that uh most of the staff did complete their pump operator
course. Everyone that was registered to the course took the did complete the
course and the testing we had issue with the testing with the scheduling the
testing and the testing will be done in August. We just received I think it's
last week the confirmation from the province
that to be honest uh June was a month >> question on the covering for the the
fire outside the town. You said we will be reimbursed at what rate of pay?
» Uh almost $600 per hour >> 200
» six >> 600 $600
» per truck
and what's that? >> Say uh it's the office of fire marshall
that's going to reimburse us. >> Okay.
» Yeah. >> Is that
enough? it to be honest because of the cost the
because of the capital cost of our pumper uh it will never be enough man
it's it's a starting point
» so to top of my head uh for this fire top of my head
I think we're going to be able to recoup around $8,000
Thank you very much. >> Perfect.
» Any other questions or the report? >> All right. Uh next item on the agenda is
um just to report on levels of service for interventions outside of casing
limits. Um this is for council discussion and
consideration. Uh there are two recommendations.
Recommendation number one recommended that municipal council give
consideration to continue to allow the CAP fire department to respond outside
municipal boundaries of the town of CAP in accordance with its operational
procedure ops 34 out of town boundaries response that was developed by the fire
department. And the recommendation number two is
recommended that council enter into a mutual aid and automatic aid agreements
with the following municipalities. Township of Valita Hardy, Township of
Obisatica, Township of Bloom Beam, Township of Folk Strickland, Township of
Rock Falls, Town of Hurst, Town of Coffin, Township of Matis Balote.
Um, automatic aid agreements would allow a town of Cap to continue providing
expectation services within the municipality of the town of Tohovatica
and the municipality of the township of Belita Cardi.
And recommendation number three, it is recommended that council make the
necessary representations to the government of Ontario to obtain support
for the indirect costs incurred by the town of Cath for interventions outside
its territorial bound boundaries, excuse me, as outlined in the attached report.
question. Um the automatic agreements will allow town cap to continue
providing extra services within the news township of San Township.
Why only those two >> because the has its own and so does
» okay >> it's exactly that.
» Okay. Um
» can I can I add one thing to this?
actually these two municipality doesn't have any extrication tools and I don't
know since when but for years and years we do respond uh on these two
municipalities uh for extrication and it's just to um
signing automatic automatic aid agreement it's it's just to uh make sure
that we have the proper uh agreement in place because extrication it's a
municipal responsibility. It's not a provincial responsibility. Currently we
do that as good corporate citizen, good neighbor. Uh but it's a local
municipality responsibility. So if we sign a automatic agreement with them,
that's mean when they when an election happen in these two
municipalities, we're going to get called. We're going to respond as we do
today, but uh the local township will claim the province and we will be able
to recoup this amount. Okay. And yeah, this is one of the
reason >> but but the town the municipality will
only reimburse reimburse us the amount that the provinces province allows.
» Exactly. What if what if those costs are a lot higher? Uh I see you go there and
there's an employee suffers and it's on weekly redundancy for years and years
and years. Who picks up that bill? >> It's the
the other cost that the town of CA could get over the years.
If it's that it's my recommendation number three, uh because the amount of
the province that's going to pay the local township and the local township
will reimburse us will to be honest, it will never be enough. So recommendation
number three, we have to do proper uh the proper we have to do representation
the province to uh increase the cost uh the amount that
they would pay or it's something that we we could stop
doing it.
» All right, please. Um, but don't you think the the leverage we have here is
in is in the in stopping doing it? I mean, if if our fear is that our own
members are, you know, could could could be dangerously affected by an
extrication in a neighboring community, our leverage to the province is, you
know, there we can't do it for 600 bucks. That's not and so we're going to
stop doing it. And in the stopping doing it, maybe places like Oakadic and
Valerita can maybe get a grant to purchase their own extrication equipment
and then maybe have uh those services within their own community and we're not
necessarily affected by by the extrication of of people out of a
vehicle and that we we experience more and more going forward. So I think I
think honestly the solution to it would be to pull out of it to say, "Hey, we're
going to operate these services within our own community because that's what we
pay for. Those are the services we provide to our own community and um if
if something does happen within our community, then we know what we're we're
up against. But, you know, if we're responding to motor vehicle uh accidents
along the highway everywhere and it's increasing at uh dramatic pace until
there is plenty of highway 11, I don't know what you know what it's going to
look like in the future, but certainly wouldn't that be the the ideal situation
we want to reflect to the government. I just
» uh the only thing I can say
deep
because they were responding in Ed Clara and Mariam and Spalty between Mawa and
Deep River and did it stop and the province did nothing about that nothing.
So if you're driving now between Madawa and Deep River
east of Biset Creek to Deep River, uh now it's fixed because Ranchil took
over but for probably two three years it's probably more h it has no
extrication services and the province didn't do anything because that was a
mun responsibility.
It's a topic that >> I find the liability I find the
liability for the blue spelling is risk is too high. It could be very very
expensive. It may never happen. There is a certain amount of of risk there. The
other thing is what do we do with the other villages the other towns the ones
that we do have in no there's
» okay the other town. Okay. So recommendation number two has two topics
okay one it's for edificucation for valarity and foracetica
okay this is for education but the other topic too is about automatic aid for
water shuttle okay outside of
the the area protected by hydrants and also it's to conclude mutual agreement
which we don't have uh with any municipality
when we need more resources on scene for working fire, structural fire. Okay. Uh
down south uh to be honest, most of the municipality they have both type of
agreements in order to subsidize uh the additional resources when it's
needed. I I will give you just a quick example.
Okay, for a house fire in meal 20 regular bungaloo, okay, when it's fully
involved, okay, we need an average 400 gallon of water per minute. Okay, our
tanker truck, we have one tanker, can shuttle between 80 to 110 gallon per
minute. So we're we need more water each time we have a working fire outside of
the uh the area protected by addressance. Okay, it's why we need
automatic agreement for water shuttle and mutual aid agreement for staffing.
So recommendation number two has two different meanings here.
Oops. >> Number two, uh, if you're starting to
travel down the burst and conquer, that's long distances,
very long distance. I've traveled them 35 years, seen a lot of accidents along
the highways. Now you're really opening up a can of orders for them. We at night
time, early morning, late night remove everything like that. It's a high risk.
» Okay. Uh have we ever thought about using local contractors? They all have
garbage pay everyone.
Why can't we use them?
» A few thing about that. Okay. Few thing about that. First of all, mobile
contractor. Yes, they could have water tanker. The tank it's normally too big
to do fire >> water shuttle. Okay. Because in order to
fire a shuttle, a tank should be between 1500 to 2,000 gallon. Larger than that,
that will screw up the water shuttle process. This is the first thing. Okay.
For in term of mutual aid, as an example, okay, I think it's two months
ago, Earth had a major fire downtown. Okay. They needed more resources. not f
not right from the get-go for what 3 4 hours later after the fire started. So
time in in this case time it's not in the essence okay last in 2024 we were
called in Cochran and we went in Cochran okay it's sometime it's just to provide
additional resources to because the local resources need to rest need a
break it's the reason why so the distance sometime it's not really the
main priority it's to be able to do some staffing rotation.
» Well, we have enough staff to rotate on our end protecting our account
» at no time. At no time, we will leave we will we will let uh the community
without proper fire protection at no time. And if we're called I don't know
in I don't know in in matise for to provide support and we can't we don't
have enough resources at that time sorry we can't go it's not an obligation we're
not obliged to
but it's us that we have the most uh number of working fires per years on
the highway 11. So sometime we could re we could request a
bit more than they will we will provide.
Mutual aid agreement.
I think we're doing that right now. Um, so and um
» what what does what does it entail for capis casing to become to to enter into
an agreement of mutual aid?
» So they they will help us and we in turn will help them. I think we're already
doing that. >> So I I don't know why we need the
Okay. All these things are written in a mutual agreement. Okay. So, okay.
Okay.
Exist support in in the exceptional case.
It's the reason why. Okay.
» One one of the other reasons for formalizing
um an agreement in this is otherwise there's nothing necessarily ensuring
that there is a commitment to receive aid or to provide aid. So organizations
will if you're evaluating someone's emergency response capability and you
say well we we count on this company or this town to provide us uh response
services. Okay. How do you know they're going to come? we have a mutual
agreement and insurance companies will rely on that um to say okay you can you
can say you have this additional support potentially to help you respond to in
the absence of it being formal so I don't think you can just to say that
something has happened or we're doing it anyway outside of an agreement isn't
necessarily something that can be relied on their insurance benefits to being
able to say you have a breed that's another reason for listen not
example Okay.
Okay.
Okay. That was a commercial building downtown. Okay. Threetory building.
Okay.
Cat pumper. that that they were flowing water 80 firefighter on scene. Okay. For
24 hours. How can I with our current resources? How can I get 80
firefighters? Totally impossible. How can I get four pumpers? Totally
impossible.
Planning in case of a fire for 31 Queen Street right behind uh I think it's CIBC
Bank. Okay.
Three pumpers. I think it's 30ish or 40 firefighters.
Okay. As with and I can't justify you. I can't justify I cannot justify to you to
have a department with three pumpers, 50, 60 firefighters. The cost will be a
astronomical for one fire, three or five fires per years. No, I prefer paying
each time mutual aid. And by the same token, we we're going to save money
because we're not required to have a huge department.
» Is there any question? >> So, so you you mentioned that that um in
the mutual aid agreement uh WSID is written into that. So, you you're
covered under WSIB. Correct. >> Wait. Yeah. Wait.
» So why wouldn't you be able to have the same kind of uh arrangements around uh
extrication? >> A very good question.
It's negotiation. So we can negotiate that with the other
the other municipalities. It's all about negotiation.
I just want to remind you that in ext if we go back to the extra extrication
topic
profile extrication
it's going to cost between $50 to $75,000
just for the equipment. the initial training would be around $20,000
plus the skills maintenance. So it's very expensive. So for smaller
municipalities, it's probably better to conclude an agreement with us. Uh and
just uh having us responding when it's required.
Go ahead. Are all the other municipalities are they all included
already? >> No, they're not equipped for
extrication. You're talking doing a motor vehicle extrication. If it's that
they're not equipped with fire, any fire or anything like that.
» They have pumpers and they have tankers. Some has only a pumper, some as boat.
» All right. Bruce, does your question relate to are they in favor of agreeing
to us? >> I want to guess
open
just
my recommendation number two is to start a discussion with other municipalities.
No. >> So this is I guess strategic is to one
enter into or open the discussion to uh enter into appropriate agreements to
there is negotiation with those agreements too if there especially uh
when it comes to cost like the extreation. So there is uh there can be
a question of what is the appropriate compensation to supplement what we would
get from the province by doing it outside the municipal boundaries. And
three, the third recommendation is to pursue appropriate compensation either
through the province or some other arrangement uh through the agreement if
it can be
you bring to us the example of the mutual aid agreement that the WSID of
the other municipality covers our firefighters.
I saw both. I saw the two types. I saw that the local municipality when they go
and support the other municipality assume their own WSIB responsibility and
I saw that it's the other municipality that could assume I saw both. Okay. But
again, it's negotiation.
have a hard time to how do you put somebody from one payroll to another
payroll and telling them under WSID? I just don't understand
what you're saying and I think it's a good idea. It's just a recording.
» I never saw in action when the local municipality wanted to charge
the other one. I never for WS universa but I just saw the written ones.
Okay. >> A copy of the written one.
» I don't have a any copy with me now. >> No no but
» one of the one of the ways in which one of the ways in which I think it
would work is similar to u say for example I think of of the mill huge
individuals with procurement of hot services.
uh or any corporate uh corporation doing so, you want to ensure that the the
company you are hiring has WSAB coverage is in good standing with WSIB.
Alternatively, if if depending on the size of them or if they're just scaling
up a new uh a startup, they may not have that kind of uh administrative
infrastructure in place and you can come you can say you can fall under our WSID
cover. So, so one organization submits the claim and allows it to be done for
an injured worker. >> Something like that.
» Something like that is how I could see it working. I don't know if it applies
to each day before you don't die. Now, who's going to be here? like
if if I'm negotiating a contract, I would be thinking, all right, if we go
to respond in your community and support uh an emergency response incident,
uh would you cover if there is a an injury up to including a delayed PTSD
response, something like that, then it will fall under your municipalities WCIB
and uh benefits insurance policy. And if
it's written into agreement then have to get some involvement for
» I don't know the the details of it but conceptually that's
a good idea the negotiation started there would be a longer
no >> it's just for WSI purposes so for the
full time WSI is based on their up to the maximum but for WID coverage for a
municipality it is uh for each volunteer firefighter, the municipality needs to
pay the maximum coverage per fire volunteer firefighter. So say we have
21, we need to pay the maximum. So if it would be um included in your mutual aid
agreement then it would be my understanding that both municipalities
would need to supplement their numbers and that could be
» so it's not just you can't just decide today I'm going to pay for 15 or like
because I have an incident right we have them on a roster this is how many we're
paying >> and and it's paid on a yearly basis I'm
not sure how that would differ that's for volunteer group right but couple
times different but most of our surrounding
municipalities are also on on a volunteer group basis
whereas we have a foundation. Thanks for the info. It sounds like
there's a I mean there's obviously interest in protecting uh not incurring
unnecessary liability while at the same time uh continue to provide uh you know
a service for our neighboring communities and also be in receipt of of
that mutual service when it's appropriate. So again, that won't be in
the details. So uh we can't do that unless we have an endorsement to go talk
about these with with the other communities and formulate an appropriate
policy for us that works. If we're in support of continuing to do that, um you
can we can bring all this information to the table that everyone's interested in
understanding as part of them. >> It's all a meeting in itself just to go
through the Yeah. >> Yeah.
I don't think it's a thing to decide tonight.
» Well, I this was just for consideration. I don't think there's an ask right now.
It was simply to hear the concerns and and uh give direction to continue.
» Yeah. >> Is that what is that all because there's
no >> direction decision the hard direction
that's being requested other than to discuss and consider? And and I think to
your point, I mean, what what we're talking about here also lends really
well to the next your next item on there as well for lift assists and for the for
dies. >> So is there any other discussion on this
first just on the low service and and uh responding outside of town cap? Has
anyone talked to the volunteers themselves? They volunteer perhaps Jason
have they volunteered to go hold on. I think that may be an important item you
got to check on cuz now you're going to need it could be
standard period to find away from their family have volunteers.
It's a probably it's two different work groups. One is a permanent work group,
one's volunteer work. Maybe have communication before we go too move
forward.
Like any other workplace policy, it's important, I think, to gather feedback
from from the employees. But ultimately, it's
the the direction or it's a policy setting that occurs at our level. And uh
if if we feel it's important to provide the service, then that's really just a
condition of continuing to be But that's not true, K. That's not true because our
volunteers are for CAT. you're adding on to something beyond
that. >> Well, well, from what I'm hearing, we're
not adding on. It's already It's already three to five. It's already three to
five calls. It's only three to five calls a year and you already provide
that service anyway. We're just talking. >> All I'm saying is to have a have
communication with the crews and ask them if they're for this.
» Saying it's important to consult with them regarding policy, but but we don't
give workers a veto over what our policy directions are. So if there's a
consideration of links to volunteers, we have to think that it's part of the risk
that costbenefit analysis for sure whether you're going to do something or
not if that's uh if you're not if you're afraid or not where volunteers come.
But policy comes first and then we consult on that policy to see if it
continues to make sense and we're just trying to inform ourselves as to what
the policy should be that we set uh in regards to these types of incidents.
Appreciate the comments. Uh any other discussion or uh questions about this?
Okay, we'll move on to the
No, I'm good. I took notes. Uh I took note
letter with other details. It's just to start the top the result the report was
just to start the conversation the discussion at council level.
» All right. Third item on the agenda. This is a request to enter into an
agreement for the provision of third response services with Cochran District
Services Board within the limits of the town of Capiscation. Recommendation is
that council receive the report entitled agreement with the Cochran District
Service Board and authorize the clerk and the mayor to execute the agreement
with CBS. Furthermore, the council direct the fire chief to proceed with
the implementation of the third response services in accordance with the timeline
outlined in the report.
» Yes. Uh this topic was brought um productive services
what I'm talking about here is very simple. Okay. Uh it's and you will see
we already doing it on a part-time basis. Okay.
CPR. So, noral sign uh short of breath, chest pain. Okay,
the list it's it's I put the list in the report. Okay, so it's uh it's it's I
think it's at at the last page. Okay. Uh we uh when when we did the work with CD
SAB we determined that the department would respond to an average of 200 calls
a year less than one call a day to these type of calls. Okay. The dur the average
duration of one of these calls it's be it's around 20 minutes that doesn't
create any burden on our workload. So uh and the training required to do that
it's a it's the it's a first medical first responder which is a 40
hours course provided by DAB. Um it has for the training it has no
cost. It's all paid by DAB. We already have all the equipment. Uh what when I
did the analysis uh I expect that would cost us around $400 per year of diesel
uh 200 calls an average of 20 30 minutes max that like I said that will not
create any burden on our workload and the calls happen during the day during
the night. Uh going back to the WSIB or the PTSD topic. Okay. I did some
research. I consult one of the largest the second largest department in Canada.
They since then, so five, seven years after they implement a proper medical
first responder course and since then because staff are trained properly at
the right level, they don't have a single out of 2600 firefighters a single
firefighter on PTS is due to medical response. Okay. So I did I did the did
the I did the research on that. Um what else? What can I currently
currently when we don't have any ambulance in town? Okay we do call we do
get called for medical emergency medical uh when life people have like their life
is threatening. Okay, we get the call. We do respond.
Okay. Um, what else? Uh, what else did I miss here? Um,
it's different than lift assist. I'm not talking about lift assist. Lift assist
or fire related call. Because even if we don't do tiered response,
we will still doing lift assist because it's an assistance to another the
another agency. Okay. What I'm talking about is if public are on scene and we
showed up at the same time, we will support them package the patient and the
ambulance and the ambulance leave and respond go back the station. If for any
reason we show up first we will administer what is as per the protocol
as per what the level of training that firefighter has and we will as soon on
scene they we they will package the patient put in the ambulance leave to
the hospital. Okay. Uh currently it's happen it's happened we do medical
call and one show up on the package and they leave. So that we instead of doing
a few times a year, we're going to do it 200 times a year.
» We uh I got I did receive a lot of comments from the full-time staff. Okay.
Oh, by the way, doing that will not create any overtime at all. No
backfilling because that will be done on shift. Okay. It's only the on shift
firefighter that will respond to med calls.
Also uh if we are on a working fire or if we
are not available for any reason because it's not our core services we will not
do it we will not provide this level of service okay so when I receive
Wait.
Agreement.
Okay.
By doing that, that's mean we would get
called more often within our town limits. Okay. within our town limits and
because we're going to respond to motor vehicle collisions a little bit more
often. I expect be 30 times more than what we do now within our town limit.
That's mean we're going to be able to claim 30 times
$600 >> to the we're already doing it right now,
but we're not getting paid. >> Oh, currently no. Currently we don't we
don't respond to this these motor vehicle collision. We respond only when
extrication is required in our town limit.
» Okay. >> Okay.
» Okay.
Um, so you say it's going to take you 40 hours to get everybody up to snuff. How
long is the pumper course? >> Uh, 40 hours.
» Yeah. You know, we've been working on the pumper course for the last two and a
half years, three years, and we're just doing we're 80% 80. Well, okay. So, two
years, one one year, whatever. Like, we're 80% complete. What makes you think
we'll be able to complete the 40hour course to like shouldn't we be shouldn't
we be addressing our our core our core race all night? Uh, so fighting
fires, making sure that we can hold a gun, a host,
» you know what I mean? >> Okay. And I'm just putting that out
there because I mean it's the obvious. Sorry.
because of their personal schedule. Okay. So, first responder course will be
done on the full-time full-time firefighter schedule when they
are at work. So I would say six eight weeks to be
completed.
» They're providing the training. >> Provide the training.
» Oh, they're not paying the full cup.
» They're already
» on >> Oh,
» yeah. The trans. >> Okay.
Article five of the project agreement. All medical training cost and cost
associated with the maintenance of equipment and staff qualification shall
be the exclusive responsibility of CD SAB.
Come on. Um, it's a chef.
» Uh, when when I when I started to work on that, I got a lot of comments from
the full-time staff about the mo mostly about the implementation. Okay. And the
implementation will be done on three three different phases. LAR
starting to respond to motor vehicle collision within our town limit. Okay,
this is the first the second phase after training is fully completed. So January
1st that's going to be sh a shadowing period for uh three months. So they're
going they're going to respond at the same time then the ambulance the
paramedics and they're going to shadow them. They're going to just support them
see what they do just to make them more much more comfortable. Okay. And the
last phase, phase number three, that it's the full implementation.
Fore
service.
Okay.
service.
Okay.
This is just to name a few that we know.
See today it's good the relationship between peric and firefighter is good
because firefighter are not there to steal peric jobs
would have been a different story but now it's we're past that.
Any
other questions or uh
yeah well two weeks it's uh the recommendation for
» all right recommendation stands. Uh fourth item
is a request to enter into an agreement with global medic to accept the donation
of a wildland fire skid system. Recommendation is that council enter
into the agreement with a global medic. >> Okay.
See, Global Medic, it's a nonprofit organization
municipal all across Canada. Okay. Global Medic provide to uh fire
department what it's nameland fires kit. It's a
It's a It's a It's a water tank, portable pump,
high pressure portable pump with hoses. Okay. And it's used to fight brush and
forest fire. When I say brush fire, we have a ton of brush fire br we have a
ton of possibility of brush fire around town. So within our town limit, I said,
"Okay." So they want to they contact us and they offered to us uh this piece of
equipment Timmens will get will get two uh they at as today they already
distributed 600 fire kit throughout the country. Okay. And the value of the fire
kit it's around $6,000. So I put few pictures here. Okay. On page uh page
page four of the report. Okay. So uh that doesn't this to use the system.
It's not required to have a specific training. Uh it's not a specific it's
not a special piece of equipment. It's just an add-on an addition to our piece
of equipment that we it will be useful to protect our community.
I'm available for a question.
I've seen the I mean this one's pretty straightforward. There's no uh there's
no cost fills a gap. We've already had some uh say rush fire, forest fire
incidents. Um >> okay, that's
how transh.
» It's a good question. uh if we get this piece of equipment we will get probably
by the third weeks or last week of August. So the brush fire season will be
almost over. So it's either first of all I will contact my colleague at public
work to see if he has an available trailer. If not for 202 2027 I will
budget a trailer to put this kid on it. >> Yeah. You have some you have some pretty
good welders in there.
They're very they're very kind.
I think >> I think it's a great opportunity and tr
to be honest we should we should uh accept this donation and this donation
is made or will be made with no uh with no uh with no condition. We're going to
own it.
That's good. That's unless there's any other
questions, comments, concerns. That's it for executive services agenda.
» Thanks, Council Mon. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh,
so request 2026 capital budget amendment presented a road intersection upgrade
and deferral of Niagara Street in St. Clair Avenueing project. The
recommendation is that council approve the peneti road intersection upgrade
project as a 2026 capital expense increasing the 2026 capital budget
expenditures by approximately 189,000 and that council approved the
postponement of the Niagara Street and Sinclair Avenue resurfacing project from
2026 to 2027 and that the associated 2026
construction budget allocation of 23 35,000 for the Niagara Street and St.
Clair Avenue resurfacing project be removed from the 2026 capital budget
resulting in an estimated net reduction in 2026 capital expenditures of
approximately 46,000. Before I open up to question, I think
this is uh Paul's last meeting, so I'd like to thank him for uh his service at
the town of Caps. Any questions on that? Is that subject?
» Is the um engineering done for street? >> Um no. So we got a draft uh last week.
So we need to review and then go through with the engineers. We expect uh maybe
another month to six weeks before the design would be completed for that
project. So this is allows us a little bit more time to refine the design and
be confident with um the but that we would um
see there's not that that much structure work being done. Is this a project that
could possibly be pushed forward once we know the estimated costs
» could earlier than >> you're referencing Niagara and St.
Clair? >> Yes.
» Well, the idea was to do that project this year.
» Um, this is just a means of um potentially
saving a little bit of money this year by moving that project to next year.
there's a appetite for uh councils looking to move forward with it this
year. >> I'm just thinking of what it's going to
cost extra next year. >> The cheapest time to do it is now.
» Yeah. So yeah always uh always you know that's why we would like to continue um
reviewing projects like uh in person and those designs are all nearing
completion that they be consideration for for this year's construction season
still
» there any other questions? Well, just one, what's the driver for
this? Is it was it to flag off cost saving opportunities as a result of
» the pretty much the snow removal budget went overboard or is
what's coming up? >> Yeah. So, a little bit we we had
approved this project the the Bville intersection upgrades that we council a
few meetings ago where it was approved to proceed. Um I had originally had it
as an operational cost that we were going to divide the certain elements
through operations. Um seeing that I need to save some money operationally.
Um and then talking with the auditors and knowing that this project more of a
capital project was an operational project. Moving this into capital saves
operational money. plan to not overextend on our capital commitments
for this year is to remove a project of similar scope in uh in cost. Okay.
» So I didn't want to just say let's spend another 200,000 on this. Let's spend
200,000 by removing another house next year. Okay. Thanks.
If I remember correctly, they said the Niagara speak already
the engineering was approved and >> it was the the construction was
approved. >> Yeah. So construction was person and
then >> so yeah just to uh clarify the Nag St.
Clair is just a resurface area. It's not an underground for
the first >> and we have enough for Nords. The Nords
uh is it probably qualifies for that and that wasn't in the budget in the first
place. So >> yeah look at that. Uh I think we got on
another project so we can continue to because
» buying year after year. So we're going to move that to the north person
that sh
we have we have enough for streets that have that desperately need some
attention. Um I think that's addressed through the asset management. Okay.
» So Jamie's the one putting cones on all the
» Any other questions?
» Thanks. Economic development and community wellbeing and recreation.
» Thank you Harvard. Um so a request for recreation department's monthly report
for June 206. So the recommendation is uh that council be the recreation
department remained um the recreation department remained exceptionally active
throughout June supporting major community events maintaining key
recreational assets and preparing for a busy summer season. Staff played a
significant role in the successful KDHs 90th reunion St. Jamington helping
deliver events and infected visitors celebrated Korean pride and showcase
local uh facilities. The town's recreation infrastructure continued to
see strong utilization. Um the ball fields hosted extensive you school youth
and adult programming demonstrating their importance as one of capac's most
heavily used summer recreation assets. pool staff focused on launching summer
programs, organizing cap kids parks and sports programs, and coordinating
registrations for swimming lessons and junior lifeguards.
Um, the town's parks and outdoor activities remain important gathering
spaces throughout the month. The splash bat and welcome families and school
groups for side park hosted community events and staff completed extensive
maintenance on tennis court pickle ball courts playgrounds and other outdoor
facilities to ensure they remain safe and enjoyable for residents. staff also
led several strategic initiatives including work on the cap specing
cemetery uh columbarium
expansion project and efforts to modernize cemetery record management
seasonal students contributed significantly to cemetery visitation and
maintenance helping preserve a respectful and welcoming environment for
Pacific um just I just add a little quick note
here our community remains vibrant healthy and um well loved. So thank you
to everybody involved. You don't even have time to uh look over the report of
all our successes. >> A lot of great activities took place
here. Was was your busiest June ever? My first June here.
Very busy.
» Any questions, comments? No. >> Just one comment. It it's great to walk
around the style at night time and if anyone ever says there's nothing new
because they don't want to do it. >> You go by the golf course jam. Baseball
feels jam bad. Soccer fields jam bad. Uh pickle ball same thing. Like there's
lots of things that do good on you guys.
Um, next item on the agenda is for
information capacity economic development monthly report for June July
2026. So, a couple highlights here. Of course, CAP raise uh great success.
Again, sponsorships and funding are up. Um, they've exceeded their expectation
by a lot of money. In addition, CAP raise received $55,000 in funding from
the government of Ontario through the Experience Ontario program. So, we know
that um the people working in our exev department uh they're working very hard
and uh we see great success there. Congratulations to them and those teams
and her welcome center is very welcoming.
Is there any questions, comments about that?
That's all for me. >> Thanks Emry. Uh health council one item
Mr. Mayor it's a request for support for the MRI weight times to access
diagnostic imaging services recommendation that council receive
correspondence from Mike Vashel or Mr. Wakefield regarding NR times and access
diagnostic imaging services and caps facing and surrounding areas. And
further council direct administration to prepare letters of support advocacy
regarding improved access to MRI and diagnostic imaging services for the
resident space and surrounding areas and further that the advocacy letter be sent
to the ministry of health der health north and local member of provincial
parliament and other appropriate health partners. The letters attached that Mr.
has said um I know the hospital's working towards the MR and I believe
yours though still >> it's a matter of time but it's nice to
have letters to speed things up. >> Yeah,
» that's all I have. >> I think the last time we met with
Minister Jones was last year around MRI and and her indication was get a
» apply, >> you know, get a a program together, get
a plan together and so we're just waiting to be with them.
» So it's good that Shantal is working on that night. Thank you.
» That's it. Okay. So that concludes the committee the whole adoption of the
minutes. We have a motion uh minutes of the joint committee of the whole and
council meeting held June 15th. >> Moved by councelor man, seconded by
councelor Jennison that the minutes of the joint committees of the whole and
council meeting held on June 15, 2026 be adopted.
» All in favor carried. correspondence and average
update. They have a request for to zone programmed for highway 11 north. So,
anybody want to tackle this one? Do >> you have any comments on that?
» Oh, yes. I read through it and we're going to read a little bit, but that's
fine. Um the um request kind of puts into jeopardy. We we already have
monopolies on highway construction and I don't think we want to see monopolies on
highway towing uh hearing that think maybe something can be done. Um I've
spoken to other Mr. Murray and Twitter but others they say the biggest thing
that takes time is not actually the records but the OTP doing their
investigation getting there. That's what takes the most time. by hearing that the
only thing I would like in the letter of support that we want there in the last
um second last paragraph um
I would had at the end in consultations with all stakeholders
» and I don't remember exactly what it But it's to make sure that all the
stakeholders, the co- truck operators, the trucking companies, uh, everybody
has the OP, everybody. >> Yeah. They put a plan together, not just
by one group. Mhm. But at the end costs are involved and
there's some astronomical to sometimes >> and then and there's also the example
what happens in Toronto which is pretty sad.
Just a comment on that. It is I thought it was interesting how they bring a
different perspective to our highway issues about having a difficulty turning
around anywhere on corridor 11 because they don't have a paved sidewalk
shoulders and that uh this is another aspect of why it's important to also get
our two plus point. Oh, definitely it's important because there would be less
accidents, less >> but even for them when they
Yeah.
Yeah, >> it's one company asking for this and I
think you have to listen to everybody both of this probably
just to add to that agree with the you know the obviously
the monopoly concern around it guaranteeing business to one to provide
benefits. I support in principle the MTO reviewing the restricted tolling zone
subject to broad consultation with all the all the appropriate stakeholders for
sure. Um I guess I take I take the the concern of this word that it's really
about unregulated driver with wasted uh towing that is that is occurring that is
that is uh that's causing the issues and uh but I I still think we should from a
regional safety perspective still ask the MTO to review how best to address
this. >> Yeah.
» Poland. >> Yes. So uh so there's no problem in in
changing the resolution to have it reflected the way that um council has
has gi
uh for information notice aerial herbicide projects
for us. We haveformational letter appreciation
from the found for grocery donations. We have information correspondence from
Minister Minister of Northern Economic Development Growth and OHF Seek
opportunities. I think that's uh a nudge to maybe get some applications uh for
some of the projects we might have out there. Um so we'll we'll definitely take
that in consideration um for information correspondence from
for in regards to Northern Shield Energy Corridor.
Does this does the proposed route pass near Cal?
» Yeah. >> Yeah. It was very vague when initially
announced it had it on a map and you know it had it in Alberta and it had it
in Sarnia because if it went through Ontario you hope that you might have
been close to that but it is I think it's following the history. It would
only make sense to to to follow the existing uh a lot of lines that are
there today. Rightways are there, infrastructure to get from the highway
to there
at all. No, there's
» there's going to be uh it's it's initial stages and there's going to be some
consultation obviously that's going to have to happen and who knows how long it
might take but certainly >> sir it sounds like if it is going to go
there would be opportunity for some economic development outreach just for
you know staging jobs and the construction of the
» so if consultations occurring we can make those pitches and kind of sounds
like the energy
Yeah, in central east central not going back.
So all in all good news. Uh for information and thank you letter from
the Timmons District Hospital and that would conclude that we have a
committee the whole recommendations mill staff report nil motions and notice of
motions. We have motion to approve a one-year extension of the sports palace
skate shop in session agreement. >> Moved by councel second by councelor.
Whereas Tony Cap spacing entered into a sports palace skate shop concession
agreement with Mike Bowden for the provision of skate shop services at with
sports palace and whereas the committee reviewed the matter at its meeting held
on June 15, 2026 and recommended that the existing agreement be extended for a
one-year period. And whereas the town wishes to maintain uninterrupted skate
shop services at the sports palace for the 2026 2027 season. And whereas the
concessionire has advised the town of his intention to retire following the
2026 2027 season. Noras the one-year extension will provide the town with
additional time to evaluate future service delivery options and develop an
appropriate succession plan for the continued operation of the sports palace
skate shop. Now therefore, be it resolved that council approve a one-year
extension of the sports palace becoming session agreement with my potent
effective August 1st, 2026 and expiring July 31st, 2027. And further that all
terms and conditions of the original agreement remain in full force and
effect except as amended by this one-year extension. And further that the
clerk be authorized to execute the one-year extension agreement on behalf
of the corporation of the town cap state. All in favor?
Carried. Motion approve the 2026 capital budget amendments for Brenville Road
intersection upgrades in Niagara Street Sinclair Avenue reservicing project.
» Moved by councelor Newton, seconded by councelor Dennis that council approve
the Brunettville Road intersection upgrades project as a 2026 capital
expense increasing the 2026 capital budget expenditures by approximately
$189,000. And that council approved the
postponement of the Niagara Street and St. Clair Avenue resurfacing project
from 2026 to 2027 and that the associated 2026 construction budget
allocation of 235,000 for the Niagara Street and St. Clair Avenue Resurfacing
project be removed from the 2026 capital budget resulting in an estimated net
reduction in 2026 capital expenditures of approximately $46,000.
» All in favor? Carried. Motion to support and review
the restricted towing zone for highway 11 and northern corridor.
» Moved by councelor, seconded by councelor man. Whereas highway 11 is a
critical transportation corridor for the northern Ontario supporting res
emergency services, commercial transportation and key economic sectors
including mining, forestry and energy. And whereas the town caping has received
correspondence from Walton Payton LLP legal council for mate Oker requesting
that the long lap ring zone highway 11 northern
corridor be designated as a restricted towing zone under the towing and storage
safety and enforcement act 2021. And whereas the correspondence identifies
concerns regarding the absence of a formal towing protocol along Highway 11
and north, including longer weight times, duplication of towing efforts,
roadside solicitation, inefficient response, and increased safety concerns.
And whereas many sections of Highway 11 in Northern Ontario are single lane
highways in each direction and delays in clearing disabled vehicles or collision
scenes can create significant safety risks, traffic disruptions, and impacts
to emergency respon. And whereas a regulated towing framework
may assist in promoting faster and safer housing clearance, ensuring appropriate
training and equipment standards, supporting transparent and fair towing
practices, and reducing the time emergency personnel are required to
remain on scene. Now therefore, be it resolved that council courts town caps
and received the correspondence from Walton Heighten LLP regarding the
request for a tow zone program for Highway 11 North and further that
council support in principle a review by the Ministry of Transportation of the
establishment of a restricted towing zone or similar related towing framework
for Highway 11 Northern Corridor and to have proper consultations with all
stakeholders and further that a copy of this resolution beed to the Ministry of
Transportation. The sorry, Minister of Transportation,
Minister of Northern Economic Development and Growth, Ontario
Provincial Police, James VOP Detachment Board to the Ministry of Transportation
Tollbone Pilot Program, FA NAMA in effectiveness follows along the Highway
11 urban corridor. >> All in favor?
General items and new foreman. And with that, I'd like to welcome our you
foreman, Mai, who's sitting in the back there. Welcome to the team. No, thank
you.
» Actually, that that wasn't new new form and it was new business. There was none,
but you are new business today. >> Security.
» Okay. We also have a motion for cyber security. Sorry.
» Moved by councelor Dennis, seconded by councelor man that council approve the
proceeding with the addition of the purchase for cyber security insurance
coverage with the liability amount of $2 million.
» All favor. Uh bylaws no motion approve the
confirmatory bylaws. Sorry. >> Move by council seconded by councel that
bylaw number 4709 being a bylaw to confirm the proceedings of council be an
accident that the fulfill be a fixed there too and that the bylaw be signed
by the mayor and clerk. >> All in favor
carried motion to adjurnn. Moved by council me seconded by
councelor Dson that the meeting be adjourned at 7:51 p.m.