my check
the formalities please
good morning everyone and we will begin with documents many
with roll call begin with mayor brown
present thank you councillor Crosson
councillor Austin
thanks for being here mayor Crombie
mayor Crombie
councillor tomorrow indicated that she we arriving a bit later
for the meeting today councillor Dusko
no through nasco
councillor Dylan
I am here and I just saw the pop up
to council desk but was he is has joined the
meeting to okay thank you counted asco
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I'm just having technical issues thank you Chalford asco cancer
Downey
present thank you councillor Fonseca
good morning present thank you counsel for teeny good morning
I'm here thank you a cancer grows will be absent
for the meeting today but council early is here ask
for alternate cancer early morning present thank you councillor in
this
I think there's a present thank you Canseco
good morning I'm here
thank you counsel Mahoney
good morning everyone present
thank you councillor McFadden good morning everyone your crummy on
heroes are in trouble laying on thank you and I've
got a mere from the thank you councillor Maduro's good
morning thank you thank you counsel Mohan
the morning
you councillor Pulaski present good morning thank you cancer parish
I'm here thank you councillor Saito
good morning I'm here thank you councillor Santos good morning
thank you countersink clear is present in chambers councillor star
thank you thank you Mary Thompson is present in chambers
health service center
present good morning thank you and I'll turn it back
over to Mr thank you for our indigenous landed knowledge
meant we would like to begin by acknowledging the land
on which we gather in which the region of peel
operates as part of the tree lands and territory of
the Mississaugas of the credit for thousands of years indigenous
peoples inhabited and cared for this land in particular week
knowledge the territory of the national Becker on wed dental
Missoni and Ojibway Chippewa peoples the land that is home
to the meaty and most recently the territory of the
Mississaugas of the credit first nation who are direct descendants
of the Mississaugas of the credit we are grateful to
have this opportunity to work on this land and by
doing so give our respects to its first inhabitants what
came out in court that brings us to item three
declarations of conflict of interest I will start with my
own first on item thirteen to a related to the
policies and procedures committee where I also had the conflict
declared for any matters related to the regional chair any
other members of council with regards to a conflict
seeing none approval of the minutes from the June twenty
three twenty twenty two ... council meeting I have a
motion moved by councillor Dusko seconded by councillor Mollen but
the minutes of the June twenty three twenty twenty to
regional council meeting be approved is anybody opposed that is
carried now dealing with the approval of the agenda Madame
clerk do you want to run through you've got them
here for me I'm gonna read out the additions and
deletions and on a motion moved by councillor callback and
seconded by councillor ... Downey item one and item thirteen
point two listed on the July seven twenty twenty to
regional council agenda be withdrawn an item to the agenda
for the July seven twenty twenty to regional council meeting
include a report from the chief financial officer and commissioner
corporate services regarding twenty twenty two capital financial trying you'll
performance report April thirty twenty twenty two to be dealt
with under items or other items related to corporate services
item thirteen thirteen and item three but the agenda for
July seven twenty twenty to regional council meeting include a
letter from Laura hall director corporate services and town clerk
town of Caledon providing a copy of the town of
Caledon resolution regarding request a modified peel twenty fifty one
official plan and report titled future Caledon Caledon scroll concept
to be dealt with under items related to planning and
growth management item twelve point eleven and for that the
agenda for the July seven twenty twenty to regional council
meeting letter from Clinton Barretto founder and clinical director homes
he of homeless help PO providing support for supervised consumption
site in PO to be dealt with under items related
to help item eighteen point two and but the agenda
for the July seven twenty twenty to regional council meeting
be approved as amended by the clerk is there anything
further to that
you have the motion is or anybody opposed
hearing no one that carries Madame clerk at if I
may of suggest with regards to the approval of the
agenda we're gonna get past the consent agenda then I
might suggest how best to manage our time in terms
of when reports maybe urge and delegates but first Madame
clerk for the consent agenda over to you
thank you Mr chairman so we will deal with the
... staff presentation and delegation of the appropriate time so
we will start with nine items related to human services
nine point one twenty twenty one homelessness point in time
count results
on consent
9.2
the affordable rental incentives program evaluation results and future program
implementation
when consent
nine point three nine five eight to nine sixty east
Avenue affordable housing redevelopment update
all the
the thirtieth accounted asco yes you are thank you nine
point four advocacy to address challenges facing early years and
childcare
on consent
eleven items related to planning and growth management eleven point
one feel twenty fifty one new urban area mapping and
Callum official plan review update
on consent
eleven point two delegation for mother Parkers tea and coffee
incorporated
on consent
twelve point one communications Peter gross council gelling W. L.
G. on behalf of the on that group
on consent
twelve point two we King he president Mississauga Chinese center
letter dated June twenty nine twenty twenty two regarding the
request a mother Parkers tea and coffee operated for changes
to the new region of peel regional official plan
on consent twelve point three follow Tamara president of our
holdings corporate limited letter dated June twenty nine twenty twenty
two regarding the request of mother Parkers tea and coffee
incorporated for changes to the new region of peel regional
official plan
on consent twelve point Fortin Adam all opposite a principal
our over Sheila economy letter dated June twenty nine twenty
twenty two regarding the requested mother Parkers tea and coffee
operated for changes to the new region of peel regional
official plan
when consent 12.5 your garden for collect
property owner five eight four four six three enter limited
letter dated June twenty ninth twenty twenty two regarding the
request a mother Parkers tea and coffee incorporated for changes
to the new region of peel regional official plan
on consent
twelve point six Graham received president Mississauga Muslim community center
letter dated June twenty nine twenty twenty two regarding the
request a mother Parkers tea and coffee in corporate A.
for changes to the new region new region of peel
regional official plan
I'm consents twelve point seven mo haha ... Hon Ahmed
president and CEO Ahmed group twenty five sixty two twenty
four sixty four confederation parkway letter dated June thirtieth twenty
twenty two regarding request a mother Parkers tea and coffee
incorporated for changes to the new region of peel regional
official plan
and consent
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Stuart Colvin done Tom holdings incorporated letter dated June twenty
nine twenty twenty two regarding the request a mother for
Christine parking corporate for changes to the new region of
peel regional official plan
I'm consents twelve point nine Bob abri took proper borough
land owner B. L. W. holdings incorporated letter dated June
twenty nine twenty twenty two regarding the request a mother
Parkers team talking cooperated for changes to the new region
of peel regional official plan
consents twelve ten Peter gross counseling council going W. L.
G. on behalf of the on that group but ...
dated July the fourth twenty twenty two addressing correspondence from
mother Parkers tea and coffee incorporated
request a modified using the pill official plan
on consents there is the added item twelve eleven the
letter from more hall town accounting clerk providing a copy
of the town of Caledon resolution regarding the request to
modify the peel twenty fifty one official plan and report
titled future Caledon Caledon for a concept
when consents
items related to corporate services thirteen point one twenty twenty
two operating financial triangle triangle performance report April thirtieth twenty
twenty two
I'm consent thirteen point two was withdrawn thirteen point three
our encouragement agreement nine seven nine one nine seven nine
three main street town of Caledon Ward blind
consents
thirteen point four proposed surplus in transfer permanent easement interest
located on the north side of Mayfield road west of
here internal street electric utilities corporation and hydro one networks
incorporated city of Brampton Ward two
consent thirteen point five is improvement agreement six one three
three Erin mills parkway city Mississauga Ward eleven owner S.
P. H. Q. holdings incorporated
on consent thirteen point six direct negotiation with Concord technologies
incorporated
on consent thirteen point seven direct negotiation with workforce software
incorporated
consent thirteen point eight supplies maintenance and support services for
people soft software
on consent 13.9
hosted web content management system
website redevelopment in managed services
consent thirteen ten report of the region appeal excessively advisory
committee for the meeting held on June the sixteenth twenty
twenty two
consent
thirteen eleven report of the government relations committee meeting held
on June the sixteen twenty twenty two
on consent thirteen twelve report of the regional council policies
and procedures committee for the meeting held on June the
thirtieth twenty twenty
consent
the added item thirteen thirteen twenty twenty two financial try
and will performance report April thirtieth twenty twenty two
on consent
medications fourteen fourteen one Robert survey executive director region of
peel police services board letter dated June the thirtieth twenty
twenty two providing a copy of peel police services board
resolution and report titled twenty twenty to become group annual
report
consent items related to public works fifteen one residential water
and sewer line warranty protection program update twenty twenty two
I'm consents fifteen to upgrade to granite software from on
premises to cloud software as a service
when consent fifteen three capital resourcing strategy for water and
wastewater infrastructure
the census fifteen for report of the waste management strategic
advisory committee meeting held on June the thirtieth twenty twenty
two
sense
items related to health seventeen one provision eventual products at
region of peel buildings
consent
seventeen to health services resourcing the ongoing covert nineteen response
in twenty twenty twenty three
I'm consents
seventeen three critical contract increases in extensions for temporary contract
contracted nurse staffing services and medical supplies
I'm consent
seventeen of for improving access to the Ontario seniors dental
care program using a mixed model approach
incensed
eighteen communications at eighteen one Lesley Barnes chief executive officer
at St Leonard's place letter dated June sixth twenty twenty
two providing support for supervised consumption sites in the region
of peel
on consent
eighteen to serve rupture hill manager program and services and
brave letter dated June seventh twenty twenty two providing support
for supervised consumption sites in the region of peel
consent eighteen three Julie Amoros to board secretary Toronto board
of health letter dated June ninth twenty twenty two regarding
continuous health measures against over nineteen
when consent
eighteen for peel drug users network steering committee letter dated
June the thirteenth twenty twenty two running support for supervised
consumption and treatment services in the region of peel
and consent eighteen five letter from chief Nash peel regional
police letter dated June fifteenth twenty twenty two providing support
for supervised consumption sites in the region of peel
consent 186 Catherine wegen
manager community services John Howard society feel Halton different letter
dated June the twentieth twenty twenty two providing support for
supervised consumption sites in the region of peel
when consent eighteen seven Trevino all over harm reduction program
manager our place peel letter dated June twenty four twenty
twenty two providing support for supervised supervised consumption site in
the region of peel
on consent eighteen eighteen a call Salman or chair Welford
community health services letter dated June twenty third twenty twenty
two providing support for supervised consumption site in the region
of peel
consent eighteen nine more a ... health and community services
on behalf of the peel drug users advisory panel email
dated June twenty six twenty twenty two providing support for
supervised consumption sites in the region of peel
on consent eighteen ten lakh Todd let's chief executive officer
our branch board of trade letter dated June twenty eight
twenty twenty two providing concerns for the implementation of a
supervised consumption site in downtown Brampton
on consent eighteen eleven dot nine news bomb project coordinator
and analyst bill alliance to end homelessness letter dated July
the fourth twenty twenty two providing support for supervised consumption
site in the region of peel
on consent added items eighteen twelve water from Clinton Barretto
dated July fourth twenty twenty two instituting a safe consumption
sites in the region of peel
and sent
the bylaws of the property appropriate time ... and then
we go to the in camera matters twenty two point
one June twenty third twenty twenty to regional council closed
session report
... thanks twenty two point two community housing provider review
update
on consent
twenty two point three payment of compensation pursuant to the
expropriations act they've rolled road widening airport road to coloring
Dr city of Brampton Ward ten antenna callin wards two
four and five
consent twenty two point for payment of compensation pursuant to
the expropriations act they filled road widening airport road to
coloring Dr city branch in ward ten and town of
Caledon boards to foreign five
consent twenty two point five even if compensation pursuant to
the expropriation dot Mayfield road road widening airport road to
coloring Dr city of Brampton Ward tenant kind of talents
Ward two four and five
consensus
in the compensation pursuant to expropriations act Mayfield road widening
airport road to coloring Dr city of Brampton Ward tenants
out of Caledon Ward two four and five
one consents twenty two point seven property proposed property acquisition
made a Mississauga road widening
overdrive to Mayfield road city branch in ward 6
on consent twenty two point eight proposed least amending agreement
city of Brampton Ward one
consent twenty two point nine proposed surplus decoration and transfer
permanent easement interest town of Caledon Ward for
on consent twenty two point ten proposed property acquisitions of
the Brampton board eight
consent twenty two eleven proposed property acquisition city of Brampton
Ward three
on consent twenty two point twelve report procurement for the
Ontario seniors dental care program
on consents and that concludes the consent agenda items turn
it back over to Mr chan thank you and have
a speaker on the list counts are fourteen the I
see you were on my list is it with regards
to the consent agenda
thank you Mr journal I just wanted to our maybe
sure done on the minutes ... last week when we
talked about ... Garofalo rolled on to that developers to
regard myself from cancer that maybe we might have I
want to briefly maybe might have to go in camera
for that
V. Johnson says yes perhaps
why don't we do this back under council enquire res
why don't you articulated a little bit more and then
the the team here all know what next steps to
take so I'll have you bring it up under inquire
reason will decide whether we carry on in public whether
needs to go in camera or whether you're satisfied so
we will deal with that that thank you councillor plushie
Hey Mister chair Mister like to hold twenty twenty one
almost in this point in time count results with
sorry once again which item on the agenda would you
like held councillor the twenty twenty one homelessness point in
time count results nine point nine point one so let
me come back nine point one now to be held
as requested by councillor plushie okay okay and before I
take the vote on the consent agenda and and how
we deal with it but I also wanted to suggest
to my colleagues in the interest of keeping us moving
along you see we have quite a list of delegations
she finishes here first and I'd like to deal with
that first when we come to it but then we
have a bunch with regards to the consumption site and
of course we're going to deal with those next what
I wanted to suggest was I thought it might be
timely and helpful to focus the conversation is to deal
with the brief staff presentation first because you find that
asks and answers so many of the questions on behalf
of the delegates I think it'll streamline the conversation once
council in committee is dealt with I will open it
up to all of the delegates on the opioid matter
because some follow some of the delegates on the mother
Parkers matter I want to deal with all the folks
with regard to the consumption side first on the agenda
regardless of where they fall then we will conclude with
delegates on mother Parkers so what you're concurrence there is
your consent agenda are there any questions seeing none I
haven't moved by councillor Mullen seconded by council early but
the following matters listed on the July seven twenty twenty
to regional council agenda be approved under the consent agenda
anybody opposed that is carried okay with that we can
get started councillor through the chief and Mr wrap up
chief of police peel regional police presenting the provincial adequacy
standards and and a shuttle to run chapter who's here
as well as our chair welcome gentleman and so much
of the team from the service very good to see
you all chief and chair welcome
thank you chair
packager
I believe that the regional council and
are terribly services board Mr Ted I would like to
just say some quick opening remarks and then I'll begin
good morning chair mayors regional council staff and members of
the public I'm pleased to be here on behalf of
the police services board we have achieved the rear par
with us are not only as a chief of police
in peel but to recently as we already got appointed
as the president off the hallway CB so we are
here with the animals are potent ... Chief will begin
the presentation thank you
thank you very much for the opportunity to write an
update to regional council members on our progress as status
I think you can you see in the agenda it
indicates it is adequacy standards because the legislation does require
us to provide annual updates on you know how we're
doing but we like to see this as almost a
barometer and what's happened but also what we're is ongoing
here in peel region and ... I am extremely conscious
of the heavy agenda and the delegations so I will
be ... thoughtful in my comments
again I wanna thank at the regional council are the
support our police services board in really at everyone that
... region at the region staff I pretty much am
in contact with every commissioner here ... behind us and
I want to acknowledge our appeal police team that is
here before us
very quickly ... you know as just that the baseball
card thing is the important thing just to remember who's
who and we could spend a lot of time on
this but I do want to acknowledge that most recently
we were pleased to promote a deputy chief mark to
Pat ... in charge of a corporate services as you
know we as a team are committed units in these
three principles you know them from the moment I arrived
in the spoke to council on modernizing our approach in
mobilizing innovation the focusing on the inside of our organization
and a commitment to the public are the golden threads
that we continue to espouse in ... you know I'm
pleased to see that my team also does the same
many of you have received ... the either the link
or the version of the annual port you know we
moved away to an online version allows us to you
obviously comply with the if your aspects and it is
far more interactive but you will be able to see
with the link ... before you are available on our
website is recordings of not just data in subsets with
the progress under three main buckets that ... the police
services board and the police agency of community and of
course community our people and our work and ... I
must say that if there's a need to and an
opportunity for us to spend time with any of the
councillors and your constituents as it pertains to some of
the details behind it please let us know we made
an emphasis in some of you wouldn't see that now
is to expand our ability to stay connected with up
... elected officials with the establishment of government relations ...
of function in your your team and your staff are
... I hope internal arc in constant contact by our
team
as it pertains to where we're headed is ... you
know I tell our people and that if the hear
me speak whether it's you know in small groups large
groups or to the media is our aspirational statement is
to be the most innovative progressive police organization and you
can fill in the blank internationally it's clearly aspirational we
will make mistakes on the way and we will make
formative changes to to do that but our commitment to
that is about transforming the way policing looks and ...
it is one which not just the community is asking
but I know that all of you are desirous of
seeing a formative changes that server community better and these
are the elements that you know we really put the
hawks and and obviously you shift to community safety well
being and as a as a lands were everything we
doing that ensuring that we don't go alone on this
road and bring together our partners including those that are
here in this room but we also are focused on
what's different in a growing region and we'll get to
the growth impacts ... we're still called upon in the
concurrent lane way is to look at not doing things
the way we've always done it in a in a
mechanisms for alternative service delivery and many of these elements
are what is what drives the activities that you perhaps
may see or you see emerging from peel regional police
a without a doubt because I know we are members
of the community and public interest in it I I
can't let the time pass without talking about community safety
well being I wish it was a little easier to
say and if people didn't ... you know glaze out
when I kept saying committee safety well being but you
know ... it's a pleasure to be able to share
that with commissioner pull Cinelli and we want to keep
routing people in the framework the frameworks indicates that traditionally
we've always been in the urgency incident response and that's
what you know when there's a problem in the community
we say let's put more effort in this space and
I don't want to walk away from this it is
an important space with you know the issues that we
see from intimate partner violence the carjackings and thefts ...
you know things that plague our community we will always
be in the space but just awesome the space fire
paramedics doesn't resolve everything and emphasis on ensuring that we
bring other people into the space of social development prevention
not just crime prevention but prevention for all issues and
also opportunities to get upstream mitigate risk are really important
to us and so this is the lands that we
are trying to apply to it could be a neighbourhood
street corner related issue that applies a right to you
macro issues such as mental health and addictions
S. housing homelessness ... food food and security and all
the different issues that you as a region and councillors
in your constituency ... it's the same ones that our
officers are are at the doorsteps every day and so
that's why it's important to us the idea being is
that if we put emphasis in the other areas as
you can see visually the emphasis in the red has
decreased and by decreasing it you know conceptually this allows
us to get back to the spaces that we like
to be at ... I know all of you you
know I've talked to many of you both in a
being put on hold on you know nine one one
or delays in us reporting we love to get back
to the business that we are supposed to be doing
and so with the way we look at is these
four on the rights of the screen these four big
buckets and it's not that it's gone from all the
other things that are important but these are acutely elevated
areas of risk in our community that we are using
the community safety well being lands on some of you
will have received I think most of you will have
received at least the packages staff will have it last
week we were able to launch my commitment I know
the region is committed to community safety well being plan
which they push through admins colon but as an organization
that is one of you know many partners in the
regions community safety well being plan we wanted to commit
ourselves in a real thoughtful way to continue our approaches
to proactive collaborative solutions to preventing and mitigating risa we
have our own operational plan it's call our way forward
and it speaks to you know many many commitments within
it but of which is to be more thoughtful and
data driven verses reactionary all I I know I think
we all agree that our region of all regions in
Canada serves a culturally responsible approach to that
and also putting partnerships number one and I think you
know that not to say that lately is
we recognize that a more balanced and collaborative approach to
policing is a better way of achieving what this community
needs and I think we are committed to ID and
root causes of specific calls for service that we continue
to get and finding a way to turn the tap
down on that if we can by bringing our partners
into it so ... again and other welcome at a
lot of point an opportunity ... the offline with any
any of you from a regional council to bring myself
for my team to speak to this and that you
know I think we were seen examples of that the
first thing is we want to be informed by the
community we serve there have been virtual town halls physical
town halls I know ... council parishes holding one next
week which we will be a part of with community
leaders we want to be informed before we move forward
on the planning under committee safety well being so it
takes a lot of listening and we know if we
come out of the gates with the plan that has
not been informed by it does that are impacted by
it we we clearly will be missing the mark and
also ... are opening ourselves up to you ... criticism
so this is a heavy heavy in front and informing
ourselves with the public we serve ...
the the next area is party populations and this is
how we have termed a you know older adults use
all all the populations that we see are potentially at
risk inclusive of those affected by by real significant pressures
and now not only do we launch our community with
wellbeing strategy we are working on developing a youth action
plan we know in the ages where we have seen
it a certain footprint of policing egress from the school
environment we need to find thoughtful ways of investing in
our youth and when we look at communities that are
under pressure ... yes we are they're responding to policing
needs but we also need to you know bill resiliency
along with our partners to mitigate the risk of them
they see down the road all right not just that
we have ... our mental health addiction strategy which we
are a partner with the region on thank you for
that which was launched last year our divisional mobilization teams
which are officers that are strictly assigned to go and
mitigate risk and the non emergent situation we know that
a two hundred people in a region are responsible for
two thousand calls for service and ... if there's a
way that we could provide them supports an offramp them
the the volume of work that we we see getting
put back into areas of of upper tier are tremendous
you see the little dots on the screen you know
if you follow the the the colors of the committee
safety well being plan this is how we map our
activities in the spaces that we have not traditionally been
we've almost always been in the red but never in
the social development prevention and risk mitigation I want to
commend the region for their finding of making sustainable funding
for human trafficking and prevent human trafficking in assisting those
... exiting human trafficking this continues to be one of
our our our largest parties in peel region and I'm
pleased to say that we are one of the leading
municipal
all these regions in Canada with a collaborative multi sector
approach to human trafficking it's not just seen as you
know a few agencies doing that obviously more room to
grow of course we recognize that ... offering people and
connecting the services is a better way than us doing
you know it's the definition of insanity
repeatedly going back and resolve trying to resolve an issue
with ... police officers only ... and expecting a different
outcome
it would be I would be remiss if I would
I didn't just you know ensure that the region appeal
Knowles that we intend on making seismic difference differences to
policing ... I again this is not a soft on
crime discussion this is you know us looking at policing
through a public health lands in the shift to human
rights centric approach and some of the work they were
doing you'll see the seven key principles of our committee
with the Ontario Human Rights Commission we are the only
police agency in Canada to work voluntarily to implement ...
size make systemic changes to how we do things and
you know there's a lot of people that will say
let's wait and see how that works but we we
are seeing the shift and the shift is rooted in
in those elements that are down below ... we again
are not doing this on our along our own we
have established a anti racism advisory committee and ... just
like many police organizations we have lots of advisory committees
in chiefs councils but this stands above and beyond that
the committee's purpose is to provide meaningful and thoughtful ...
the lands and recommendations to the work we're doing with
the Ontario Human Rights Commission ... that is you know
oriented eliminating systemic racism in and any human service and
we're very thankful for ... the members there and they
were all selected by members of the community and not
by us
again our emphasis on mental health and addictions continues to
increase year over year year to date we're seeing an
increase in requests for assistance for those that have ...
mental health related ... crisis ... but we have a
strategy which isn't just the you know responsive and and
it has five years of focus I won't go through
them but they are you know focused on supporting ...
people in a different way us increasing our capacity to
understand the challenges in the expanding our knowledge through evidence
base and you know there's elements of it that are
also focused on the well being of our own employees
I know the region appeal will have one of the
the only ... you know ...
first responder wellness our treatment facilities in in Canada and
then I think it's it's a great thing for us
but it's all integrated in me see it not just
in our work force but in the community we have
been thankful to be working with our hospitals CMHA William
Oscar for example has a hospital transfer of care protocol
where we can bring somebody in in crisis into the
hospital with a greater ease in it's more about the
care of the individual the spin offs are that you
know yes our officers are back in action a little
quicker ... but you know we continue to work on
this inclusive of supporting connection to services again the mobile
crisis rapid response team still exist here ... I I
need to say that
if they don't respond in an officer respond only on
their own eighty percent of the time we're taking somebody
to the hospital if the crisis worker responds with an
officer
only twenty percent of the time somebody's going to hospital
that means the right people are going to an emergency
room unnecessarily we're not bringing people there and or were
connecting people right to services right from the curbside
one that will be of course of importance to all
of us ... in our in and one that we
hear quite a bit from our community is the response
of island crime and ... you know we can spend
a lot of time in this area but we have
applied the community will being strategy to this as well
you know we've talked about our ... intimate partner violence
response which embeds fifty plus offices at the safes under
appeal and that allows us to continue to do a
referrals to the people that need off ramping and supports
that are in the in the cycle of intimate partner
violence survivors that are involved in it ... but part
of our work has been advocacy with the province you
will have seen ... recent ... for grant funding announcements
that are allowing us to hire our allow peer P.
to work with our partners to hire crisis workers at
the city center people would strengthen our support for survivors
of intimate partner violence and human trafficking we also received
over three one point five million or three years which
will go to a guns and gangs violence reduction strategy
this investment is obviously there to help us continue to
fight local gun and gang activity but some of the
things that you may not see our our efforts to
increase the complex care response teams which is now a
social worker with a trained officer in the space of
family and intimate partner violence that are on the road
to end up at the doorstep of people so it's
not just officers it's a another way to try to
offer him some of the needs some of them are
not critic critic criminal in nature and require ... other
supports ... we have ... continue to invest in our
efforts for the situation tables which meet with fifty a
community partners weekly to find opportunities to support
hold that are in our at risk ... some of
the work that we're doing to approach a gang violence
reduction is actually supporting the families and siblings of those
involved in a violent activity which means that ... we
are providing them pathways to education partnering with a shared
and ... local businesses not for profit service social service
agencies and youth related agencies to build stronger supports we're
not the solution to that but we believe that strength
in those communities ... you know in the years out
even if it off ramps wanted to young people that
have been exposed to gun and gang violence ... it
takes them out of that the the that stream
one that of course is a priority and it to
all of us we have seen you know with the
increase of volume of vehicles in our municipality ... not
just the motor vehicle collisions but we as far as
this weekend we had the this weekend alone two tragic
deaths ... ... ... in
they're both ... alcohol related of motor vehicle collisions you
know sadly innocent people affected by a motor vehicle collisions
that are involved with it a middle off with that
alcohol and addictions involved so our efforts are not just
on enforcement and I need to say that we've established
to enforcement teams ... one of which is a safer
roads team the safer roads team ... it is
specifically focused on individuals that are chronic high risk offenders
and drivers ... not we will have to go too
far to have talked about the chisel ... family that
... we know that the driver involved I had a
long history of repeated it infractions driver suspensions and if
there's an opportunity for us to focus on them to
mitigate them ... you know the results are very obvious
but in addition to them we have a target enforcement
team which goes to the communities in your and your
wards especially when we get repeated complaints the use statistics
community complaints and and target on the enforcement
also responsible for some of the larger projects that you've
seen ... pertain pertain to noise or the street racing
or race we want to just also you know right
from me ... affirm the value of speed enforcement cameras
... you know we all we all know that ...
with some of the studies in the data are showing
a reduction in driver behaviour over time a even up
down to eight climbers and some of them which is
you know may sound marginal but it is something for
sure that we we are appreciative of because our limited
number of officers can unfortunately be everywhere ... and you
know we focused up people diction ... S. S. been
a referral center here every and this is an element
of our you know
community safety well being lands is every person stop for
an alcohol or substance related driving offense received at curbside
referral to park and so that means within if they
can send within twenty four hours they are connected right
with an addictions counselor and not all the might take
it but if you wanted to do ... it's an
effort to offramp ... the cycle ... that we see
... repeatedly of re offending it in our community ...
we are just for your wariness roughly ... stable with
the number of fatalities that we've had year over year
we have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities all of
them are concerned for us and we continue to work
closely with our partners with the OP P. ... in
other jurisdictions because we know many of them ... our
our trip traveling right across the GTA that are the
more gregis
I'd be remiss to not spend a small amount of
time on one that has ... you know captured not
just you and your region bar right across the GTA
everybody's attention and I I wanna thank ... the board
for their support in advocating for some of the spaces
that are outside of the realm of ... what a
policing can do we have had ... you know the
first thing to distinguish that the north of the vehicles
in carjackings all the diverse deal with vehicles and victimization
are a really on our side to two different ...
the buckets but are interrelated that the vehicles quickly are
you know unattended vehicle that stolen ... would through the
various means but ... the carjackings which you know I
would you know safely see are far more egregious involve
violence to extract the driver and team the vehicle they're
both related in such that we're seeing trends that ...
you know summer just use for the commission of other
crimes but we're seeing many of them especially the high
and motor vehicles ...
involved in being explored exported for commercial ... the legal
purposes so our response has always been you know
in the investigative in the red and we've we continue
to do an amazing job we have here in peel
one of only two commercial auto dedicated out auto crime
units in Ontario ... in that's part of the extension
of our commitment they're involved with a variety of initiatives
and projects join forces operations critically with the exportation of
of them the one that you see in the last
which you may have seen in this a quick YouTube
video for those who have the time to search it
but that one is ... appeal led one with our
partners that resulted in the arrest of twenty four individuals
for ... the thefts of our own vehicles we reserve
river covered two hundred vehicles in that project ... worth
over eleven million dollars ... there are top five that's
why it's called high five vehicles which we continue to
do as you move through the rings of the committee
safety well being plan is you can start to see
are you know it's not just a policing issue ...
you know just form for numbers we are approximately you
know probably four hundred stolen autos a month in the
region appeal and ... that's that's a lot in getting
to the manufactures and preventing them are ... not just
the ... police related initiatives so our collaboration with ...
other enforcement entities ... dealing with manufacturers we've not been
invited to work with manufacturers at the design round table
to find upstream mechanisms to prevent it ... clearly there
are things that you know
owners of these vehicles can do but you know we
can't put it all on all owners and ... we
know this frustration with the ability for us to to
interdict these vehicles and to take them off ramped up
in so we continue to you know use
on the lands of what more can we do with
other people to turn the dial down on these pressures
our next commitment as you know is you know in
many of you know that I've said this before is
... you know technologies not just about you know getting
a shiny plated glass in front of an officer it's
intended to be a platform to serve the community better
better for us to do our job better to be
more effective but also to improve the safety and well
being and you know we have many principles that we
are focusing on the six pillars are down below below
deputy chief authority who's in charge or innovation infrastructure is
here and he leads this with a quite an amazing
team but you know the way we see it is
you know if we can you know if I took
the but it played a glass with their officers and
you've heard me do the analogy before you can sign
for a mortgage on your couch on an iPad but
you know offices are still flipping through notebooks and having
to drive thirty minutes into in the station to to
in a research things you know right now we've got
to the bility where ... through some applications we have
our appeal police apps store which you know one of
the apps is ... one which if we somebody just
wants a hot meal and we're standing at a curbside
you know downtown Brampton the officer can you know quickly
jump on see what's open make the referral and a
connection and connection but he too simple hot meal if
they need a referral to service we can do it
we've launched a two we interpretation of multi lingual the
actually talk to somebody who speaks their language virtually all
on the device and we're at we are ... a
piloting with electronic notes many of you know from an
accountability transparency and supporting the work we do in telling
our story better we have been the largest police organization
to fleet ... in a sort of spirit time body
worn cameras ... and we're looking beyond that is our
ability to we stream to a crisis worker in the
communications center as a platform at of course supporting your
community ... we have a real time operate
in center at the peak times of policing were able
to augment resources in a way that ... isn't defined
just by officers within the division always being responsible for
their work and the in a very quickly ... intimate
feel like I'm speed dating through it it's just that
I'm very conscious of the other delegations vine me and
perhaps the questions and answers but
are you appeal please is one of
the only Canada's First police agencies to operate its own
public safety broadband network that means all the data everything
I told you this happening ... over hand held devices
in vehicles is on our own is off on a
rolling on her own network which is on the heels
of the nine eleven commission report which recommends that first
responders should have their own cyber secure and resilient network
and you know just to be clear that it is
also being used Halton and two point five million population
are are benefiting from the US the us being able
to get to their doorstep without outages ... that perhaps
other municipalities may see
and finally it be you know many of you heard
me say if we're not good on the inside we're
not good on the outside and
you know this is our commitment to doing that our
people is many of the initiatives you see you know
the development of you know internal support networks for our
officers ... ... expect respect workplace which is intended to
make sure we we have a healthy and respectful workplace
that we ... deconstruct you know some of the issues
of the past that have affected many organizations across the
policing spectrum an investment in leadership and leadership growth not
nurturer people from ... organizational wellness standpoint and then a
culture shift and you know the these may be the
least interesting ones for you but they actually are the
invest in our people so the moment they interact with
the public whether they be on the phone or in
person ... are you know the commitment to them being
their best and ... you know I I need to
say that the slides that you've all seen have all
occurred you know these changes of all occurred in the
last year and a half to you despite you know
the pandemic ... and all the geopolitical pressures that we
seen localized pressures is our commitment to continue to
transform the organization so it looks and feels different than
what chiefs might stand up and say before you on
an annual report ...
I'd you know I think it's important for all of
us to say you know okay Mrs saying he's doing
all these things that are changing the way we look
at business our team is is is a pot committed
to this transformation ... but ... anything we also after
knowledge that we are ... without a doubt in one
of the fastest growing regions and the growth impacts I'm
sure you constituents all feel whether it's a delay in
response or ... time waiting on calls we have one
of the busiest nine on one communication centers ... in
in Canada we are communications center dispatches for fire
and all three municipalities and and police and also are
the intake for all the paramedic call so you can
imagine how busy that is then there is a need
for growth expansion and ... as you see in the
bottom right and regional council be well aware of ...
and we're very thankful for the support of of region
staff ... commissioner can for working with us on our
long term facilities plan in our growth plans ... ...
CO a bigger as been fantastic for for the conversations
but we still operate with the for policing division model
that we did in nineteen eighty one and the population
has grown two hundred twenty seven percent and our work
forces also grown significantly and so did the it would
you know council needs to know that we have not
kept up with that and we're making strong efforts to
do that in in in your future that includes ...
the new OP operational policing division ... which is in
the northwest as well as seventy seven fifty is what
we call Sir Robert peel it's right across from from
... in if you look at it it literally looks
like it's ... out of the scene of NYPD Blue
from about eighty years ago ... and it ... to
say that it needs to be ... you know revitalized
is ... is an understatement so we have ... move
forward with the accelerating some of our capital projects ...
then as the region also suffers in the municipal municipalities
I also suffer with the cost of inflation and ...
and we we are adjusting with that so ... it
the growth is not only impact with our infrastructure but
is also with the people you know part of being
able to get more people out to the things that
our community deserves to see an officer is a thoughtful
way of ... making sure work force grows with the
population growth but I want to assure you as you
come then you here in the board comes to you
with you know you know these are the needs for
peel police at you have the most thoughtful leadership team
looking out what else can we do you ... to
solutions some of these pressures that are upon us
as I wrap up ... you know in the middle
you'll see the three tenths of our strapline is our
people are working a community the boxes outside of them
referred to what Nish says when he stands up in
front of a microphone to say our aspirational statements and
this is what our team is committed to you and
you can see the multitude of activities that are deeply
connected between it again we're not just swing at the
fences were trying to stay committed to a vision in
the plan and ... you know it takes they say
it takes three to seven years to shift culture in
organizations and strategy we're committed to it with regardless of
you know the day to day pressures ... we're committed
also to making sure that you feel that you have
a response of police organization that says Hey you know
we see the gap in delta there what can we
do to of all ... we are bringing along three
thousand four hundred members with us on this on this
... on this trajectory and ... I do want to
say that we are extremely appreciative of the support that
we've got from all of you individually ... is ...
as we have conversations ... council itself ... the reason
stuff I want to thank all of them for their
continued support and friendship and in the board ... and
... we're pleased to be your police service and ...
hopefully we continue to see the changes and ... the
improvements as the time goes on ... and I would
say that is on the backs of every civilian and
sworn member of the organization and ... we're just pleased
to be here today
sure thank you
chief thank you very much for your presentation we have
questions councillor perish
comments mostly ... thank you at the tone of the
report was very positive I used to dread the police
report coming in because they were bullets and guns and
all kinds of nasty things you always manage to give
us the news but you do it in up lifting
weights so I appreciate that ... the second comment I
want to make is
regarding the community station at Westwood square it's had a
really positive the fact nothing's perfect but it's had a
very positive effect on multi
as an example the first time we brought in Canada
day up there the officer at the time said we
needed twenty eight P. duty police officers I said why
and she said consultant of what happened this year which
you have a shortage of officers that signed up for
V. duty and undervaluation as was done as to where
they need to work and we were told we didn't
need any we just needed to order ... two extra
private security people there were no incidents it went beautifully
self to go from requiring twenty eighteen telling us we
had a good track record and you don't need any
is a direct
relationship with having the community station I really appreciate that
my only question is ... I'm sure you've seen the
article the start of the trial police force ... losing
over four thousand cars and a couple of the people
who lost Karsten we had devices on their cars and
they call the police and they tracked their cars for
two days but the police never showed up in the
locations they were sent to or they go out there
and of course we're gonna have you had any sort
of reaction to that any spillover into people
thank you councilperson appreciate the comments and before I answer
the question we look forward to continuing to work and
all this the hub in a variety of different opportunities
as we move forward to be collaborative so thank you
again for ... the willingness to to to work with
us for sure and ... just to your question we
were seeing the same frustration a council person then perhaps
you know the guy I saw what happened in Toronto
... we we are seeing ...
you know where the car owners have a quicker ability
to respond to the stolen car and see where it's
going we've had much success I think
in you know there are some out liars and I
don't want to they don't have the numbers in front
of me but there are some out liars like the
one particular article we recently saw in the in the
in in the media where it's just gone on and
on and it and it is a it's a it's
a something definitely needs to be peeled back but we
have also had opportunities where somebody has said to us
eight I call it in you know a couple hours
ago but I've got it sitting here at that intersection
X. and Y. we have had success in responding to
them I think it's probably a totality of factors that
cause delays sometimes it's compounded by it moving into the
next jurisdiction which then adds to the delay and you
know I can't speak to the other municipalities it is
a big frustration at Kelso perish and you know
for example I think both both municipalities in Mississauga Brampton
are roughly about two hundred stolen cars a month and
if you do it per day it's all it's
no it does the volume is is a research challenge
said to get to them but ... yet that is
definitely there ... we have encouraged citizens to not go
get their cars although it's tempting because sometimes we have
you know for example the deployed
plainclothes officers seated to to watch the vehicle to see
if we can affect an arrest and we don't sometimes
know what the owner looks like which could cause the
difficulty so you know those are some of the nuances
and that is a point of frustration if they can
get the Kerr and we can't what good are we
right and I think we recognize that that that's an
issue but it is really compounded by the volume and
... of of them so I'm not sure Francis your
question but ... I can just the firm the for
the the firm that that is that let's just say
it's a it's a frustration for both the police and
the community we love to get to them but
the fact that there are ten a day makes it
hard for you to send somebody out when somebody says
I track my card is such and such an intersection
because they'll be gone by the time you get there
but I guess I found the article kind of unfair
to the police and I was kind of hoping to
see a rebuttal at some point but that's mostly trials
it was that it's focused on their police department so
I guess they're not into the public relations business but
anyway I really want to thank you ... super thank
you for coming out next week communities very excited and
... I don't think you'll get a lot of concerns
about stolen cars but you'll get other concerns as well
and I know you'll be well prepared thank you very
much thank you counsel thank you Mr Thompson
yes so here here's challenge I have for you the
speed enforcement cameras all working extremely well Alton Caledon into
peel challenges we need more of them and it sure
takes the law lifting off from your officers every day
I have one particular individual that lives in Brampton came
and met with me wanted to talk about the situation
and ... Campbell our camels crosses should say and ...
when he arrived he had twenty three invoices from the
speed camera
and what he was doing a hundred twenty three to
forty like it's a forty through there
I'm any wanted to know all of what I could
help him I like he'd pay for the high one
in the or if we took the high one low
one off eBay the rest I said no there's no
deal here you have not learned to slow down on
our roads it works
question I have going forward this is something that the
police services board can work with because you have OPP
there is well with the region appeal staff and the
local municipalities on how we can start to build a
plan common for the budget on how we can start
to incorporate these because they will pay for themselves over
time but let's develop a plan on how to start
to install them everywhere in even if we just have
the box without the camera it works it slows traffic
down better than what you can these things work twenty
four seven officers have other things that the other commitments
we need to do we need to work smarter you've
definitely proven that in your report what I'm putting the
challenges yes what can we do since you're the biggest
part of the force but I can occur courage that
OPP will be part of it but we all need
to work together with our lower tiers because we're doing
the court enforcement but now with the changes that the
province for these AS sees that they just pay the
fines what can we do to start to because it's
gonna make our community safer what can we do to
do to ...
hi I guess to implement this technology start to build
up for twenty three going forward ... I think it's
extremely important I know we have little bits and pieces
but we need to really take now the province has
given us the tools
let's let's figure out how to implement it and that's
why I'm saying the police services board needs to be
a big part of it because we got to to
police forces that we need to work with to slow
traffic down and peel and that's our biggest challenge in
Caledon is when you got high speed LEED stacks and
sleeves the frills and I'm sure it's like that everywhere
of drunk driving we we we can't do but if
we can force people to slow down even with drunk
drivers it's going to make our roads safer
thank you your ship and you know I do first
of all let me say that we absolutely would support
a collaborative ... in discussion on this because I think
now that you not only has the province of ported
it and the municipality's been added now for a little
while so all the back in infrastructure work full parts
process is there which we know is one that we
had to work out ... I think the ability for
us to to not just look at what we're that
we're the needs for it what does it look like
what can we do with the data for example on
somebody like if Nish has fifteen of them you know
is their ability for the data roll over to us
for our in our targeted teams or with the OP
so the answer is we'd happily entertain the ... Koval
and the art of possibility for that
I know we're running out of time on this to
even bring forward as a motion we can we just
do it is direction that we can see what we
can do to leave that ... Mr Jerry your sit
on the board but what we can do to start
implementing this program please thank you
councillor desco
share great to see you chief Nash
I always find your updates really interesting and
Russell and I am and I
I think you're more progressive them sometimes but
but that with legislation and funding allows for and that
but I'm really glad to see the direction that again
...
again I don't want to us to repeat too much
of what's already been mentioned by the stolen car situation
and ... and this is just it's truly incredible but
seeing I guess first hand some of the work that
appeals during honest it terms of
to this it's just it's just the sheer volume seems
incredible but I just wanted to mention ... just to
see if there's other avenues I know while the Mayor
just mention about that ... it
privacy for us were automated speed enforcement
the general to staff but also I would also see
if we might be able to leverage that into
you want to do some work but more technology like
decibel counters and things like that hands police officers and
also push for a stronger regulation as we have that
I I around the regional table in the class and
also what rather Mississauga council table as well I think
there's a real opportunity here to do that she also
will I believe in the news this morning or yesterday
... mayor Tory it's Ralph is ... to to get
more active but ... my fear with what he wants
to do is sign up I truly don't believe that
that but our police forces have the right tools in
place to deal with that situations like this where you're
mentioning changes that the blast happened decades ago and ...
and what we're seeing right now is change that's happening
so I just might ask that ...
and again I don't know that it's direction or anything
but it's just baby out ... you know to
through through our council but I think maybe it's just
something when you're talking to out to the province and
give us some ideas to a charge of how we
can help you for things for example like a modified
mufflers situation that I know what you're dealing with the
budget
so ... perhaps that's a question for you chief Nash
is there any way that so but again we're getting
into end of council time and lame but is there
anything that we might be able to do to able
to further assist you and your and your team
absolutely thank you very much for both ... questions and
on the stolen car when I think I believe chair
Chad I would like to comment a little bit on
it and maybe if I can deal with the second
part on resourcing first of all thanks for your willingness
to support yes you know we we do we have
a limited number of of ... tools to help allow
for enforcement and I can certainly speak to my team
you know I would never turn away council support for
this no operational ... items but we we would like
to talk to my team and perhaps you can come
back with an opportunity for you know the same way
council's affirmed support for you know mental health you know
the road safety U. one we've been clearly working on
with the vision zero but as it gets down to
the practical elements that allow us to do things that
are quality of life like noise related issues with the
absolutely there are some solutions that we can I can
chat with my team and then for the stolen car
situation I think ... you know there are opportunities with
the transportation ministry institution ... advocacy that manufacturers ... it
banks insurance companies we have a map of activities which
the chair has been a privy to and would love
to turn it over to him to talk to
thank you councillor for offering the supposed to endorse to
the heart of that this is one of the big
... issue we have strange throughout the GTA and we
accomplished that in peeling or apple and different people ...
board meeting ... we put forward a motion and ...
were and and in the last hour board meeting we
received a report ... I'm not sure councillor if you
received the letter ... from me on behalf of the
bodes ... dealt with the copy we don't to down
to all as BP's and MPs are or how we
can work together because this is a bigger problem just
in this bigger than just in this region because when
you see the majority of the recall are being explored
out of the country in the end to the containers
so just ... when the CESS facts are
R. three percent of the containers Park leaving the leaving
the country on that declaration kind of the submitted sometime
three to six months after the containers are already left
the country that is one of the main reason beside
are you obviously we need to work with the manufacturer
after the meal you lose the key are so hard
to get and how somebody come and within ten seconds
stick your we could always obviously there's a bit of
pressure on on the police ... officers working there ...
but ... to gather I'm sure are if you are
maybe I can speak to you after our our our
wonderful deputy deputy Milosevic can ... get ... get to
you all the data all the **** is all the
work we are doing in regards to the artefact thank
you
okay well thanks so much yes absolutely
welcome that would be great thank you very much
you cancer cetyl
thank you Mr joiner and the thank you Jeeves for
being here and as always ... bringing us a very
solid plan or up for Jill regional police not not
just a litany of problems and ...
M. statistics because ... you're you're actually doing something to
tackle those statistics that I think that's what's so critical
... one of the one of the areas that I
have been the most concerned about is the youth issue
and I know you are dealing as much as you
can to continue those connections with you I think one
of the worst things that the school boards it was
very short sighted ... was to remove the police and
remove remove all connections with the police with with the
schools
and I hate to think how many young people have
lost out because of that
... you know that some of the stories that I've
heard from principals and teachers that ... you know the
program was an excellent one it meter provision we all
know that but you were working on that and I
think to ... you know pulling the program totally and
not even allowing a police officer to put one foot
on school property and has ... has created a bigger
problem than what I think anyone on any of the
boards of education could have foreseen and as I said
I've heard about it from my community I've heard about
it from parents from teachers and from from police officers
so ... I'm hoping that with the new board coming
it backs term that there will be some ... more
rational thinking and ... some more responsibility by the trustees
of the board of education to work with the police
not against them because I think that was probably the
worst thing that could have happened ... I think you
are open from what we've seen you are very open
to working with people and with the community and ...
and with the educators and I think that's what is
desperately desperately needed otherwise we're you're not going to be
able to ...
you're not gonna be able to support the youth in
the community which I know you want to do and
so I think that's a very important thing going forward
...
the community you know I praise to so many times
for the community well being safety well being plan the
peel regional police brought forward ... you were such an
integral part of our regional community safety well being plan
but to take the further step and put it into
policing and going back and looking at those root causes
particularly of those roads the challenge these
I think was was such a very proactive approach and
I really applaud you and ... the staff will come
forward and that of course I have to recognize inspector
general's
overall the works I work very closely with him on
the road safety issues ... also ... one of the
things you didn't mention was how engaged your officers are
with our various committees around the region that municipalities on
our roads into committee in Mississauga on our vision zero
task force here in the region and the input and
the collaboration that we see there is some is just
phenomenal and stuff we would be doing it without you
I want to respond to ... comments that ... the
Mayor Thompson made about the speed cameras because ... week
... Allen week we did have been killed police and
cheapness were engaged in this we had a round table
with the ministry of transportation earlier this year ... where
we have been with the region has been very proactive
on trying to get the province to open up the
pilot program into a full fledged program that would give
us a lot more flexibility in how and where we
apply those speed cameras and we do expect the report
from the province to come the Ministry assured us of
it becoming in September or early fall so hopefully going
forward will be able to have more options and ...
he said on that task force as well and we're
at the meeting so you know is a lot of
collaboration going on we've been very very strong advocates here
at the region and I know in Mississauga for more
flexibility in the speed camera program and ...
it aligns I am confident that starting in the fall
we will have but one of the other things at
cheap that we really really need you to be a
very strong advocate from a policing perspective it is for
a provincial vision zero strategy
and we reiterate to the provincial to the minister into
the ... to the MTO staff how important that is
for the province and at a recent ... OTC version
zero seven are that I was out a couple weeks
ago ... you know we have a lot of advocacy
going on with organizations around the province and agencies and
we need we need the policing to be very strong
on that as well so thank you for all your
doing we need to keep working together on these because
it is a partnership and ...
consolations it it's such a great report not all good
... you know we we have to look at the
statistics that there are so many issues that you're dealing
with but I really like the way that your ...
that you're prepared to deal with them so thank you
thank you counsel thank you that concludes the speakers just
a point of emphasis for that or what some of
my colleagues have said number one she can or so
proud when you talk about community safety and well being
and as chair or I'm particularly proud as two friends
number one one of the few jurisdictions that have implemented
ours and it's working when so many were given delays
because of Corbett but number two chief the point of
emphasis that I always make for taxpayers as it's been
proven over and over again the introduction you do with
the frontend saves six times the amount of having to
clean up the mess afterwards so I even tell people
that are humanists are aren't humanness that don't care if
you don't care about others spend the bulk up front
and let's help somebody today instead of incarcerating them years
later at six times the cost and money we can
buy money for officers why don't we have more money
up front but that's the challenge we have the second
point yep I want to make it I'm so glad
church at the mention this you know it's been said
in sports the greatest accolades any athlete loves more than
anything is when they went awards proffered by their peers
and she for you in shorter to become the chief
of chiefs to become the head of ... cap I
mean that's just such a remarkable reflection on you and
peel and I want to tell you this last time
leave which a little sign posts along the way I'm
I was looking at the conference coming up for the
chiefs that's imminent and it might have been using hyperbole
years ago thirty years ago the annual conference of chiefs
of chiefs in North America the keynote speech might have
been ... the latest paramilitary equipment and why you need
more of it well that's thirty years ago chief under
your leadership the theme of the chiefs of chiefs conferences
coming up and I'm paraphrasing is fostering public trust and
confidence in policing and there's your sign post along the
way of still a lot of conversations to come but
because of people like you and peel at the vanguard
very proud of the direction we're going in so well
done to you I have a motion here moved by
talk to you in the whole service by the way
thanks to all ...
moved by mayor Thompson second by councillor Dusko we're moving
receipt of the chiefs presentation anybody opposed that is carried
thank you to all thank you okay moving on run
to our next deputations with regards to our consumption site
but as I said we're gonna start with the staff
presentation to sort of focus the conversation so I'm dealing
first before the probe the deputations with the staff presentation
item eight point one supervised consumption services and peel by
AFP urgent public health needs site a presentation by Dr
Kate being on acting medical officer of health and all
the related to parts that we will be dealing with
so Kate welcome for the presentation as I said to
the delegates we will come to you immediately after we
all get this focus presentation on the matter before us
please proceed
how that
good morning and thank you chair ... and good morning
to members of regional council
before I begin I'd like to acknowledge ... in advance
all of the delegates who are here to present today
... as well as those who submitted written submissions related
to this agenda item
important to listen to stakeholders both those who need the
services of those who may be impacted by the services
in our community
our combined efforts and commitment are necessary to help save
lives that may otherwise be lost or severely impacted
report today provides an update on planning that's under way
to establish supervised consumption services in P. all
we're asking for your endorsement today to proceed with the
next steps of planning and community engagement to help make
these services available in peel soon to address rising drug
toxicity deaths in harm's in our community
the report from council reflects priority work that has restarted
out of the pandemic in response to the growing number
of drug toxicity deaths in our community this work is
part of the peel opioid strategy that was endorsed by
council as the board of health at the end of
two thousand nineteen just before the cover nineteen pandemic
if you look at strategy works across four pillars of
prevention harm reduction treatment and enforcement and justice the immediate
focuses on harm reduction interventions which are known to prevent
drug toxicity overdoses supervised consumption services are an additional tool
that will strengthen people's current harm reduction services which include
provision of safer drug use and equipment and supplies safe
sharps disposal naloxone distribution and training an overdose education and
response training
work across all four pillars and in alignment with other
strategies including community safety and well being we'll continue to
advance to support a comprehensive response to the current crisis
he also facing a growing drug toxicity crisis with six
hundred and fifty four five lives lost in the last
five years
with six hundred and fifty for preventable deaths occurring over
the last five years our drug toxicity crisis continues to
worsen along with the rest of Ontario
two thousand twenty one was the region's deadliest year for
opioid related toxicity deaths a hundred and eighty nine people
which is a hundred thirty three percent more than in
two thousand seventeen just five years prior
well the opioid crisis impacts individuals from all walks of
life overdose deaths are most severely impacting young people between
twenty five and forty four years of age leading to
many years of life lost
the drug supply is increasingly toxic with a significant majority
of deaths involving fentanyl and other highly potent compounds
of the many lives lost in the last two years
many people are using drugs alone when someone's alone there's
no opportunity to assess risks with resuscitation administer naloxone or
call for emergency services
the need for more immediate intervention to prevent drug toxicity
deaths is clear supervised consumption services are shown to reduce
overdose deaths and other drug related harms the improve and
save lives
in December two thousand nineteen along with endorsement of the
fuel of the I'd strategy regional council as the board
of health endorsed the peel supervised consumption needs assessment and
feasibility study or peel a C. a study
the study was completed by peel public health in partnership
with more oil health and community services and the Canadian
mental health association feel different branch to determine the need
acceptability feasibility an operational preferences for us yes appeal
I thought to explore the perspectives of people with lived
and living experience of substance use other community members and
key stakeholders through three components a survey for people with
lived and living experience of substance use a survey for
the general community which is open to anyone in peel
who's interested in participating and key informant interviews from five
sectors healthcare social services government to municipal services police and
emergency services and the business and community sector
key findings from the study were that there is a
need for us yes appeal particularly concentrated in the downtown
Brampton in Cooksville Mississauga areas and the people who use
substances appeal would use us yes if they were available
some key considerations noted in the study include that the
location must be accessible by people who use substances
April security and community safety measures must be in place
and community engagement or on site selection is important
through the report today were seeking approval and and term
funding to progress to the next steps in the establishment
of a smaller scale urgent public health needs site for
supervised consumption
in order to provide supervised consumption services an exemption as
required under the controlled drugs and substances act
the federal government introduced the urgent public health needs site
process which allows community to complete communities to complete a
simpler exception application to provide services more immediately while the
usual exception is pursued
several jurisdictions have used this expedited process including Toronto and
most recently Timmons which just earlier this week began operations
of a municipally funded urgent public health needs site while
they pursue longer term provincial funding
applying for an urgent public health needs site will allow
people to implement implement a site sooner
to address the urgent need within our community well pursuing
provincial funding and considering future models for us yes
we are recommending that more oil health and community services
be the lead operator of the internet service
Moyles nearly three decades decades of experience and expertise providing
harm reduction services at the client level and close involvement
in substance use work alongside peel public health making the
right choice
where would work closely with welfare community health services to
provide the necessary clinical supports on site
well Ford has specialized expertise in clinical service provision and
experience operating from harm reduction lands as well as serving
the population of people who use substances appeal
boy well fort through their networks and relationships with other
providers we use robust referral pathways to link clients to
other health and social services as needed
you can see 3 examples of existing sites in Ontario
there are thirty eight supervised consumption sites in Canada was
the first opening in two thousand and three
since two thousand seventeen twenty three sites have been established
in eleven communities across Ontario
as we consider a suitable location for an initial site
in peel we want to find something that integrates well
in the community
although the exterior sites vary across jurisdictions the services insider
similar and consist of an intake in a waiting area
supervised consumption spaces and post consumption after space after Kirsty's
supervision is provided by harm reduction workers peers and nurses
who are trained and ready to respond should an overdose
occur
support and referral services occur as needed within the setting
space permitting there's often some degree of clinical care on
site such as wound care and support for addictions treatment
referral if clients are interested in those supports housing supports
and testing for HIV or hepatitis
in March two thousand twenty two a supervised consumption services
planning and implementation table was established with stakeholders who work
closely with people who use substances
public health work with this table as well as multiple
internal regional partners has resulted in the report and recommendations
before you today
on this slide you can see a summary of the
plan next steps from left to right the purple houses
where we are today with council approval will continue to
work to identify site location options complete site specific neighborhood
engagement and an advising and working with the local municipality
and councillors to secure a site
operator contract negotiation applications for the federal exceptional continue during
this time into January twenty twenty three
we also work in parallel on the application process and
advocacy for sustained provincial funding and the full federal exemption
the yellow arrow at the bottom indicates a recognition of
the importance of continued community engagement and input the need
for action is real and as you can tell from
the many people delegating today in the interest in this
item the number of people dying in experiencing harms as
days and weeks past continues to increase
we're committed to doing things the right way and with
a level conversation and engagement that also allow services to
become available in time to make a difference
we will keep council regularly informed as we move through
the process and engage specific ward councillors more directly for
potential sites in their communities
we will report back formally to council on us yes
operations in the first half of two thousand twenty three
this is a shared journey critical to this work is
constructive honest solutions based discussions with stakeholders our hope is
that you council's the board of health provide us with
the approval to move ahead with our plan next steps
including these multimodal conversations and interactions
the recommended interim solution is needed to help address current
drug toxicity Dustin substance use related harms in our community
the on this will continue to explore future models of
us yes as part of the broader harm reduction approach
and learning from our into a model
we're committed to advocacy an application to the province for
sustainable funding
as you know and was reinforce for all of us
through cove in the needs of the residents appeal are
unique the current proposal for the interim supervised consumption services
takes into account our current context and the needs related
to drug toxicity in peel
I'm hopeful that through your careful consideration and support will
be able to move through this next best step together
to meet the needs of address rising drug toxicity deaths
and harms in our community thank you for your attention
and I'm happy to take questions now or return at
the end of the delegations I'm gonna ask council for
any questions they have at this time before we go
to the delegates themselves so questions of clarification at this
time I have a list and sentiment Quemby concert America
councillor descente
thank you very much chair I have no questions I
do wish to speak to the report when it comes
forward I will join the list mayor Crombie questions at
this time
a little bit of a preamble first if I may
and then a question or two I'm quite sharp to
the increase of drug use particularly in peel region of
course Brampton Mississauga are becoming very large cities and ...
unfortunately we are also suffering from issues that plague large
cities which include homelessness which include drug use and and
of course increase mental health was quite surprised to see
the increase hundred thirty three percent since twenty twenty one
and that there have been six hundred and fifty four
deaths and we know we know that our young people
are primarily ... being impacted from it so it I
think we have a duty to respond
I you know it it's an unpleasant issue and nobody
wants it in their backyard however we it is incumbent
on us to act and be responsible there are those
individuals that need our help if I may share an
anecdote ... my daughter who you're allowed to trash a
... the lives downtown right next door to that site
you showed interrogative and of course I was very concerned
when my beautiful twenty five year old daughter moved there
and saw what was next door and I have to
shift I have to share that there were no issues
they have she has seen no issues other haven't been
people heiau decide to people there were only receiving assistance
... and being cared for and gave me a lot
of comfort and confidence and I think that particularly in
Mississauga where we're where we are seeing the growing rates
of homelessness particularly in the downtown in Cooksville import credit
league few areas it is important for us to act
so my question to you would be aware in Mississauga
would you suggest the initial pilots ... site B. BBEE
located
through the chair thank you bear for your comments ...
we're following our as you know we have a multi
modal stipulated overdose ... surveillance system and so we continue
to follow a number of indicators beyond death so also
hospitalizations ... where are her reduction teams ... are being
called for service ... as well as understanding the community
through people who use substances themselves the data certainly shows
that there's a concentrated need around Cooksville Mississauga ... and
we would propose to look there first ... or certainly
... in the region of Cooksville that would be accessible
to ... to people these substances and ... also look
here fully at as you suggest ... down along lakeshore
certainly moving into that southeast area of Mississauga there are
some elevated indicators ... but the current most geographically concentrated
area is in the Clarksville area
what we have a very dedicated counselor there and I
know she has some strong opinions about this and I
know that you will work very closely with her to
find the right location thank you
thank you
thank you carrying on the questions councillor tomorrow
thank you chair and
I guess so
we already had a conversation so you were sort of
aware of
some of the issues that I'm concerned about to make
sure that we have a balance and I know what
I told you some data that I was going to
share with you have not forgotten so I will get
to that to activate it ... you know ...
you can't hide from the problem you have to try
and solve it I get that what I don't want
to as we solve the problem and that we don't
create other problems
and that is my main concern so one of the
things that I would ask for is that
you know how these safe injection sites I think a
distributed model makes more sense to me I'd rather than
concentrating it in one part of Mississauga are one part
of people because then it exasperated problem if you know
so if if there's multiple sites that are you know
it one place doesn't become the mask off all right
so I I think you guys should seriously look at
distributed sites and mark one site aren't and Jack yeah
and I looked like to understand more what is your
plan to consult with the local residents ... hi the
residential area as well as there is a program to
revitalize main street and so what is your plan to
collaborate and consult with the local businesses and local so
that would be really really important because often ... these
people are impacted as well though they don't always come
in delegates sometimes they do sometimes they don't so we
will be yeah all I'm saying is
it's a problem I know we need to address it
I want to make sure that as we address and
we balance all other interests as well and then we
make the extra effort to listen to the concerns of
people who may not come out and delegated council either
because you know they don't have the resources or the
time for even the information sometimes to be able to
come and delegates here and then the fact that matters
so those would be my asks and I really would
ask you to consider distributed model
since there are pockets thank you and everywhere thank you
I mean mass thank you any comments Dr big thank
you for this year and thank you council tomorrow as
well ... for our conversations on this ... prior I
think what has come through in in all of the
conversations we've started and continued through this process has been
that there really is general support for this intervention in
an understanding of the need in our community as well
as an acknowledgement that there will be challenges to balancing
... the needs of the people who need the service
with concerns or ... a lack of information of individuals
or businesses or others in the community where they may
be located so certainly execution awareness and two way dialogue
is a critical part of that next up of consultation
as we try to secure specific sites
everyone who will be involved in implementing the site once
the site to be six to be a success ...
in particular people who need the service most desperately ...
to try to prevent fatal overdoses from drug use and
the service providers who will be working with so there
is a genuine commitment to being good neighbors to being
well integrated into the community and to engaging in Folsom
and engaging in Folsom engagement ... prior to any final
site selection we do need to start somewhere ... so
we are proposing to start with one initial interim sites
... but with an absolute acknowledgment that feels very large
geography were very diverse geography we have diverse populations within
that geography and likely the ultimate model that works best
for this community will be some sort of distributed model
and it will likely come include a number of different
ways in which the service could be provided to meet
the needs of different populations and in different geographies ...
we need to start somewhere so we're proposing to start
where we can't ... to get something running quickly and
we are very much committed to continuing to look at
what is best for peel ... overlooks the slightly longer
planning horizons concert Amerila follow up question
yes I do and and you know my other ask
Kate was send yeah I hope you will come forward
with that is that asked for ...
you know I wanted to know what was the experience
with support and find something inside in Vancouver in Gastown
which was one of the first ones I read many
mixed reviews so it's hard for me ... because sometimes
I think people have biases that come into whatever reports
they are writing so I'd like to get a really
balanced feedback I intend to do my own research a
little bit more because I frankly read people saying oh
inside is a great success and it hasn't done and
there's been no negative fallout adults Gaston and then out
right other reports that into a very different picture and
then this report I think makes pictures so it because
this topic is
it's not about it it's really hard fully in people
like me should you get unbiased unfiltered
the parts as opposed to people the staff trying to
create a narrative so how you do that I don't
know but I think that would be really really important
for me at least as the local council to get
a full understanding of what happened there aren't before I
feel comfortable
it's
councillor to Maryland thank you that concludes all the questions
at this time a document ask you to stand down
we're gonna hear from our delegates now and ... then
we're going to bring the motion before counseling to deal
with that and debate it then I have come service
center up first to speak to the motion so with
that delegate seven point two jasmine Flynn member peel drug
user advisory panel more your health and community services jasmine
I don't know if you're on my screen or if
you're in the the building and the chamber because that
we have a lot of faces here as well but
jasmine are you on my there you are jasmine you've
got five minutes please proceed go ahead jasmine
hello my name is jasmine Plan and I stand before
you today as a person with lived experience of substance
use I am a mother of a number of people
drug users advisory panel and the victim of the war
on drugs that store my mother for me this past
year my mother's name is Samantha plan she was a
well known figure in the community she never had the
fact that she was other drugs yes she had her
use of opiates and she had an unsafe environment where
she was the one providing community members with care support
and supervision so that they were safe sure does appear
for both um clinic in way of doing harm reduction
work and community education and was all always trying to
be a helper in the community even though her own
journey with substance use continue to keep our entrenched in
poverty and homelessness she save many lives and deserve the
same dignity when she passed instead she was found face
first in the back room of a house where no
one had access to the resources she needed to check
their drugs or provide her with proper lifesaving care
drug use is something that someone does not something that
someone is whether indoor or outdoor privilege are criminalized people
who use drugs are at imminent risk of death threat
is very real some of the people I know won't
survive to walk through the doors of deals for site
and not as fact without one it is certain more
of them will die abstinence works for some but not
for all three harm reduction was key no re how
could or did down here people are complex beings and
have the right to determine where they are out in
their use without a safe place to use we are
sentencing people to death people who use drugs have the
right to live and the services will save lives to
begin to try to describe all the people who have
been lost would be nearly impossible they were people we
love and will be continue I'm
we continue to be people we will mess they were
stolen from us before they even had a chance somewhere
out X. somewhere recreational users and some were just beginning
the very normal journey of experimentation and today they are
all dead
I'll use happens and no amount of policing or criminalization
will make these desktops Furthermore this is not something top
club or determination will sort out we need to equip
yourselves with the tools needed to keep people alive a
safe consumption site would mean not my mother would still
be alive and have a proper chance at recovery ranging
into take your has been affected by the drug poisoning
crisis we owe it to the people whose lives have
been lost as much as we owe it to the
peoples who lives are still at risk this is no
longer to be on the morality of drug use this
is now debate on whether we will continue to let
people die it really isn't that complex it is believed
that as people who drug use drugs we have chosen
are free and deserve death because we use drugs alcohol
is readily available we safe consumption sites examples bars and
restaurants on every major street those safe consumption sites are
enjoyed daily by citizens highly sought out after spaces drawing
in crowds and neighboring cities and here we are seven
years into a crisis that has killed more than what
would be acceptable in any other population of people begging
you to take notice and implement approver in response to
this public health crisis no different than the way the
region responded to a call but nineteen I want you
to remember my story and understand I've given the right
supports and services I can stand here today something that
my mom cannot do the evidence for supervised consumption and
treatment services is sound they are proven effective and have
been in operation for over a decade in some places
in Canada with not one reporting a fatality worldwide supervised
consumption and treatment services need to be a part of
any responsible community's response to the harms of a poisoned
drug supply people of all ages who use drugs are
dying at unprecedented rates there is no other method of
keeping people safe and when we are talking about a
poisoned drug supply people continue to die I'm
as we implement the solutions we know will work
thank you for your time and attention today
Johnson thank you for your excellent presentation I have no
questions at this time so I thank you for your
presentation and carry on with our list seven point three
Marie McKenna moms stop the harm sharing a lived experience
OP or crisis family impact Murray you're off
it's very reason the audience and she's coming up welcome
read
and you have 5 minutes
good morning thank you all for your time it's much
appreciated
my name is Marie McKenna I'm gonna have you speak
a little closer to the microphone if you could please
gather that's perfect thank you okay thank you
my name is Marie McKenna and I am the privileged
and proud mother of Corey and Nicole and Shane mechanised
Makowsky
Korean chain of the fourth generation of my family
in south Mississauga Cory's great grandfather built a warehouse in
nineteen fifty and it's owned and operated today by a
third generation of the McKenna family
in fact this picture that sets with me was taken
five days book for Corey passed away in his two
months of recovery
and this is our social life now for the last
four years I go out with my posters Corey and
talk about it because this is what is needed now
Cory's journey with drugs started with oxy cotton somewhere in
his early life
which usually grows into our steps into a heroin addiction
which Corey went to rehab in twenty fourteen and had
his first experience with heroin
in northern Ontario North Bay
after that he now got very serious he held the
medical teams at the local clinics in lake view ...
he was on the suboxone program which is a program
to keep the urges and the substance use at bay
he did that for a couple of years he was
on the methadone program didn't like that at all I
think he only lasted about six months or a year
he wanted to be substance free and he was determined
and I trusted in Cory's determination and his intelligence and
he knew
one thing I want to point out is we talk
about the overdose these are overdoses none that leads us
to believe that the individual talk too much they didn't
take too much they're being poisoned
on Cory's corner report of the Mississauga death certificate is
accidental fatten all toxicity
my son was poisoned he didn't take too much she
knew but he had fifty nine days clean I had
my son for those days
the doctors that he worked with were standard the transformation
of the young man he was in these two months
but he relapsed
usually don't get a second chance to relapse
early on in my bereavement I found in a an
organization called moms stop the harm it was started in
twenty fifteen by two moms who lost their sons just
as I have
it would be C. as we know this is been
going on for over twenty years we speak about Gastown
this isn't new to our country and we knew that
there was gonna be a tsunami coming east and it
is coast to coast today and the numbers are astronomical
the the number of six hundred and fifty four stats
in the five years to Mississauga that's one of my
sons number's Corey Corey is one of those numbers in
twenty eighteen four days after his twenty ninth birthday
these are preventable deaths that's probably the hardest part to
reconcile these are preventable deaths and things have to move
quickly as I was listening to jasmine speak
early twenty twenty three there's still a lot of people
to die
here in peel
over these few years to come
I have brochures out front of the clerk's office for
... the moms stop the harm and also in twenty
twenty one
this organization did a national rollout of support groups because
the families out here devastated were shattered we can now
carry the stigma the shame that our children had to
carry due to people's opinions and in a lot of
families or silenced to that stigma we can't just go
to ... child loss bereavement group
these people are not circle don't understand when they've lost
babies when they've lost children to other tragedies they don't
understand our tragedy
hence these two groups one of them is healing hearts
they train members like myself as facilitators
to go out and support these families
the second one is holding hope
is for the families and loved ones that still have
active people
in their substance use disorder journey
that's tragedy in itself on a daily basis that's trauma
it doesn't happen when the person finally dies it's the
years before that impact the families the devastation the chronic
chaos it carries on you try to run a family
a lot of single mothers trying to run that family
but this chaos is in the background
sleepless nights days weeks years
I had been Corey passed away I have four people
in the poor credit area who I called my friends
come forward to share with me that in fact they're
dealing with the exact same thing but we didn't share
to each other but because of the death people felt
and knew I was a safe place at that point
lot of dealings with police a lot of dealings with
families in crisis
if it's complicated when they the event begins when the
loss has finally the biggest fear that we all fear
when it comes true
so my group right now I I have their permission
we had a meeting last night and I have my
permission to share this information as it just Minnesota it's
it's usually an older late twenties up of young men
and it's good in fact the ... Canadian population in
years to come because we don't have mails to populate
our population anymore which is just ... one of my
members is a kindergarten teacher she's a single mom of
three boys
she buried her eighteen year old son died of sudden
all he was poisoned she thought we had time to
get through this we'll work through whatever his issues are
she had already brought him back to life one night
waking up to him and should the locks on in
the home how dramatic is out for a mother to
have to do that with her own son she has
two other sons now she'll carry through another members a
lawyer
his son he's not in the peel area but his
son was sixteen years old a hundred percent car factional
was found in the young boy's body
so one of one of the in our meetings it
was just the way this father described this
he said I can be just driving to work listening
to the news
and all of a sudden my son's dad
it just hits you every morning you wake up four
years later my first thought
this car is not here anymore
we're not asking for a cure for mental health and
addiction that's way too big
we're asking to help keep people alive there is a
non safe supply on our streets and it's killing people
daily
I think it would be more prudent for me to
share the end of Cory's life that day rather than
tell you about what a wonderful father brother son cousin
and friend that he was you can tell by the
smile on his face that's who he was
I want peel regional resources to know that they worked
and it it should work that day and Corey should
not be gone
but let me tell you what happened Friday morning on
August twenty fourth with Cory's much persistence he was meeting
a friend at square one for lunch he wanted me
to drop him to drop me off because we had
to reconvened together that afternoon
or it doesn't make sense I'm gonna drop you off
for lunch come back no no no Chinese water torture
I was now dropping him off ... no he was
now dropping me off on his phone later we found
my mom finally changed her mind I'm on my way
at eleven forty one that was to his drug dealer
in Burlington
he was looking for some oxy cottons that day I
solace tax for the whole day he was sitting beside
me in the car I had no idea that this
was going on within him
3:00 comes along that afternoon
Corey I have that meeting where are you then I
got that same as unknown call
I'm a sergeant of peel regional over at square one
seeing your son was found by a passer bys in
your black Volvo in the underground parking he's on his
way to trillium
we got there in time he's okay
do you need arrive
I got a ride to my car
the sergeant drove me in the underground so my car
with the driver side open he said again we got
here in time we usually don't
I went out to my meeting because it was so
important Cory was safe at trillion he was alive he
was safe it's okay
finally I get there
he's out in the smoking area
he's already been discharged
3:00 hours after arriving in trillions armor urgency
as I pull up he walked out with his green
scrubs on he look like a doctor that big smile
greeted me with a twenty minute drive down the Dixie
lake shore where he lived with my brother
with the hard drive was a hard conversation
but we had a beautiful goodbye
well of tears I love you mom I'm sorry okay
honey you're going to be okay I love you I
love you too I'll call you when I get home
he got out of the car
little did I know
that was my goodbye
at ten twenty PM that night I was just heading
to bed my brother called me to say mame Corey's
not breathing
so call 911
I jumped in the car and I drove from Eglington
and central parkway to Dixie a lecture I don't know
how fast I got there and I was hoping feel
regional was gonna pull me over to get me there
foster I pulled in the building all the emergency vehicles
through there the fire trucks the police cars
as I ran jumped out of the car and I
ran to the ground floor unit where they live all
I can see the silhouette of people of my brother's
living room just the silhouette and all I could hear
was she's here the mothers here the mothers arrived is
Sattar yeah Dr
next thing I knew I had a paramedic in front
of me he said we've been in touch with Charlie
and we have been talking to the doctors we've administered
everything there is to administer to him I thought often
called there's hope
but his heart has been stopped for a very long
time
my world went dark
Korean tens of thousands of people are dying is preventable
deaths turned a corner a little bit left in them
in in his wallet
but due to the you know that the new rules
in place that there's no criminality to it there was
no search done so it was never found it's just
one of those things but I think it's important that
we realize everybody has a different story everyone has a
different scenario on how this went to be
if I could ask for the recording to be played
to have
twenty fourth four twenty nine PM sent by nine zero
five eight four eight seven one zero zero Barbara is
Corey ...
I don't know how you can reach me I don't
know what to do and then well you sure it
does that ...
Hey I hit my head when I follow the car
if you could please
just I'm okay I'm sorry about today
over time I've heard some horrible stories from families of
how their loved ones have been released from hospitals
these are emergency room Caesar they do their job there
they brought Corey back to life
the goddess heart going again and they did their job
what I envision
from this day forward I thought Corey just have that
one person one person outside the emergency room I called
Cory's corner
the say what do you need their shoes need a
phone call to your safe person here to the taxi
chip free to go home
... here's a warm coat for you to put on
that person in Cory's corner
just someone to help
because they come out of there the reason Corey couldn't
get me that day as we change phone providers at
the same cell number for twenty years but three three
weeks prior I changed numbers to another provider and he
couldn't get calls out of that institution to me for
whatever the reason was
and all he needed to do
please get in touch with his mom
and his mom to understand what really happened in that
hospital that day
I thank you all for listening to the story but
I understand these are preventable deaths and they have to
stop you have to stop
thank you
thank you very very much I have a question ...
councillor Daskal
it sure and thanks for coming in and again
but tell telling your story which is
truly unimaginable
yeah
and your your advocacy has been strong and relentless and
...
and and really
I think there's nothing more powerful than anybody could see
and ... going to witness saying ...
national overdose awareness day
been to a few down and ... or credit area
and just to see the posters of people that are
no longer with us the families of the children who
currently S. as Marie mansion are missing fathers
it's it's it's really gut wrenching to see and ...
and so I just wanted to to lend my support
to artillery and and everybody else that is up that
is what
assistance because it says that it's another kind of pandemic
but that we have to sure and I just wanted
to thank you for coming ... and that just up
when my support to what to this crisis
yes so I don't know questions other than because I
know I know Marie's story and ... ask very well
...
and ... and this is something to eat you never
want to hear another parent wanting to go through by
any stretch so
happy happy to support this initiative
thank you mayor Crombie
I just wanted to thank you for coming forward today
as a mother you've broken my heart and we know
the impact the drug use house and how it affects
the best of families it reflects all families and I
really want to thank you for sharing your you're very
compelling story with us it was her inching honestly and
I'm so sorry you live this devastated this tragedy
thank you can we will support you our readers to
thank you thank you I'd like to say both of
Mayor Bonnie and Stephen tosco being done in south Mississauga
ice I rented to Bonnie to social the Christmas after
I lost Corey and I said I'll be in to
see you and she said her door was open for
me Stephen Vasquez been instrumental in the international overdose awareness
days that we've done down in port credit that he
mentioned including ... one of the initiatives was all the
liquor licensed establishments import credit will have naloxone kids on
site
as an impact of harm reduction
K. Brianna thank on behalf of all regional ... taxpayers
and citizens and mothers and fathers the courage that you
must've had it must've taken to give this presentation we're
in your debt because I use this phrase a lot
real people don't live in government buildings they live where
you live and these are the real stories we need
to hear I don't know that anybody could have put
it more poignantly to assault thank you very much for
coming here today thank you all the kind words moving
on our next all I get is not ... neat
Kaminski resident of Mississauga with regards to support for supervised
consumption site a clean out of its not for Nate
it's not not please proceed
hello my name is not Kaminski shop
and I'm standing before you today as a resident of
the region of peel and as a person with deep
connection to the issues I wanted to share my support
for the implementation of the site I've been a resident
of the region since the age of ten the region
I am both grown up over the past thirty one
years and that grows and changes wind standing before you
today I love it here I bought my first home
in PL I think that went that because of my
drug use was always unimaginable easy I'm a person who
uses drugs and is dependent on opiates B. at that
those are prescribed to me now as a result of
the growth of the harm reduction movement I'm still very
much connected to the community people who are dying and
I stand before you today asking all of you who
hold the power to find the response needed to give
others the same chances that I had
... government owning a home and how big of an
accomplishment that was truly the biggest accomplishment I have is
that I'm standing before you today forty one years of
age
at the height of my use I was asked to
fill out in this estimate form on the final page
came a question asking me to protect where I saw
myself in the next five years thinking about how comfortable
I was scribing died in the fill in the blanks
still shakes me however every single day I see that
reality play out in my community as a frontline worker
for people use drugs today death is a guarantee in
BC the life expectancy age has dropped as a result
of this crisis I'm so thankful that I found harm
reduction when I did I was dependent on opiates during
a time where friends and all was not part of
the drug market where vandals or something you had to
intentionally seek out I went on methadone and one method
when methadone was able to match my dependence and tried
try treating of dosage had a formula and now it
wasn't methadone that got me here today it gave me
options easy harm reduction is more than a set of
principles are particular program or service for me it was
another chance of light one that landed me on the
front lines as a harm reduction advocates and as part
of the druggies amazement today I serve this region are
a part of harm reduction programming idle and she community
and empower folks to implement harm reduction into their own
lives but a poisoned drug supply leaves me without the
resources needed to keep this community safe the only tools
I have is telling folks to arm themselves in our
Jan and not use alone stickman criminalization is not conducive
with being out and so long as our region doesn't
have a space where folks can go we will continue
to find people dying alone in twenty seventeen I started
the peel drug users network I couldn't just continue to
go into community without some way of battling this poisoned
drug supply we began sharing information of overdoses and bad
batches posting pictures and stories from the community very quickly
the entire drug supply him changed care when disappeared and
folks had to seek out stronger drug
in order to feel well in our bad drug reports
became redundant as a community we must continue to adapt
and serve and that is what I'm asking of you
today people who use drugs want to connect because connection
is key and five years later our network not only
has members connect to each one another but also to
services some chords and employment opportunities that's what de stigmatize
spaces can do they drop folks into somewhere they can
feel safe and connected and allow them to thrive in
opportunity supervised consumption and treatment services provides service by meeting
people where they're at I cannot begin to describe how
difficult it is to go on to community and watch
the folks they serve disappear
I handled our can telling people never he's alone but
that just isn't enough without a space to go we
need a space where folks can go use drugs and
not be afraid where the primary focus must be certain
surviving to another day supervised consumption and treatment services provide
people use drugs an entry pathway into service providing chairing
the non stigmatized environment
the principles of harm reduction allow for recreating cultural community
care practices we have the tools to recreate that model
that is trusted by the people who need it the
most
supervised consumption and treatment services are a key part of
any community that aims to keep its citizens well and
it's communities thriving the presence of the sites as long
overdue we must keep within the traditions of responding to
our citizens needs so we can't
... stronger together I'm standing before you today because harm
reduction works I am just too many lives have been
stolen lives robbed of the opportunities I had people use
drugs do not want to die and I beg you
to stand for them today communities across this country many
like her own and taken responsible steps of implementing the
services and we must join them I urge you to
act now listen to the recommendations of the study if
not for people use drugs them for their families their
friends the frontline workers and if not for that and
for the future growth of our region because we can't
begin to measure all the possibilities this crisis has robbed
us of thank you
thank you very much for your presentation I have no
questions and I go on to our next speaker seven
point five hope Ramsey executive director more your health and
community services hope
thank you honorable members of regional council my name is
hope Ramsey and I'm the executive director of family health
and community services Maria is an aids service organization that
works with people who are living with after his golf
and affected by HIV our mandate is to focus our
efforts on prior to populations at highest risk of contracting
HIV these operations include the twelve thousand B. D. Q.
coming into his African and Caribbean and black community is
when men and women and people who use drugs we
are here today with our partners from Peter public health
well for the comments that have since the drug uses
advisory panel and yes yes planning and implementation group to
put forward a plan to provide seed consumption services and
the region of peel
we've heard back Casey provide an option services for thirty
years and and this includes service to people who use
drugs including all reach our direction supplies and also distribution
council in education and connections to all the services we
also work to build a service the past the service
providers capacity through provision of training workshops and exponential learning
from those with lived experience of substance use
more is a founding member and current share of the
peel farm production committee PHR C. which has existed for
ten years and has hosted an annual forum to raise
community awareness around issues pertaining to substance use in P.
L.
P. H. R. C. identified the need for regional drug
strategy and I'm all the recommendations from the community consultation
reported trying to trying to one was a need to
establish a supervised consumption services to address the drug crisis
in two thousand eighteen always started the peel integrated drugs
strategy and that's already told about the drug uses advisory
panel J. uses that work as well as the judges
advisory panel which together they have brought together key regional
stakeholders to explore ways of reducing drug related harms and
works closely with the region's opioid strategy
since two thousand sixteen we have been seen at an
ever increasing number of drug poisoning deaths due to the
introduction of kinds of the into the drug supply
we heard it's already the six fifty four lands lost
between two thousand seventeen and two thousand twenty one
in response to that escalating crisis in two thousand eighteen
our harm reduction team volunteered at the moss park overdose
prevention sites in Toronto
and they were able to gain experience in providing monitoring
overdose prevention services that I've seen here well I have
been approved for provincial funding to set up an old
piece and downtown Branson but difficult to secure in a
viable location before the provincial election result in the withdrawal
of the funding offer and the later shift towards consumption
treatment services model which didn't but the new provincial government
one supported P. public housing consultant S. is feasibility study
which along with a delegation from two members of our
Peter drug use and advisory panel and the letter stated
more is the building next to be the operator of
the seed consumption services in reach in the region was
presented to regional council the board of health in December
twenty twenty nine to nineteen
we have since work with public health along with them
wheelchair planning and implementation group to explore establishing an S.
C. is in the region
since April twenty twenty one more year has seen the
ninety four oh four clans including some of our peer
workers lose their lives to drop by stand
our team is struggling to cope with the crisis the
drug poisoning is created in the community this is why
we are committed to working with wild fourth C. H.
C.
like health and other key stakeholders to put an end
to these unnecessary and avoidable deaths by providing safe consumption
services with the wraparound supports to people who use drugs
Mallia and while fourth are well positioned to do this
work as collectively we have strong ties with the drug
use in communities and are well respected by them and
others for harm reduction work in the region
Azzedine considering your decision you ponder on the question which
is more valuable the fear I have today are the
lives that I think that can be saved from approving
interim funding to private provide resources that can see in
the lives of the community we love who knows the
next last saved could be one of your own thank
you
I hope very you very much for your presentation for
the great work you do it more oil ... if
I have no questions I moving on to our next
delegates seven point six Kimberly Floyd interim chief executive officer
and the Tasha taught manager bloom kill clinic the Kimberly
in the Tasha welcome
zero it's asking here Kimberly is watching ... but I
I'm here to tell you today so good morning and
thank you for taking the time to listen to me
and everyone who's here in person and virtually today consumption
is an issue that is hugely important for our community
everyone of us speaking today has likely known at least
one person and some of us many who has lost
their life to a preventable fatal overdose
hi my name is Natasha and I'm the manager for
gloom clinic which is a program of well for community
health services
our team the plan connect with differently provides harm reduction
and healthcare services to people and people who are experiencing
homelessness and people who use drugs I've been with this
team for nine years six of the front line social
worker and another three in leadership throughout these years the
Doug drug poisoning crisis has eaten away at our community
first slowly and then very quickly
I remember running a weekly support dropping in downtown Brampton
in twenty sixteen ... we all closely followed what was
happening in Vancouver and it felt like a tidal wave
waiting to reach us here eventually it did more than
half of the people that attended that group are no
longer with us today all of their deaths were preventable
a few weeks after the loss of one of the
group members her mother brought me irises that you dug
out from our garden sorry
in my front yard I think about this woman Austin
and every spring when those irises bloom I see how
the problem there beautiful and tragic they're growth reminds me
of all that she would have done if you were
with us today
approving the implementation of the for consumption services here today
he can't bring her back we can stop the needless
deaths of so many more people that we are adamantly
fighting alongside today
we were asking that you value the lives of people
who use drugs as integral members of our community
and I worry that there might be a misconception that
drug use is not as prevalent in feel as it
is in other municipalities
ridiculously in larger cities and this just simply isn't true
the balloon team alongside Borneo and she'll work steel exchange
program have been providing harm reduction education materials for many
years and we've all seen consistent increases in supply distribution
from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one um alone has
seen a two hundred and sixteen percent increase in our
distribution of supplies during this time we've witnessed several municipalities
urban suburban and rural all implement supervised consumption and safer
supply programs we can't wait any longer to move forward
on the services appeal
harnessing our expertise in the community as health and community
based health care well for is proud to step up
as the clinical lead for supervised consumption we've been working
strongly alongside our colleagues employee ... and your public health
since our inception in two thousand seven together our teams
have built strong relationships with community through coordinated care efforts
resulting in increased health outcomes for hundreds of people residents
every year we believe strongly in the power of collaboration
and evidence there is no disputing the evidence clearly supports
the overwhelming benefits of supervised consumption everyone in the community
including drastically reducing fatal overdoses isn't in communities where they
exist and are accessible significant reductions in calls for ambulances
in response to overdose we can respond to these overdoses
on site largely eliminating the need for a call to
ambulance or transfer each R. G. E. R. which leads
us to a subsequent subsequent significant reduction in hospital visits
for overdose yes but also for acute care issues like
skin infections wound care ... abscesses and basic first aid
all of these can be addressed in the supervised consumption
space by on site nursing staff and harm reduction and
your workers further research studies have clearly demonstrated significant reductions
in HIV and hepatitis C. transmission among people who use
supervised consumption services likely due to a significant reduction in
sharing of equipment ... and also the study show a
drastic reduction in public trust in public drug usage in
communities where supervised consumption services were available so people are
using and spaces in back alleys or in in public
washrooms but they are in spaces that is specifically designated
for drug use ... finally supervised consumption services provide linkages
to primary health care services mental health services addiction treatment
in a space that's culturally appropriate and truly meets the
needs of people accessing this these services
we can't wait any longer we can't wait for more
years for supervised consumption to be prioritized we need action
now as healthcare providers and community leaders we are here
today calling on you to approve the proposal for supervised
consumption services in peel to create a healthier community for
everyone thank you again for taking the time to hear
me speak today
the Tasha thank you for your presentation with no questions
at this time so we go to our next to
delegate seven point seven Dr Nussbaum program coordinator and analysts
peel alliance to end homelessness regarding the supervised consumption site
that's not
hello everyone hello
so I am here until I'm send homelessness is a
collaborative agencies from across the region appeal working together to
end homelessness in our communities we're providing ... our support
of the findings of the supervised consumption treatment services Ethan
Phillips
bility study study led by peel public health in collaboration
with my own health and community services and the Canadian
mental health association indicates a need for supervised consumption and
treatment services in the region of peel which the PH
fully endorses Mario is one of our community partners and
we sit on the peel integrated drugs strategy and kills
harm reduction committee
almost drug use often overlap in the harms of substance
abuse are exacerbated by homelessness and the participants study cited
an appeal integrated drugs strategy report for two thousand twenty
one group survey one in five survey participants did not
have stable housing or currently homeless there is considerable evidence
for the effectiveness of harm reduction and if you house
people who experience chronic homelessness in our complex problems reductions
reductions issues often decline
a recent study in Calgary on the cost analysis of
a safe consumption site show the proportional to an overdose
decrease totally for the duration of the program the number
of overdoses managed on site at the supervised consumption site
trended upwards to ninety eight percent each overdose managed apps
are safe consumption site produced approximately sixteen hundred Canadian dollars
... in in cost savings from the use of emergency
services with a savings of over two point three million
for the lifetime of the program the study concluded that
overdose management as an SCS creates cost savings by offsetting
costs required for managing overdoses using emergency department and pre
hospital ambulance services additionally a supervised consumption site also provides
other health services such as referrals for housing or drug
treatment programs there may be economic and social benefits compliance
receiving such additional services which they may have difficulty accessing
elsewhere the root causes for harms related to substance use
are largely derived from systemic structures such as restrictive laws
and policies institutional biases and equities in discrimination about an
open ended related deaths rose and kill one hundred and
thirty three percent between two thousand and seventeen into when
you're twenty one and I know you've heard this the
six hundred fifty one death and that into her twenty
twenty one fifty one percent of deaths occurred when there
was no one present who can intervene is a clear
indication that a supervised consumption site in peel is long
overdue as is criminalizing absence the criminalization of drug use
welcome kill users are drug drug users advisory panel we
do not want to see more lives lost in the
absence of the support and care we deserve people who
use drugs want to live we urge you to listen
to our pleas and that the recommendations of the study
in support of the opening a supervised consumption in treatment
service in the region of peel as soon as possible
waiting will cost us more lives and to quote other
people here we need action now thank you oil health
and
community services and community services in the Canadian mental health
association and all those involved in this important work in
the case of a safe consumption site in peel we
also thank the region for its support of the homes
in serving sector we look forward to our continued working
collaboration thank you for your time and consideration
and after thank you for your presentation that now brings
me I'm moving up delegation ... said seven eleven our
last deliberate on this matter and I understand it's now
it's a lie so grace chapel ... Chapelle members drug
use advisory panel Moyle health community allies ... you're up
and she's here in the building welcome I'm looking at
the screen welcome
good morning my name is Alisa topple I'm almost twenty
eight years old I have lived in for most of
my time here in peel region I was born here
I grew up here my immediate family is here most
of my friends are here this region is and has
been my home
I am a daughter a sister a niece cousin Kathe
mom and a godmother to two high school young age
man I bring up their age because the oldest is
entering grade ten next year yeah actually just turned fifteen
less than two weeks ago the same age I was
when I first experimented with drugs
I am here today as a person with lived experience
from the PLO drug users of five three panel with
eight years of active opiate use two and a half
years on methadone and almost two years over in the
past ten plus years I am at the past ten
plus years of giving me lots of experience in around
opiate use as well as drug use in general
back in grade eleven I was introduced to oxy cotton
and I started a small burning fire for opiates in
B. C. opiate addiction isn't all that new to my
family my grandfather was prescribed a concoction of opiates for
severe back pain the forced him into early retirement
he lived a long but also healthy life
by the time he was a man in his mid
eighties through his early nineties when he passed he was
addicted to opiates oddly enough at the same time I
was really getting started with my addiction to opiates
my drug of choice was always functional since I first
tried it a few weeks before graduating high school they
say you never forget your first love and that was
mine I fell hard and I fell fast I wasn't
educated enough to know the dangers of prescription drug I
was taught from a young age to trust doctors dentists
pharmacists XR trust these people want to help you
even though I wasn't getting these things prescribed to me
I knew they came from us a prescription it's not
like I was doing heroin
final mostly came in a patch for back then so
you could tell if it was fake or tampered with
when there weren't as many rules and regulations in place
to keep them off the streets
I will remind you I was freshly eighteen years old
when my addiction start really started taking off and in
high school we were taught to stay away from marijuana
cocaine
methamphetamine and heroin
what I didn't realize till later is that functional is
way worse than heroin I thought because my grandfather and
I were both using patches mind you in completely different
ways and for completely different reasons thought what I was
doing couldn't be that bad how wrong I was I
quickly realized I was way in over my head and
since my grandfather's addiction was managed by a doctor my
parents and I we really had no idea what to
do over the years I've tried many things to get
myself to the stable place I'm not today I finally
decided to try methadone no it doesn't work for everyone
I found that it's the thing that's been able to
keep me stable and feeds that little burning fire that
will never go out but it doesn't feet past the
point of no return
I fear that if I were to relapse with no
place safe place to go in the community that I
will end up a statistic a number I want to
remind everyone here that these are real numbers that these
are numbers are real people who had real problems and
so often I hear about people getting sober when they
relapse or return to using they fatally overdose how many
people in this region could have been saved if there
was a safe place to go without fear of judgment
or prosecution many times I use functional alone in my
house or with people I knew that would never call
for help if something happened to me for fear of
their prosecution themselves
most people are forced to use in these circumstances though
I'm lucky to never have experienced a near fatal overdose
how many friends haven't got so lucky back in June
twenty fourteen I lost one of my best friends number
five for privacy sake all uses first name only Sam
he was freshly eighteen when he lost his life to
a fatal overdose he'd been in rehab for eight months
before that and had tried many times to stop using
after checking himself out of detox a night early before
he can get back to rehab the following day he
overdosed in a McDonald's in real in peel region
he had nowhere to go to check to make sure
his supply was safe or to make sure you use
the correct amount this was his third or fourth overdose
in that year mind you the first couple were his
parents saved him
... and this time there was no one around to
save them supervised consumption sites are so important for the
region appeal to have not just for people to check
the box but to be around people who are trained
in overdose prevention with proper tools and supplies
as well as to make see our new safer connections
with drug batches
one of the biggest problems we have in this region
is our talk toxic drug supply the batches out there
killing people as many as much as we try to
keep others informed of bad batches as not side it
is become so out of control as things move in
out and around the region so quickly we need to
do anything and everything we can to slow down this
and get a handle on it
safe consumption sites would hopefully help people get out of
you going in using an unsafe places and getting their
drugs and unsafe places because these sites would allow people
to come together and make new connections they may not
have been able to make otherwise I know I'm not
the only one that has use drugs alone in December
twenty seventeen my boyfriend Dave who mostly use alone if
he wasn't with me or the few other people he
rarely hung around with he had to go to a
place that isn't always safe to seek out his drug
of choice unfortunately he got into an altercation with someone
in the house
over money and drugs and he was murdered and is
still missing to this day
I wish there were sites bottom for him to go
to so we could at least check his batch maybe
meet some new more reliable people
I know that's neither Sam or Dave's story are one
offs people are dying at an alarming rate and please
don't wait until it's someone that you love is gone
thank you for listening
Liza thank you very much for coming in today if
there are no questions thank you for your presentation also
to my colleagues that exhausts are list of delegates and
now to deal with the report itself and I would
acknowledge counts service sent a first and I don't have
a motion before me that's moved I have the staff
report here Carol service entity to you
thank you very much ... Mr chair can you hear
me
yes I can please proceed thank you I first want
to begin by thanking our delegates who have come here
today in particular about those who have lost loved ones
to this ... a different kind of pandemic that has
been sweeping
neighborhoods and communities all over
our hearts are broken in sharing your story is truly
and
we're very sorry for your loss but we are here
today to
find a way forward to make improvements ... I would
notes that ... the numbers
for people who have
died from
drug overdose or misuse
... is reaching close to seven hundred persons since two
thousand and seventeen
and
this has to stop obviously and we know that a
supervised consumption sites are part of the solution ... but
it's it's been a difficult hall I think for the
community to
to do the right thing and cancer centers in nine
who represents a downtown
Brampton north of queen we have been acutely aware of
these issues in in in two thousand eighteen we do
recall quite vividly when Sam came forward with
a plan in the submission to locate the supervised
consumption sites in Branson and
the residents
quickly became alarmed and we mobilized we've started to plan
a meeting ... to help at that we invited residents
to attend
to
presents some of the stories and the examples of similar
facilities that exist in other cities across Canada to show
them as examples of what it is that we could
do in our community here ramps and ... that that
location as soon afterwards so I canceled and scuttled and
we are here today four years later looking to move
forward
we know from that experience
that's ... we need to the harm reduction the community
understands the need now there's been a lot more information
education that has occurred we've been through coal with pandemic
and folks ...
are aware of the importance of health measures and in
particular when they see the statistics on the deaths they
know that so we are compelled to act the location
is key it's key for the success but is also
key for the acceptance
and so we have had many conversations and I wanna
thank the doctor being ... and ... Dr Lowe who
is no longer here today but councillor stances and I
had many meetings with people health to try to break
down and see what it is ... that we can
do and how do we narrow down and find a
way to bring a facility that can truly serve ...
in when we
proper heads around it when we see examples in other
cities where ... definitely supervised consumption sites are not located
close to residential areas and I think it seems to
us councillor Samsonite the ideal the ideal location really is
in a ... accessible location preferably connected to a health
facility and so we would ... in courage kill staff
to focus their time and resources resources into finding opportunities
there ...
we are of course open to participating in the consultation
process we think that that is very important that we
cannot wait any longer so ... from our standpoint we
want to help that this
takes place as quickly as possible we know that the
more bile ... sites are are also very important in
can be are we located at will and where they
need that may arise from time to time and even
in Branson we have seen the needs the needs shift
from one location to the other very quickly and so
I think those mobile sites are also very important ...
but in in order to save time and after having
consulted with us so many of our stakeholders particularly in
downtown Brampton ... and understanding that they have for many
years now shouldered a heavy load in terms of ...
posting and helping folks who ... ... or are suffering
from mental illness and other additions in issues I just
I both councillor senses and are very pleased to offer
our support and move ask for receipts of the recommendations
but we would like to request that to an amendment
be made to appendix to
and we like what has been answered in here in
terms of site selection considerations are highlighting of course the
one nearby other social and health services but where there
is health care in section two under sensitive land uses
were stating and we agree they be located away from
licensed child care centers parks and schools but we would
also like to add in this section are away from
our B. I. eight and innovation hub locations in downtown
Brampton as we find that with the investments that the
city has been making in these areas that it would
be very problematic and there'd be a great deal of
opposition ... but there are
great opportunities elsewhere ... so would like to ask for
that ... to be considered in part of this and
I know that so there may be other members who
may have other similar requests cetera but so looking forward
to that consultation and ... with ... those exclusions as
I've been highlighted here in the staff report to mind
we're happy to move the report Mr chair
thank you counsel resent the so what I will do
is I'll accept you in councillor Santos is the mover
in the second ... of the motion that with the
amendment that you made about the spatial consideration I'm gonna
make sure that our staff of got the wording accordingly
because I'm gonna come back to them to make sure
that I've got the amended clause accordingly so that will
be coming back but with regards to that motion that
is before me I go to my list of speakers
councillor tomorrow
thank you chair and ... also sent a are a
hard act to follow use spokesman eloquently and so balanced
in your comments and after
yeah I appreciate the way you are
business and then I would like to echo what council
of the centre has sat all
you know one of the challenges with
well has been
local businesses are struggling and I can give you an
example I did show that accurate yeah
the former
commissioner Janet she he and she did try to help
for instance includes will record we had allowed for ...
restaurants to have patios in parking lots and after
hello restaurants put in the money to
all those patios
and could use them because maintenance issues people when urinating
on the patio
your walls and it was just it was a hard
running because this particular restaurant owner within about twelve thousand
dollars to create this temporary patio and then just couldn't
so from that point of view and I know
Dr king and you're not have these conversations about what's
what are ideal locations and I think we we agreed
on a few locations that might work and we'll have
to see how that goes ... but I would like
to I I really like my council of the sentence
going and I think the moving fifty I area
trump and you know based on our discussions about doctor
being a my understanding is that he wouldn't in any
case ... situate them in such a place also it
would be just great to sort of formalize that so
I would like to ask the courts will be ideas
while they're chair
to be considered by the council yeah you know yes
and sensitive
thank you
thank you I'm that exhaust my list councillor descente if
you could ... because it seems like you've got consensus
on the amended motion could you very carefully for the
benefit of the clerk's department to make sure if you
could go over again those spatial site consideration one more
time slowly so that we make sure we've incorporated all
of them so councillor was sent over to you for
that amendment regarding site selection as you enunciated a moment
ago so at thank you Mr Cher through you ...
so it's identified in appendix two that sensitive land uses
located away from licensed child care centers parks and schools
including post secondary education us post secondary students were possible
... and I'd like to they're in at ...
D. I. A.
policies also we in downtown branch and we have the
downtown Brampton B. I. A. which also encompasses our OP
planned and ... in the works innovation hub which will
also house ... intentionally ... and does house today post
secondary institutions and so for it to be formally understood
by all that tied the B. I. area ... the
innovation hub would ... would be considered a sensitive land
use
where
we know that there would be
it just wouldn't be compatible with some local stakeholders
just a quick question for and just to be clear
with stop this is so that you get on with
your work the site would ultimately have to come back
to council so one should determine the exact of when
we do make council aware
thank you through the chair ... we're proposing to come
back with an update there is no formal step currently
in the proposal to come back for specific council approval
understood but you will let us know based upon the
criteria we've given you what the successful site would be
approximately how far down the road hopefully within the next
few months within the next few months thank you carrying
on with my list accounts of the Maryland once again
and then mayor Crombie concert tomorrow
so I mean there's two ways to do this either
we could just say the Iranians in general are excluded
or if you want to be specific bands ... chair
I wanna make sure that the constantly I is an
issue because I think you asked for clarification from counselling
the Sunday as to what boarding you wanted and I
wanted to make sure that
according
excludes
all the items
probably is to clean all right now if not if
you're going to name them then please make sure that
of course will be IT is excellent as well
thank you mayor Crombie
thank you Mr chair I'm sorry correct
meeting twice
I appreciate the sensitivity of the B. I. A.'s and
of course we want to grow our businesses in the
downtown areas whether it be Brampton or in Cooksville but
at the same time ... we need to locate the
sites where there's need they have to be close proximity
to use approximate to the people who need them so
I hope that it will be a consideration of when
we're looking searching for the right location for the site's
meaning can't be so far down the beaten path it
the people who need them can't access them if you
understand my point I understand the sensitivity in the downtown
areas of that we're trying to grow and nurture but
at the same time we've got a we've got to
get those sites to the people who need them and
have them be fairly close by thank you thank you
counsel dissented I saw you weeping did you have another
thought that before I deal with the motion
thank you Mr chairman I think that staff ... are
very ... aware of the concerns and so I think
that if the amendment is to just be
B. I. areas I think that that would suffice
and then and this is just to achieve if you
will expediency and finding a location that everyone can be
happy with
whether it's in Brampton or Mississauga
okay and and can I be clear through to staff
your you've heard that your thoughts
through my eyes through the chair I think my only
challenge is that I do not know in front of
me exactly what geography word is covered by those zones
and so ... recognizing that appendix two is a list
of considerations and we'll do our best to optimize all
the considerations on the list were very aware of such
to be around ... the ongoing and planned revitalization of
both of these areas and are committed to trying to
situate the site
you
not necessarily in conflict with that ... we've had several
discussions I just I would hesitate to commit to a
specific geography if that's indeed what the proposal is so
through having not is the phrase with due regard for
can you live with that council dissenting yes this chair
okay ... so that is the mode do I think
we should get it up on the screen just so
that we have absolute clarity particularly the salient clause
at the end or if the clerk can read the
salient clause ... with regards to bullet number two we're
just taking a moment but I I wanna make sure
we have an understand
okay I will give it a moment it'll be up
on the screen more mature the counselor to Maryland game
sure I I hear what
the chief medical officer saying that our I just want
to put on the record fact
a difficult for me to support
transaction site that is
in
yeah
that would negatively impact
small business so we really have to be careful in
balancing
people's livelihoods and people's lives they're both very important so
I just wanna make fact you know I just want
to put that on the record but sensitive uses it's
really important and how to leverage neighborhoods or small businesses
or main street and so
like better including
well sensitive Matthews and I really hope that term the
team will consider that seriously thank you thank you cancer
Saito
thank you Mr chair on
I guess I'm I'm
Sir struggling listening to to the comments and and what
mayor Crombie said is you know did we not sit
and listen to all of these heart breaking stories and
recognize that they need is now ...
in all day
I guess I'd ask the medical officer of health
are are people
the people that we're trying to help
in the areas that you are proposing the sites
are they not
I'm taking the drugs in those areas today or is
nobody there
there is a possibility of the chair no certainly the
geographic concentration of overdoses is occurring already in these locations
okay so you're not adding anything new
and what is already happening in those business areas and
I would I would think that
what is happening today
that is unsupervised
has a lot more impact negative impact on the businesses
that I know you're trying to protect
then
a safe supervised and can really stress the word supervise
site would have
so are I would urge my colleagues to
to take a look at what's happening today and is
that what you want to see a continuing to happen
or would you prefer to have the region
manages site
well would be while but through the region managing a
site in that same area
that would hopefully clean up what is happening today
and save lives
anyway I'll I'll leave I'll leave it at that because
you know if if the businesses and the residents and
I understand their concerns we all do
but you know sometimes nimbyism
because lives
and sometimes we have the region and our government have
to make these tough decisions of things that we know
are right
and you cannot sit and listen
to
to the experiences
very very sad and tragic experiences that we heard today
and you know for people to come forward and share
this heartbreak with us is not easy
you can't sit and listen to it and then say
oh but we don't want our neighbourhood it's in your
neighborhood
it's in your neighborhood and you have an opportunity we
all have an opportunity to make it much safer in
those neighbourhoods thank you Mr chair thank you Mr call
me
so
I went for a little further than I was planning
to but I do wholeheartedly agree with her you know
they have the same science need to exist where the
problems are notwithstanding the mainstream businesses I hear you I
know I want them to thrive to so we're gonna
ask that peel region you know use their discretion ...
but they have to be accessible
you know what to do otherwise it is not doing
our duty as councillors
honestly we could save lives here and that's very important
to me and I'm sure the rest of the was
well those stories were very compelling thank you
thank you counselor demerit
there I don't think anyone here is suggesting that
we don't want to save lives or that we don't
want it to be accessible
we just trying to get a balance and I think
once we have the L. R. T. mobility along going
to charities for Mississauga will become very very easy are
you could certainly make provisions for people to be able
to use it cheaply ... so I I think that
there's a way to square the circle where we can
go on
balance the needs of business as well as the needs
of the local no one is saying it's one of
the other and I think it would be unfair to
characterize it as one of the other we're just trying
to find that balance speaking out for our constituents because
it is in our wards and I think sometimes it's
a little bit easier when it's not in your ward
... but it's in the warm region all I'm trying
to do and all that council this and is trying
to do is
find balance and see if we can work that no
one is denying the need and no one is denying
compassion just one
thank you cancer Saito
thank you Mr chair sorry for dropping back in but
the comment that you know it's different if it's in
your ward I said to staff many times I've appeal
health clinic in my ward
and I have to ask staff is that not a
safe location to have this kind of a site because
we have other services there
the town that do assist people like this that are
in this situation so
you know it's it's not that those ambassadors sitting here
who don't have those locations are several that's fine it's
in your ward
you know I mean
people around this table were
we're willing to take
cannabis retail stores in some of those exact same sensitive
areas but you can't take something that's going to save
lives so I'm sorry I I just get really incensed
bell said I would ask Mister chair if that new
clause
is going to
in her
that those areas would be exempt
I I I have a concern that if we approved
that red line plus
that we won't be able to provide these facilities where
the people are that needed and nobody's going to use
the allergy to go somewhere else for a site
I mean I'm sorry that that's you know it if
they're in that area they live in that area that's
where they are going to be and they're gonna be
there they're going to be there but unfortunately they're going
to be dying there too so sorry
thank you I want to carry on with my list
I had to Maryland in cal service center but I
want to be clear on the clause I'm then going
to ask staff very specifically what they understand that to
mean so that we're all clear on it and then
I'll try to get a resolution through so I council
to Maryland yes
difficult I can't hear you have to turn your microphone
on please
it's unfortunate I really don't want to go back and
forth like this with council's leader but I did want
to clarify that and so ... suggested certain locations in
my ward yes so it's not that I didn't read
the work but you know I have sent now in
fact of modernist be to those locations but they're very
much in the vicinity very accessible and the only reason
I from BLR team listed herein Terrio is our main
core and also it's not like you're saying it's tucked
away it's on my point was to say that you
and your is the main corridors and no one is
suggesting that it is you know often some completely inaccessible
and those were the only ones I was making all
in all I'm trying to say here is I think
there's a little bit of mis characterization and I just
wanted to correct background that's all there is thank you
accounts service center
... Mr Cher I really don't have anything more to
add other than I know when you read appendix two
... it's ... it does have the operative word where
possible a lot of the B. I. ace tends to
be more the retail frontage if you will and there
are many opportunities ...
not how can I say ... worries proximal but not
necessarily on the main the main road or or or
Avenue and so ... I know in Edmonton for example
... and again going back to my experience in having
these conversations in two thousand eighteen accounts for Samsonite we
did survey a safe drug injection sites
cross the country and we found that where was located
centrally but not necessarily ... in a location that Tom
would cause a lot of opposition because really that's what
we're looking at ... or in an existing health facility
and again keeping in mind that location really as important
as everyone here has set up
mayor Crombie spoke well to the importance of location for
the success of the program we think it's also important
for the acceptance of it
thank you
thank you so ... that exhaust my list and thank
you for the conversation Madame clerk if we can have
a copier if I can be clear because I wanna
read the salient clause
and let me read what I've got here I don't
know if it's been added as number four is a
separate bullet so what is been added as number four
number two remains just as you have it number forward
read that appendix two of the subject report include consideration
of business improvement areas as sensitive land uses
councillor resent is the more of the motion are you
satisfied with that
absolutely sure okay so what I'm gonna do now is
normally we take them as read but but I must
say Marie McKenna still here and out of respect to
you in the memory of course I'm gonna read the
entire motion today because I think it's so important and
on behalf everybody else it's been here so as moved
by councilman Sunday seconded by councillor cental but the commissioner
of health services and chief financial officer and the commissioner
corporate services be granted authority to establish an interim urgent
public health needs site for supervised consumption services and peel
and that the commissioner health services and chief financial officer
and commissioner corporate services be authorized to directly negotiate and
enter into a service agreement including any necessary ancillary documents
with mobile help a community services to operate the site
in accordance with the region's procurement bylaw thirty twenty eighteen
as amendment on business terms satisfactory to the commissioner health
services and the chief financial officer and commissioner corporate services
and on legal terms satisfactory to the regional solicitor and
Clyde street at the peel public health and moral health
and community services complete site specific neighborhood engagement during the
urgent public health needs site location selection process and that
new clause for that appendix two of the subject report
include consideration of business improvement areas as a sensitive land
use point five that the implementation of the services for
up to two years twenty four months at a cost
estimate of five point eight million dollars be funded from
the tax rate stabilization reserves for operating expenditures and tax
supported capital reserve with no net impact point six that
the peel public health work with more oil health and
community services to apply to health Canada for a site
specific exemption from subsection fifty six one of the controlled
drugs and substances act for the urgent public health needs
site bullet seven but the report of the commission health
services and acting up serve medical health listed on the
July seven twenty twenty to regional council agenda titled supervised
consumption services and peel by an urgent public health care
needs site and resolution before to the city of Brampton
the town of Caledon and the city of Mississauga and
that the regional chair
share on behalf of regional council write a letter to
the minister of health and the associate minister of health
and addictions to advocate for permanent sustained provincial funding for
supervised consumption sites in peel as part of the region's
ongoing advocacy for sustainable funding as articulated in the regional
mental health and addictions social strategy and finally that a
copy of the letter to the province be sent appeal
area members of provincial parliament the association of local public
health agencies and the association of municipalities of Ontario you
have heard the motion do I have anyone in objection
hearing no one an objection that carries unanimously thank you
all
okay good work in a good conversation I'm going to
suggest it's twelve thirty we still have the mother Parkers
but those in the audience here in us we haven't
had a break in about three I'm just gonna call
for like a fifteen twenty minute break for us then
we're going to carry on because we have other items
that were held in an inquiry from a concert so
if I can have you back at a quarter to
one so that I can give the staff and all
just a quick break in here as well we will
see you back at twelve forty five thank you
okay everybody if I can everybody get their seats and
will reconvene virtually as well we're back to the appointed
hour a little bit of housekeeping from the last elevations
and items that we have just a follow up motion
for mayor Crombie and cultured ask to move the receipt
of all the delegates ins and all the correspondence on
the matter regarding the ... the ... injection site that
we just dealt with anybody opposed to that that is
carried thank you we are going to carry on now
with our deputations I've been asked for some indulgence I
understand seven ten Peter gross council Collings has to leave
in about five minutes so I'm happy to take that
first of all I will remind all members of colleagues
here that is with regards to item eleven point two
which is a report that was here for received an
impact was received on consent as well so be mindful
of that so with that Mister gross I will indulge
you for five minutes if you've got it would be
up and running go ahead please
thank you Mr chairman and members of council you to
hear me Sir
yes I am please proceed five minutes thank you very
much
hi good afternoon council my name is Peter gross with
accounting W. L. G. I represent the American group
and we're here today our because our client wishes to
re developed lands at one thousand and one thousand twenty
four Dundas street east in Mississauga four hundred and sixty
two purpose built rental apartments with commercial uses a great
here in support of the regional staff's recommendation that staff
not right to Mr of municipal affairs and housing requesting
a modification to the region's new official plan that was
adopted on April twenty eight
as adopted the new official plan does not designate our
clients lands as within employment area
to gather with staff our view is that our clients
land should remain on employment in the new OP and
council should refuse whether Parker's request to seek a modification
from the minister to re designate the labs
allowing the lands remain on employment is consistent with the
provincial policy statement which requires optimization of public investment in
higher order transit infrastructure through
in particular mixed use development that includes residential uses to
support complete communities
the new OP appropriately designated the lands as non employment
after years of extensive study and public input including years
of engagement in the planning process by our clients in
this regard the council should not exceed to mother Parkers
last minute request to seek modifications to the new OP
as councillors so much of planning involves balancing of competing
objectives and priorities in this case council is being asked
to choose employment uses over affordable housing we have said
repeatedly that this does not need to be an either
or decision to uses mother Parkers and our clients residential
development can coexist and what our client seeks is merely
the opportunity to establish compatibility to the city of Mississauga
satisfaction
our client is not asking that sensitive uses be approved
today and in fact the new OP does not allow
that to occur
mother Parkers operations will remain fully protected by existing local
... keep policies the council heard about last night
that require a land use compatibility study before any sensitive
uses can be established on our clients laughs this ensures
that mother Parkers can not only continue to operate but
expand is necessary in the future additional protection is provided
by the requirement that our clients lands must be designated
first as class four by city council that is a
decision city council would make
approach taken by staff and regional council in adopting the
new OP appropriately balance the interests of mother Parkers and
our clients with a view to developing the Dundas corridor
as a vibrant mixed use area that will support the
public investment in transit provide desperately needed rental development
and protecting the surrounding employment area including mother Parkers
yeah review determination in this matter may well affect the
entire corridor which runs along several words
therefore ask simple and that is why and it being
brief today we simply respectfully request that council formal staff's
advice supported the new OP and you know I mother
Parkers request to seek a modification to the land use
designations for our clients property that is what's reasonable that
is what's there given our signs multi year investment in
the planning process person's mother Parkers last minute request
we have our noise consultants flat because of available should
you have any questions regarding the technical aspects of the
class for designation and he is available to answer any
questions from council as a boy I'm happy to answer
any questions and that concludes my comments this morning
Peter thank you for your presentation and I see no
questions at this time so I will carry on with
our delegates now going to serve on the same subject
seven point eight David Tang partner Miller Thomson on behalf
of mother Parkers coffee and tea David you have five
minutes thank you very much Mr chairman members of council
hi my name's David Chang and I'm the solicitor for
... mother Parkers tea and coffee and we have on
behalf of our client S. regional council to ask ...
the minister of missile fears and housing to modify the
people official plans for the land south of Dundas street
between Haynes and bundle roads to keep them in the
regional employment area and let me start off by apologizing
once again on behalf of mother Parkers I councils having
to deal with this so late in the opening process
but it's ... I just didn't want to remind you
that this is because the study indicating and demonstrating the
problem was only initiated because model mother Parkers itself started
to implement a new process in this plan just this
year the study was however timely enough to affect the
City of Mississauga's opiate process for the Donbass ... connects
master plan process and that of course is the one
significant change that has occurred since we all last road
or appeared before you so this week Mississauga ... approved
to the draft ... Don desk connects master plan official
plan amendment that retains these lands the ones that ...
Mr viruses client and others in the vicinity to be
within the Dixie employment area and most importantly it adds
a special policy that requires will be on municipally lattice
city lad assessment of the industrial impacts on those lands
and where it is determined that those impacts are going
to be acceptable would allow for a misleading issued official
plan amendment to remove those lands from the employment area
and allow for residential development
most importantly though if not if they're not acceptable not
appropriate the balancing results in a
we shouldn't be converted then they would remain employment lands
and I don't suggest this is the correct approach much
better than process that we're engaging right now we're we're
all writing to you as council with various bits of
information that nobody's had a chance to really review
and quite frankly the material that has been provided to
you by the on the truth is simply not accurate
or complete that doesn't include the detailed work to assess
all the actually sources
there's simply disagreement between ... the landowners in the area
on the use of what should happen and the use
of that class for area approach to keep talking about
the Mississauga official plan amendment approach allows for the full
review and the recommendations by this fall staff to you
about what should happen with the assistance of neutral experts
that we know the city intends to retain for that
assessment
I need to recognize that mother Parkers a review request
one meter in your may have been a perfect have
you reviewed your regional staff's comments about the need to
account for commercial retail uses being permitted in these areas
since they're not sensitive land uses mother Parkers would like
to modify its requested more regional council
we'd like to now ask council to request the minister
to modify the peel regional official plan to keep keep
those properties between eighteen and one toll roads within the
regional plan area but with specific policies that allow commercial
and retail uses which are not noise or older sensitive
to be permitted and then that would be subject to
the city of Mississauga official plan policies but those uses
that change allows everybody's interests and the submissions to be
properly assessed and if that assessment requires ... required by
the city of Mississauga clears the way for residential development
the official plans can then be properly amended to allow
those sensitive uses to come in while in the interim
there's no question retail commercial uses I can continue to
be carried on here in this location orchard or even
added
mother party request does not result in a permanent prohibition
against residential valid it simply protects the employment uses while
the feasibility is explored in greater detail and while our
present information indicates it cannot physically located here if the
city's assessment shows it can can be modified to allow
for that but only after appropriate consideration so that's mother
Parkers request that council ask ministry the ministry to modify
the PLO peace to keep these lands within the employment
areas but with policies specifically allowing retail and commercial uses
to remain
thank you I'm happy to answer any questions that may
arise
thank you I see no questions on my screen for
David David thank you very much for your presentation I
go to our last delegate on the matter seven point
nine John Lomas director plan logic consulting Inc John welcome
Johns in the chamber welcome John
and you've got 5 minutes welcome
thank you very much Mr chairman members of council my
name is John Loomis I'm a registered professional land use
planning consultant in the director of planning logic consulting incorporated
my client to Mississauga Muslim community center owns a property
at two five oh five Dixie road is located on
the side of Dixie road northwest of the Dixie gold
train station the use the existing building for a place
of worship as well as a food bank for people
of all faiths they have thousands of congregants who live
not only in ward one and three but also within
the city of Mississauga and region of peel
the reason I'm here today is that
the Mississauga Muslim community centered supports the regional official plan
as adopted
and we find it very disturbing that you have someone
who is fully conversant in the planning process Mr Tang
coming to you at the eleventh hour asking for changes
when we have actively participated in the approval process
secondly
the city Mississauga are not treating the land south of
Dundas street equally the lands that my client owns ...
are being taken out of the employment area and their
policies that require compatibility can studies to ensure that they
are compatible with industrial uses to the south the city
is not taking the same approach on the lands which
are located between Blundell and hangings solely in response to
the submissions from mother Parkers so we are
a concern about the precedent this would set because the
Muslim Mississauga Muslim community center is looking at potential residential
redevelopment of their property immediately adjacent to the goal station
which is supported by provincial policy supported by regional policy
and that's where the city of Mississauga official plan is
looking for tall buildings so we are very concerned about
the precedent this would set and how it's treating different
parts of the employment area differently and we see no
rationale for an exhibition thank you
thank you councillor Gustafson us your hand up do you
have a question of the delegates
as thank you venture actually it's it's not so much
a question the delegate I just thought I'd just make
it I've got three of these speakers have come forward
and I and I do know that it is this
... that these two items that go on consent but
I just I just make a quick comment like it
sucks so Steven what I'm gonna do it for I'm
gonna come right back to you does anybody have any
questions of the delicate
seeing none I'm gonna ask answer desk one Fonseca move
receipt of all the delegates is there anybody opposed that
is carried you're right it was done without consent but
I open it up concert asco go ahead
thank you to the chair and thank you for indulging
me on this I'll just be very very brief this
is been a ... again unto itself ... this is
been a last minute in in planning kind of ...
world ... in last minute issue just because of ...
the way that the ...
that the planning growth committee
... you don't have had the item or or thought
we had an item but ... but something was missed
and ... and so this is if this had been
spoken to ... with regards to ... the chair the
committee as well she's spoken to it to add to
add planning development committee also and ... something that I've
tried to bring to our P. O. planning staff to
what to look at the address ... they told me
that it's not necessary that other comfortable leaving it in
the city's hands to to deal with we then heard
from Wells for example the almond group and some other
... some others involved in this particular corridor including mother
Parkers and ... and what has gone for at our
planning and development committee is to have five some more
fulsome investigation done by third party on this and this
is where ...
you know hopefully were able to get some homework done
on this to put it put everybody in a better
a better spot and deaths it has some good
aerial faxed to this so what should I just wanted
to ... to say that ... I appreciate all the
speakers coming in but at the same time ... to
be honest I'm I'm not overly thrilled that this is
now in the city's hands but at least in the
city stands a Mississauga will be ... some more fulsome
investigation done through a third party thank you
okay thank you so the matter was dealt with architects
house or parish one last thought go ahead
yes I just wanted to thank her
is your judgment for the report and we can pass
on consent it seems reasonable ... this is a our
integrated problem as cash councillor Daskal said it's kind of
in Mississauga's pocket right now so the recommendation we passed
... from Christian Keely I approve of thank you
okay thank you so the matters been dealt with thank
you to all moving on then that concludes our delegations
were on to items that were held on consent by
members of council first up item nine point one twenty
twenty one homelessness point in time count results councillor plushie
thank you much very much ... Mister chair Mister chairman
going through the report and ... I guess to through
you Mr chair to Sean Baird ... going through the
report I saw a lot of great information that came
out of this forty three staff members worked on this
and in the one day in October of last year
mandated by ... the province and the federal government ...
so in in every time I will I kind of
thought to the next page and highlighted ... some good
data that that we're getting out of this in the
back of my mind it kept on coming to me
that this was only one day one day in October
that
know what the conditions were like that day could be
strained it could have been cold a lot of I
think variables that could have happened on this one particular
day ... so I guess my questions are along the
lines of having her being ordered to to do this
once every two years by the by the province and
the feds ... and in in looking at ... some
of the the results in particular ... for the interpretation
of this account to be used with caution ... because
of the one day ... you know how
is is there I guess abilities to to expand on
this and and potentially ... make this you know mmhm
more accurate you havent done quarterly or ... is this
something that you get regional council should be saying to
the operational arms of the government to say he you
know don't ask us to do this we're already doing
other things to to get this information will provide you
with with that information I'm I'm just trying to get
a better understanding because I just don't see as you
know when one particular day in October of last year
especially you know it and going through covert as well
... with all the ... you know the variables in
that in the roadblocks of track caused as well or
just want to really get a comment from from commissioner
Baird and see what his thoughts on the matter were
commissioner Burk
thank you and through the chair thank you counsel and
we share your concerns the you know it's not a
ideal way to collect this data ... it's done this
way by the province and the feds essentially so that
they can compare across different regions and different municipalities
... you know we have lots of other ways that
we collect information I can share for you for example
that we actually have thousands of clients who moved through
our shelter system for example in a given year so
wala wala one day count your lands us in the
in the I think was a hundreds ... that's simply
not indicative of the total homelessness population that we have
here in the region of peel and so we know
that and we know that our programs are are driving
towards increasing those services what it does do that's helpful
I think is it is it does show the increase
over time right so there there is clearly an increase
in the total homelessness population within the region of peel
and that's helpful information for us to have you on
your question of should we be doing this more regularly
should be to find a different way we actually have
a piece of work under way right now to look
at our service levels ... across housing and that's something
that's going to be coming back to council early in
the new year and I would suggest this is a
that would be a good topic for discussion at that
time when we take another look at how do our
homelessness programs line up how to our housing programs line
up how do they serve to meet the needs and
how do we measure those this would not be our
metric of choice in terms of how we measure demand
... but happy to bring for more information about how
we do propose to go for measuring demand how we
want to think about aligning our services to that in
the future comfortable as she that works thank you Mr
chairman thank you commissioner bear for that and I think
it's right you know if I have the honor of
being a counselor in ... in January when this does
come back I think maybe that that's trying to have
another conversation around this and and looking out over other
ways that we can achieve ... you know there are
strategies that going forward and not just checking a box
from the fence in the province that's what I feel
like this is but but thank you for that and
thank you to all the staff that did a tremendous
amount of work on that day forty three that ...
and I'm sure just wasn't that day was whose whole
lot of information and data collected ... since then so
thank you for to all the hard work that staff
did on us thank you Mr thank you with that
come
surplus she has moved receipt seconded by councillor simpler any
opposed that is carried the other item held on consent
item nine point three five SR nine fifty eight nine
sixty east Avenue affordable housing redevelopment update councillor Daskal
thank you to the chair and ... just wanted to
ask some questions with regards to this this is a
it's quite troubling
so I just wanted to ask ... first of all
his
and until this reports come forward as this plan been
on schedule as as was everyone
through to
so if you try and ask ... alien Baird our
director of housing to she's already in the call so
she can comment on the project Alene if you heard
the question I trust go ahead
thank you counsel asking entry you chair ... east Avenue
project like all of our housing development projects to schedules
really have been impacted and slow down ... as a
result of the pandemic ... so we are we are
behind schedule ... but but are making progress that we're
making steady progress but yes the project is is behind
schedule
I guess my next question on this is when we
were going through the planning process
we were trying to
there had been some previous work done by the community
and I'm by myself in our planning staff and I
was ... essentially told that couldn't continue much more because
we're in now in desperate need of ... of of
this housing and we were about to lose our funding
if it didn't get ... adopted right away so I'm
just wondering
perhaps somebody could fill me in on if something's changed
terror if I missed something because ...
... has as many no on this especially from from
people stop in our planning staff the city ... this
is been this far as I'm concerned I very challenging
file
yes thank you again councillor Daskal so as you know
last summer we received the ... official plan amendment and
rezoning ... requirements with the city of Mississauga
since then you know we have gone out to secure
... vendors to actually see you know started construction of
this project and not not proved to be very difficult
we've gone back out in of now pre qualified we're
at the stage where we pre qualified vendors who can
now enter into a negotiated R. P. process with us
so that's the stage we're act with council approval today
that'll be the next step will go into a negotiated
R. P. process and actually secure the vendor you know
to start to work with us I designed new builder
to start to do this project with us as to
your question around finding it is a it is a
... consideration this project has regional ... provincial and federal
funding attached to it and that funding does come with
requirements to spend within that within a certain amount of
time and again because of cold would we have we've
had to go back constantly to the other levels of
government to renegotiate ten and ... explained you know some
of these delays that are largely driven by the pandemic
and they've been cooperating with us but it is a
consideration week there are time constraints upon us and requirements
of other levels of government in regards to the funding
that they are contributing to this project
okay so they were okay with that but I guess
they wouldn't have been okay if we tried to get
the building
a little a little more a little more in tune
with what the committee was asking for
so the other levels of government really don't and the
funding requirements don't speak to that level of detail counts
for Daskal so big they are silent on the matter
of whether it's four stories five stories or seven stories
okay and I'm just asking because ... to be honest
you know I was also told during this process that
we really couldn't get get down from seven stories on
to anything else and ... another design issues just because
of our timing and budget so I'm just I'm just
asking some of those questions here because people in the
community are now gonna want and demand and rightfully so
... answers from why we went from a fifty five
million to ninety million dollars and they're not be too
pleased that it's still the same result save for it
looks like the underground parking has been adjusted a bit
can you just give me a brief update on that
please
yes so I can't speak to the specifics of the
underground parking but can't say that that was one of
the reasons the cost of gone up right so that
the initial design did not include underground parking and that
is a significant cost driver is contributing to the to
the request that's before council today so absolutely the new
building does include underground parking
okay and then I guess the other things is fantastic
is with regards to there is ... there's ongoing talk
and I listen and I'm hoping this is still the
case ... between that city of Mississauga and and the
region to come up with a ...
public ground shared space that's something that's kind of that
flows together so ...
with with the change in the underground parking allow for
more
sh more land space on on at the start of
the site
yeah so again through you chair so in the regional
plan maybe be above ground parking of course is is
is no longer there and so we're able to reconsider
yeah the use of space above ground and as you
looted to there's ongoing conversations with the city about about
those things
okay all right so I just would like to have
direction to staff that ... that this land is factored
in
I had to ... to what we're looking to do
hopefully looking to do ... collaboratively with that with the
city and the region
in that space so if I can if I could
put that forward and then ...
and I think those are really the questions I do
have for now but it comes down to that space
and also I just want to ensure that the materials
and I think we had been talking through our stuff
in place and ... and then terminate recently learned value
engineered and that we're not value engineering any parts of
the building now
I will take direction countered asco and myself and the
team will continue to work closely with you in the
community as we you know as we continue to move
forward on this project
okay all right thanks Eileen I I appreciate your work
on this ... and yeah we just have that is
direction staff and I'm happy to move it at the
appropriate time
thank you thank and quite currently putem it's remarkable what's
happened in the cost of these things even for consumers
trying to buy one the eight nine hundred square foot
condo per square foot now is eleven twelve thirteen hundred
and we fell subject to it as well because the
chair had some questions about the populace well ... so
there there you have it but but well put any
councillor Daskal you're retelling of the history is quite correct
I have to acknowledge that as well but with that
thank you for your comments and your moving the motion
seconded by councillor Mollen a taken as read but just
the salient points that the budget be increased by thirty
five million dollars from fifty four million to ninety by
transferring thirty three million from housing master plan capital projects
fund and by transferring one point five million from the
climate change and your energy management capital project fund you're
for the motion is there anybody in objection
hearing no one that carries and that brings me down
to with so many items held on consent ... counselor
with regards to other business council fourteen I said you
had an enquiring with regards to something I said you
could raise it another business I think we had a
chance to chat on it as well councillor fourteen now's
the time to raise that will we'll see where we
go from there go ahead
councillor 14
maybe I'll help a bit council fourteen he was asking
some of the council Mitchell was an ongoing contract of
a major construction that we're working on after the fact
you know the debate between the person that did work
in us and you know was the budgeting right except
or should we become safe but it's before our legal
folks and their legal folks is being negotiated and discussed
and art because I made enquiries on behalf of it
the councillors approached me and I spoke with the the
cancer in between our lunch break to say that it's
a work in progress and that they're represented we're represented
they're working it through and at some point it'll come
back to us hopefully with the resolution and he seems
satisfied with that so that's what his inquire we was
nine I think he's glad that everybody's best efforts are
going into and hopefully it's on its way to resolution
and maybe why he stepped off as well knowing that
while I've said that address that I come back to
any other items of business Sir items any councillors want
to race councillor Segal
thank you Mr chair ... through you to allow me
to help staff
I know we've had our clinics closed
or I'm and mine has been years per call but
backs nations but I'm could you any update as to
when we might be re opening the local health clinics
and along that line ...
because they were in the needle exchange locations and I
know we've gone with the mall bile
but it from our are we able to cover
since the clinics have been closed what's the situation with
that needle exchange program
Dr Bingham
thank you through the chair ... were working to reopen
our public health clinics progressively as resources permit so ...
certainly it's a priority throughout the pandemic operations around her
production have actually not had any resources to for ...
but we're looking for us remove from and in fact
we have expanded our harm reduction operations because many of
our community partners have been limited in their ability to
serve clients ... so the mo bile bands continue to
serve the entire community in terms of harm reduction supplies
and were working to reopen the fixed clinics as quickly
as possible ... recognizing that their multi use clinics and
that obviously harm reduction would be a priority but clients
can continue to access the mobile the UNC ... through
the number on the website
enter
so you feel that with the mobile we're able to
cover the people that need to service absolutely we also
work closely with community partners thank you okay thank you
thank you last call anybody else other business or counselor
inquire Reese
if not that brings us down to the by laws
as moved by councillor Saito seconded by councillor Carlson at
the bylaw is listed on the July seventh twenty twenty
to regional council agenda being bylaws thirty seven twenty twenty
two and thirty eight twenty twenty two given the required
numbers of reading taken as read signed by the regional
turn the regional clerk and the corporate C. seal B.
affects their to anybody an objection that carries councillor parachute
sorry council parish
councillor fourteen he's trying to get back and he's been
trying for quite some time all
sorry can you hear me I'm in now yeah they
finally let me back in the office okay but I
don't know if you heard what I said but over
to you
yeah thank you also I think staff I have dialed
up the with staff or yourself that up the negotiating
by I just like to have a a lease on
update what's going on so I don't know if we
could have it all here or in camera
I guess it would have to be in camera of
council wishes to go in camera
tell supporting me would you like us to go in
camera on the matter yeah because of next meeting this
is September and if that wasn't enough this negotiations I
think myself and council Dillon Shirley's been informed what was
going on in the area but we have no updates
okay so I then have a motion I think we
should we can at this time because of it so
I have a motion from councillor fourteen the seconded by
councillor Dillon to move in camera is there anybody opposed
okay I'm just to be clear state the reason Madame
clerk as to why we're going in camera
my understanding is to receive solicitor client advice as it
relates to a pending or ongoing litigation
you
okay in the clerk a let me know when where
properly behind closed doors
I've got a thumbs up so Madame took over you
coming out of in camera anything coming out of the
in camera
thank you Mr terrorists you have a motion moved by
... cancer fourteen he seconded by the mayor Thompson are
that the update from the solicitor as it relates to
litigation or potential litigation including matters before administrative tribunals affecting
the municipality a local board be received is there anybody
opposed
that is carried thank you I've already read the bylaw
with regards to the bylaw so I will take it
as read as moved by councillor stayed on Carlson anybody
opposed that is carried the next item I have is
the bylaw thirty nine twenty twenty two to confirm the
proceedings of regional come as moved by councillor Sinclair and
Fonseca at our meeting today of July seven twenty twenty
two and authorize execution of documents in accordance with the
region appeal bylaws relating there to be given the required
number of readings taken as read signed by the regional
chair and the regional clerk and the corporate seal affixed
their to anybody opposed that is carried and finally as
moved by councillor person McAdams that we stand adjourned Kerry
thank you all and a real shot ... to stop
these are always busy times as we get to June
July in busy times for our colleagues around the two
for you pushed a lot of stuff through the system
because every little piece of paper is a mountain of
work by and boy did staff to a lot to
get everything done so everybody can keep working during the
summer months in the fall so shallow to stop as
well we are adjourned thank you all