Good afternoon.
Thank you.
That's one.
So,
You're advising
bylaw amendment. for a property at 220
Tamarak Road. The applicant is proposing
to sever three new lots from the
property and the zoning bylaw amendment
is required to reduce the minimum
frontage for those lots. Uh the proposed
lots are going to be approximately 0.42
42 hectares or 4200 square meters which
is about an acre and the proposed
frontage is going to be approximately
31.91
m on Walter Charman Drive.
Um
the zoning bylaw requires a minimum
frontage of 35 m.
Um, so we'll quickly go over the
policies that are applicable in Oh,
there we go. Um, that are applicable in
this in this uh proposal. Um, the
applicant completed an environmental
impact study, an archaeological
assessment, and a lock grading um plan
to support this application.
So, the county official plan designates
the property as rural, recreational, and
hazard. Um the designation identifies
areas that are typically within close
proximity to recreational amenities like
the waterfront or shoreline um and where
development has already occurred or
smaller communities exist. We see this
designation along a lot of our
waterfront properties and in our little
bays and smaller communities. Um it
identifies areas that are close to the
water where we we're seeing a lot of
development but we don't necessarily
have services available. It's not a
settlement area. Um but it is where we
want to focus uh development in sort of
a smaller scale.
Um so the county official plan outlines
the goals and objectives for this
designation and it says specifically
that uh this area is for the development
of four season tourism industry,
continual improvement of tourism related
facilities and the provision of land for
new residential growth opportunities. Um
and then it also goes on to say that
these types of development need to be
reviewed for their environmental um
their environmental
um impacts and then also for
archaeological and that sort of thing.
So that was all done for this proposal.
Um the proposed new lots contribute to
the goals of the county official plan.
Um the minimum lot size or the lots meet
the minimum lot size requirements of the
county official plan and again this
proposed lot configuration is sort of in
line with existing development. It's a
infilling essentially of this area.
So the property has both natural
heritage and natural hazard features.
Again an EIS was completed to support
this development. The EIS looked at uh
significant woodlands and significant uh
provinially significant wetland which is
along the bay there and uh required
setback was uh was created for these
lots. The EIS supported this three lot
development and defined um development
[clears throat] envelopes for each of
these these three lots um with with
required setbacks to that those
features. [gasps]
um the zoning bylaw amendment is going
to recognize the the developable lot
area and then also zone a portion of the
property as um unable to be developed.
There's also environmental hazard area
that is also of course unable to be
developed.
um
an archaeological assessment was
completed for the entire property and
there was no items of cultural heritage,
value or interest um identified on the
site.
And then the property is zoned R2
resort. The R2 zone requires the same
lot provisions as R1 zone except that it
specifies that waterfront development
may have a minimum lot size of 3,000
square m. Again, the proposed lot sizes
are going to be 4200 square meters with
the retained parcel at 8,200 square
meters. So, the lot sizes are meeting
that as the zoning bylaw requirements.
The zoning bylaw does require a minimum
lot frontage of 35 m and this proposal
is seeking a a lot frontage of 31.9 m.
the lock rating plan, identified uh
building envelope
um parcels and identified areas or and supported um those that smaller
reduction of the frontage by
identifying areas of where well and
septic could be located where sepexs are
still going to be met.
Um,
and then
the proposed zoning bylaw amendment will
recognize the reduced frontage. It's
going to zone the development envelopes
that are ident indicated on the EIS and
then the areas outside of the
development envelopes will be zoned to
prohibit development. The environmental
hazard zone is proposed to be amended to
restrict the construction of decks,
docks, and boat houses. Um the EIS noted
that a single 1 m wide path to the water
was permitted
but um permissions were not included for
any other development. So deck docks and
boat houses will not be permitted um
because this is a proincially
significant wetland. The province also
does not permit development within PSWs.
Um and then my recommendation is
approval for the zoning bylaw amendment.
The uh mitigation measures outlined in
the EIS are proposed to be included in a
development agreement should be
registered on title and required as a
condition of the consents
and the mitigation measures are outlined
in my report there.
Um I'm happy to take any questions and
the applicant is also here for any
questions.
>> All right. Thank you, Megan.
[clears throat]
I do have a comment with regards to the
mitigation measures
and
we ran into this. This is the second
time that I've seen this. It's on page
35 of a report.
And the number four it says, "No
machinery shall be left on site. All
machinery shall be removed from the site
daily."
And that like I'm just that is pretty
impractical thing to include in a
it's just adding cost and
as I said I've seen it once before
and
it's I mean I I don't hardly understand
the rationale of it because vehicles are
parked there all the time and the same
thing could happen with vehicles as
well.
So maybe if you can explain to me how
that
why why
>> Yeah. So these those um requirements are
part of the MECP the Ministry of
Environment Conservation and Parks
requirements to protect the Massaga
rattlesnake. So the Masaga is a species
of concern. Um, the municipality doesn't
necessarily require we're not it's not
the municipality that has to enforce
those. It's the MECP that has to enforce
that. And these requirements come from
them. So the ecologist is not
necessarily the ones who are putting
this in place. It's the MECP that says
like if you include these then we don't
have to go through this whole other um
thing to protect the Massaga
essentially.
Does that make sense?
>> What does it mean if you don't include
this?
I would have to check with the
ecologist,
but if we didn't include that, and I'm
not sure like if we could just like not
include one specific condition or if we
didn't if we if it if all of it like I
would have to check with the ecologist
on that. Um, but
basically [sighs and gasps]
[clears throat]
» so this I'm not going to turn this on
because
Um it is a common requirement we see
especially up here with the rattlesnake
population. Um and whenever we do see
these these assessments done it is a
pretty common requirement on these
development agreements. I can because
like oil and stuff can can contaminate
the site. And then also if like the
snakes go on to the machinery when Yeah.
into
some point you have to kind of question
some of these things. I mean, that's our
job. And uh
so I I would I would [clears throat]
like an answer to it uh before we we we
pass the bylaw next at some later date.
So
>> yeah, I think you guys are would would
pass the bylaw at the next council
meeting, which is September 14th, I
believe. So um I should be able to reach
out to the ecologist and get a little
more information on that before that
meeting and and I can provide that to
you guys.
>> Yes. Okay. Have a thought.
>> Maybe something to add to that, Megan,
would be if if they do feel that it it
has to be moved, maybe a temporary fence
could be put around, like if it's just
one piece of equipment, it would be easy
to put some sort of a temporary fence
around it versus pulling it off site um
all the time as well. If that would be
appease them.
>> Yeah.
It's a good point. Yeah.
All right. Uh so it is a public meeting.
We will if does any other counselors
have a comment?
Uh it is a public meeting. We will open
the meeting up to the public.
And if there's anyone here
present that is what wants to speak to
the application, you can. This is your
opportunity.
Also, we'll look online to see if anyone
is online to speak to the application.
» You sure can. Yep.
>> Appreciate it.
>> Could you come up here, sir, please?
>> Yeah, there's a microphone.
>> Yeah, just state your name, Sergeant.
My name is Marcel.
>> There you go.
>> Um, I'm the applicant. I wasn't going to
speak to it. Um, but after hearing your
comments on it, you're banging on the
money. So, this whole application took
approximately 2 and 1/2 years to
complete. And that's one of numerous
restrictions that was put on this little
parcel that I couldn't even begin to
have imagined. You know what happens? I
think sometimes is it's like a
microscope on just that little piece of
property as if it's some sort of special
snake habitat when the reality of it is
it's on a corner with two bordering
roads. Well, I'm I'm not sure why I
can't park a vehicle on the property,
but yet 5 ft away, the municipality
actually created a parking lot there for
people to go fishing on the causeway.
I can't create a deck or a dock and I'm
restricted to only allowing people to
walk 75 meters of that property because
of potential impact they might have. But
yet there's a roadway right there on a
causeway. And every winter we know what
happens around here. That snow gets
plowed and it dumps sand and salt right
into that special water. But yet I can't
allow a residential property with a
small family to go down and maybe enjoy
the waterfront because of the
restrictions. So my reasons for agreeing
to all those restrictions cuz after the
environmental impact was completed and
we had reviewed it, the county hired
somebody to do a review and they came
back and those were the alternatives we
had was to have more studies done and
have yet another third party review
those conditions. and and it just went
on and on and on. It's like, okay, let's
just accept the ones that were we've
agreed to initially and so we can move
on. So, I was ending my conversing
red tape, but it's not happening.
>> It's not happening. No,
>> Megan, was this peer reviewed?
>> It wasn't peer reviewed. So, right now
the county has a natural heritage uh
planner who has experience in um in EIS
review. So, if um if and and he's off
currently, but um when he comes back, if
he has the capacity and the availability
and it's like within his scope, um we do
the internal peer review. So, it is less
money, less time. Um
but um yeah the the larger developments
are sometimes reviewed by by the peer
reviewers but this one was not
» okay
>> the red tape and the cost is very
restrictive limiting development this
area.
Uh
>> is there anyone on the online uh Cali
that's uh
there is
If there's anyone online who wishes to
speak, could you please raise your hand?
» Seeing none.
>> All right. If there's no members of the
public present and there's none online,
we will close the public meeting.
» [clears throat]
» So, uh, we have a mover and second, and
the recommendation is to approve the
zoning bylaw amendment. Uh,
so if there's no further questions, we
will call the vote. All in favor?
Opposed? The motion carries.
All right, we'll go to delegations.
And uh this delegation has been removed
from the agenda.
And next we have the coordinator for the
Go Marie and Northern Bridge Peninsula
Chamber of Commerce and it is the uh
Matt strategic plan. Welcome Brian.
Uh Charlene was supposed to be here, but
she's off six, so I'm coming. I'm flying
solo here. Uh I won't go over the whole
plan cuz it's huge. And uh it's just a
refinement of what we presented last
fall. Um some of the highlights uh from
this. So we struck up a subcommittee
from the the board of directors to
create this. It took us about 6 months
to put together. So, we we re re we
revamped what we currently had. Um, some
of the highlights we came back with was
we're going to create a Matt committee
uh every year. So, it's going to contain
up to se seven members. Four of them
going to be board of directors. Uh, five
can be board of directors, chief
members, anybody interested in being on
this committee. It's good. So, what we created this to get approved so we
can move forward with the applications,
which is one of the stipulations we had
in the agreement with with the
municipality was we had to create an
application for for people to apply for
funds. But we figured that we found the the MAT plan we currently we
previously had didn't quite match up.
So, we've included that in there, the
stipulations. Uh we actually created
some guidelines and applications and
stuff like that out of this agreement.
Um
the other thing we did is we made it a a
bigger process to change this document.
So it's going to take three different
board meetings. The first one will be a
proposal that there's something in the
document that needed to be changed. The
second one will go through a board for a
vote and then the third will will be uh
will be changed. That way we can't have
a new board in in October or November
say we don't like this and rewrite it.
We have to go through this whole process
again. So, um, those are really the the
big highlights in this. This was more
just to get that application process
going. So, once we can get this
approved, uh, we can get the
applications out and and, uh, um,
different people can apply for for Matt
funds for for projects.
>> All right, Brian. Uh, council, any
questions? Yeah, Smokey.
>> I don't have
uh glad going through as I did to see
you know a lot of your focus are things
that we try to focus or on over the
years and that was the you know looking
at springfall and trying to bring that
forward and minimize you know we all
know in the summer what happens but it
looks like this document's going to you
know put some money where we really need
it in trying to extend the season and
extend uh you know the focus of tourism
so that uh and and good luck with that.
But I I was really happy to see that in
this document that it's doing what we
hope at least I when we talk about that
tax hoping this money would be u going
to
>> All right. Thank you Smokey. Any further
comments?
So Peggy, what are we where are we
heading here?
Um there is a report uh 2612
that council receives the strategic
plan. Um it's as stated is included in
the agreement. So this is just merely a
formality.
» All right. Thank you then Ryan. I
appreciate your Yeah. Appreciate the
presentation. Thank you.
Uh, next, Sherry Tobin and Dave Fluke.
Proposed partnership with Ontario 360
Tours
and they are online.
Uh, hi Sherry
Dave.
» Hi Sher. Yes.
>> Oh, yes. Can you hear me? Yes, we can.
Yeah, go ahead.
>> Just waiting for Dave to get online
here. Dave, are you here?
Dave,
sorry. If if you don't mind, we'll just
give him one second to join up. I'm not
sure. Um, we're having a bit of trouble
hearing some of the uh council members,
so maybe that's part of the issue.
Yes.
>> I just want to ask this has no
connection with chamber presentation.
>> I just wanted to know that before
because I know the chamber kind of
looking at things. So I wanted to make
sure that it's a separate thing.
>> Yep. Yeah.
Maybe we'll direct them to the chamber.
I'm just gonna start and then hopefully
he'll join me in a second. But uh uh so
good afternoon Mr. Mayor and uh council
members. My name is Sher Tobin and Dave
Fluke, my partner, should be joining you
in a moment. Um together we make up
Ontario 360 Tours. Um, Ontario 360 Tours
is a multilingual platform that's
designed to showcase the best of Ontario
and make travel planning easy uh via
immersive narrated 360°ree videos,
thereby creating more revenue for local
tourism sectors.
I trust that you've all had a chance to
look over our proposal. Uh we're seeking
a partnership with the municipality of
northern Bruce Peninsula and the city of
Tobbery to produce a 360 degree video
showcasing key locations in Topberi uh
with strong emphasis on extending the
shoulder season. Our proposal outlines
our direct task uh why immerse with
360°ree videos are necessary to stay
ahead of the game and the key benefits
of this technology uh that this
technology will bring the region. Our
inclusive feed does cover uh the
pre-production planning uh which
includes logistic coordination uh
directly with your team professional
filming advanced video editing and uh
professional narration permanent hosting
on our website and YouTube channel will
also uh happen in per perpetuity and
strategic sharing across hundreds of
targeted Facebook groups various other
social media outlets and direct outreach
to local uh real estate agents to
showcase the region uh to prospective
buyers, travel agents uh just to name a
view of the areas that we do share and
um showcase across uh other Ontario
platforms. We do also reach out to other
Canadian platforms as well, bringing in
tourism from uh all sectors in Canada
and the US. Um,
and uh, so at this time I want to turn
it over to Dave who's going to take you
through uh, a little bit of a
walkthrough of our website and YouTube
channel just to explain a little bit
further uh, how it works and uh, what
the videos uh, look like and how they
can benefit you.
Um, he says his mic and cam isn't
working. Um, can you bear with us for
one second?
He's going to try another uh computer if
you give him one second. He's got that
all rigged up. I do apologize for the
delay.
he is actually not able to join at all.
So, uh I'm going to have to wing it. Um
what I wanted to do with share the
screen and have you uh sort of take you
through what the um process is. So,
basically I'm not going to be able to do
that portion. Um what we do is we find
interesting places uh in Ontario, hidden
gems or places that people have asked us
to uh take do a video of and we will,
you know, go to that location, speak to
maybe it's a business owner or it's um a
municipality like yourselves. Uh we've
done a couple of uh downtown tours uh
things like that and they're just
looking for um ways to promote their tourism and travel and get more
people through the shops and the
restaurants, hotels staying um as long
as possible. And I do know that seeing
uh some of the information online that
Tobber is also looking to extend their
shoulder season. So, I think that at
this point it's a good time to um have
these videos uh up and running and have
someone like us who's passionate about
not only Ontario but passionate about
the 360. We're passionate about the
video and tourism in general. Um we do
come up to Toba at least once a year.
So, this is a other part thing that
we're passionate about as well. Um and
then we would produce a video based on
some of their um you know ideas and what
they want to portray. So in fact we
would speaking to collaborating with you
we would um use the narration uh to
showcase exactly what you are your
mandates are. Um so we had um proposed
key two three key spots in Tobamorei but
we're open to ideas to uh whatever else
you would like to have in that video or
it could be a couple of shorter videos
um show showcasing a few other things as
well. um whatever sort of you know your
mandate, your brand calls for and and
what you're trying to do with your city
as well. Um we work with you in that
respect and the narration um to cover
those key aspects. Um once the videos
are done, we again host them on our
website on our YouTube channel and share
them around as much as possible. We
always have people asking us, you know,
can you share that video again? Um
what's a good place to go to uh in a
particular area? Recently, I've just
seen three people in the last couple of
days ask uh what they could do in
between this spot and this spot that
they're traveling to. And so, that's
another uh key aspect of things that we
could offer. So, our site really helps
with travel planning, getting people
excited about where they're going to go
and giving them more information before
they do go. 360 videos are are also a
good way for people to see exactly what
they're getting themselves into, so to
speak, and getting them excited about
being in that spot instead of just um
seeing maybe a few pictures online. It's
really an immersive way to be there
without being there and get excited
about being there. Um, so we are asking
uh I guess I'll just wrap things up at
this point since we weren't able to do
the actual presentation, but um I know
that Toby is world reown for its peak
summer beauty, but the opportunity for
sustainable growth and extending the
momentum is is a real thing. And by
partnering with Ontario 360 tours,
you're also investing in modern
accessible tools that inspire off peak
travel that support your local
businesses and drive uh measurable
tourism as well. So you already think of
our proposal. We're ready to hit the
ground running. Um all we ask is for
your um go ahead and we can uh turn out
the logistics of you know the
collaboration and how it's going to work
and when exactly you want to see in the
video uh in terms of what we've proposed
and what uh the city is needing to uh
align with their values and and core
goals. Thank you.
>> All right, Jerry. Thank you very much.
Uh
any council comments, questions on this?
Uh yes. Yep.
>> Well, I think that uh what what we are
more than to as a council. We are
northern Bruce Peninsula
>> and our local just so happens the
presentation before yours was from um
our local chamber of commerce which also
um involves the whole municipality. So
perhaps my thinking would be that your
presentation would it could possibly go
to our chamber of commerce and they
could took a look at it. They are we're
they're funded through the map and
different things like that. So, um,
that's just my comment.
>> Appreciate that.
>> All right. Uh, if there's no comments or
other comments or questions, we will
turn it over to staff and I'm sure staff
will be talking with the chamber. So,
thank you very much, Sher. Appreciate
it. And I appreciate it. We
>> We'll be in touch.
>> Okay, that sounds great. Thank you so
much.
>> Thank you.
>> Have a fabulous day.
>> You, too.
Um
that concludes our delegations.
We will go to agenda items. Uh office uh
CIO reports the uh six month performance
report January to June 2026.
Move in second to bring that forward in
a moment.
information report. Any questions,
comments
on the report?
Just uh how many uh emphasis
[clears throat]
just for this year, Mr. Mayor?
>> Yeah, just so far this year. Absolutely.
And while Alex's just looking at that
too, on page 11, it's
the
100% critical system uptime. What does
that mean?
Do you feel [laughter] comfortable?
>> I can answer that, Mr. Mayor. Um, it
basically means that we had no lag
downtime within our facilities or
crucial infrastructure. So essentially
everything was running at 100%.
We had no time that we had to shut down
facilities or operations.
And the the other one was too uh we we
at uh or let's talk uh
what did it say there about we had 1100
and some
uh so wait
11:46 let's talk participation So is
that the total number we had respond in
last time?
>> Well, so that that's the total
participation of somebody who had logged
on. Uh we did have a very busy first
part of the year with the Capid
um road discussions and also the waste
management and water management um
>> okay
>> discussions on there. So we did have a
very um busy first 6 months when it came
to resident engagement
>> with 1146 that's are those is that the
ones that responded or what
>> those are ones that have logged on to
the system
>> and it's a cumulative of those two
projects for the water wastewater and
the capid head.
>> Yeah. I thought there would have been
more, but
that's the number.
Um,
all right. Anyone else have any uh but
our social media and uh web page are
getting lots of activity.
>> Yeah. Uh yeah, I just had a question about the
um the capital projects uh delivery
progress. So target was 85, actual was
28. Um is there any sort of reasons
behind that or is that sort of expected
schedule or
um it's it's really due to the fact that
this is from January to June. Um because
of the winter months, we actually won't
uh have anything started. So those are
actually completed projects. So based
upon the amount of time that uh we've
had good weather for construction, we're
actually really ahead of schedule.
Unfortunately, the way the KPIs read,
you know, numbers are numbers.
» All right. Anything else, D?
>> One question and maybe you can answer
it, Peggy, is regarding building
permits. There was 133 applications and
only 116 issued. Those 17, did they just
decline to go through with them or they
just in the queue?
>> So those are the ones that were deemed
incomplete and so by the time that um
June had rolled around, they hadn't
actually been moved back into the
system. So we could actually see after
they, you know, come January that these
are all complete. Uh, one of the big um
items for the building department is to
educate the public on what a complete
application looks like to hopefully move
those up to 100%.
>> Thank you,
» Peggy. I I have found what I was looking
for actually finally.
Uh it's on page 10 and and it says the
let's talk uh platform received 4969
project views and 1146 contributions
supporting meaningful public
so
the 40 5,000 like that's the view that's
people that viewed the on the projects
on let's talk.
>> Okay.
All right. Um one more
>> sorry just one more about um just the
operating budget variance um see till
now the action's 5.31%
um expecting that to stay stable till
the end of the year or there concerns
that it'll highire
>> we are assuming it will stay stable um
we are actually at an point right now
that we've just had another tax due date
so we'll see an influx of of finances at
that point. We've also
uh I believe 85% of 85 to 87% of our
capital projects have been tender RFP.
So we are also aware that we're in
pretty good shape regarding the future.
» Correct. Yeah.
All right. Anything else? Uh
if not information report call the vote.
All in favor? Opposed? The motion's
carried. CEO, this is the presentation
that we had.
And I guess this is what I'm wondering
like he was talking about adopting this
report and this is for information. So
I'm just wondering.
>> So based upon the agreement, council has
to receive the Matt report. This
essentially is the chamber's strategic
plan for how they intend to move forward
with the burn tax.
>> Um, and [clears throat]
based upon when we originally move
forward with the municipal accommodation
tax, it was our it was council's
decision to bake this almost as a
handsoff. So, you know, here's your 2%,
provide us a strategic plan, and we'll
move forward that way. and then we
wouldn't have to do any micro bandaging.
So according to the agreement um they we
do receive for information and
essentially they will adopt it on their
side.
>> Okay.
>> All right. So mover and secondary to
bring this uh Smokey and Todd.
[clears throat]
So when we when we look at this do do we
look at to see whether it complies with
legislation or or what we anticipate it
should be.
>> Yes. So in the agreement that uh we
provided to the chamber there was a
request for this funding to be for
tourism based but also for events and
for to become sewn for init for various
businesses and initiatives and that's
what this has [laughter] helped out
with.
So just to clarify, so we we this is
hands off for us.
>> We do have one member of council that is
a representative for the municipality on
the chamber and then they do attend on a monthly basis. Um but yes, this is a
handsoff type of
>> but we did request this, right? This
>> this a strategic plan was part of the
agreement. Yeah,
>> for council to see how they would
actually invest or use the Matt tax. But
we have actually included within the
agreement also that what the intent was
on the municipal side when it came to um
seed money for events, potential tourism
initiatives and that's what this has
brought forward on.
Okay.
Anybody have anything else to add?
Nobody call a vote. Uh, all in favor?
Motion carried. [clears throat]
[snorts]
Procedure bylaw. Clerk's department.
The council direct staff to bring
forward an updated bylaw to govern the
proceedings of council and committee
meetings of the corporation of the
county of Bruce.
Todd
Rod
any questions on procedure bylaw?
[clears throat]
Alex, do you want to give us any
comments on this wonder?
>> Uh, sure. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So, just
an update to the procedural bylaw here.
Um, so we've just added a lot more
detail to certain sections. Um,
specifically, you'll see that the
meeting section is a lot more um
emboldened for different scenarios um in
terms of inclement weather and um with
regards to virtual participation and
virtual meetings. So, the report does
sort of go over the sections that have
been um sort of added to a couple of
small changes to the agenda format as
well. Um but other than that, we're just
looking at a little bit more detail for
uh this updated procedural bylaw and I'm
happy to answer any questions.
>> All right, [clears throat]
» go ahead, Smokey. Yeah, go ahead.
>> Well, I just have a question.
Uh it says uh
something to do with lucky binder here.
Uh
persons uh with the council within the
council horseshoe that just means the
council itself. Okay. Yeah. just had I
just had a clear
[laughter]
» totally fair.
>> Yes.
» Yeah. And on page 23 and 24 it lists all
of the motions and
they're
we'll probably need Alex's assistance on
they've always been but they are
>> Yes.
>> Yeah.
>> Absolutely. Mr. Mayor, I'm always happy
to help.
» Any further questions?
So, it's good to have an updated bylaw
and appreciate the work that you've gone
into this one. So, thank you. Yeah,
sorry. Um, just explain why we've um
decided to sort of um prohibit the
public and media from recording
meetings. We're recording them anyways.
I mean I don't don't see why it would be
an issue for someone else to record.
>> Yeah, that's a totally fair question and
we actually had a little bit of a
discussion about that. So the reasoning
behind it is because we do live stream
the meeting. So there is a recording
that's publicly available. Um and it the
recordings are managed by the clerk's
department as a record of the
corporation. Um so we want to be able to
manage that and make sure that there's
no issues with um you know when we're in
and out of a closed meeting or something
like that. we have a little bit more
we're monitoring what we're recording um
and they are available to the public. So
» it just why like you know like if
someone like the media was here like why
would they restrict them from like just
recording if they only wanted to record
you know like a particular portion of
discussion
>> just be an issue? Mhm. Um like for
somebody to sit in on a meeting and
record with their cell phone. Um I think
it it's more managing managing that and
because it is available already through
what we do with our live streaming. Um I
think if council wanted us to allow
people to come in and record, we could
if that's what the discussion is. We
just thought it might be a little bit
better to manage that.
So just on that note is what is the
usual procedure
>> for meeting recordings? Yes.
>> Um so our deputy clerk gets set up with
our different systems. So we have a
couple of different platforms that we
use um and the meeting is live streamed
in real time um through box cap.
>> Yeah. But other other municipalities how
do they handle say if someone wants to
sit in your crowd and record? So if if
our procedural bylaw prohibits it and we
saw somebody in the crowd recording the
meeting, then the chair of the meeting
would say, "Sorry, we don't allow that."
Um, and then if it became an issue where
they continued to record, we could ask
them to leave.
>> But in other municipalities, is that a
standard? Is that a standard in their
zoning by?
>> From what I was looking at, it varies.
So a lot of the bylaws that I was
looking at, it's it it varies across
municipalities. So, I wouldn't say
there's a gold standard. Um, same thing
with live streaming meetings. Not all
municipalities actually live stream and
record.
>> Okay. [clears throat]
» Or
I'm just not sure how I feel about
restricting
public meeting. Uh so I just have my
notes here but I find
yeah so it's page 10 of the report.
>> So let me see here.
Okay. So, what we if council would like
what we could look at is allowing it.
Um,
and if it becomes inappropriate, we
could maybe manage it. Um, like if it
becomes a distraction.
Um,
but we could we could change that if
that's what council would like us to do.
Our current procedural bylaw doesn't
address this, I don't think.
>> So,
um, what what number is that? So it's
5.55
at the bottom of
5.54 at the bottom of page 10. 5.55.
Okay.
Oh,
okay.
All right. Um, whatever.
>> I tend to agree with Aman in that we're
open. We're the public. Uh, if anybody
will probably says things they
shouldn't, it would be me. But, uh, I
mean, we're open to the public. I have
no problem with people recording the
meeting or whatever. It's just the way it's
written here. It kind of looks like
we're um editing or something. I don't
know. Anyway, I I don't think it's
necessary.
So, you feel like majority guilt.
» I I don't have a problem with it. I I
think this maybe hearkens back to the
day of the big lights and the guy with
right when that would be obnoxious, but
nowadays it's all done on cell phones.
It's not not a problem.
>> It may be being done anyway, I guess.
Well, people are here. So,
all right. Uh if it's the general
feeling of council, it sounds like it
is, but we will reboot that to
>> I will change that and it'll be in the
um would council like to see another
version of it before passing it at the
next meeting or we can change it and go
ahead. Okay,
>> I we just change it.
>> Okay,
>> go ahead.
>> That's great. No problem.
>> So, how do you want the motion to read?
Um well, it sounded like councelor Sorab
moved an amendment to the motion
to um amend section 5.55 to permit um
recording. So if we had a seconder,
>> that's great. And then a vote on the
amendment.
>> On the amendment
and uh Alex has kind of given us the
wording. So all in favor?
>> Perfect. and then we'll go back to the
original motion as amended. Call a vote.
All in favor? Opposed? The motion's
carried.
All right. Um, next [clears throat] is
item B, clerk's department is concerns
at Hobson Harbor Drive. And we heard
last meeting about this.
So, the council receives the report
C2624 concerns at Hopson's Harbor Drive
for information. Move it. Second.
Uh, Rod, I'm on.
Any questions, comments on this Todd?
I just have a comment and I spoke to
Chief Bird about this earlier. I just
feel that we need to be maybe uh part of
our response
is that we have to uh be more proactive
with fires smart the fires smart
program. I was looking into it on on the
weekend and maybe that could be part of
our response to Joe is um may I know we
are doing it but maybe we need to to
step it up with the way everything is
changing how dry the peninsula is. I
think we have to be a lot more proactive
and promote promoted even more than what
we already are.
give Jack an opportunity, our fire
chief, an opportunity to do this.
>> Yes, thank you, counselor. Um, the fires
smart program is a great program and
we've been promoting this for a few
years here in Northern Bruce Peninsula
and we continue to promote it and I
agree with you. I think it can be
promoted more and get the message out.
Uh there's uh great opportunities for
homeowners with apps like the Fires
Smart Begins at home app where they can
go and do a self assessment of their
home. Um the firesmartcanada.ca CA
website has a tremendous amount of
resources and it's something that we'll
continue to push for fire prevention
here on the peninsula.
>> That's not going to turn my machine on
as it does this. So,
>> at any rate, we have uh is there any way
that we can influence some of the larger
land owners? Uh we have federal parks.
We have a lot of property on the Bruce
Peninsula under conservation. that to
the best of my knowledge. Uh so we're
asking private land owners to look after
their property probably a lot smaller
when we have
It it's a good comment counselor. Um a
lot of those areas we don't have
jurisdiction whether it's provincial
land or federal land uh from the
municipal fire department. We try to
work with our partners to ensure that uh
they are being fires smart. Um
but it is difficult on a lot of those
lands. The fires smart program is really
designed for the homeowner in mind,
right? So, it's the embers that
typically cause the fires that we've all
seen on the news in large urban uh
wildland urban interface areas where the
embers can travel literally kilometers
ahead of fires and land in areas and
start those areas on fire. So, this is
more this program is more about
protecting individual properties and
communities as opposed to those larger
federal, provincial, and nature
reserves. But those are conversations
that my team um continues to have to
make sure that we can protect uh the
peninsula from a forest fire.
>> Well, yes, because you can't turn on the
TV and we're seeing fires in places that
never were had them before. like there
isn't I don't think there's any road map
that anybody could ever predict. So I
guess we're just sitting here with no
impact
on on this or do you see any way forward
that uh we as a municipality could um
have an impact on on some of these
policies that you know are in our area?
>> It's a good question. And I think uh
continuing the lines of communication
with our partners and trying to find
solutions that can help protect um the
broader community from wildfire is
something we need to continue to do.
>> For sure.
Okay. Thank you, G. I understand our
limitations.
» All right. Uh, [clears throat]
so maybe we can
Todd suggest that maybe we
that could be a response that we give
Joe.
All right. And so we'll call the vote.
So do you want that recorded or just
direction?
» I think so. Council would like to give
direction on this. Sorry.
>> Yes. That was the uh I guess is there
kind of a general consensus before we go
down that road or Yeah.
>> Okay. Um I think I think the motion is
okay as is and we're happy to we've been
regularly speaking with Mr. Roach. So
>> um we're happy to relay that information
to him.
>> Call a vote. All in favor?
The motion carried.
Public works.
Item A, public works.
And uh
this is a project on Judges Creek and
it's farm crossing.
It's been looked at by the engineer and
the whole act. So
and approve
proceed with the project. So, we'll get
a mover in second here on this one here.
Uh, Todd and Rodend,
» pardon me,
>> the drainage superintendent.
>> Okay, Stephen. Is it Steve? Steve. Yeah.
>> All right. So, if there's any questions,
we have the uh drainage superintendent
online, Steve Kobe.
Welcome, Steve.
>> Thank you.
So, uh, just give us a brief update or
Yeah, just give us a brief overview of
this, uh, Steve.
>> Sure. Thank you very much.
Um, so this is a minor improvement
request uh for a new farm crossing on
Mr. Waggle's property. Um, through the
drainage act, uh, there's now what's
called a minor improvement uh, request.
So that's uh mostly minor projects such
as this. So when a property owner
requires a new uh in this case a new
culvert um we can go through um a faster
um process through the drainage act to
incorporate that culvert into the
municipal drain. Um the one caveat is um
the property owner pays for the
installation of the culvert himself and
uh as well as the any any costs that are
incurred to incorporate this into the
municipal drain. So again, Mr. WGO
requested a new farm crossing is p
primarily due to um accessing the other
side of his property um which he was
always accessing it through another
property which that agreement came to an
end. So he requested a a new culvert on
uh branch E of the of the Judges Creek
municipal drain. So we've uh we were
Kobite engineering was appointed in the
fall of 2025. We've reviewed uh the
request um met with Mr. Waggle on site.
Um we've gone through the all the
appropriate agencies review agencies. Uh
number one is the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans. They've reviewed
it. Uh they've uh they've uh submitted a
letter of advice to us that uh we can
proceed with the work. Uh we did u
design the covert, check the capacity.
Now Mr. Wag is uh supplying the pipe
himself and will be doing the work
probably on his own which uh we can
oversee.
Um and he's all I think he's ready to
go. So this is the the last little item
on our uh the minor improvement drain
request um to approve the report that we
prepared in support of it. And uh if it
gets approved by council, Mr. WGO can um
proceed with the work after I believe
it's a 10day appeals period which uh Mr.
WGO can appeal appeal this um or uh if not after 10 days he can go we can go
ahead with the work. So again I believe
Mr.
will be uh wanting to do it himself and
if he does that then these uh these
projects are or can qualify for math or
grants but if he does it by on his own
then he won't be entitled to that
one-third grant um but again since he's
supplying a majority of the materials um
I don't think that'll be a problem for
him so that's concludes my report
>> thank you Steve So engineering the
engineering cost associated with this
who pays for that?
>> Mr. Waggle.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> Good. Yep.
So but the Steve you mentioned a oneird
like the oneird
>> grant. So just so are we entitled to
that or who's entitled to that? Um if we
went just like any other uh project we
do um well Mafford does have grants for work for properties that qualify for
the farm tax credit um which Mr. Waggo's
property does and um if we so in this
case if we did go through the miss
valley's procurement policy so we just
tendered this work out and uh it came
back um and that's really the the one
stipulation through a maf grant program
that it just satisi satisfies the
municipalities procurement policy. So
since Mr. Wagle wants to do the work
himself we'll be uh not going through
that process. So it won't qualify for
this one-third grant. So again, he's
[clears throat] he's supplying the pipe
himself, which is the biggest cost. So
>> I think we want to opt for that option.
>> Yep.
All right. Any further questions on that
one.
>> Thank you, Steve.
>> Thank you.
>> And so we have a mover and second on the
report. So we will call a vote. All in
favor?
Motion carried.
Building department. Uh this is uh
lifting a holding zone by uh
Josh Lions and J Milhausen at 590 log 53
municipality of Northern Ris Peninsula
be approved. Over and second for that.
I'm on and Rod.
Any questions on this one?
Call a vote. All in favor?
Opposed? The motion carried. And this is
the further to that to the report above
and it's no demand for service agreement
on the same lot. Second for that
Smokeoky and Todd [gasps]
call about all in favor.
The motion carried.
[clears throat and cough]
Item C, 10, trailer exemption
explanation
and council receives this report.
Second, for that one,
right?
Uh, Emily is not here. Any comment,
Peggy, on this?
» Uh, no. This is actually um in response
to the delegation request that was
cancelled today. Yeah. All right. Any
further questions, comments?
Call the vote. All in favor?
All miss the motion carried.
Fire department
and the council waves section 52 in
formal quotation purchases 30 30,000 to
60,000 of bylaw 2023-38
purchasing policy.
And the council authorized the fire
chief to enter into an agreement with
the air technology
for $48,94
and0 plus HST for the lane head fire
hole and [clears throat]
$40,641
[snorts]
0 plus HST for the domary fire hole.
Move a second here for that one. brought
Todd
Ch just the question is this proven tech
is this proven are there other places
have this or
>> yes there is there's a number of other
departments in gray and Bruce County
that have used similar units I've gone
and had a look at them and it does meet
the requirements outlined um in the
Ministry of Labor Immigration Training
and Skills Developments um occupational
um cancer prevention checklist uh and
[clears throat] it's considerably
cheaper than um the drops the GSC that
hook up to tail pipes. Uh and this is an
Ontario made solution. I haven't been
able to find another one that would
match it. There was one in California
but didn't meet the specifications that
we were looking for uh with this model.
» Right. Rod, just give me a brief
[snorts] sort of visual
detail or what's it look like? How's it
working? Yeah,
>> I'll do my best to draw you a picture
here.
>> Draw me a picture. Use your thousand
words.
>> Yeah. So instead of uh individual runs
that we typically see that would uh
track with a vehicle coming out of the
fireh hall, this would be like an air
handling unit that is not on a roof but
actually in the fire hall itself in the
ceiling level sucks all the air in all
the contaminants and has a filtration
system that captures
um the diesel exhaust and harmful
chemicals associated with it and then um
provides clean air as a as um like
turnover. over in order to meet the
requirements for the diesel exhaust
extraction.
>> So there must there is some sort of
monitor CO monitor something that yeah
associated with that.
>> Yeah, there's a CO monitor um HCN that
type of stuff associated with it as
well.
>> So just on that until it gets to the
ceiling,
excuse me, it's in the building, right?
Um,
yes, but it creates um such a flow that
it draws it all up in very quickly. So,
as soon as the vehicle starts, it's
going to draw it up in and then it's
constantly running in the background
where it's drawing that um particulate
in. So, it's not capturing it right at
the exhaust pipe per se, but it is
removing it at um extremely fast pace in
order to meet the requirements. So there
is no diesel exhaust uh left within the
building.
>> Yeah. My only comment was I didn't want
to be the first one with this
assistance. [laughter]
But
>> that's why I went and had a look at some
of the other departments that had it to
make sure that it would meet our needs
and and work well for us.
>> Yeah. Smokey. Oh, well, anything I mean
these people are, you know, protecting
us, but and probably already know this,
but have we looked at any kind of
funding because it seems like like we're
a pretty small municipality and the
amount that it's costing our taxpayers
directly to provide uh you know what is
mandated, not only mandated, but that's
for firefighters. Um, so nobody is
providing any type of funding. uh to
offset our cost on this.
>> Not directly associated with this
project, but the um provincial
government has come out with the it's
the third year now of the Ontario uh
firefighter protection grant that deals
with some um cancer related um
materials. So, we've bought washers and
dryers, extractors,
uh coveralls, stuff of that nature to
help reduce some of the exposure, some
of the other things that we're seeing in
this cancer prevention checklist. uh but
not so much this larger infrastructure
capital project piece.
>> So it has it has limits which doesn't
include it.
>> That's too bad.
Thank you.
>> Okay. Um
further comments
call a vote. All in favor?
Motion carried.
[clears throat]
Uh next we go to committee minutes. Uh
drainage committee and greybur
detachment board.
Any comments, questions on any of those?
Uh Rod?
Uh just one. I think we did get a letter
about this too and it was to do with
that uh
the angle ditch from the Bruce Peninsula
biosphere thing. We just have a brief uh
Mr. Rogers noticed that he canoed a good
portion blah blah blah. Is he any sort
of talk about that Todd or
>> Steve or is Steve aware of it or or John
more so?
>> Steve would be John. Steve and John
would be I know the Engle ditch is in
South Bruce Peninsula.
>> Yeah. I think that was the concern that
it was going to put more water into the uh
>> Judge Creek.
Yeah. Yeah,
>> in theory. Um, it's coming in anyway
because that's where the spring is from
what I understand. Troy could probably
answer that as well.
>> Yeah, thank you, Councelor.
Yes, it is. It's the same amount of
water going. Uh, so what the what the
project was was was re not rrooting
putting the the the stream back to the
same place that it was originally. So
the water still come out into the same
area uh except this this time now
they're putting it back to to where it
originally was instead of diverting it
and bringing it back in. So it's the
same amount of flow. is just
concentrating in the in the one area
upstream of where the uh um where the
letter come in for a response of a
concern for that. So it's uh the
quantity of water is still the same.
It's just bringing it back to the
original uh flow.
>> All right. Uh if there is no further
questions on on those two we'll go to
correspondence.
Anything on those information
other business?
Anyone have other business?
» Just to add to what we talked about
earlier since we have Chief Bert in the
room. Do we want to direct the fire
department to come up with measures to
be more proactive with the fire smart
program? We talked about it today, but I
don't know necessarily that we did any
direction regarding that.
» What would that mean, Jack?
But I think it depends on how
[clears throat] far council would like
to to take a program like this. Um
whether it's boots on the ground, going
out in the community and actually
assessing properties or continuing with
public education and pushing the message
out there uh with current staffing
levels to
um you know maintain our public
education um levels, but probably
looking at increasing the amount of
information we're putting out. So I
think it would depend on um different
options and what that would look like,
>> right?
>> Yeah. That was that's more the lines
that I was thinking of public education
more than boots on the ground.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we do that now. We we can do that.
>> We we do uh we'll attempt to do more and
include um yeah more fires smart
education materials with our public
education.
>> Okay.
Um, any other business?
If not, we'll go to bylaws.
[clears throat]
And bylaw 2026-61
is a bylaw to appoint citizens to the
Bruce County joint compliance audit
committee for the 202630
term of council.
And bylaw 2026-62
is uh a bylaw to delegate certain powers
and duties during the lame duck period
in 2026
and 2026-63
is a bylaw holding zone on plan 590 lot
533 Eagle Road within the municipality
of northern ris peninsula and number
26-64 is a confirmatory bylaw.
Recommendation
is that the list of bylaws be given a
first, second, and third reading and
finally passed. Move by Todd. Move by
second by Rod.
Any questions on the bylaws? Call a
vote. All in favor? Opposed? The motion
carried. Motion to adjurnn. Smoke it.
And come on. All in favor. Motion
carried.
Thank you everyone. Council is
adjourned.