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To meeting here at the town of Newmarket Monday, June
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22nd 2026, as it is a councilman, we'll begin with
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the land acknowledgement. We acknowledge that the town a new
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market is located on the traditional territories of the Wendet,
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Hotnoshoni, and the Nashabi peoples. And the treaty land of
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the William Treaty's First Nations and other indigenous peoples whose
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presence here continues to this day. We thank them for
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sharing this land with us, and we also acknowledge the
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Chip Oz of Georgina Island First Nation as our close
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neighbours and friends, and we work to ensure cooperative and
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respectful relationship with them. So as always, just a reminder
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that we appreciate Public Feedback and Public Participation or meetings
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and our decision - making process. If you're interested in
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participating formally as a Deputance, you can either depute in
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person or in writing or via Zoom and just contact
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clerks at newmarket. ca, and they can help you with
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that process. Otherwise, just feel free to reach out any
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time to a member staff or a Deputy Mayor myself
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or your award councillor to talk about any issue that
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you would like to have share some ideas on. Madam
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Clerk, any additions and corrections at the agenda? Thank you.
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Three, Mr. Mayor. We do have one correction, item 10,
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which is of the bylaws. Schedule A was added to
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Bylaw 2026 - 28, which is a bylaw to dedicate
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certain land as a public highway. Just wasn't attached when
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the agenda was originally uploaded. It's there now. Great, thank
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you. Can somebody move that, please? Councillor Broom. Councillor Coupee,
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sell those in favor, any opposed, and that's carried. Any
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conflict of interest declarations. We have none. Okay, so we
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are on to item five on your agenda. That's Presentations,
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and we do have Presentation today on, as we do
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each term towards the end of the term, and this
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is the 2022 to 2026 Council Term Accomplishments and Council
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Priorities, and I'll turn it over to our chief administrative
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officer to provide introduction. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's
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a real pleasure and privilege to speak with you and
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members of council and the staff in the viewing audience
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about something that's very exciting. That really is a capture
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of a four - year window of time that I
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don't have to tell you, Mr. Merrow or any member
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of Council, how busy it's been. It's been a very
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busy term, but a very exciting and positive busy term
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for council and for the community in terms of some
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of the amazing milestones that have been achieved, both specific
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to Council Priorities, but also just overall community accomplishments and
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a whole variety of wards from both provincial and national
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bodies. So I've got a brief presentation. I just wanted
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to walk through just a few slides, just to help
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paint the picture and help with councils questions of clarification,
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or any discussion that might occur. So next slide, please.
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So just not a really high level, just to summarize
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what has been achieved in the last four - year
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term of counsel. Uh, so to kick us off at
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any term of council, we do council priorities and council
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really gives us excellent guidance as an administration in terms
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of what's really important to you through the four -
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year term. So this past four years, council had, uh,
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pinpointed five key areas, or Focus areas. So one was
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community and economic innovation, another customer, first way of life,
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particularly around technology and utilising technology to its utmost. Uh,
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the third extraordinary places and spaces. Environmental sustainability. And the
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last, uh, but not least, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming. So
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these five Focus areas, you know, out of there, a
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number of priorities or actions that were identified. And so,
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and please through a report at this stage, we've got
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13 of the 16 of councils priorities completed. And the
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other remaining three are in the works. So they're being
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advanced at some stage, but it wouldn't consider them complete
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yet. So, uh, overall, it's always good to stretch ourselves
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as an organisation, as a community. So I don't think
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you necessarily want to achieve a hundred percent. I think
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it's good to have some, some flex in there, uh,
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on something like this to really show that we're striving
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and challenged to try to achieve it all. So, uh,
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we're still working hard on the remaining three. Uh, as
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well, we've got, uh, our community accomplishments and awards that
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are summarized in a document that is an attachment to
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the report that council has. And just to high level
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summarize that we've got approximately 70 community - based accomplishments
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summarized within the document and approximately 10 provincial international level
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awards that were received and celebrating new market throughout the
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time frame. But equally as important as, uh, the really,
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uh, cool stuff in terms of accomplishments and awards is
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around the balance between the financial success story and what's
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going on in the community. So, uh, really the bottom
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line for us is that, uh, our reserves are subtly
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increasing and have increased, uh, throughout the term, uh, and
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our debts have steadily decreased throughout the term. So it's
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exactly where ideally a community would be wanting to move
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where reserves are up and debts are down. Uh, and
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then our taxes consistently lower than the GTHA average while
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still delivering an extensive capital program, uh, which counsel fully
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aware of and is celebrated within the document, uh, as
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well that diverse programming, uh, and responding to opportunities that
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arise through new community events or through success that local
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athletes have had on the world scene where we've been
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able to respond and gather the community to celebrate, uh,
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or when the blue jays had success, the gather as
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a community and celebrate. Those aren't anticipated things, but we
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make it happen. Uh, so we, we've done all of
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those new and creative things, uh, within the financial confines
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that we work with each year through our budget, but
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also have maintained, uh, the high level of service and
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the businesses have grown to expect from, from new market.
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Next slide. So how we've achieved all of this. I
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just took a step back and I was thinking about
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some of the driving forces behind it. And I do
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think that this summarizes well what differentiates us as a
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community. Uh, I think that really we are very fortunate.
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We have a clear vision and direction from council. I've
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had that throughout the term. Uh, council really does set
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the example through professional dialogue and decision making, uh, that,
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uh, really helps us as an administration to get down
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to work and get stuff done. And I believe that
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all that fits in with a very strong dynamic and
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a respect - based rapport between council and staff, which
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I think really sets the stage for a great thing
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is to happen. As well in the background, I truly
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believe the dedicated hardworking staff team that's very focused on
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making a difference coming to work and striving to be
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successful every day. And then really strong leadership to support
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the overall efforts, uh, from the supervisors, the managers, the
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directors and the commissioners. And then overall, we've got, it
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all fits into creating an environment for extraordinary public service
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where we've got a strong culture that's rooted in a
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collective willingness to boldly and creatively push beyond the norm.
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Uh, I think that just, just doing what everybody else
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does is not really in our DNA in new market.
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And I think it shows in the accomplishments over the
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last term of council and captured in the document. Next
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slide. So how we're going to celebrate, uh, what's occurred
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in terms of priorities and achievements. Uh, is through primarily
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a flip book. And I'm just going to ask Simon
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to pull it up quickly and we'll just, I'll just
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go through a couple of pages just to get a
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sense to demonstrate how it is a document that the
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public can interact with, uh, and navigate through, um, you
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know, in a very user - friendly way, it will
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live on the website primarily. I don't know if Simon,
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if you've got it there. There we go. So Simon's
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just going to flip through a couple of pages just
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to demonstrate, you know, how it's an interactive piece where
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people can kind of go through and they can zoom
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in and out as they need to. So thanks Simon.
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So that would be the, the, the primary mode, um,
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but as well, we're going to do a limited print
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run. Uh, so we can distribute to key audiences. Uh,
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and then internally amongst the administration, you know, we will
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celebrate it through staff town hall meetings throughout the year.
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Uh, and all employee email where we distribute the flip
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book. And then most importantly for the community and for
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members of council, I would be distributed through various communication
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channels externally through things like, uh, news media, social media
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and as well, corporate communications team, uh, will, uh, be
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putting together a counseable package for you. Next slide. So
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that really concludes the introduction, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted
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to just high level put some context and colour around
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it. If the feedback from members of council today that
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we can take, uh, we are looking to then finalise
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the, the book, uh, and, uh, go to the limited
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print run and get it look to get it posted
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relatively soon. So I had any feedback today. I would,
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uh, receive that and any questions for members of council.
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Thank you. Great. Thank you very much. Um, you know,
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just a couple of quick comments as well. I think
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the council has, has a lot to be proud of
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this term. And I would bring into that the community
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does. And the community is a critical partner in this
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work. Um, and the involvement they are in so many
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of the things we do and the encouragement and the
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support. Yeah, I'll go through this quickly, but I think
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when you hear it, it's really quite startling. Uh, the
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amount that's been done, uh, and keep in mind, as
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our CAO pointed out that we've done this, we'll bring
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debt down, increasing reserves and increasing the amount that our
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taxes per capita are below the GTH average. In other
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words, we've increased taxes at a slower rate than our
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peers. So responsible tax level increases. Debt is down. Reserves
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are up. And yet we still manage to do, uh,
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so much. So for example, in the financial area innovation,
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shining hill and the NT Electra deal, both huge initiatives
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that make a big difference in our financial sustainability, uh,
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sure, fast work, it's ongoing while we're doing the community
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branding. Two new big events. Summer Fest and Ice Lounge
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where we won best events, uh, Ontario three times and
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best of end in Canada. Uh, we opened an entirely
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new state - of - the - art tenant centre.
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And we're starting on a pickleball centre. That allowed us
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to move an increased parking of the downtown to help
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with the success of the downtown working with the merchants.
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Attracting the post - markdown and really continuing to see
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the acceleration of the downtown. And then of course the
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Mulac Trail, which is a trail that is virtually the
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same length as the Tom Taylor trail or the Nokita
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Trail, another big addition. And finally, the largest capital project
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in the history of Newmarket, the Mulak Park, which is,
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uh, we're, we're hoping to, we're not, well, we're going
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to open this summer. Uh, so I just think when
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you list those all, uh, if you feel a little
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tired, the reason. Um, that's a lot of work. And
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that's a lot of significant projects that has been undertaken
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in one term. Uh, I, uh, say with a bit
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of pride, I doubt there are too many communities that
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could put a list up, uh, that, that mirrors that
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list. So with that, are there any comments, sir? Questions
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for staff or comments from any other members. Yeah. Councillor
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Corpeas. Yeah. Definitely not to be, uh, proud of. And
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thank you for bringing this up. Uh, there is quite
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a few more projects that obviously maybe not that size
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that obviously, uh, have been done. And, you know, things
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like, for example, Hasket Park that we're going to be
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opening it today, uh, or in the next few days,
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uh, the, the Queen Street bridge, some of the capital
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project structure projects that got finalised. So there is a
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huge, huge amount to be proud of by council, but
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also by staff. And I do want to take that
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opportunity. Yes, we are challenging staff, but staff is stepping
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up to make it happen. So thank you for that.
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Yeah. The other thing I'd add is just, and it's
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worth noting is that the other thing we did. And
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it's not as significant as these ones, but, uh, and
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this was a staff led initiative, but the, the, the
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council priorities dashboard. That's a, that's a very transparent level
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of accountability where anyone can go and see at any
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time these things that we're talking about. And what we've
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been working on and how we're doing, uh, I think
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that's also pretty council broom. I just wanted to mention
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two things. Our website. We finally launched a website. Super
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exciting. And, uh, we had a pretty good hand and
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from the cold, which is just months away from opening.
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So that's a pretty, um, those are two major things
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that happened in this last, uh, year interim. Other comments.
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Yeah. Councillor Bazannes. Yeah. I also want to thank staff,
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um, for all the work that goes into, to these
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aspirations on being the best place to, to live, work
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and play. And, um, you know, I would be remiss
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if I didn't add, you know, the expansion of the
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Dave Kerwin Trail, which actually achieved probably global recognition. Um,
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but most importantly, the fact that when we come up
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with ideas, obviously we want to initiate things that are
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going to benefit the town wide. But we also recognise
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that we are a town with a lot of different
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neighbourhoods and neighbourhoods that have different needs. And, um, different
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opportunities to use the space that they're located in. And
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what I'm very appreciative of is the opportunity to bring
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those kinds of ideas, um, to council. And, uh, to
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staff and where it's possible, um, obviously we want to
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be economically responsible or ensure that we're using our tax
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dollars wisely for those amenities, but it's just from speaking
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from the perspective of award councillor. It's just very gratifying,
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very appreciative to be able to bring those ideas forward,
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have them considered, uh, to see, you know, whether they
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fit within our strategic objectives and needs. And then, you
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know, be able to have a number of different opportunities
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realised. So I also want to thank staff for that
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and to counsel too for supporting those things. Thank you.
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Thank you through you mayor tailor. Yeah. Reflecting on the,
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on the big things and the small things. And I'm
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sitting and thinking about the accessibility and how the parks
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are being rejuvenated for accessibility purposes. Not all parks need
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to be resurface and redone, but they are because of
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that accessibility portion. So I think, you know, the things
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that are big are easy to see, but the other
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things that mean so much more to the regular residents
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around the community that everybody feels a part are really,
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really important. So and staffer are absolutely amazing to work
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with and to see their excitement and their enthusiasm and
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just interest for getting things right, um, has been really
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profound and wonderful to be able to experience. Thank you.
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Councillor 20. Sorry. Just taking a moment to unmute myself
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there. Um, yeah, I'm through you, Ms. Mer, just, I
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just want to also just thank staff, um, an incredible,
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like this past four years is we've just done so
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much. Um, and so many things that, um, everybody keeps
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mentioning, I'm sure there's, and the more that we missed.
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And just to, um, sort of say, you know, reiterate
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what Councillor Byzant said about how the enthusiasm of our
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staff is just so, so incredible. Um, anything that, you
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know, you need, um, to get done or anything like
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that, they're always there to support, um, support us, um,
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to support our residents as well. And of course, I
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am very excited. I just want to have to make
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my mention of my word. Um, we have the pickleball,
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um, uh, project going in, but also, um, something that's
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very important to this community is the Hollingsworth New Park
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as well, that we just recently had a public meeting
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on. And this is something that is going to be
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very, very well received for the community along our, along
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our core there as well. Um, so just wanted to
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mention that as well. So looking forward to, to that
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coming into, uh, into the community as well. Deputy Mayor.
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Thank you. Um, we have had a terrific term and
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terrific council and the accomplishments are actually quite impressive. And
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we do invite everyone to go look at the dashboard
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to look at the accomplishments and look at the progress
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of where other things that they're keeping an eye on.
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Are. I know when I speak to residents, um, you
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know, one of the questions I often ask is, do
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you feel you're getting value for your tax dollars and
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I'm hearing overwhelmingly, yes. And then, um, I ask them
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about, you know, they talk about the quality of the
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parks, our trails. They also talk a lot about our
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advance, everything from the Thursday night music concerts to summer
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fast to the Halloween trail and many other things that
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are happening. Canada, et cetera, everything that's happening in the
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community and they were able to provide these, uh, events
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in world class events, quite frankly. And the interesting thing
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is, and this is a compliment to the staff. And
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it's a great compliment. You know, people show up, we
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say the event starts at this hour. Um, and they
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show up. And they're really not aware of the 12
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or 24 hours or sometimes even more that has gone
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into this event beforehand. So when we draw the curtain,
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when we allow them in, they can just have a
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great time. So the work that happens behind the magic
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curtain to make, um, our, our town great. And I
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do want to compliment staff on that. Because it's something
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that the residents quite often don't see. And they're not
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very aware of. And unless we mess up, they don't
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even think of, uh, so that's my compliment to the
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staff. And, uh, and I do hear from, from residents
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all the time, they are feeling that they're getting value
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for their tax dollar. And they do speak about the
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amenities that we have in our small town. Thank you.
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Thank you. Other comments. No, just want to add a
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couple things that I hate to see things left out
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or at least categories things, but we've done a lot
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of work around inclusivity as well. And working with the
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dismantling that do black racism task force in the work
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after that, uh, working with indigenous partners, uh, environmental first,
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like the thousand heat pumps, as we call it, um,
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just there's been, and then housing, of course. And it
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was mentioned to by Council Broom, but in from the
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cold, blue door, uh, Trinity Coptic, uh, project. And Bayview
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Parkway, all those projects, Newmarket planning and councils worked on
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to reduce fees and eliminate fees to make them viable.
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So a lot of work in housing going on as
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well. And it's just great to see all of these
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things happening. Uh, and it is kind of for anybody
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who does see this or is seeing this. This is
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kind of the last council meeting of, you know, before
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the summer break. And then we're into election time. And
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so this is kind of a wrap up moment for
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us. And I think this is a lot to celebrate.
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So, yep. Councillor, what is. Up something I wanted to
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say. Um, again, speaking as other councillors have that, this
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is a great report. And the dashboard is there, but
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there's also smaller ones that are taking place changes moving
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forward that are not seen as easily. Um, I've sat
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on the library board for, um, most of my terms
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that I've been in office. And, uh, the change that's
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transpired in the library board in terms of reaching out
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into the community during this last term, um, has been
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significant. Um, just a couple of things. One is, um,
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the books that you can take from a dispenser in
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both the Ray 20 complex and the Magna Centre. The
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fact that we are now going to be open on
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Mondays very soon. Something that we've talked about for a
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long time. And then the board is working on having
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a vehicle that will be able to get out into
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the community in a far easier method to any other
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groups that need it. And that's just, that's just what
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we can see. Um, and I would say this is
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my first time on the museum board, but the museum
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is also undergoing a similar transformation. The board and its
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concept of reaching out and letting the community, how do
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we get the community in? And so again, things that
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are not as visible, but, uh, there is the support
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of staff. It wouldn't have happened without staff. Um, but
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a board that, that is very interested in bringing that
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out. So some of the smaller ones, but really, really
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important. And you'll see that, uh, in the years to
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come. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Well, I think, uh, that's
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a good wrap up on everything that's been done. I'm
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sure we've still missed some things. And we're going to
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hear about what about this and what about there's a
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lot to be celebrated. So can I just have a
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motion to receive that please then? Councillor Corpy's and council
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Woodhouse. All those in favor. Any opposing that is carried.
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Can somebody please move the minutes of June 1st? Councillor
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Broom, Councillor Simon, all those in favor. And you're posing
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that's carried reports by regional representatives. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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I'll be brief on this. Um, last regional council meeting,
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we had very robust and my friend was quite serious
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discussion about the province and the federal government, but the
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provinces request that we reduced development charges for up to
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50 percent and keep them reduced for a minimum of
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three years. There was always a vague promise of, um,
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for that loss of revenue that the province will be
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dollars coming into offset other projects. And our discussion at
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council was that yes, we'll put in our application, but
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we won't make a final decision on it. And certainly
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the answer would be no. If the compensation comes back
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and it's less than one hundred percent of what we're
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giving up, we're not, uh, willing to put ourselves in
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a position of putting us in a deficit position, uh,
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just because we've reduced development charges. So those discussions are
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ongoing. And I believe, uh, sometime in mid August, we'll
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be receiving the report on how those discussions went in
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where we, where we stand on that. So we're still
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a little bit of time away from it, but just
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letting the public know that we are investigating that, but
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we have John Affirm line in terms of our participation.
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All right. Uh, on to the consent items. Any consentiny
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names that anybody wants to revisit. Okay. Can somebody please
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move the items. Councillor 20 and councillor Bazant. All those
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in favor. Any opposed in that's carried. Receipt of
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this. Oh, this is now the report. So the report
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that a company I should have moved probably earlier, but
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the report that companies, the Presentation that we had at
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9. 3, there's several recommendations there. Deputy Mayor Vague moves
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it. Council Bazannes, all those in favor. Any opposed nuts
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carried. Um, we have the two bylaws in front of
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us. They are listed in the agenda and available for
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anybody to see, but can simply please move with those
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two. Council broom and councillor Simon, all those in favor.
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Any opposed in that's carried. And any notices of motion.
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Motions previously provided. There were none any new business. Yes.
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Councillor Woodhouse. Just a, just a quick question. Here to
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follow up to our commissioner Payne. I'm just wondering if
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you could perhaps give us a little indication. We have
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a, uh, a project. I know that's been worked on.
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There's engineering being done. Um, this is the, uh, green
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space on stack house, which is just off of Leslie
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Street and south of Davis Drive. Um, I just wonder
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if you could give us some kind of indication as
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to when it might start. And perhaps an end time,
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although that's a little bit trickier, I know. Through you,
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Mr. Mayor. Thank you for that question, Councillor. Uh, as
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you will recall, we did have a public meeting earlier
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this year where we had shared some of the design
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information. And, uh, that has gone through to design with
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engineering at this point in time. Um, I think perhaps
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Peter might have some updates on the timing of where
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we are in that process. So I defer to the
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commissioner for that. Yeah. Thank you, Jeff. And through you
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mayor Taylor. The project is underway. Um, we are intent
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on starting construction. Um, and, uh, we hope to have
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that project in good shape either at the end of
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this year or early next year. But, uh, we're, it's
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definitely one of our priorities to get going. Um, and
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we don't see any hurdles. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Thank
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you. I wanted to include that in my read. I
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mean, no, that's, I just wanted an update on, uh,
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on that. Thank you so much. I had you any
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other new business. Okay. I could have motioned a move
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into close session, please. Councillor 20 and Councillor Broom, all
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those in favor. Any opposed and that's carry.
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Okay, we've now completed our closed session. We'll be reporting
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out on that closed session at this point, so 14.
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1 on your agenda if you're following along, this committee,
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the whole closed session meeting mitts June 15th. Can someone
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please prove those minutes, move to prove them please? Councillor
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Broom, Councillor Simon, all those favor, that's carried. Also the
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northern six contract waste update. Kind of a motion that
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the confidential presentation provided by staff be received. Councillor Woodhouse,
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Deputy Mayor, all those in favor, any opposed, and that
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is carried. And finally, 14. 2, which was park naming
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in camera discussion. That was a personal matters about an
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identifiable individual and communicipable or local board employees'Perfection 239B of
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the municipal Act 2001. I'm asking for a motion that
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council direct staff removed the name Frank Stronek from the
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Frankstronic Park, and that it be replaced with the name
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Veterans Park. Moved by Councillor Simon, Second of by Councillor
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Woodhouse, all those in favor. Any opposed, and that is
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carried. And someone please move the confirmatory bylaw, Councillor Bazans,
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counsel Corpis, all those in favor, any post, and finally
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a motion to adjourn Councillor Simon and Councillor Bazannes, all
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those in favor, and he opposed in that's carried. Thank
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you very much, and have a good afternoon.