[0:18] okay well maybe I

[0:20] call maybe get the meeting started it is now five

[0:23] forty five ... so I think you've got the resolutions

[0:27] go ahead

[0:29] I live by myself and seconded by councilor Merton that

[0:33] City council now move into closed session to consider minutes

[0:36] of the closed session of the regular council meeting held

[0:39] on February twenty eight twenty twenty two minutes of the

[0:42] closed session of the own sound housing company board meeting

[0:45] held on January eighteenth twenty twenty two one matter regarding

[0:49] labor relations or employee negotiations and advice that is subject

[0:53] to solicitor client privilege including communications necessary for that purpose

[0:58] respecting the fire department and one matter regarding labor relations

[1:02] or employee negotiations and personal matters about identifiable individuals including

[1:08] municipal employees respecting grievances

[1:12] thank you and all in favor not his

[1:22:53] earlier the head over on some task force for presentations

[1:22:56] from a variety of committee partner organizations on a number

[1:23:00] of themes and topics including housing poverty committee safety well

[1:23:04] being mental health addictions social services labor and employment youth

[1:23:10] and senior supports policing

[1:25:48] but the rise of inflation and the increased labor shortage

[1:25:53] next slide please

[1:25:57] so the following outlines the framework and the content of

[1:26:00] the report and we've when we put all the information

[1:26:03] together the report ended up being ... over a hundred

[1:26:06] pages but there's a lot of good background information the

[1:26:09] reports ... that help to inform the work plan and

[1:26:12] actions so you can see in on the slides ...

[1:26:17] how the reports broken down so provide some background information

[1:26:21] it provides high level review of each of the meetings

[1:26:24] with the community partners and highlight some of the main

[1:26:26] discussion points it includes data summaries and key findings and

[1:26:31] identifies next steps in action items as well as the

[1:26:34] key stakeholders that will be involved in some of those

[1:26:36] action items it also defines a proposed work plan

[1:26:42] next slide please

[1:26:46] in terms of the work plan ... this following slide

[1:26:49] provides what's in the work plan in terms of the

[1:26:52] contents ends the work plan identifies ... the opportunities and

[1:26:56] actions for each team to address the touch the challenges

[1:27:00] that were discussed with the task force

[1:27:02] it also identifies the leading agencies ... identified for each

[1:27:06] action

[1:27:07] as well as all the key partners and stakeholders that

[1:27:10] would be involved in the various actions

[1:27:14] it identifies suggested next steps it identifies the proposed method

[1:27:18] and time frames for completing each action

[1:27:22] it also identifies some performance measurements to help track programs

[1:27:26] in terms of whether or not those actions are being

[1:27:28] addressed

[1:27:30] there are total of fifty five actions identified in the

[1:27:33] work plan for the various teams and I won't go

[1:27:35] through all the actions the work plan tonight but I

[1:27:37] will highlight some of the key actions

[1:27:41] the next slide please

[1:27:45] so under the housing theme

[1:27:48] the housing challenges we're pretty much mentioned within each theme

[1:27:52] and topic discussed with the task force in this just

[1:27:55] reinforces the importance of addressing the housing challenges that are

[1:27:58] currently faced throughout the county

[1:28:01] so some of the key actions identified under the housing

[1:28:03] team one is of course continue to move forward with

[1:28:07] the actions identified in the housing action plan this will

[1:28:10] be done in collaboration with local is a polity such

[1:28:13] as ... the city builds sounds in order to help

[1:28:16] address the for about housing challenges

[1:28:19] under the housing action plan this includes utilizing the affordable

[1:28:22] housing fund that was established by county council to support

[1:28:26] future county housing builds a nonprofit housing builds

[1:28:30] creating a housing surplus land banks by identifying public owned

[1:28:34] lands that are suitable to support future affordable and attainable

[1:28:37] housing builds and getting those land shovel ready and then

[1:28:41] offering those lands through a can ... the comedian per

[1:28:44] plane program

[1:28:46] a promoting the committee proclaimed centers to encourage more affordable

[1:28:50] and attainable housing

[1:28:52] implementing re color gray policies invisible official plans and zoning

[1:28:56] bylaws to pres on those lands to allow for medium

[1:29:00] and higher density housing types

[1:29:03] ends ... the so those are just to name a

[1:29:05] few of the actions of the housing action plan ...

[1:29:08] there's definitely more actions are identified in there and like

[1:29:11] I said we're moving forward with in collaboration with Lucas

[1:29:14] polities to implement those actions

[1:29:17] some other actions under the housing team identified by the

[1:29:20] task force includes identifying great opportunities and other financial incentive

[1:29:25] resources for retrofit programs

[1:29:28] ... because part of the affordable housing challenge also includes

[1:29:31] maintaining the costs of the housing such as the rising

[1:29:35] utility costs that we're seeing a large part of the

[1:29:38] county's oldest housing stock is in both Hanover and own

[1:29:41] sounds an older housing stock generally means that the houses

[1:29:44] are less energy efficient and therefore the utility costs are

[1:29:48] typically higher and that is why a hosing retrofit program

[1:29:51] was identified as an action by the task force to

[1:29:54] help reduce some of those ... home energy costs

[1:29:58] another key action of the housing team is creating more

[1:30:01] supportive and transitional housing opportunities and as we know we

[1:30:05] need safe and stable temporary housing for those experiencing homelessness

[1:30:09] in our community and based on this need the county

[1:30:12] is currently renovating a building that was recently acquired an

[1:30:15] own sound to create support of housing there's also the

[1:30:19] wellness a treatment center in the former baby school that

[1:30:22] is being proposed by Gruber's health services so it'll be

[1:30:25] important continue to explore further opportunities for creating supportive housing

[1:30:29] in our communities

[1:30:32] under the poverty committee safety and wellbeing team so the

[1:30:36] key actions include supporting our community service providers through Bruce

[1:30:40] gray data information sharing collaborative ... this would be through

[1:30:44] sharing of data and information ... to find efficiencies and

[1:30:48] enhance service delivery

[1:30:50] a supporting the Bruce grey poverty task force and all

[1:30:53] the great things that the task force does ... through

[1:30:57] a providing for the resources as well as council where

[1:30:59] innocent support

[1:31:02] as well as the key one is assisting and supporting

[1:31:04] the implementation of the committee safety and well being put

[1:31:07] him

[1:31:09] under the mental health addiction opportunities ... mapping out existing

[1:31:13] mental health and addiction services offered through Graber's communities identifying

[1:31:18] service delivery gaps and opportunities for collaboration

[1:31:23] further exploring urban design concepts that prioritize creating healthy and

[1:31:28] happy communities

[1:31:30] identifying resource sharing opportunities to support non for profits in

[1:31:34] program implementation and service delivery

[1:31:37] and it should be noted under the mental health addiction

[1:31:40] opportunities

[1:31:42] it can you council has resurfaced obviously mental health and

[1:31:45] addictions task force so they'll be exploring some of these

[1:31:49] actions in further detail and there may also be further

[1:31:52] actions or default by the task force as well

[1:31:56] the next slide please

[1:32:00] so some other key actions under the policing theme for

[1:32:04] example is reviewing the funding model for providing court security

[1:32:09] at the Superior Court in finding solutions that are actionable

[1:32:13] further examining and developing more effective and efficient responses to

[1:32:17] mental health calls including continuing and enhancing the bombardment of

[1:32:21] Health addictions response team I understand that the on some

[1:32:25] police services recently received further funding to enhance it extends

[1:32:30] that's a response team in on sound which is excellent

[1:32:32] news

[1:32:34] and another a key action under policing is further developing

[1:32:38] and supporting crime prevention initiatives versus reactive care and so

[1:32:42] this will be queue in terms of moving forward the

[1:32:44] actions identified in the community safety and well being plan

[1:32:48] through a coordinated and collaborative effort it and to use

[1:32:51] the social terms of health plans to prioritize and focus

[1:32:54] future actions and initiatives

[1:32:58] under the social services seat theme things like supporting food

[1:33:02] literacy programming and food programs exploring the viability and sustainability

[1:33:07] of a living wage or guaranteed income

[1:33:10] continuing donation programs for old phones computers and tablets as

[1:33:15] well as exploring the creation of community hubs are one

[1:33:18] stop shops to access community services

[1:33:22] under the transportation team I continue to support the great

[1:33:26] transit routes exploring opportunities for resource sharing among all transit

[1:33:31] providers and identifying gaps in transit service delivery are some

[1:33:35] of the key actions that were identified by the task

[1:33:37] force

[1:33:39] there are many other actions identified by the task force

[1:33:42] ... and included in the test for support and encourage

[1:33:46] you to review the proposed work plan and actions if

[1:33:48] you have a chance to do so already

[1:33:51] next slide please

[1:33:56] so in terms of next steps has there been a

[1:33:58] number of plans and strategies that been developed over the

[1:34:01] past couple of years ... including re color gray this

[1:34:05] particular work plan the committee safety well being plan the

[1:34:09] age friendly action plan the climate change action plan the

[1:34:13] housing action plan just to name a few

[1:34:16] therefore the county is recognized the need to develop a

[1:34:19] privatization work plan which is to look for common alignment

[1:34:23] with the various plans and strategies to ensure that were

[1:34:26] focusing on the actions that will address a number of

[1:34:29] the plans and strategies so we will be working with

[1:34:33] third look miss apologies and committee partners on this privatisation

[1:34:37] exercise and then working collectively to move for with those

[1:34:41] actions and to track progress over time

[1:34:45] and that concludes my presentation and happy to take any

[1:34:48] questions that ... council may have

[1:34:51] your Mr Scherzer I think Deputy Mayor Larry has some

[1:34:54] questions or comments

[1:34:57] thank you worship and through you thank you Randy for

[1:34:59] your presentation create the time ... under she actions leasing

[1:35:06] I think everyone in this horseshoe is is focused on

[1:35:09] that ... we pays you know and in excess of

[1:35:14] three hundred thousand dollars for court security that none of

[1:35:17] us feel like we should be paying it to regional

[1:35:20] courthouse

[1:35:21] I know you don't have a crystal ball and all

[1:35:23] the staff make recommendations grey county council makes the decisions

[1:35:28] what do you see in the future ... down the

[1:35:30] road when it comes to the costing of securities

[1:35:36] hi Greg great question then does for you Mayor Boddy

[1:35:40] in terms of some of the proposed next steps that

[1:35:42] were identified in the work plan ... includes working with

[1:35:46] own town staff and would simply services ... first to

[1:35:51] look at ... funding models of other superior courts and

[1:35:55] rural areas just to see if they're running into similar

[1:35:58] challenges and then to collectively advocate to the province for

[1:36:03] a change in the funding model structure ... hopefully that

[1:36:06] hopefully to find something a solution that's more equitable ...

[1:36:10] because it it right now as you noted ... the

[1:36:13] court security costs are picked up by the whole Smith's

[1:36:16] apology and in some cases the hostess polity is providing

[1:36:20] courts ... cords ... the for for a wider audience

[1:36:26] than just of the hostess of polity so it's trying

[1:36:29] to advocate to the province to look for a more

[1:36:33] equitable funding strict structure in order to address those court

[1:36:37] security costs just to make it fair for those host

[1:36:40] miss polities ... that are carrying the the bulk of

[1:36:44] sites that took those costs as it currently stands so

[1:36:47] that's some of the next steps are identified in the

[1:36:50] work plan obviously if that is not successful then we'll

[1:36:53] have to look at other options ... in that's of

[1:36:56] course working with city staff as wells county council in

[1:36:59] terms of trying to explore what's what's a more active

[1:37:02] role models to to help support those still scored security

[1:37:06] costs so Randy if I could your worship same subject

[1:37:10] what's the time frame on that like is that even

[1:37:12] started yet looking at at what other municipalities are are

[1:37:16] looking at or where we have terms of time for

[1:37:21] in terms of time frame I think that's something that

[1:37:24] will be working with and trying to identify through that

[1:37:27] prioritization exercises to look at at some of the key

[1:37:30] actions that we need to move for with sooner rather

[1:37:33] than later and so we'll be working with us the

[1:37:35] city staff and other look miss polities through that that

[1:37:39] exercise to ... to move that forward so I don't

[1:37:42] have a exact time frame but that's at this stage

[1:37:44] but we're happy to work with ... city staff for

[1:37:47] and on trying to at least explore if other miscarriages

[1:37:51] are finding similar challenges and then moving for with ...

[1:37:55] trade advocates the province through various cable channels and other

[1:37:59] channels that we may be able to access to to

[1:38:02] look for more equitable solution

[1:38:05] Mr Randy I know ... we've we've taken a kick

[1:38:08] this cannot cumple times and it came down to sort

[1:38:10] of awestruck fill in so many other of the municipalities

[1:38:13] are regional so it is spread across a we're very

[1:38:17] few of municipalities and had trouble getting the upper provinces

[1:38:20] attention one of these days John go ahead

[1:38:24] thank you a Randy you're one of the most astute

[1:38:27] civil servants I've met ... hardworking I don't see on

[1:38:30] the golf course so I think that explains something

[1:38:34] but so any got broad shoulders so I want to

[1:38:37] push back a bit if I could K. when I

[1:38:38] read this report

[1:38:40] I saw fifty five action plans and or action steps

[1:38:45] I remember prime minister Harper one saying of ... his

[1:38:48] predecessor prime minister Martin that if you have seventy five

[1:38:51] priorities and maybe even two hundred you have not

[1:38:55] so I guess what I'd like from you and if

[1:38:57] you can't give it now that's fine but when I

[1:39:00] read these reports it often they read about talking about

[1:39:03] talking about talking and that's not to insult you and

[1:39:06] I know you would take it that way with that

[1:39:08] as background can you identify maybe two or three examples

[1:39:12] of low hanging fruit that you think we can jump

[1:39:16] out with respect to this task force and can you

[1:39:19] identify maybe two or three really hard nuts to crack

[1:39:22] like give us some

[1:39:24] make it a little more vivid and concrete if you

[1:39:26] could I hope that's a fair request

[1:39:33] thank you for that question that I might not be

[1:39:34] able to ... identify right off the top of my

[1:39:37] head in terms of some of the key ones that

[1:39:40] I I'd recommend that we focus on and that's that's

[1:39:43] why some of the next steps are to do that

[1:39:45] prioritization exercise we recognize that that's we have been there

[1:39:50] for last two to three years been talking a lot

[1:39:54] about the various challenges and we think we have some

[1:39:57] ... ...

[1:39:59] excellent solutions to move for with those ... those to

[1:40:03] try to address some of those challenges so the next

[1:40:05] step is to let's let's actually identify what that those

[1:40:09] low hanging fruit are what is the common alignment with

[1:40:12] those various plans strategies and where should we be focusing

[1:40:15] our in some cases limited resources ... in order to

[1:40:19] get the best bang for Buck so that's exactly the

[1:40:22] exercise that we are planning to do ... I don't

[1:40:25] want to pre judge what the exercise will look like

[1:40:28] because we need to have those discussions with Lucas apologies

[1:40:32] as well as other community partners in terms of trying

[1:40:34] to identify with those low hanging fruit are but I'd

[1:40:37] be happy to come back to you in a couple

[1:40:39] months time and say this is what we think are

[1:40:42] the those low hanging fruit and and we want to

[1:40:45] work collectively to move for with these actions because we

[1:40:47] think work we're gonna get off of the best bang

[1:40:50] for Buck that that aligns hopefully with a number of

[1:40:53] actions and strategies and and hopefully will

[1:40:57] not to use another pardon kill multiple birds with one

[1:41:00] stone so to speak so that's where ... that's the

[1:41:03] exercise we wanna take next and we look forward to

[1:41:06] working with the city staff and city council ... through

[1:41:10] that exercise going forward

[1:41:13] thank you counsel Thomas

[1:41:15] thank you worship in thanks Randy for that presentation I

[1:41:18] think I can actually partly answer councillor timings question while

[1:41:22] at the same time asking my own question under social

[1:41:25] services you have the key point explore the creation of

[1:41:28] community hubs one stop shops to excess community service as

[1:41:32] well this has been going on now for some time

[1:41:35] and both hand over and ... and sound every second

[1:41:38] week in on sound and I think everybody has been

[1:41:40] absolutely staggered by the turnouts at these ... clinics that

[1:41:45] they're holding right now the farmers market and I know

[1:41:47] in Hanover they've been blown away by the number of

[1:41:50] people turning out so my question is ... when you

[1:41:53] talk about exploring the creation are you talking about a

[1:41:57] more permanent set up or are we talking about a

[1:42:00] more frequent temporary set up in different locations just what's

[1:42:04] the vision there

[1:42:08] another great question and three Mayor Boddy I think it's

[1:42:11] probably a mixture of both ... we want to obviously

[1:42:16] take advantage of our existing permit locations it might be

[1:42:20] just a matter of sharing information that we collectively have

[1:42:23] so that

[1:42:25] depending on who's who's going to whatever eight existing office

[1:42:30] that they will have access to a very separation from

[1:42:34] ... not only the county services that are provided to

[1:42:37] the local missile services provided and vice versa ... so

[1:42:40] I think it's utilizing our existing permit locations more efficiently

[1:42:44] and I think the second is yeah and you you

[1:42:47] describes ... some of the temperate models that have had

[1:42:49] such great success we want to enhance the build on

[1:42:53] those temperamental we want to look for those opportunities to

[1:42:56] be able to provide services by going to where the

[1:42:59] people are already at

[1:43:01] meeting them at their place where they're already residing or

[1:43:05] in some cases where they're already gathering and we want

[1:43:09] to be able to provides quick and easy access to

[1:43:12] those services and so the the the ... the farmers

[1:43:16] market and some of the other locations where we've set

[1:43:19] up those those more about response and ... areas have

[1:43:23] been fantastic and so I think that's where we wanna

[1:43:26] look at a model where we're providing those services again

[1:43:29] where people are already a gathering and and meeting them

[1:43:33] where they're already add so we can provide those and

[1:43:36] access to a wide variety of services ... through those

[1:43:39] those ... mobile units

[1:43:43] can anyone else

[1:43:45] seeing no o'carroll sorry go ahead customer in

[1:43:49] three year worship to Mr sure Sir thank you so

[1:43:51] much for the presentation ... housing is a key concern

[1:43:56] in our community and I think you mentioned you know

[1:43:59] there's it's been a few years and there's planning and

[1:44:02] planning and planning

[1:44:04] in our communities now there is more of a desperation

[1:44:08] and urgency so you

[1:44:12] hops the political concept of a priority and the community

[1:44:17] concept a priority is is maybe not quite in alignment

[1:44:21] so certainly wanted to emphasize as you go forward to

[1:44:27] define what you mean by prioritizing ... in relation to

[1:44:32] the community needs

[1:44:34] I know that we have different levels of government and

[1:44:38] different associations

[1:44:40] throughout many municipalities we have had reports on attainable or

[1:44:45] affordable housing strategies is there any intention to collate that

[1:44:52] information and be able to disseminate it as a municipal

[1:44:56] tool kit drop down menu R. I. tools that municipalities

[1:45:01] can choose and select from in addition to working with

[1:45:05] the county has there been any discussion about that

[1:45:12] but

[1:45:14] again another great question and answer you ... Mayor Boddy

[1:45:18] so the housing action plan that has been created through

[1:45:22] the affordable housing task force ... it has been shared

[1:45:26] with with ... with all of our local miss polities

[1:45:29] ... we see that as a plan that that we

[1:45:32] need to collectively work on together ... through coordination collaboration

[1:45:37] that and so with that we are working through some

[1:45:40] of that one is the community plan program ... that

[1:45:44] was a template that was set up as a tool

[1:45:47] to be able to incentivize not not just affordable housing

[1:45:50] developments but some other developments we want to encourage in

[1:45:53] our communities and we work collectively with our look miss

[1:45:56] polities to either updates committee program plans or to add

[1:46:00] new commuter prone plans where once hadn't existed before

[1:46:05] that is an example of a program where we've identified

[1:46:08] here's a tool

[1:46:09] and here's how we can work together both of the

[1:46:11] county and local missile levels to to move for with

[1:46:14] that tool I'm to me there's a number of tools

[1:46:18] in the county housing action plan tool box that we

[1:46:21] are moving for with in coordination with our locus polities

[1:46:24] what is updating official plan and zoning bylaw documents I

[1:46:28] know the city has recently updated their official plan which

[1:46:31] identified a number of of key policy areas in order

[1:46:35] to encourage more affordable table housing and the next step

[1:46:38] which I know you're actually gonna be working on soon

[1:46:40] is the zoning bylaw updates and and so that's where

[1:46:44] we can work together to be able to make sure

[1:46:46] that we're in our policies and our zoning documents that

[1:46:50] were not the barrier when it comes to affordable televising

[1:46:54] factoring courage being a more things like additional residential units

[1:46:58] higher density forms of development ... except truck that's can

[1:47:02] be done through a documents those are just two examples

[1:47:05] of where we're working already ... cleverly it ends and

[1:47:08] coordinating through both county staff and local missile staff and

[1:47:12] we're there's a number of other actions that we're also

[1:47:15] working on ... ends and we need to do that

[1:47:18] together and and it's through the support of county councils

[1:47:22] wells council such as yourself that we're going to hopefully

[1:47:25] make make a difference and be able to dress as

[1:47:28] you noted it's a customer in the the crisis ...

[1:47:31] the housing crisis that we're dealing with currently ... we're

[1:47:35] seeing in terms of the exemptions that both the city

[1:47:38] and the county provide through purpose built rental housing through

[1:47:42] the development charges we're seeing ...

[1:47:45] big uptake before more than what we've ever seen in

[1:47:49] terms of purpose built rental housing in fact in speaking

[1:47:52] with some other colleagues or the province thirst they're not

[1:47:54] seeing that uptake yet they're not seeing the purpose built

[1:47:57] rental housing coming but just knowing what's already on the

[1:48:00] books and what's in the developer type lighting the city

[1:48:02] phone sound when it comes to purpose built rental housing

[1:48:05] it's quite significant ... and that's the type of housing

[1:48:08] that we're gonna need to have more of in order

[1:48:11] to make sure that we're adding a supply of housing

[1:48:15] that's gonna be more affordable table for for folks going

[1:48:18] forward there's also a number of other projects that the

[1:48:20] counties that has supported through through some of our funding

[1:48:25] ... and that's already either being built as we speak

[1:48:28] or will be being built ... so I again I'd

[1:48:32] I'd be happy to provide further examples of how we're

[1:48:34] already working collaboratively in order to address housing challenges I

[1:48:38] think do we have ... have more work to do

[1:48:40] absolutely I think we can do that through a continued

[1:48:45] collaboration coordination with ... with local missile staff

[1:48:50] good how anyone else

[1:48:53] now thank you very much ... Randy ... I know

[1:48:56] was when the city went back and joined the county

[1:48:59] in about two thousand nineteen ninety nine twenty two thousand

[1:49:02] one I can't remember the exact year part of it

[1:49:04] was ...

[1:49:05] the ... uploading to social services and housing ... to

[1:49:09] the county from the city and we were ... both

[1:49:12] doing it ...

[1:49:15] with all the health services mental health services treatments that

[1:49:19] we are able to provide in the city of on

[1:49:21] sound we know there were the ... catchment area for

[1:49:24] gray and probably Graham Bruce and perhaps further as ...

[1:49:28] people command that ... that need help and ... so

[1:49:31] we certainly appreciate being able to work with the county

[1:49:34] on these ... issues and ...

[1:49:37] and ... spread the obstinacy spread the responsibility but I

[1:49:41] think it take advantage of the expertise really at the

[1:49:44] uh county on housing and social services and ... being

[1:49:48] able to do a to in one place really benefits

[1:49:51] that people in need in ... in our community and

[1:49:54] read across grey Bruce all I I think a you're

[1:49:56] quite right this ... this document is going to be

[1:50:00] good for all of grade not just hand over and

[1:50:03] our own sound as we ... help others from across

[1:50:06] the ... Dyer county and I think staff here are

[1:50:09] probably looking forward to ... you know moving forward with

[1:50:14] this and are working with the county into collaborating so

[1:50:17] thank you very much for your presentation

[1:50:20] thank you have a good evening everyone you too goodnight

[1:50:24] thank

[1:50:27] next the on our agenda is nine B. and C.

[1:50:31] which is a presentation that ... I'm doing I'm going

[1:50:34] to go down to the ... other microphone it's with

[1:50:37] regard to the to the ... ethical economic developers council

[1:50:42] of Ontario awards that ... city city staff and ...

[1:50:46] it's cetera's reasons spread out a little further talking about

[1:50:49] collaboration again ... I have received

[1:51:15] going to be joined there by a branch just before

[1:51:17] I start in on the agenda says the end goal

[1:51:19] wards but I'm I'm gonna go a little bit sideways

[1:51:22] I city born sound also or the recipient of five

[1:51:25] awards for achievement from the festival events Ontario which was

[1:51:29] ... pretended presented in March the words ... program recognizes

[1:51:35] exceptional events municipalities suppliers volunteers and sponsors for their dedication

[1:51:41] and innovation regarding the festivals and events industry despite ever

[1:51:46] changing parameters such as COVID requirements and conditions music at

[1:51:51] the market

[1:51:52] E. D. harbored nights Canada Day snow in some frolics

[1:51:57] in saver on sound all received awards of achievement

[1:52:01] ... so that's a huge congratulations to our staff to

[1:52:04] a print and all of his staff that have have

[1:52:07] ... carried out those events

[1:52:09] it'd ... did what was required to get through COVID

[1:52:14] and ... support local business most of all in addition

[1:52:18] to those events that will be happening ... in twenty

[1:52:20] twenty two or some of them perhaps ... snow and

[1:52:22] sound and saber on sound already have the addition of

[1:52:26] the sound waterfront festival being held on ... Thursday June

[1:52:30] thirtieth to Sunday July third will be one more really

[1:52:33] big event ... in on sounds about that's good so

[1:52:37] congratulations to staff on those awards

[1:52:41] ... in late in twenty twenty one the city received

[1:52:46] notification of two major initiatives the work from home capital

[1:52:49] Canada initiative and the river district action plan were nominated

[1:52:54] for economic development council of Ontario awards

[1:52:57] earlier this month at the end co conference ... Mister

[1:53:01] Fisher went down and ... received ... the two awards

[1:53:06] and ... so I wanted to take a moment to

[1:53:08] to acknowledge that to acknowledge him again his staff

[1:53:12] these awards are important

[1:53:15] Ed chords are big this is the third one receiver

[1:53:19] received one a couple of years ago from ...

[1:53:24] are you most there we go I blanked the ...

[1:53:27] are you most campaign ... it's important for us to

[1:53:31] get feedback from our peers in the economic development world

[1:53:35] another municipalities allows us to measure our programs and to

[1:53:38] get feedback and ... see how we're doing with these

[1:53:41] and to win awards is pretty special

[1:53:45] the city work from home capital of Canada initiative won

[1:53:48] this award in the workforce development and resident traction role

[1:53:52] category this initiative was created to capitalize on the desire

[1:53:57] and ability of people to work from home on a

[1:54:00] more permanent basis during the global pandemic

[1:54:04] now as we continue to move out of the pandemic

[1:54:06] in the ability for people to work from home becomes

[1:54:08] more commonplace the city has proven itself to be a

[1:54:11] great place to live and work remember at the time

[1:54:15] just as COVID was kicking off going to a Mr

[1:54:17] Simmons I think we've got an opportunity here we need

[1:54:20] to ... wanted need to go after this and it

[1:54:22] wouldn't have been anybody's work plan staff pivoted again reacted

[1:54:28] quickly to the opportunity and ... and put this ...

[1:54:31] project together

[1:54:33] I up note the judges notes

[1:54:37] work from home capital of Canada this initiative and campaign

[1:54:40] was brilliant and rose above the others in Canada

[1:54:44] great to see Brian from the merit to what wasn't

[1:54:47] too hard for the matter to buy into a program

[1:54:49] that was at this as good as we all did

[1:54:51] done and council's supported it

[1:54:54]

[1:54:56] it's nice to see is confidence in economic development staff

[1:54:59] and that's ... I can confirm that second person says

[1:55:02] pretty well the same month the best across Canada well

[1:55:06] known across the GTA just the excellent media coverage ...

[1:55:10] which ... we picked up on that ...

[1:55:14] strong success attracting media for this ... bold initiatives so

[1:55:18] ... this is the warden gonna hand it back to

[1:55:22] brand to ... did the ... work on it ...

[1:55:24] along with that B. C. Hughes and ... got this

[1:55:28] award put put together the whole program put together the

[1:55:31] ... the media contacts and ... all those things and

[1:55:34] ... gotta so much attention right across the country so

[1:55:40]

[1:55:43] right now

[1:55:48] next one is the a river district action plan a

[1:55:51] collaborative marketing branding an action strategy between the city won't

[1:55:55] sound of the river district board of management which took

[1:55:58] home the Edgar Award in planning and strategic development we're

[1:56:02] all category so I'd like to acknowledge ... chair Dave

[1:56:05] Parsons of the uh river district board of management who

[1:56:07] is here with us one

[1:56:11] welcome Dave

[1:56:13] a river district action plan was developed in partnership with

[1:56:16] the river district board of management firm like the D.

[1:56:19] I. A. and then consult Asian with businesses residents and

[1:56:22] visitors the three year branding and marketing action plan created

[1:56:26] a refined identity and strategy with clear actions in objectives

[1:56:31] ... that was supported by which has supported the revitalized

[1:56:35] ation of the city's core Mr operator I think most

[1:56:38] people in council but maybe people at home don't know

[1:56:41] the vacancy rate in downtown right now is eleven point

[1:56:45] five think about we've just come through COVID that's one

[1:56:48] of the lowest numbers we've had in several years and

[1:56:51] I think that says it just shows you ... the

[1:56:54] good stuff that's going on downtown and ... the way

[1:56:57] businesses ... reacted ... to COVID over the last several

[1:57:00] years we've seen incredible investment the river district our community

[1:57:04] improvement plan has been utilized to its fullest and we're

[1:57:08] moving forward with phase two of the river precinct project

[1:57:12] I think we can all agree that a wonderful that

[1:57:14] what are wonderfully important space the farmer's market square has

[1:57:17] become in our community

[1:57:20] ... chairperson on behalf of the city would like to

[1:57:23] thank you

[1:57:25] ... the river district board of management and all of

[1:57:27] the river district businesses ... for your resiliency commitment to

[1:57:31] working together to make one sound a better place to

[1:57:34] live and do business

[1:57:36] so I'm pleased on behalf of the ... Edgecombe the

[1:57:39] city to present to Dave with this river district twenty

[1:57:43] twenty one ad gore Ward for the river district action

[1:57:45] plan on how we that

[1:57:50] the card

[1:57:52] I would like to date

[1:57:54] just give me just give me a second I'll go

[1:57:56] through the judges notes ... here to ... to judges

[1:57:59] again ... the object was to create a joint marketing

[1:58:03] branding action strategy between the city phone sound and on

[1:58:06] sound DA or now river district target audience stakeholder consultation

[1:58:11] with downtown members with a primary market to focus between

[1:58:15] the being on sound residents ... returning investment measurable metrics

[1:58:21] outlined as a result of the marketing branding an action

[1:58:25] strategy so that that's important where we put together a

[1:58:28] long term strategy with metric measurable metrics that we can

[1:58:32] keep moving along and taking a long

[1:58:35] second person said much the same

[1:58:41] partnership developing joint marketing branding an action strategy for revitalizing

[1:58:46] of downtown core for a three year horizon ... returning

[1:58:50] investment to the joint funding approach ... approx me half

[1:58:54] from DA in the remaining three surplus ... city

[1:58:58] projects

[1:59:03] uniqueness ... city DA working together beyond rebranding to address

[1:59:07] COVID recovery strategy so I think that's been a kind

[1:59:10] of important part here with staff and at the DA

[1:59:13] or a river district to board adjusted to of those

[1:59:18] changes that that we're coming at them in the Middle

[1:59:20] those

[1:59:22] ... three part plan including marketing branding an action plan

[1:59:26] all in one with timelines ... primary and secondary target

[1:59:29] markets ... is ... strategic approach solve that's ... of

[1:59:34] the the ... notes from the ... judges so

[1:59:38] go ahead

[1:59:40] through your worship if I might add ... you stated

[1:59:43] earlier that taking advantage of the expertise of county I

[1:59:47] would like to suggest that the the river district board

[1:59:50] of management has taken advantage and ... are truly thankful

[1:59:55] for ... the city's expertise Briana Jamie Tim Simmonds Pam

[2:00:02] I and many others who are here tonight ... without

[2:00:05] their help we wouldn't have got this award and we

[2:00:07] wouldn't be in the place we're in today I do

[2:00:10] believe that ... everyone who sits on our board is

[2:00:14] interested in making our city a better place to be

[2:00:17] and so thank you for that

[2:00:24] the

[2:00:26] so close both these marketing efforts were developed with the

[2:00:29] support of BC Hughes marketing local tourism development management marketing

[2:00:33] firm led by Kristen bell views and we'd like to

[2:00:36] extend our thanks to them and their staff and again

[2:00:39] they were involved also with the ... Ward a couple

[2:00:41] of years ago

[2:00:43] osprey subsidy collaborative city are both ... council priorities in

[2:00:48] our refresh to strategic plan the river district action plan

[2:00:52] and the work from home capital of candid initiatives each

[2:00:56] played a vital role in supporting existing businesses and new

[2:00:59] business start ups and work to engage young people entrepreneurs

[2:01:03] innovators and creative citizens and facilitating economic growth throughout the

[2:01:08] COVID nineteen pandemic so congratulations to our staff and everyone

[2:01:12] who is ... involved enough receiving these awards and I

[2:01:16] think ... Brian's got some comments just as I had

[2:01:19] back up there

[2:01:23] thank you worship I too would like to acknowledge our

[2:01:26] board chaired Dave Parsons gave thanks for your leadership counsel

[2:01:30] I've been fortunate to sit on the river district board

[2:01:32] for to council terms now I wanna thank the board

[2:01:36] members and in particular Jackie for dinner for challenging the

[2:01:39] board in the city to create a plan for the

[2:01:41] downtown which is now called the river district I wanna

[2:01:45] thank the board in the membership for working to to

[2:01:48] issue the R. F. P. higher BC Hughes and to

[2:01:52] developing this plan it's a plan full of actions that

[2:01:55] are producing real and meaningful results for the river district

[2:01:59] we all want immediate results but it's nice to see

[2:02:01] this plan and our partnership recognized by Ed cool is

[2:02:05] the foundation for transforming the river district and building on

[2:02:09] it strikes

[2:02:10] thanks to the board for your commitment and the staff

[2:02:13] for your support for all this work thank you

[2:02:15] ... thank you again Dave and to you and ...

[2:02:18] everyone involved congratulations and ... thank you we look forward

[2:02:21] to the the DA becoming stronger over the next couple

[2:02:24] of years ...

[2:02:28] the river district excuse me becoming stronger over the next

[2:02:31] few years

[2:02:33] a motion asking to take into all a couple of

[2:02:36] years to ... to get used to that but ...

[2:02:38] the banners are great the colors public chosen are great

[2:02:41] and ...

[2:02:43] it should it should become easier than that slip right

[2:02:45] there so again thank you

[2:02:48] so next on our agenda is good ... public question

[2:02:52] period and was Bloomfield we have no questions none that

[2:02:55] have been submitted

[2:02:57] at number eleven we have no correspondence ... items being

[2:03:00] presented for council so we're down to staff reports at

[2:03:04] twelve A. which is our streets a senior manager of

[2:03:08] strategic initiatives operational effectiveness welcome

[2:03:19] thank you pardon me sorry thinking whereby I'm here is

[2:03:23] staff reports the M. twenty two zero zero three when

[2:03:26] this is our municipal government priorities for the twenty twenty

[2:03:29] to provincial election

[2:03:32] ... as you remember in December we brought forward the

[2:03:34] inter governmental relations action plan and within that contains three

[2:03:39] pronged approach advocacy collaboration and education this is a really

[2:03:44] unique opportunity for us to collaborate to take forward ...

[2:03:48] advocacy priorities so the association of municipal clerks and treasurers

[2:03:52] of Ontario released a document outlining three priorities for the

[2:03:56] provincial election

[2:03:58] those parties were reviewed against the priorities identified within the

[2:04:02] city's inter governmental relations action plan and of those we

[2:04:05] found to the line so those are the two that

[2:04:07] we're asking council to endorse a read them briefly the

[2:04:11] first one is priority one municipal resilience require stable predictable

[2:04:15] funding and investment and within that there's three bullets party

[2:04:19] to support continuous improvement to strengthen municipal provincial partnership with

[2:04:24] the not there's four bullets so I'm happy to take

[2:04:27] any further questions that anyone may have related to those

[2:04:30] recommendations councillor dot

[2:04:34] thank you where survive no general questions so you that

[2:04:36] you just did so well so thank you so much

[2:04:38] ... but I would ... move that recommendation it is

[2:04:41] nice to see that we are working in moving forward

[2:04:43] with a a program such as this ... knowing that

[2:04:45] we have our inter governmental ... report that we are

[2:04:49] working on sieve covering over things like insurance and trying

[2:04:51] to find stable funding ... this is a great report

[2:04:54] for us all to work in unison to try to

[2:04:56] to recognize the fact that ... sometimes in the past

[2:04:59] grant fundings were ... this is fairly done on an

[2:05:02] equal level based on big municipalities to lower or smaller

[2:05:05] municipalities urban versus rural so having a general more stabilized

[2:05:10] ... funding opportunity for us ... CIF which and ...

[2:05:14] MPF on the Olympia finding as many people well known

[2:05:18] around this table is a big form of funding that

[2:05:22] helps with to keep our overall let me down so

[2:05:25] if we have some more stabilization on that that's a

[2:05:27] obviously a bonus so thank you so much for putting

[2:05:30] this together to be more than happy to move that

[2:05:31] recommendation good thank you anyone else seeing none others I

[2:05:36] will call the question all in favor that is carried

[2:05:39] thank you

[2:05:43] next at twelve be we have a report from the

[2:05:45] director of corporate services with regard to infrastructure Ontario debenture

[2:05:50] is Alan

[2:05:52] thank your worship through you this report is to commence

[2:05:56] with the application for adventures on the tenth street bridge

[2:05:59] and the recently completed Bayshore SPS upgrade there are two

[2:06:03] recommendations that we submitted an application to the infrastructure Ontario

[2:06:07] association as well as bring forward a by law to

[2:06:09] execute a financing agreement and the satisfy the requirements ...

[2:06:13] under the loan program held by the province both of

[2:06:17] these programs were anticipated to be debt financed and the

[2:06:20] debt payments anticipated are within the budgets that we had

[2:06:23] previously planned for

[2:06:28] thank you comments

[2:06:30] questions

[2:06:32] motions

[2:06:34] motions go ahead

[2:06:39] I'll I'll I'll accounts the Gregor this one now as

[2:06:41] if I just spoke to it saw you can take

[2:06:43] this one

[2:06:46] of thanks concert Dodd I'm happy to move the recommendation

[2:06:50] report is council will be aware ... contained within your

[2:06:53] corporate service

[2:06:55] ... minutes Sir or the agenda is a package ...

[2:06:59] which related to the twenty twenty one year end and

[2:07:02] I believe noted ten ... capital projects that were still

[2:07:06] awaiting of long term financing and this is two of

[2:07:09] those ... projects that they're now off of that so

[2:07:12] ... I would move the recommendation in the report

[2:07:15] good thank you any other questions seeing none all in

[2:07:18] favor call the question and that is carried thank you

[2:07:22] ms Allen ... twelve C. from purchasing and risk management

[2:07:27] coordinator with regard to the east Bayshore road construction

[2:07:32] through thank you worship through you of this so reports

[2:07:36] here twenty two or forty five it's for the next

[2:07:38] phase of the space shore ... roadway reconstruction project ...

[2:07:42] it's for ... roadway reconstruction approximately from twenty street north

[2:07:46] of it includes full urban ... cross section with curb

[2:07:50] and gutter pay shoulder sidewalk reconstruction and associated retaining wall

[2:07:55] as well and the whole works area

[2:07:57] of the the cost of the project ... came into

[2:08:01] a total bid of three point eight nine one million

[2:08:03] from the mac Donell excavating others a breakdown on the

[2:08:07] third page regarding the the cost breakdown for the project

[2:08:11] ... there are some issues with the city portion of

[2:08:14] the cost break down the ... the sanitary sewer ...

[2:08:17] forced me that's part of the project came in much

[2:08:20] above estimates and regards that city staff ... good sold

[2:08:25] in the contractor gonna work on of submit more innovative

[2:08:29] construction techniques techniques to get that price down but it's

[2:08:34] I should point out it was much above the ...

[2:08:37] consultants estimate for the for that work

[2:08:40] and in addition the other cost overrun of for the

[2:08:43] city portion of the work which is to do with

[2:08:45] the sidewalk in the retaining wall that runs from twenty

[2:08:48] eight street just past the canny drain ... the the

[2:08:53] way the ... cost allocation was done from the county

[2:08:56] resulted in out a slight over run of fifty five

[2:08:59] thousand dollars in the overall budget of from a from

[2:09:03] an overall financial perspective it's it's expected that the city

[2:09:06] will be able to recover costs from future development from

[2:09:10] the former RCA project to pay for both the sanitary

[2:09:14] overage and also the over to relating to the sidewalk

[2:09:17] and retaining wall

[2:09:19] so as per the report the board is toward the

[2:09:22] above noted contracted mac Donell excavating at the lowest bid

[2:09:27] and direct staff to bring forth by law to authorize

[2:09:29] the Mayor click to execute the agreement one other party

[2:09:33] note is that the county because this is account it's

[2:09:36] a joint project with the county the county also has

[2:09:39] to approve this they have to a county council before

[2:09:43] the work can be be undertaken that's in my record

[2:09:47] thank you very much Mr county

[2:09:49] Marianne recounts the captain go ahead

[2:09:52] thank you worship I'm happy to move the

[2:09:56] recommendation in the report and thank you for your explanation

[2:09:59] of the report

[2:10:02] go ahead

[2:10:04] just on that last point that you reference there in

[2:10:07] the event that the county didn't approve their half of

[2:10:10] the tender what would

[2:10:13] what would happen at that point

[2:10:19] pardon pardon me

[2:10:21] through your worship of what would happen it's a county

[2:10:24] road

[2:10:25] so it's it's highly unlikely that the county is is

[2:10:27] not going to prove their portion and and if you

[2:10:29] look at the budget breakdown this is this is well

[2:10:32] below what the county anticipated on spending on their their

[2:10:35] portion of the costs so I don't anticipate that to

[2:10:37] be a problem it's it's just a formality

[2:10:41] double check

[2:10:44] Deputy alert would be ... twisting arms up there I

[2:10:46] think we might be the

[2:10:51] ... councillor courteous moved it and see any other questions

[2:10:55] or call the question all in favor and that is

[2:10:58] carried thanks Mike ... twelve D. report purchasing risk management

[2:11:04] coordinators sitting ham crescent sanitary pump station constructions probably back

[2:11:09] to you thanks

[2:11:11] thanks thanks go through your worship of this project is

[2:11:14] for the ... capital upgrading of the student crescent of

[2:11:18] sewage pumping station for for anyone's knowledge it's it's it's

[2:11:21] there's a little grass theory by the mill dam a

[2:11:23] cul de sac that's where it's located I was actually

[2:11:26] I suppose outside the city that's not the case this

[2:11:29] is in the city ... so so this upgrade this

[2:11:32] will bring this is the last sewage pumping station the

[2:11:35] city that is that is not up to the Ministry

[2:11:38] of Environment minimum design design standards so it will bring

[2:11:42] that pumping station up to what's minutes what's required in

[2:11:45] in this day and age ... the ... the the

[2:11:48] total the low price on this was a bit of

[2:11:51] three hundred twenty six thousand dollars and ... as is

[2:11:55] I said it'll it'll work it'll it'll it'll result in

[2:11:59] this I'm sorry

[2:12:02] result in lower operating costs and it'll it'll provides ...

[2:12:06] about better operation last chance by passers built in and

[2:12:10] service the residents of this area just a little bit

[2:12:12] better

[2:12:14] so the recommendation is toward the contractor street line group

[2:12:17] at the price of three hundred twenty six thousand four

[2:12:19] hundred dollars and direct staff to bring for bilateral authorized

[2:12:23] americorps to execute the agreement thank you counsel Thomas

[2:12:27] well thanks for answering my question the first question for

[2:12:30] tonight where's signum crescent because I racked my brains and

[2:12:33] I couldn't for the life of me think where it

[2:12:35] might be ... I'm happy to roof move that report

[2:12:39] and thank you any other questions go ahead councillor.

[2:12:43] thank you for sure but I think it's just a

[2:12:44] again one of those ...

[2:12:46] projects in capital projects that we're doing within the city

[2:12:49] of ensuring that we're not sending by passing to our

[2:12:53] our open waterways so again I think this is a

[2:12:55] highlight of some of the capital improvement the city has

[2:12:58] undertaken in the last several years to ensure that things

[2:13:02] like doing ... ... that the at the enhancement to

[2:13:05] our sanitation system overall is ... to reducing the amount

[2:13:09] of by pass it's going and or or waste that's

[2:13:11] truly going into the the the harbor self is one

[2:13:14] point that ... because again I think this is we

[2:13:16] get these capital projects I think we need to highlight

[2:13:18] on the the importance and the significance of not just

[2:13:21] that it's getting done but what that will lead to

[2:13:24] an what's that going to prevent ... more on environmental

[2:13:26] side of it as well so so thank you so

[2:13:28] much

[2:13:30] thanks

[2:13:31] I will call the question on favor

[2:13:34] and that is carried

[2:13:36] thanks again ... twelve V. we've gotta oral report from

[2:13:40] a Deputy Mayor or Larry with regard to great county

[2:13:43] council

[2:13:46] thank you worship I have ... two items tonight ...

[2:13:49] is your where council at your the mental health and

[2:13:51] addiction task force and during the very first meeting I

[2:13:54] had suggested a change in the curriculum in our schools

[2:13:58] beginning in grade seven or eight in an effort to

[2:14:00] educate our kids on the dangers of smoking cigarettes chewing

[2:14:04] tobacco

[2:14:05] drinking alcohol and experimenting and drugs

[2:14:09] it was then that we as a committee received an

[2:14:11] education of our own in total agreement of the idea

[2:14:15] Dr are explained that we need to start this at

[2:14:18] age zero

[2:14:21] we have far too many children brought into this world

[2:14:23] and being raised with one parent or growing up witnessing

[2:14:26] addiction first hand and missing out on important teachings being

[2:14:31] taught the basics such as good manners and morals looking

[2:14:35] a person in the eye the firm handshake treating people

[2:14:38] with respect treating women with respect there are so many

[2:14:42] of our kids that don't have the support or have

[2:14:44] that role model home

[2:14:47] at the April nineteenth committee meeting the task force approved

[2:14:50] the following resolutions

[2:14:53] where as mental health challenges can occur early in life

[2:14:57] with children often not having the understanding about what mental

[2:15:00] health is supports available and how manage how to manage

[2:15:05] mental health in their daily lives and whereas building resilience

[2:15:09] early in life is an important aspect of promoting mental

[2:15:12] wellbeing and whereas there is strong evidence of the importance

[2:15:16] of focused education on mental health the target children to

[2:15:19] build resilience at this age group including identification prevention intervention

[2:15:26] and support

[2:15:27] now therefore be it resolved that the mental health and

[2:15:30] addiction task force on behalf agree county council request the

[2:15:34] minister of education implement a mental health

[2:15:38] education curriculum beginning in primary school to provide children with

[2:15:43] the necessary tools to support ongoing resilience and mental wellness

[2:15:48] and that this resolution before to to all great county

[2:15:51] municipalities for support and that due to the timing of

[2:15:54] the upcoming provincial election this resolution before to the minister

[2:15:58] of education and copied to the minister of mental health

[2:16:02] and NPP's bill Walker and Jim Wilson ahead of council

[2:16:05] approval in accordance with section twenty five point six on

[2:16:09] the county's procedural bylaw

[2:16:14] so this resolution

[2:16:16] is already in the hands of the provincial government and

[2:16:20] will be in the queue before the provincial election

[2:16:23] one has to hope that regardless of who wins the

[2:16:26] election the be enough common sense to bring this to

[2:16:29] fruition

[2:16:30] MPP bill Walker has already talked to the minister of

[2:16:33] education about the really the resolution and received a very

[2:16:37] positive response I look at this is a game changer

[2:16:40] an opportunity to fill a void for our children

[2:16:46] my second item the climate change action plan was presented

[2:16:49] to county council engagement of the plan was overview it

[2:16:53] involved online surveys virtual meetings written submissions and online gateman

[2:17:00] there is discussion on the declaration of an emergency which

[2:17:03] resulted in gray county council declaring a climate change emergency

[2:17:09] it was noted that municipalities are well positioned to respond

[2:17:12] to climate change in that over fifty percent greenhouse gas

[2:17:16] emissions are under the direct influence of local government according

[2:17:20] to the federation of Canadian municipalities

[2:17:23] staff have identified the grey county is on track to

[2:17:27] achieve net zero by two thousand forty six

[2:17:31] with that I would ask city manager Tim Simmonds to

[2:17:34] set up a presentation from Greene County staff laying out

[2:17:37] the action plan including emission reduction targets I would also

[2:17:42] ask the report will follow including the declaration of a

[2:17:46] climate emergency I suggest declaration not in the sense of

[2:17:50] panic or overreaction but as a solid commitment to follow

[2:17:54] the lead of grey county and do our part in

[2:17:57] achieving net zero by two thousand fifty this will give

[2:18:00] our council members lots of time to think about the

[2:18:02] process with that you worship I would never see that

[2:18:05] verbal reports

[2:18:11] I'm

[2:18:13] the Springfield is asking if it's a notice of motion

[2:18:15] but I I'm youth think it should be ... it's

[2:18:18] a notice of motion to receive

[2:18:21] however with regard to the report there was a report

[2:18:24] that was on the agenda for the operations committee that

[2:18:28] was tabled that will be coming back with regard to

[2:18:30] the climate change

[2:18:33] that was just

[2:18:36] or was it a motion

[2:18:39] there's no there's no motion I'm I'm simply asking for

[2:18:43] the city manager to do ... really what he just

[2:18:46] did with with ranchers are coming with the Hanover I

[2:18:49] own some task force report ... someone is gonna come

[2:18:53] from the county's county staff to do the presentation they've

[2:18:57] they've already done the draft one but this will be

[2:18:59] the final one and I'm just asking the manager a

[2:19:03] city manager if you bring forward a report after that

[2:19:07] that includes a declaration of

[2:19:12] do you want that is a motion then yeah I

[2:19:13] think if you wanna make that motion and then it's

[2:19:15] on the table it's clean it's straightforward and but I

[2:19:19] guess or or if you're giving notice perhaps we can

[2:19:21] do it at the next meeting might be the easiest

[2:19:23] because there is no notice

[2:19:25] so if you want to give a notice of the

[2:19:27] end Marianne

[2:19:29] could I make a motion that we waive the notice

[2:19:32] requirements

[2:19:35] that's

[2:19:39] okay yeah let's let's back up so Brian did move

[2:19:41] that we receive the ... purple report any questions on

[2:19:45] that all in favor that is carried now I'm going

[2:19:49] to marry him

[2:19:52] I'll make a motion that we waive the notice requirements

[2:19:55] of the procedural bylaw

[2:19:57] with this we need to add two thirds vote so

[2:20:00] why if in favor all in favor of call the

[2:20:02] question

[2:20:06] sorry I'm gonna get you to put your hands up

[2:20:07] and leave my up your one two three four

[2:20:12] I would be five but that doesn't get us to

[2:20:14] two thirds

[2:20:16] Seoul Van Brian will give notice of motion Scott

[2:20:22] I just like to bring back to council's attention that

[2:20:25] this matter ... the climate change adaption adaptation plan is

[2:20:29] coming back forward through the operations committee through council there's

[2:20:33] a postponing motion that is in place just awaiting the

[2:20:37] completion of of that document ... that the Deputy Mayor

[2:20:41] spoke to tonight so we will be seeing that again

[2:20:44] as staff are aware that that's that's intended

[2:20:48] and his Bloomfield I think ... news Merrin was city

[2:20:52] manager and with you as clerk we can set any

[2:20:54] agenda we want to set up within reason and we

[2:20:56] can ... help that speaker Clement some point we can

[2:20:59] do that with a motion so we're covered good thank

[2:21:02] you

[2:21:06] would it be the intention I'm sorry don't other report

[2:21:08] handy to have the author of the report I know

[2:21:11] technically was authored by

[2:21:13] politicians I forget is it what was her name I'm

[2:21:16] sorry Laura

[2:21:18] yeah

[2:21:20] Linda sorry can we ask that she actually presented I

[2:21:24] know we've matter briefly that's why I forget her name

[2:21:27] so okay thank you

[2:21:30] you know the the other thing that we're going to

[2:21:31] match with the Scott I think it's just hit on

[2:21:35] the county climate the plan does not set

[2:21:40] the baseline ... I'm gonna call the carbon count there's

[2:21:43] more proper word for ... the city of on sound

[2:21:46] reasons still need to do that on our own to

[2:21:48] adopt the ... of of the plan from the county

[2:21:51] so that's something that will be discussed at the committee

[2:21:54] at some point so I will ... but move on

[2:21:57] to thirteen which is the consent agenda

[2:22:03] through your worship on the consent agenda this evening I

[2:22:05] reports respecting the April service review update the twenty twenty

[2:22:09] one council committee and board attendance and the on sound

[2:22:12] agricultural society's seventh annual board dance sorry barn dance fundraiser

[2:22:17] there minutes for seat from the own sound housing company

[2:22:20] board and the police board there's a flag flying request

[2:22:23] for workers day of mourning and the last Sam on

[2:22:25] the consent agenda is the information package a full listing

[2:22:28] is available at thirteen G.

[2:22:31] thank you ... ... ... we've had a little discussion

[2:22:33] room to do this a little bit differently than the

[2:22:34] way I usually do it is there anything in the

[2:22:37] consent agenda that anyone wishes to Paul and speak

[2:22:45] seeing none

[2:22:47] so with that total go to ... councillor Cappy to

[2:22:50] move the ... items

[2:22:53] thank you worship moved by myself that City council receives

[2:22:56] item thirteen eighty two thirteen G. on the consent agenda

[2:23:00] dated April twenty five twenty twenty two and further that

[2:23:04] the recommendations contained in items thirteen eight to thirteen C.

[2:23:08] B. approved

[2:23:10] thank you and call the question all in favor and

[2:23:13] that is carried

[2:23:16]

[2:23:18] reducing doing a bit of a hybrid here ... you

[2:23:21] John was roughing you councillor damming up and you want

[2:23:23] to discuss from the police services board from way back

[2:23:26] in February

[2:23:29] no it was a fairly light agenda I just I

[2:23:32] guess just one interesting fact you know the cost of

[2:23:35] policing arises ... goes up we know that ... they're

[2:23:39] introducing through

[2:23:41] we sparked are introducing something called electronic management of evidence

[2:23:46] and ... the mayor and I both in our previous

[2:23:49] lives did a bit of criminal Longley we know the

[2:23:51] ...

[2:23:53] the need to move to electronic format for exhibits and

[2:23:56] evidence and so forth and that's gonna be at least

[2:24:00] initially a thirty thousand dollar ... tagged to participate I'm

[2:24:04] sure that will only go up so I just found

[2:24:06] that of interest ... at the committee at the at

[2:24:10] the police board meeting to see that there are going

[2:24:13] to be these fixed costs that we're gonna have to

[2:24:15] encourage not all staffing ... when we talk police costs

[2:24:19] ... but there is some by necessity to these bills

[2:24:23] other than that was a fairly light agenda and ...

[2:24:25] I'm happy to take any questions

[2:24:29] thank you and I don't see any hands going up

[2:24:32] to ask any questions as we're down to fourteen A.

[2:24:35] in our agenda which is minutes of corporate services committee

[2:24:38] meeting held on March twenty fourth twenty twenty two councillor

[2:24:42] Greg

[2:24:46] I thank everybody ... to review those minutes for council

[2:24:50] it was a lengthy agenda a lot of material on

[2:24:53] it but mostly ...

[2:24:54] ... for information purposes committee recommends approval of an updated

[2:24:59] fireworks bylaw which adds to Wally to the permitted dates

[2:25:02] to it due to its cultural significance and definitions of

[2:25:06] owner and occupant ... to the bylaw to assist in

[2:25:09] Forsman of the bylaw as well the fire bylaws recommended

[2:25:13] to be updated substantially the same the updated bylaw also

[2:25:17] includes definitions of various types of dwellings and owners and

[2:25:20] occupants to assist in enforcement it also includes restrictions placed

[2:25:25] on flying lanterns a recreational fires a townhouses and multiple

[2:25:29] dwelling units

[2:25:30] received for information was the two thousand twenty one B.

[2:25:33] M. A. comparative study some of my favorite documents of

[2:25:36] the entire year

[2:25:38] a lot of good information within those five hundred some

[2:25:41] pages reaffirmed is our placement as high in taxation as

[2:25:46] a percentage of household income

[2:25:49] committee reviewed the two thousand twenty one year end benefiting

[2:25:52] from safe restart finding the combined annual surpluses approximately one

[2:25:56] hundred and five thousand dollars which is to be transferred

[2:25:59] to the taxi realization reserve which is an estimated four

[2:26:02] hundred thirty five thousand dollars a year and significant surpluses

[2:26:06] were realized in policing public works easy ... I public

[2:26:10] works it was an easy winter waste management with a

[2:26:13] higher commodity prices ... contributing to that ... whereas deficits

[2:26:18] appeared in cleaning services HR related legal costs transit facility

[2:26:22] booking and the art gallery these deficits were largely COVID

[2:26:26] driven

[2:26:28] total two thousand twenty one tax fund the capital levy

[2:26:31] was two million six R. three one thousand completed in

[2:26:35] capital in progress amounts to two million five hundred forty

[2:26:38] one thousand with the approximate ninety thousand dollars in reserve

[2:26:42] for future requirements at the end of two thousand twenty

[2:26:45] one the total funds held reserves increased by three million

[2:26:49] six aren't thirty thousand dollars to forty two million dollars

[2:26:53] which positions own sound very well when evaluating reserves per

[2:26:57] capita in comparison to other municipalities

[2:27:00] committee was provided the two thousand twenty two capital plan

[2:27:03] update of notice transferring twenty five thousand dollars from reserves

[2:27:07] to fund the Manitoba lighting on the east harbour wall

[2:27:10] and directing staff to hold any unspent capital projects currently

[2:27:14] approximately four hundred thousand dollars in the capital reserve for

[2:27:18] any priority projects which may need support

[2:27:22] reporter zero three four was a summary of insurance claims

[2:27:25] and was received for information as was report respecting the

[2:27:28] bi annual summary of tenders and proposals awarded that was

[2:27:31] for second half of two thousand twenty one also received

[2:27:35] for information was a review of the two thousand twenty

[2:27:38] one freedom of information requests as well as a review

[2:27:41] of our proactive of our current proactive by law enforcement

[2:27:45] model and in returning to the postponed capital plan update

[2:27:49] report committee received the report for information only with no

[2:27:52] changes to the current procurement policy and with that I

[2:27:56] would welcome any questions ... and ask council's endorsement of

[2:28:00] those minutes

[2:28:02] great thank you questions

[2:28:05] I'm seeing none so I will call the question all

[2:28:07] in favor

[2:28:08] and that is carried

[2:28:11] next we are down to fourteen be which is minutes

[2:28:14] of the operations committee I ... note that there is

[2:28:17] a ... but change of direction considered with regard to

[2:28:22] transit so why will ask a councillor Greg to ...

[2:28:26] moved to present the operation minutes save an accept ...

[2:28:29] eight D. one

[2:28:33] so this is the are the minutes of the April

[2:28:35] twelfth meeting committee reviewed in assessment of fourth Avenue West

[2:28:40] from fourteenth street to twenty third street regarding traffic flow

[2:28:45] it was recommended to be forwarded to budget for consideration

[2:28:48] of a stop sign on twenty third street west westbound

[2:28:51] approaching fourth Avenue which now exists as a three way

[2:28:54] stop that scenario does create confusion for both automobiles and

[2:28:59] pedestrians also part of the report is to create a

[2:29:03] four way stop at nineteenth street west and fourth Avenue

[2:29:06] this intersection is poor sightlines and has been the scene

[2:29:09] of severe accidents in the past police in engineering services

[2:29:13] both provided insight into the preparation of this report and

[2:29:16] the recommendation

[2:29:18] committee was supportive of the road resurfacing list for two

[2:29:21] thousand twenty two as provided and funded within the seven

[2:29:25] hundred thousand dollar budget

[2:29:27] these projects respond to any valuation of the municipal roads

[2:29:31] which assessed a numerical value for the pavement condition of

[2:29:35] each road based on the assessment twenty two percent of

[2:29:39] the city's paved roads are in excellent condition thirty nine

[2:29:42] percent are in good condition twenty eight percent in fair

[2:29:45] condition three percent in poor and eight percent in very

[2:29:49] poor condition applied against the strategic plan of having a

[2:29:54] percentage of roads with the pavement rating of sixty five

[2:29:57] percent or better the percentage of roads in this condition

[2:30:01] increase from fifty five percent in two thousand nineteen to

[2:30:04] sixty one percent in twenty twenty one which is in

[2:30:07] line with our current ... with the strategic plan goal

[2:30:11] this data is used to update the ten year asphalt

[2:30:14] resurfacing plan the updated annual required investment noted within the

[2:30:18] report to be spent ... annually currently is one point

[2:30:22] one million seventy eight thousand dollars ... to continue to

[2:30:26] close the gap on our road needs

[2:30:29] committee received for information the annual ways our treatment plant

[2:30:32] report this report is in compliance with provincial legislation and

[2:30:36] noted that the average daily flow was fifty four percent

[2:30:39] of plan capacity ... on the average daily basis

[2:30:43] there were two major in six minor overflow events due

[2:30:46] to the wet weather as council is aware the city

[2:30:49] received provincial funding of one hundred ninety two thousand dollars

[2:30:52] for sewage overflow monitoring and related works this ... also

[2:30:58] response to a question from committee regarding acknowledging potential heavy

[2:31:02] precipitation storm type events what may be the highest needs

[2:31:07] the reply was to continue the investment in our sanitary

[2:31:10] resigning and our storm water diversion works to lessen wet

[2:31:14] weather system demands ... in our system

[2:31:17] I was skipped item E. D. one

[2:31:21] actually

[2:31:25] yeah those are the items exclude saving and excluding item

[2:31:29] eighty one and that with that I would ... welcome

[2:31:32] questions or ... as for council's approval

[2:31:37] motion to approve any questions

[2:31:40] on that part okay I will call the question all

[2:31:42] in favor and that is carried so because we are

[2:31:47] reconsidering a decision made ... it with regard to transit

[2:31:52] in the past first I'm going to ask a council

[2:31:54] great to move a waiver of the notice of motion

[2:31:57] requirement

[2:32:00] I would move that motion to we've

[2:32:05] notice of motion is required a procedure by the

[2:32:09] thank you and he I guess really isn't any discussion

[2:32:12] on that is ... ... all in favor

[2:32:17] hold on her album seeing him go one two three

[2:32:19] four five six seven eight so that's ... that's two

[2:32:23] thirds that carries thanks ... next

[2:32:28] ... masking councillor Greg to move ... motion to reconsider

[2:32:34] a previous decision

[2:32:38] so I will move a motion to reconsider the decision

[2:32:41] of our the service for three months ... which council

[2:32:45] visited earlier I would just like to point out quickly

[2:32:48] in speaking to wide move that motion is that the

[2:32:52] awarding of the new con transit contract created a potential

[2:32:55] two thousand twenty two surplus intransitive aren't seventy four thousand

[2:32:58] five hundred if the city maintains a thirty minute service

[2:33:02] the new contract me still generate a potential surplus of

[2:33:05] twelve thousand one hundred ninety five dollars this information was

[2:33:09] contained within the report to committee and council did communicate

[2:33:12] an interest in marketing and investing in the transit service

[2:33:15] and either surplus could provide some funding for that movement

[2:33:19] to change the scheduling ... I should say ...

[2:33:22] we approve the recommendation on a five two votes and

[2:33:27] ... movement to change the scheduling or the regularity of

[2:33:30] our service could have unintended consequences for reducing ridership offering

[2:33:35] a dependable consistent service is vital to maintaining customer relationships

[2:33:40] ... so with that said that a ... move the

[2:33:43] motion to reconsider

[2:33:47] V. D. a motion to reconsider a previous decision is

[2:33:51] not debatable we would get into the discussion of the

[2:33:54] actual meter but after but go ahead just some

[2:33:59] by requesting a recorded vote your service yes

[2:34:07] councillor.

[2:34:09] in favor

[2:34:11] councillor Greg

[2:34:13] in favor

[2:34:16] cancel Hamley

[2:34:17] in favor

[2:34:20] councillor khaki

[2:34:22] in favor

[2:34:23] cancel Merton

[2:34:26] in favor

[2:34:27] cancer Tamming

[2:34:29] in favor

[2:34:31] councillor Thomas

[2:34:33] in favor

[2:34:35] Deputy Merrill area

[2:34:38] in favor

[2:34:39] Mayor Boddy in favor

[2:34:43] the resolution carries with 9 in favor 0 opposed

[2:34:47] so over and I'll go back to a councillor Greg

[2:34:50] one more time and I guess he kind of did

[2:34:52] it but to our present ... eight D. one and

[2:34:54] th and move approval and we can discuss it

[2:35:00] so I would move approval of the recommendation contained ...

[2:35:03] in the minutes ... coming forward from the operations committee

[2:35:06] as I stated was carried five to two

[2:35:09] a six to us thank you accounts are kept you

[2:35:12] for correcting me there

[2:35:14] ... I spoke to the balance of of the material

[2:35:18] there in my preamble ... but I do welcome any

[2:35:21] questions ... or perhaps there's questions for staff just two

[2:35:25] ... further provide clarification

[2:35:29] any questions

[2:35:31] the discussion

[2:35:33] councillor khaki

[2:35:35] a request a recorded vote please

[2:35:39] okay before we get there discussion go ahead

[2:35:42] three your worship just for clarification so the reason for

[2:35:47] changing

[2:35:48] from the our to the thirty minutes was based only

[2:35:52] on finance

[2:35:55] or was it to provide a service

[2:35:58] because the new contract was going to save money there

[2:36:01] for the committee felt that it was okay to reduce

[2:36:05] and change the plan to go back to thirty minutes

[2:36:12] I would say there was um concern from someone committee

[2:36:16] that ... the budget surplus could be lost however in

[2:36:21] this case ... the budget allocation was already there

[2:36:26] and the say this surplus was generated mid year from

[2:36:29] us establishing that new contract on a go forward basis

[2:36:33] hence that hundred and seventy four thousand or twelve thousand

[2:36:37] dollars which I alluded to in the report ... that

[2:36:41] was definitely in consideration by committee as to ...

[2:36:47] in the yet in determining to go back to the

[2:36:50] thirty minute service as

[2:36:53] as a you know for transit I guess as a

[2:36:56] benefit to our residents

[2:37:01] through your worship

[2:37:03] my concern is that the decision was made with finances

[2:37:07] has the primary core motivator and I really want to

[2:37:11] encourage us as we move forward with future transit decisions

[2:37:16] that this serves the public it's a transit is meant

[2:37:20] to serve the public it's not necessarily a nice to

[2:37:24] have it's a need to have so I certainly support

[2:37:29] the change I believe that thirty minutes service is essential

[2:37:34] for everyday living for those who are perhaps into a

[2:37:38] situation where they don't have much choice ... they're not

[2:37:42] privileged to be able to have transportation in other ways

[2:37:45] or their limitations or such so as we move forward

[2:37:50] again it is about moving people not just dollars and

[2:37:53] I encourage us to continue with that lands

[2:37:57] as we move through future contracts thank you

[2:38:04] councillor Greg Agnon I'm worried that there's a little bit

[2:38:07] of Confucianism blessing of the discussion council as a group

[2:38:12] we're trying to save money and cut back to a

[2:38:15] one hour service

[2:38:17] and then once we got the new contract and there

[2:38:20] was savings in the new contract we didn't need to

[2:38:23] go to that we could maintain the half hour service

[2:38:26] because of the ... the better contract I got that

[2:38:29] right so we go back to by half hour that

[2:38:31] we always wanted but ... it with the new contract

[2:38:35] we could we didn't need to make that cut to

[2:38:38] one hours at Akron

[2:38:40] that's correct and I I should have noted to that

[2:38:42] originally back in November ...

[2:38:45] operations committee had been notified that the R. F. P.

[2:38:50] would be coming back through operations committee back to council

[2:38:53] however because of time the timeline ... issues we didn't

[2:38:58] meet again until January February in terms of forwarding the

[2:39:01] process of those that that gap ... that we lost

[2:39:05] there in terms of time brought that it item right

[2:39:08] to council for that decision and operations committee actually never

[2:39:12] formally had any input into all that meeting that was

[2:39:14] there their input at that night

[2:39:18] thanks council Cappy

[2:39:20] thank you worship ... my decision was not based solely

[2:39:23] on finances it was based on service to the public

[2:39:27] and I felt that by switching to the one our

[2:39:31] service for those three months that's only confusing a lot

[2:39:34] of people and it's maybe losing ridership and not servicing

[2:39:38] the people that we need to on a consistent basis

[2:39:44] councillor Thomas

[2:39:46] and I think they were looking for there is continuity

[2:39:48] of service for me that's what the decision is it's

[2:39:52] not about the money it's about the continuity of the

[2:39:54] service

[2:39:57] originally the idea to change was because we're anticipating such

[2:40:01] something much worse than happen

[2:40:03] and I think to maintain the continuity of service for

[2:40:06] our citizens especially the time of year when people are

[2:40:09] out and about a lot just makes total sense I'll

[2:40:12] be supporting the motion

[2:40:15] okay so work councillor Greg has moved the motion which

[2:40:19] is ... it had been approved or to approve the

[2:40:22] item eighty one in the operations minutes which is to

[2:40:26] ... keep bus service at a half an hour not

[2:40:29] referred to one hour or one hour over the summer

[2:40:33] ... call the question all in favor

[2:40:37] also recorded vote sorry

[2:40:41] cancer Dodd

[2:40:43] in favor

[2:40:45] councillor Greg

[2:40:47] in favor

[2:40:49] cancer Hamley

[2:40:51] in favor

[2:40:53] cancer khaki

[2:40:55] in favor

[2:40:57] cancel Merton

[2:40:58] in favor

[2:41:01] cancer Tamming

[2:41:03] in favor

[2:41:05] councillor Thomas

[2:41:07] in favor

[2:41:09] Deputy Merrill airy

[2:41:11] in favor

[2:41:13] Mayor Boddy

[2:41:14] in favor

[2:41:17] resolution carries with 9 in favor 0 opposed

[2:41:22] good thanks councillor Greg for ... wander your way through

[2:41:25] that and to ... this Bloomfield Mr reckons Weller for

[2:41:28] your guidance on ... the procedure

[2:41:32] ... so we're down to number fifteen we have no

[2:41:35] matters which were postponed sixteen we have no motions for

[2:41:40] which ... notice was previously given ... at seventeen discussion

[2:41:45] of additional business and ... ... councillor Thomas had a

[2:41:49] couple of items

[2:41:51] thank your worship bylaw with a couple of ... fellow

[2:41:53] councillors in our corporate services director I had the opportunity

[2:41:57] to attend the good roads convention in Toronto ... I

[2:42:01] attended a session when I was there on smart and

[2:42:03] connected communities and the world council on city data a

[2:42:06] Canadian company was one of the presenters this companies created

[2:42:10] the first ISO standard for cities through the international organized

[2:42:14] Asians for standardize ation the ISO standard is described as

[2:42:18] the distilled wisdom of people with expertise in their subject

[2:42:21] matter and who know the needs of the organizations they

[2:42:24] represent in the case of cities that user data portal

[2:42:27] to input basic information about the community and they compare

[2:42:30] them with key performance indicators from other cities around the

[2:42:33] world the key is for the data they said and

[2:42:36] the I also certification is to attract investment and economic

[2:42:40] development your community and the city manager reminded me prior

[2:42:44] to the meeting when I was talking about that that

[2:42:46] in fact under key result five it says measure one

[2:42:50] sounds progress towards becoming a more sustainable safe and resilient

[2:42:54] city by adopting a globally recognized municipal benchmark for example

[2:42:59] United Nations sustainable development goals world council on city data

[2:43:03] in the twenty twenty three term of council priorities so

[2:43:07] if I managed to get myself reelected I'll know a

[2:43:09] little something about it when that when it comes along

[2:43:14] now another presentation that was maybe not so positive was

[2:43:17] from the ... was the twenty twenty two results of

[2:43:21] the Adleman trust barometer which is an international survey of

[2:43:24] the public on a variety of questions revolving around trust

[2:43:28] the bad news for all of us here in this

[2:43:30] chamber and I think for all of us in society

[2:43:34] is that nearly six in ten respondents to the survey

[2:43:37] say their default tendency is to distrust something until they

[2:43:41] see evidence that is trustworthy and for those of us

[2:43:45] that grew up in the glory days of the sixties

[2:43:48] and the seventies where we were maybe a little more

[2:43:50] trusting well sorry Travis maybe a little more trusting for

[2:43:54] me I I find that really really alarming as as

[2:43:58] a citizen of the world and social media is the

[2:44:02] least trusted news source eighty five percent of people are

[2:44:05] worried about job loss in seventy five percent are worried

[2:44:08] about climate change

[2:44:10] business is trusted over government and no developed countries believe

[2:44:14] their families will be better off in five years from

[2:44:17] now it's a pretty bleak picture on a positive note

[2:44:21] those seventy seven percent of respondents trust their employer making

[2:44:25] the employer employee relationship critically important as we move forward

[2:44:28] into the future

[2:44:31] the other presentation I was keen to see was from

[2:44:33] Charles maroon the founder of strong towns an organization I've

[2:44:36] been following since before I was elected his confessions a

[2:44:40] recovering engineer was part history of how transportation systems developed

[2:44:44] and part discussion on how we are building our roads

[2:44:47] in correctly he pointed out that since the second World

[2:44:51] War with the great transportation boom began we've been building

[2:44:54] inter city roads the wrong way we keep building the

[2:44:57] bomb them whiter thinking that that makes them safer when

[2:45:00] in fact a wider road promote speeding and inattentive driving

[2:45:04] he says it's been proven that people slow down on

[2:45:06] narrower roads and that's how we should be building our

[2:45:09] roads in the city narrower not wider

[2:45:14] just for you Mike

[2:45:18] so let's remember good roads in the second item tonight

[2:45:21] your worship I just want to mention Earth Day I

[2:45:23] want to offer my thanks and congratulations to the organisers

[2:45:27] of the event which was held at the farmers market

[2:45:29] on Saturday afternoon after what was a pretty rainy morning

[2:45:32] the weather cooperated for the festival and hundreds of people

[2:45:36] turned out to see the exhibits from dozens of groups

[2:45:38] and organizations it was a real success and I was

[2:45:41] really again surprised by the number of people who came

[2:45:44] out for self thank you

[2:45:47] good thank you

[2:45:48] I have a motion I know there's been I know

[2:45:51] there's been several are provincial funding announcements but ... three

[2:45:55] or four in particular that I think affect us here

[2:45:57] at city hall ... April first twenty twenty two MPP

[2:46:01] bill Walker an associate minister of mental health and addictions

[2:46:05] the honorable Michael to bolo announced that the Ontario government

[2:46:09] is investing six million seven thousand nine hundred dollars through

[2:46:13] the new addictions recovery fund to immediately enhance access to

[2:46:17] mental health and addictions treatment supports in Owen sound

[2:46:22] rivers health services provides a wide range of comprehensive inpatient

[2:46:26] and outpatient services ... this funding will be provided to

[2:46:32] expand access to a total of thirty six new addictions

[2:46:37] treatment beds ... bringing our total to forty five which

[2:46:41] will help hundreds of local residents angry Bruce on sound

[2:46:45] access ... specialized addictions ... minister ... ... to bolo

[2:46:51] is somebody that's been very involved in social services ...

[2:46:55] ... somewhere a little north of Toronto I can't remember

[2:46:57] the exact place for a number of years and then

[2:47:00] ran and gotten that the inside of government and as

[2:47:02] been pushing this the total budget is ... many many

[2:47:06] many I've got two hundred and something million dollars and

[2:47:09] ... trying to get more support for people with mental

[2:47:13] health and with ... addiction recovery problems ... we thank

[2:47:19] minister to follow and MPP Walker for this important and

[2:47:23] significant investment in our community we know this is badly

[2:47:26] needed in our community and we appreciate that they chose

[2:47:29] on sound for this project

[2:47:32] April fourteenth ... MPP bill Walker announced that on some

[2:47:37] place service board will receive provincial funding ... over three

[2:47:41] years as follows one million one hundred ninety four thousand

[2:47:45] seven hundred ninety nine dollars for community oriented response and

[2:47:49] enforcement unit enhancements open core unit

[2:47:53] five hundred and thirty eight thousand five hundred fifty nine

[2:47:56] dollars for part time officer program for Smith and support

[2:48:00] to ... for full time officers during ... peak call

[2:48:03] periods

[2:48:05] and a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for mental health

[2:48:07] crisis response team known locally as the mall bile mental

[2:48:11] health and addictions response team so I think we're just

[2:48:14] talking about that with that Mr shirts are about ...

[2:48:17] mo bile mental health and ... being able to get

[2:48:19] over to where the people are and a and support

[2:48:22] them so ... that's a total of uh one million

[2:48:26] eight hundred and eighty three thousand dollars and threatened fifty

[2:48:29] nine for the on some police services which is ...

[2:48:33] part of two million two hundred and thirty six thousand

[2:48:35] dollars ... going right across grey Bruce to ... the

[2:48:39] combined with ... ... west gray Hanover and ... in

[2:48:43] grey highlands so that is nice money to have that

[2:48:47] also helps us with mental health crisis it cetera

[2:48:51]

[2:48:53] last Friday we received notice that the city has receiving

[2:48:57] five hundred eighty five dollars for rehabilitation of sixteenth street

[2:49:01] east being face to from the internal government through the

[2:49:04] ... connection links program so I'm sure ... Mr Kronwall

[2:49:08] health more to announce in that ... in the coming

[2:49:11] few weeks

[2:49:13] ... and also on Friday it was a great to

[2:49:17] hear the news that the rivers district Catholic school board

[2:49:20] has received provincial funding to replace St Mary's school I

[2:49:24] think this is ...

[2:49:26] notice of the Ontario government the need ... for future

[2:49:30] growth needs of education on sound into growth in general

[2:49:33] no one sounds off after ...

[2:49:37] some of the schools ... shrinking for a few years

[2:49:40] it's nice to have that kind of money coming in

[2:49:43] recognizing your growth and ... to build a new school

[2:49:46] ... last Thursday at ten the on sound and district

[2:49:49] chamber of commerce AGM in attendance with me as a

[2:49:53] deputy Meryl Larry council Tamming city manager Tim Simmonds and

[2:49:56] ... Brent Fisher manager of community development of marketing

[2:50:00] the Ontario chamber of commerce CEO Rocco Rossi was guest

[2:50:04] speaker and gave a very motivating speech ... supporting remove

[2:50:07] all barriers to business streamlining the produce a planning process

[2:50:12] ... to get homes built sooner and ... it less

[2:50:15] expensively and supporting projects such as the DC energy pump

[2:50:20] storage project if it if it gets approved ... in

[2:50:23] order to meet the net zero goals ...

[2:50:28] we look forward to working with the twenty twenty to

[2:50:31] twenty twenty three chamber executive led by a chair mark

[2:50:34] Benedict and all the directors

[2:50:37] April twelfth two uh fourteenth I attended the Canadian nuclear

[2:50:41] association conference I was accompanied by grey county economic developer

[2:50:46] ... director of Steve for NASA ... this conferences attended

[2:50:50] by Bruce power all of their suppliers to the major

[2:50:53] component replacement project as well as other nuclear industry related

[2:50:57] businesses and agencies ...

[2:51:01] there is also ... others ... involved in the clean

[2:51:05] energy sector and related businesses and agencies such as ...

[2:51:09] ...

[2:51:10] batteries hydrogen etcetera

[2:51:16]

[2:51:17] we had a very good reaction from those who we

[2:51:20] spoke to ... we have a great opportunity here to

[2:51:23] take advantage of the clean energy frontier program which is

[2:51:26] ... lead because of the through the nuclear innovation institute

[2:51:30] and focusing on growing ... energy storage needs here

[2:51:35] as we try and go to ... to net zero

[2:51:39] ...

[2:51:41] electricity and and nuclear generated electricity as are our best

[2:51:46] hope and then how we store that energy when there

[2:51:49] is an overabundance of ... energy produced because I can't

[2:51:52] just turn on the machine at night and how we

[2:51:54] capture that how you store and how you use it

[2:51:56] during the day when the demand goes back up nine

[2:52:00] go back to our Rocco Rossi at the as James

[2:52:03] Ridge AGM who talked about ... to get to natural

[2:52:07] and eliminate our dependence on ... carbon fuel ... we

[2:52:11] need three times the electricity system in Ontario to meet

[2:52:15] the potential daytime demand so he's talking about three Niagara

[2:52:18] Falls

[2:52:20] three Bruce power's three Darlington's and three times the volume

[2:52:24] of ... wiring and delivery system that is needed to

[2:52:27] get there so with that we need to ... know

[2:52:31] and learn and ... except that we're going to have

[2:52:34] to store surplus energy and ... put it back into

[2:52:37] the ... system ...

[2:52:41] I didn't even mention isotopes here

[2:52:46] yeah

[2:52:48] how how many hours you want to stay

[2:52:50] I I I I was blown away with all the

[2:52:53] knowledge that I weren't learned at this ... this nuclear

[2:52:55] conference and it's you know the first time that I've

[2:52:59] gone I think maybe staff went once before but I'm

[2:53:01] not sure no great county staff went ...

[2:53:06] sixty percent of the things that have been sterilized for

[2:53:10] Colbert over the last two years around the world have

[2:53:14] been sterilized with ... with isotopes from Bruce power

[2:53:18] ... there are other newer isotopes that they're using ...

[2:53:22] that will be used for treatment of cancer the whole

[2:53:26] held up in certain look like two little pans too

[2:53:28] little metal things that ... are ... isotope

[2:53:33] targets I guess you'd call them contained within those is

[2:53:37] enough isotopes to cure a couple hundred people of cancer

[2:53:44] phenomenal phenomenal and they're going to be able to continue

[2:53:48] to pull those are they developed a new way for

[2:53:50] his power to be able to extract the more often

[2:53:53] most of these isotopes I'm gonna go on for an

[2:53:55] hour most of these isotopes only have a about a

[2:53:58] seven day shelf life for half life ... a lot

[2:54:02] of them have to be flown to ... to ...

[2:54:05] Germany where they're processed and sent back a note ...

[2:54:09] some of them are sent directly to pharmacies and hospitals

[2:54:12] and doctors all across Canada and around the world ...

[2:54:17] Steve Kahn which is one of the companies one of

[2:54:19] our six ... Bruce power suppliers that are in on

[2:54:22] sound is ... putting together packaging for these things they

[2:54:26] go quickly from the ... being pulled out of the

[2:54:29] ... nuclear plant processed by ... Concentrix shipped quickly to

[2:54:34] a plan to be put onto a plane and ...

[2:54:35] shipped around the world so you really fascinating and ...

[2:54:39] I learned so much so it was a great experience

[2:54:42] and ... kind of shared my experience and more in

[2:54:45] detail my observations with ... Brant ... on Friday in

[2:54:48] this office at down with him to give them some

[2:54:51] of the details of my thoughts of what I thought

[2:54:53] for economic development in on sounds that ...

[2:54:57] is achievable might be achievable and probably isn't achievable as

[2:55:01] we market from the small modular reactors and ... things

[2:55:05] is is what is going on as we develop a

[2:55:08] clean energy

[2:55:10] ... Earth Day it's great to see such a turnout

[2:55:13] on Saturday I attended the field naturalists ... presentation of

[2:55:17] hap Wilson on Sunday and that was a pretty ...

[2:55:20] pretty impressive as well ... open Saturday morning ...

[2:55:26] Deputy Mayor Larry councillor cap key ... councillor Dodd and

[2:55:31] I went made everyone feel good ... bowling for a

[2:55:34] big brothers and big sisters grapefruits gained two third wasn't

[2:55:38] anybody that scored worse than we did so it was

[2:55:42] ... fun day to get over to and ... support

[2:55:45] the community so I think that covers everything on my

[2:55:48] list

[2:55:50]

[2:55:51] yeah ... well have the CNA of the year Canadian

[2:55:55] nuclear conference ... a few weeks ago the ... the

[2:55:59] federal government released a ... green bond from framework ...

[2:56:05] with parameters up how the federal government plans to invest

[2:56:08] in clean energy technologies and believe it or not

[2:56:12] the excluded nuclear energy from that

[2:56:16] ... through through the guides Mr Simmons we immediately wrote

[2:56:20] a letter to the federal government which ... we got

[2:56:23] rave reviews from people at ... at this conference certainly

[2:56:28] Bruce power knew that we had written and several others

[2:56:30] ... I heard about it other merece Rick remembers that

[2:56:33] were out there were thanking us and ... we're adopting

[2:56:36] something similar to ... to descend and ... and Mr

[2:56:40] Scully act are probably made a difference based on ...

[2:56:43] while he's down there on the Tuesday ... ... prime

[2:56:47] minister Trudeau announced that he wants more electric cars and

[2:56:50] yes he wants a new clean energy ... to be

[2:56:53] part of that and then there's lots of ... or

[2:56:56] more funding for the nuclear industry in the federal budget

[2:57:00] that ... they think probably changed after some of the

[2:57:03] lot being that many of us did but it was

[2:57:06] nice to be ... about letter appreciate it so now

[2:57:08] I'm done

[2:57:11] yep go ahead

[2:57:13] thank you if I might indulge and ... I hope

[2:57:16] I'm not jinxing things but wishing the attack ... good

[2:57:20] luck in their first round of the playoffs ... some

[2:57:23] say it might be jinxing

[2:57:26] but they're one and one and we're looking forward to

[2:57:29] them ... achieving that first round of playoffs

[2:57:34] if you wanna talk on that for a little longer

[2:57:36] Merion might have the score I guess we can quit

[2:57:39] and finish and ... find of the score ...

[2:57:45] so I guess the three number seventeen so next is

[2:57:48] ... the motion that the committee rise a of the

[2:57:51] whole rise report

[2:57:54] moved by myself that the committee of the whole rising

[2:57:57] report

[2:57:58] and all in favor and that is carried so we're

[2:58:02] back into the formal session motion to adopt proceedings

[2:58:07] moved by myself seconded by councilor Merton that the action

[2:58:11] taken in committee of the whole and considering public meetings

[2:58:14] deputations and presentations of a question period matters arising from

[2:58:19] correspondence reports of city staff consent agenda committee minutes matters

[2:58:24] postponed motions for which notice was previously given and additional

[2:58:28] business be confirmed by this council

[2:58:33] all in favor

[2:58:34] so that is carried next number twenty notices of motion

[2:58:38] do we have any notices

[2:58:40] councillor Tamming go ahead

[2:58:43] I just email this to the clerk and

[2:58:47] I I'm tempted to talk about it but ... we're

[2:58:50] not allowed to until two weeks from now so of

[2:58:53] a refrain from expressing the deep emotions that I'm delivering

[2:58:58] this motion with an all read the recitals

[2:59:03] first

[2:59:04] whereas in our sister county of Bruce the town of

[2:59:07] Kincardine has just experienced an appalling instances of misogyny and

[2:59:13] hatred expressed by one councillor to another

[2:59:18] and whereas throughout Ontario in recent years there have been

[2:59:21] repeated instances of such misogyny

[2:59:25] and whereas the powers of the office of the integrity

[2:59:28] commissioner do not include the ability to recommend expulsion of

[2:59:32] councillors

[2:59:34] I hereby give notice that are

[2:59:37] or will cause to give notice that are at our

[2:59:39] next full regular council meeting I will move that this

[2:59:43] city council correspond with the minister of municipal affairs and

[2:59:48] request that some men that such Ministry forth with study

[2:59:53] the merits of allowing the impeachment of municipal councillors under

[2:59:59] carefully prescribed circumstances which would include displays of hatred misogyny

[3:00:06] and all forms of discrimination

[3:00:12] thank you are there any other notices now for

[3:00:16]

[3:00:18] 6

[3:00:19] go ahead

[3:00:21] I will second that notice of motion whole

[3:00:25] for god new rules thank you very much for being

[3:00:27] on top of that marriage

[3:00:32] now we have a notice of motion in place now

[3:00:34] we're down to ... bylaws I think it was anyone

[3:00:36] else's any

[3:00:38] okay go ahead

[3:00:42] through your ship bylaws listed for approval on tonight's agenda

[3:00:45] include the confirmatory bylaw antibiotics you an amendment and restatement

[3:00:49] of license agreement with Roger Catherine and chase ME out

[3:00:52] respecting the operation of the patent pilot here some park

[3:00:58] moved by myself seconded by councilor Merton the bylaw numbers

[3:01:01] twenty twenty two zero four two and twenty twenty two

[3:01:04] zero four three be passed and enacted

[3:01:08] and all in favor and that is carried so with

[3:01:12] that that completes our business for tonight I'm surprised with

[3:01:14] this early ... eight forty six is the time we're

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