Okay everybody, welcome. And we're back in session to start
our council meeting. First, I want to start with the
call to order Madam Clerk. Good morning, everyone. Thank you,
Mr. Chair. We'll note for today's meeting. Councillor Early will
be absent in Councillor Sheen is attending as the alternate.
Councillor Mahoney, I indicated that he'll be arriving a bit
later. And until he rides Councillor Kovac will be his
proxy. Mayor Parish will also be absent for today's meeting.
And Councillor, she's appointed councillor DASCO as her proxy due
to other municipal business. Councillor Hart's also leaving around noon
is appointed councillor Hornick to be her proxy. Councillor Medeiros
has indicated that he will be leaving the bitter layer
this morning and is appointed councillor Fortini as his proxy
and as well Councillor McFadden will be leaving a bit
earlier this morning. It has appointed Councillor Butt to be
her proxy. Otherwise, we do have quorum with members in
person and virtual. Back over to you, Mr. Chair. Thank
you for our land acknowledgement. We begin by acknowledging that
the land on which we gather and which operates, where
the region appeal operates as part of the treaty lens
of the Mississaugas of the credit and the traditional territory
of the Shinabek here on Wendat and Hoednich - Shoni
nations. For thousands of years, indigenous people inhabited and cared
for this land and continued to do so today. We
are grateful to have this opportunity to work on this
land and by doing so respect its enduring significance. Do
I have any declarations of conflict of interest, seeing none
in the chamber or on my screen? Approval of the
minutes of the June 11, 2026 council meeting. I have
a motion move by Councillor McFadden, seconded by Councillor Pelesci
that the Minister of the June 11, 2026 Regional Council
meeting be approved. Any amendments, seeing none, all those in
favor, that is carried approval of the agenda, Madam Clerk.
I have a motion moved by Councillor Vincente, seconded by
Councillor Rousseau, that the agenda for the June 25, 2025
regional council meeting include a closed session item regarding information
explicitly supplied in confidence to the municipality or local board
by Canada, a province or territory or crown agency or
any of the above to be dealt with under closed
session, item 22 - 6. And number two, that the
agenda for the June 25 - 2026 regional council meeting
be approved as amended. All those in favor, that is
carried. Madam Clerk, over to you for our consent agenda.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will deal with the delegations
and presentations of staff reports at the appropriate time that
takes us to items related to public works. 9. 1
2025 annual performance review on the Southeal Water and Wastewater
Agreement with the Ontario Clean Water Agency. One consent. 9.
2 red light camera agreement extension. That'll be held, the
councillor Kovac. 9. 3 peel major office incentives program renewal.
On consent. 9. 4 engineering services for Winston Churchill Boulevard
Reconstruction City of Brampton Ward 6. Consent. 9. 5 engineering
services for Winston Churchill at Old Based Line Town of
Calden Ward 1. Consent, 9. 6 imposing revised special charges
for local improvement project 212710 for Cadetta Road City of
Brampton Ward 10. On consent takes us to the communication
items, 12. 1 is the letter from Sonic Paceo, legislative
coordinator, city of Brampton. Data June the 16th, providing a
copy of a city of Brampton Resolution regarding delegation from
Nurse Jackie home care incorporated. On consent. Items related to
human services, 13. 1 Black North Initiative update. That'll be
held from Councillor Reed. Thank you, 13. 2 Community Investment
Program 2025 fund update. It'll be also health council read.
Thank you. It takes us two items related to corporate
and legislative services, 17. 1 2025 Treasury U report. On
consent. 17. 2 statement of development charges reserve funds fiscal
year 2025. One consent, 17. 3 Lakeview Pierre funding request.
Be held for council DASCO. Thank you. 17. 4 2025
annual transparency and accountable government report. Be on consent. 17.
5 Toronto Metropolitan Poland University School of Medicine Partnership with
PIL region. Held by Mayor Browns. Mirror Brown. Yep. Thank
you. 17. 6 reported the committee of revision hearing held
on June the 18th. Consent. Exist communications 18. 1 is
the letter for Minister Flock dated June the 10th regarding
a letter from regional chair unique regarding the delegation of
tax racial setting authority for 2026. On consent. 18. 2
is a letter from Stephen Crawford, Minister of Public Business
Services Delivery and Procurement dated June the 10th regarding the
2026 Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators collaboration award and external
organisations to service people on tarot integrated service centre. That'll
be unconcerned. It takes us to 18. 3 letter from
Victoria Morlado Tidi, director of policy and advocacy building industry
and land development association dated June the 10th regarding the
cando Ontero partnership to build development charge reduction program. On
consent 18. 4 is a letter from Carly Farrow, President
and Chief Executive Officer Trillian Health Partners dated June the
17th. Regarding support for Peel Region Investment in TMU. Consent
18. 5 is a letter from Dr. Frank Martino, President
and Chief Executive Officer William Osler Health System dated June
the 12th regarding support for Peel Region Investment in Toronto
in the TMU. Consent. We will deal with the notices
of motion at the appropriate time as well as the
bylaws that takes us to close session items. 22. 1
June 11 2026 regional council closed session report. On consent
at 22. 2 commencement of expropriation proceedings. Water main construction
along Centre Street and Waterman Construction along Queen Street East
City of Brampton Wards 1, 3, and 7. Consent. 22.
3 proposed property acquisition highway 50 widening and maple road
widening city of Brampton Ward 10 in town of Caledon
Ward 5. On consent 22. 4 will be held for
update from staff 22. 5 letter for the Minister of
Municipal Fairce and Housing regarding funding allocations. On consent so
that takes us to the end of the consent agenda.
Oh sorry and then the 22. 6 which is the
added item will also be held. As an oral item.
Thank you. We're going to over to you Mr. Chair.
So with that we have our consent agenda questions Mayor
Brown. Um I'm wondering if we could have the discussion
for TMU and the peer in conjunction. I believe there
is a consensus motion that will be received positively. Yes.
And agreed and that is the plan of number two.
It is my intention colleagues just for the reasons we've
been over before. I want to listen to the four
delegations and then I want to go in camera immediately
after I think it'll be a very brief in camera.
And then we carry on with the gender because I
think a lot of the in - camera information will
relate to the rest of the day. And I think
it'll make our day flow much, much more smoothly. So
with that, that is your consent agenda. All those in
favor. And he opposed that is carried. Okay. Thank you
very much. So as we start our council meeting, uh,
bittersweet and not because Canada lost, but they're still going
to the next round. It's bittersweet because I'm announcing a
big day and a sad day in it all relates
to the same person Aileen Baird. Who our senior director
of housing services. She is retiring tomorrow. Yeah, no. Yeah.
No. After 24 years with the PO region, whatever remarkable
Meyered on, your service to peel as a director of
corporate services, manager of health performance and accountability. And now
as senior director of housing services has made a lasting
impact. We as an organisation, organisation NPL. And as a
community are far, far better off because of you. I
am pleased to pass the mic to our commissioner of
human services, Steve Jakes, to say a few words. Afterwards,
we'll come together for a photo to commemorate this terrific
milestone. Steve, over to you. Thank you through you, Mr.
Chair and to council. It's with de - respect that
I share that Eileen Barrett, our senior director of housing
services will be retiring tomorrow. Concluding an exceptional 24 -
year career with Peel region. Eileen has served as our
senior director of housing services since April 2017, where she
led the development and implementation of our 10 - year
housing and homelessness plan, including championing a system - wide
human rights approach to homelessness supports and prevention. Her leadership
has been instrumental in advancing complex initiatives, strengthening partnerships across
governments and community organisations, and improving outcomes for peels most
vulnerable residents. Eileen has also been a steady and decisive
leader during times of crisis. Most notably, her role in
leading peels response to emerging system pressures, like peels pandemic
response that saved lives and protected those experiencing homelessness from
COVID. Especially the work of the asylum claimant response team.
Demonstrated her ability to mobilise partners quickly, designed responsive solutions,
and support vulnerable residents when it mattered most. The impact
of alien's work is significant and lasting. Thousands of residents
are more stably and affordably housed today because of the
systems, solutions, she has helped to shape and implement here
in the region appeal. Her dedication to public service has
not only improved lives, but is also positioned peel as
a leader in housing and the homelessness sector. Aileen's contributions
have been widely recognised most recently she received the Ontario
Municipal Social Services Associations champion of human services award, well
- deserved. She and the asylum claimant response team were
also recognised for the excellence by the Institute of Public
Administration of Canada. Work that continues to be seen as
a national model of innovation and partnership. On behalf of
all of us in human services and here at the
region appeal, I would like to extend our sincere gratitude
to Aileen for her outstanding service and her leadership in
both steady times and moments of crisis. We wish her
all the best in her well - earned retirement. Eileen,
thank you very much and please join us in the
Council floor.
Yes, if I could have you sent, we've got a
few comments and I'd like to invite you to make
a few comments before we take a photograph. My list,
Councillor Fonseca. Thank you, through chair. Good morning, Aileen. What
are you going to do with all your time? I
just on behalf of all of the residents of Ward
3 and also the staff in my office in Ward
3 in the city of Mississauga and also, uh, on
behalf of myself, I just wanted to wish you all
the best in your retirement and to say a huge
thank you for your leadership as the commissioner was saying
not only through times of crisis. And having your phone
availability always on speed dial, but also to be present
in the community. Um, amongst not only elected officials and
also staff members, uh, but residents themselves who were under,
like through the pandemic, uh, you were present, you were
there. Uh, you have the ability to connect people, uh,
to think, uh, how we're able to support the most
vulnerable, uh, not only in moments of crisis, uh, but
also, uh, and if you think about it into the
future. So you had a vision, um, and a mission
connecting with everyone to not only see what is possible
in the moment of crisis, but then also into, for
many, many, many years to come. The systems changes that
you put in place along with many others. Um, and
helped us all to see are going to be able
to provide housing and human services and health service supports,
uh, years to come. So I just wanted to say
a huge thank you to you for your leadership on
behalf of all the residents of Ward three. And on
behalf of myself. Thank you. Thank you. Councillor Dasko. Thank
you, through the chair. And Aileen just really wanted to
say a profound thanks on behalf of all the residents
of Ward 1 and a lot of those folks that,
uh, that really, really were completely out of options. And
you've helped a lot of folks along your way. And
I just wanted to say a big thanks. And also
just wishing you all the very best in your next
chapters and make sure that the sun is always shining
in the wind at your back. Aileen, I'm just going
to add this. I'll try to be brief for I
won't get through this. But you know, the secrets you're
not supposed to tell, but I'm going to tell a
secret. I think every person that sort of closer to
the top of an org chart keeps that little list
under their scratch pad of the five names that are
matter and you don't want to see go. And I've
just lost a second one recently and you're the second
one. So you've always been on that list as just
a vital cog in the system here at Peel. And
it is your leadership. Your dignity, your compassion, and how
you've fulfilled this role for a quarter of a century.
Again, in the book that I will never write, I
don't have favourites amongst staff, but let me tell you,
my frontline service providers hold a very special place for
one reason only. And I don't know if you ever
thought about this. Think about the job rule going in
where I definition, if you are a frontline service provider
like housing, you know going in in the day you
retire, you will always have finite resources and infinite demands.
Think about that. What that means in layman's terms is
you will bail water for 30 years and 30 years
later, the water still has to be bailed out. Peel
housing this morning, we house 7, 8, 000 units. We
got 18, 000 people on a waiting list. That's more
than the 7, 000 units we have. So good luck,
keep bailing. And you take on a role like that
knowing that tomorrow, you may have helped some people. They'll
just be more at the door the next day. That
wears on you. And I lean you have done it
with grace and dignity. And I just think the world
of you, and I'm going to stop there. Uh, I'm
going to stop there and say, we wish you every
success and why don't you take a moment and just
express some thoughts to us if you like. So thank
you very much. It is a bit odd to know
this will be the last time I'm sitting at this
table and pushing these buttons. Um, yeah, it's been 24
years, a very meaningful career for me. And I really
do feel honoured to have had, uh, the opportunity to
work for this organisation and to serve our community. And
I'm really proud of what we've been able to accomplish
together. And yes, as it's been said, I've, I've worked
in three different departments. So that's been also really interesting.
I've seen and experienced a lot of different things. I've
worked very closely with the CAOs over the years in
their offices. I've worked in health. And of course, now
in housing and human services. So that's been amazing for
me. I think as I reflect, you do a lot
of reflecting, of course, when you're, when you're going to
retire. Um, so I think this organisation has had a
longstanding commitment to excellence. And that's something I enjoyed a
lot about working here. And there are leading practices nationally
and internationally across every single program area in this organisation.
And I think that has a lot to do, of
course, with the staff and the leadership, but also this
council, of course. Um, so that's really neat. And something
I think as an organisation, we shouldn't be taking for
granted. I think as I reflect working with council, the
thing that I'm most grateful for is your willingness, or
maybe it's more your expectation that we find a way
forward. Right. Um, and that involves accepting some risk. Taking
risk and informed risk, Gary, informed, well - managed risk.
But I honestly say that that is the difference, right?
Between, um, success and failure. And it's the difference between
excellence and mediocrity. Um, and I've been in many, many
meetings with federal and provincial counterparts who just cannot find
a way forward like we do. Um, and they can't
even comprehend sometimes because they just don't have the culture.
And that solutions orientation. So again, I'm very grateful for
your expectation that we are solutions oriented. And I hope
that that'll continue to be, you know, nurtured and valued
in this organisation. Whatever form it takes in the future
for years to come. Um, of course, I want to
thank the chairman. Thank Gary. Uh, thanks, Steve. And the
executive leadership team for the support leadership. They've shown to
me personally. But also for, of course, the support to
housing and the willingness to find ways again to move
forward. I'm very grateful for my team. We're here today.
A tremendous, tremendous group of professionals who worked tirelessly, you
know, to serve our community. And of course, the broader
PEAL team, many, many people across many departments, we work
together on complex problems and teamwork is of paramount importance.
And finally, the many, many partners in the community, in
the nonprofit and private sectors, we could not have had
any success without them. So we all know the importance
of partnership. It's key. Anyway, with that, I'm very grateful.
But looking forward to the next chapter, I am leaving
the public service. My husband and I are transitioning our
lives into Blue Mountain. And I do hope to continue
to volunteer in some capacity, but also hope to explore
some entrepreneurial ideas that I have. So I am looking
forward to the next chapter. But again, grateful, you know,
for the years I've had here. So thank you very,
very much. Thank you very much. And I'm going to
call the commissioner and the CEO. If we can come
forward, we have a presentation for you as well.
And now into my next item, how I propose that
as one end, one begins, a passing of the church,
because I'm here to introduce on behalf of regional counsel
our new medical officer of health. Everybody welcome Alexandre. Welcome.
This council serves as the board of helpful pre -
region. And to do so, we are grateful to have
recruited an MOH with such diversity of experiences and an
impressive record of community collaboration. Good health is the foundation
of all we do. Peels MOH leads a talented team
that is dedicated to supporting the health and wellbeing of
our diverse population. And in doing so, advancing equity and
public health innovation. Dr. Cotterey, council looks forward to working
with you and peels continual efforts to meet the evolving
needs of our diverse community. Thank you for choosing to
join us in building a community for life. Councillor, I
hope you all joined with me in extending a warm
welcome to Dr. Cottery's first council meeting. And I'm now
going to ask the commissioner to share a few words
before I ask our new medical officer of health. To
greet us as well. Thank you through the chair. It
is my absolute pleasure to introduce Peel's new medical officer
of health, Dr. Alexa Caterey. After a comprehensive national search,
we are very pleased to have recruited an MOH with
Dr. Caterey's caliber. She's bringing extensive leadership experience from Hastings
Prince Edward County Windsor Essex and Toronto Public Health. I'm
confident that Dr. Catere will continue to advance peel regions
groundbreaking work in areas such as climate change adaptation opioid
risk management. Place - based immunization, outbreak management, and health
promotion across the lifespan. She joins our health leadership team.
As we advance health equity and bring stronger upstream health
perspectives forward in partnerships with our partners such as Ontario
Health teams, TMU and other systems and community partners. And
I just want to give a quick, um, and deep
shout out and thank you to the public health leadership
team, the directors and the associate medical offices of health
who have been supporting staff promoting a positive workplace culture
and continuing to advance public health planning and services while
recruitment was underway. And, um, while also keeping council informed
of public health issues and updates. So we've begun introducing
Dr. Caterey to our partners across PEAL. And she will
definitely be building those relationships. I am absolutely confident of
it. And I am certainly encouraged council members to reach
out. If you have any comments, questions, um, want to
chat with the new MOH. Thank you. And Dr. Cotter
Ailence introduced yourself and welcome. Um, and so through the
chair, I really appreciate the opportunity to be here and
to get to meet speak with all of you. Um,
heal public health reputation precedes it. And I am, you
know, like delighted to join a really strong and hardworking
group of people, um, to advance the health needs of
all of the people who live here. And if I
think about like what my priorities might be for the
next little while, you know, they are absolutely service to
the people who live in the region of peel, um,
innovation in what peel does and continues to do in
terms of public health, um, and really excellence in that
work. Um. The chair and I were speaking earlier this
morning and I was sharing sort of my philosophy about
health, which is that, you know, health is a reason
for is a resource for all of us. It's a
resource for life. That is a made in Canada definition
of what health is meant to be. And I think,
you know, public health really enables, often invisibly or in
ways that we don't see in our day to day,
us to live that healthy life the way that we
want to. And, um, and so my role here is
very much in service to all of that. And the
region talks about a philosophy of a community for life.
And I have been amazed to hear from so many
people who are effectively lifers in the region of peel.
And so I am looking forward to one day being
here with all of you celebrating my retirement 50 to
70 years from now. It's a real pleasure. Thank you
so much for having me. And I will look forward
to working with all of you again and going forward.
Thank you. Thank you and welcome. And now one last
item, Bowie, we've had a lot of ups and downs
and highs and lows at this council meeting. I do
want to deal with this very important motion first as
our first motion for the council has moved by Mayor
Grove seconded by Mayor Brown. Whereas the regional chair members
of council and staff at PO region are satin to
learn of the passing of Anya Turner. And whereas on
the turner, John Peel in 2021 and served as a
dedicated member of the human services team. And where she
will be remembered as someone who did everything she could
to help the most vulnerable people in peel. And we'll
be deeply missed and survived by her loving family. Now
therefore be it resolved that sincere condolences be extended to
the Turner family on behalf of the regional chair, members
of regional council and the staff of the region of
the. Addition of this expression of sympathy. I wanted Jabari
take a moment and say a few words, but I
also want to acknowledge and extend our direct sympathies to
some friends that are in the audience. Anya's mother, Dorred
McNally is here. Her uncle Harun Simpson is here. Her
brother - in - law Terrence Turner is here. And
her best friend Amanda Daliwalt is here as well. Welcome.
And we extend our sincere condolences to you and thank
you for being here today. Jabari, please.
I was going to pause anyways. To give a moment
to shift the energy. Um, before I go to the
notes, in the country my parents are from in Granita.
You learn about people that have passed away through the
newspaper. And people will hear about a name and then
check to make sure that that's the name that they
think. So for many folks that have migrated here, the
record of people passing is in the newspaper. And I
wanted the family to truly take a moment to recognise
that the North America and Canada in the region appeal.
Council is where these things are recorded. So you could
find histories of things that happened in North America in
the council records. So now their loved one. The one
that they cherished on you. Will be amongst the records
of the region appeal. And I don't think that is
a small thing to glaze over. So just wanted to
note of that for the family that this may seem
brief. But this moment will exist in the records for
as long as the region appeal exists. So just wanted
to start with that. And Anya deserved that recognition. So
as many of you know, I'm Jabar Lindsay. I'm the
director of income and social supports here appeal, which is
a division on your work team. It is an honour
to speak about her today briefly in the presence of
her family members. And I just wanted to acknowledge her
team. As many people know on the region, you spend
more time with your team than you do with your
loved ones, your family. So briefly, they're just going to
stand and sit. I just want them to be seen.
So if you're the team members could stand real quick,
they were avoiding the camera. They're avoiding their condition because
they just wanted to be here for Anya. But just
so that you could see them. Um, and they do
most of them do work just around the corner. Uh,
in suite, actually downstairs around the corner in suite eight.
All I want all the team members and onyas family
to stand again, please. Everybody in honour of Anya. So
many of her team members that showed up today as
well. Jabari, thank you, carry on. No problem. So I
know as a adult, on you decided that she wanted
to continue her education and become a social worker. She
obtained her bachelor degree from the University of Toronto and
went on to work for peel helping some of our
most vulnerable members of society navigate through tough town, tough
times. She joined PLAN 2021. As a housing support worker.
So it's fitting that many of our housing support folks
are here to also recognise Anya as well. And then
she moved over in 2022 to income and social supports
is a caseworker. She was dedicated to the citizens appeal
and always did her very best to support her clients
by removing barriers, helping to live them out of poverty.
Anya, always supportive and professional. Enjoying her colleagues and helped
many people to find meaning in the work that they
did. Her loss has created a great void in the
lives of those on her team in her life, those
who had contact with her. She'll be remembered as kind,
intelligent, caring, graceful, thoughtful, and funny. She had a keen
sense for fashion. If you ever got a chance to
see her live and actually was awesome. Uh, she had
a sharp wit and an even sharper comeback. If you
ever said something to her that she didn't enjoy, you'd
hear about it quickly. Or in my case, if I
couldn't recall her name quickly, she'd point her finger at
me and the team would laugh as she did that.
Uh, you always knew where she's, where you stood with
her. She was truly someone you always knew you can
count on to show up for you and be real
with you no matter the circumstances. To her loved ones,
this is not enough. Um, but it's our way at
the region to recognise her. And we are all so
sorry for your loss. Please know that Anya made her
mark here at Peel. She'll be missed. And forever remembered.
By her work family. Through you to the chair. Jabari,
thank you. Um, and again, our condolences to the family.
I'm going to leave you with this thought. And councils
will know. I shared on this, but I a little
while ago and I have to keep updating it. So
to Anya's friend and loved ones, but to all of
the staff to everybody. But we're going to conduct a
lot of municipal regional very, very important. I hope I'm
going to leave you with your most important thought of
the day. So I'm blessed. I know a lot of
people with Anya's passing in the recent state of losing
some police officers. I, in the last 10 months, it'll
be 24 funerals. It was 20 a little while ago,
but now with the officers and Anya, the number of
people nearest to us that have passed. My point. 14
of them, like Anya, were younger than me. 10 were
older. Boss, my Godparents, they were both 94. It was
their time. I'd like to think for the 14 behind
me, it wasn't their time. And that makes me reflect
on my life and the loved ones that we all
have, because you're all in the same situation. And maybe
what you do with your time and your loved ones.
So we're going to conduct a lot of business today.
But I hope as you drive home, you think about
this uppermost. Where am I in that continuum? And how
many people behind me might not be here tomorrow. You
never countenance that. You never think that's the case. And
yet it's the majority for me, as a gentleman of
64 years old. I hope you think about that in
Anya's passing remind you of it. Go home and hug
somebody, call somebody you haven't called. Instead of another night
watching a ball game called an old friend out, et
cetera, et cetera, because we will all soon be part
of the 24 and some sooner than you think. All
in honour of on you. Thank you all. Okay. Let's
get back to the day to day. Delegations, first item
up 71, Terry LaRue, chief administrative officer, credit valley conservation
authority CVC. And John McKenzie chief executive officer Toronto and
region conservation authority regarding the TRCA and the CBC annual
mid - year updates. Terry and John, welcome. And let's
just give our friends a minute to make their way.
Good morning, chair. Hi, Nika. If it's okay to proceed
now or this, please thank you. Uh, good morning. My
name is John McKenzie, CEO of Toronto Region Conservation Authority.
And I'm here today with, uh, my close colleague, Terry
LaRue, CAO of the Credit Valley Conservation, uh, we are
also joined by various members of our teams here today,
uh, from a TRCA side to their corporate services side,
uh, and the government relations side and I know Terry
has her team key members of her team here as
well. We are very pleased to join our multi -
year update to regional counsel. On the important work that
conservation authorities do. And we heard so much about community
service today. It was very inspiring. It's a hard act
to follow, sir. We're going to do our very best,
uh, but I want to just say, uh, before we
begin, uh, we are so privileged to be able to,
uh, continue our work to protect and to provide services.
And especially our core mandate of protecting people in property,
uh, and to make communities safe across the region appeal.
And I really want to thank you, uh, chair yinika
and your colleagues on council for being such great steadfast
partners. And as well, Gary, your executive team and all
of the staff in the region appeal for being great
trusted partners as we continue to deliver these vital services
and to be there for our communities. All right. I'm
going to, thanks. So this slide just demonstrates quickly how
the region appeal is, uh, geographically split amongst R2 conservation
authorities with, uh, both of our CAs taking up 94
percent of the region. You can see, uh, the, the
portions of the region supported by credit valley conservation in
orange and TRCA in green along with some other portions
of, uh, four percent of Mississauga with halt in conservation.
And then two percent up in Caledon by Natawasaga are
conservation authorities are organised on a watershed basis. And this
helps us, we're closely together to provide a common level
of service throughout this jurisdiction. As you know, Bill 97
received where a licent on April 24, 2026. This will
result in the statutory amalgamation of 36 conservation authorities into
nine regional conservation authorities, both CVC and TRCA have appointed
representatives through our board to the transition committees. And we
will work with the project executive, uh, that is assigned
by the, uh, provincial conservation agency and their new CEO
or recently appointed CEO, Hassan Bassett. To ensure as smooth
a process as possible. We've already had some initial meanings
with their consultant, Ernsin, young, and will continue that. Through
this entire process, we will focus on continuing to deliver
excellent. And responsive service to our partners. Of course, the
region participating municipalities, as well as fulfill our core mandates
to the communities we serve. I'd like to now provide
an overview of CA programs. CVC and TRCA programs are
closely integrated. And the number and impacts we're sharing today
reflect the combined efforts of both of our organisations. Flood
protection is one of the key and mandatory roles of
conservation authorities. This includes both the fled safety communications aspect
that thank you, uh, again, for many of your officers.
We work closely with you on. That keep our community
safe. The science, data, and monitoring that allows CAs to
closely watch flood conditions, update flood maps, and maintaining our
critical flood infrastructure is key in your support for that
is key for our work. Conservation authorities have been implementing
new technologies and projects to fulfill our responsibilities in flood
protection. And ensure that we are utilising the best tools
possible to manage flood risk. TRCA is thrilled to have
partnered with the city of Brampton to successfully apply for
provincial funding to tackle one of our major unfunded priorities.
I know you've seen this on our list many times
over the Clairville Dam. Through this grant, we've been able
to leverage 1. 2 million in peel funds to obtain
3. 3 million from the province to undertake wing wall
replacement and gate repair on this important flood infrastructure project
that with the support of the city of Brampton, we've
been able to secure from the province. CVC and TRCA
are also continuing to work well with our municipal partners
on flood preparedness exercises and information sharing so we can
be as ready as we can possibly be, um, in
light of more extreme weather events that can come very
quickly. In addition, we help the regions facilities and peel
housing corporation properties identify and respond to risk such as
phase one of the comprehensive riverine and urban flood risk
assessment work. Both TRCA and CVC have been undertaking erosion
and risk management projects. And studies to identify and directly
address key erosion hazards to regional infrastructure. This work includes
hundreds of inspections across the region appeal, studies to understand
erosion risk and associated management actions in the credit river
watershed and TRCA's bank stabilization and sanitary project in the
dairy greenway, uh, park is one example of such a
project. Highlighted here. We are also working with local municipalities
to identify and address erosion risks to their municipal infrastructure
at that scale. Both CVC and TRCA are proud of
how well utilised our parks in green spaces are. You
can be out there and this weekend is just a
prime example. It is going to be a busy one
in the parks. With major events underway and a great
deal of usage. Peel region has been just such a
standout partner on this. And ensuring that these important green
space assets are grown, maintained and improved. And I so
appreciate when you come out to our sites and are
part of those activities and the stewardship work we're doing.
I know so many of you and some of you
featured in this picture here, um, were present and chair
and so thank you for your remarks that day. Um,
so many of you have seen the work underway at
the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation area. But on behalf of
CVC and TRCA, we want to thank the region appeal.
And this steadfast support to achieve this incredible new green
space that Cary and her team have the privilege of
surutine, um, is just magnificent. And, uh, I really want
to thank some of the staff that also work behind
the scenes on this, um, for example, uh, we've, we've
worked very closely with Janice Hatton over the years. We've
worked very closely with Jeff Hennings over the years to
make this project success and keeling dinner. The team, everyone
on your team, Gary, that has helped us achieve this,
uh, incredible space. So, uh, we were very proud to
be part of that opening on May 29th in memory
of, uh, regional councillor Jim Tovey. And, uh, this space
has already becoming a beloved space across the lake Ontario
waterfront. So I just want to thank you for that.
And Councillor Dasko, what an incredible, incredible amenity for your
residents. And thank you for your leadership on our board.
And I know you're always talking to both of us
on how this is going to be manta going for.
But thank you for your leadership and making sure that
we stayed on track together on this. See, we talked
about, um, a lot of the work that's going on,
but on, um, uh, our green space is directly support
the health and wellbeing of our communities and open up
active and sustainable transportation options and trail networks. And I
know trails are very important to many of you. CVC
is working closely with both the region and locomunicipalities to
move forward. They're pits to parks project as well. TRCA
and CVC are working with PEAL and with our municipality
and Cal and Brampton to turn the orangeville, Brampton Railway
into a vibrant part of the regional trail system. Meanwhile,
TRCA continues to move forward our regional trail strategy by
working with Brampton on conceptual alternatives for the Clairville South
multi - use trail. We are also installing additional amenities
at Albion Hills and Glenn Haffey. And we're also working
and at the request of a number of members of
the board and TRCA and members of council here, we're
working to make sure that the Ministry of Transportation takes
into account the regional trail network in its major work
on 413. We're making sure that the GTA West transmission
framework is also the GTA West project on that side
of it. Uh, they're also looking at that, uh, so
we'll continue that work to make sure all of this
is coordinated to maintain and protect trail infrastructure and peel.
The foundation of conservation authorities includes the development of watershed
plans. These watershed plans are directly informing our work with
our municipal partners on development applications and infrastructure proposals of
interest. To the region, the province and our municipal partners,
including some of the big ones I've mentioned, like Highway
413 and a number of the regional road sewer and
water works that we discuss here at this council. The
entirety of the CVC and TRCA jurisdiction in PIL have
active work on watershed plans underway with the updated credit
river and Humber River watershed plans projected for completion in
2027. And the atopical creek watershed plan being implemented through
our restoration work and our work to review the major
development applications. And infrastructure projects occurring. In that watershed. Both
CVC and TRCA are responsible for operating and monitoring. Various
stream and participation and precipitation gauges across our watersheds and
collecting water samples to support critical services such as sourcewater
protection, as well as ensuring that planning and development decisions
are based on the best science we can bring to
the table. These decades - long data sets are invaluable,
both for conservation authorities. Uh, all of those agencies I
mentioned before, as many, many, and public really, for public
health and safety. These data sets tell the story of
work that we do to ensure the safety of our
water. They tell the story of our work to restore
and protect our community assets. At CAs, we were closely
with our municipalities on planning development of safe, sustainable, and
livable communities. This includes receiving, uh, reviewing and reporting on
municipal official plans, monitoring, and advising on numerous minister zoning
orders taking place throughout the jurisdiction. And our work is
critical for peel region, which is an active, probably one
of the most active areas for development in Canada right
now. And, uh, it's vital to have informed decision making
in such a context. CVC and TRCA have focused on
an efficient and effective approach to reviewing and processing development
permits. And we consistently meet or exceed service delivery guidelines
put forward by the province. We also utilise our expertise
to support both applicants and municipalities and reach mutually beneficial
planning development outcomes. We work with build. We work with
the communities of interests out there. And we will continue
to do our very best to make sure we bring,
uh, the best science and the best advice to the
decision making in PIL. And with that, I will turn
this over to, uh, my trusted colleague, Terry LaRoo, uh,
for the remainder of this presentation. Thank you. Great. Thank
you so much, John. And good morning, council. Um, TRCA
and CBC are recognised for our expertise in delivering restoration
projects on conservation lands, municipal properties and private lands across
both of our watersheds. We take an integrated partnership -
based approach working closely with municipalities, the region and landowners
to ensure restoration projects deliver multiple benefits from improved water
quality and habitat to enhance flood resilience and climate adaptation.
Um, our restoration projects are designed to deliver multiple benefits.
For example, TRCA's recent natural channel restoration in Chinkoosy Park
will help reduce erosion and flood risk, protect infrastructure, enhance
habitat, and improve the community's enjoyment of the park. We're
also working closely with PO region to address the growing
challenge of invasive species and protect the long - term
health of our natural systems. And quite recently, uh, CBC
is very proud to welcome a brand new team member.
That is Tilly, a scent trained Labrador. Uh, the first
in Ontario, um, who's trained in the detection centring detection
of invasive species. Um, a major part of restoring and
greening peels communities is engaging residents and community partners directly.
Through popular native tree planting events, community cleanups and invasive
species removal initiatives, thousands of people are helping to make
a difference in their own neighbourhoods. Um, and we always
welcome. We thank, um, very much all of the members
of council who have participated in these events. It means
a lot not only to our organisations, but absolutely to
the residents and the volunteers that attend. And, uh, we
always welcome your participation and encourage you to join us
alongside your constituents at these events. Environmental education remains a
key area of focus for both of our organisations. So
far in 2026, more than 28, 000 students and community
learners have participated in CBC and TRCA education programs across
PEAL. We're also very proud to bring together our core
mandate of flood management and climate resilience with public education
through initiatives such as flood smart and peel. Now available
to all peel eco schools. And in partnership with the
city of Brampton, CBC is advancing the development of a
new landmark, environmental education centre that will inspire future generations,
strengthen environmental literacy, and provide hands - on learning opportunities
that connect people to nature and the challenges and opportunities
of a changing climate. We work closely with many partners
in stakeholders to implement leading - edge sustainability solutions. This
ranges from municipalities to community groups and residents through to
businesses. In all cases, we leverage these connections and audiences
to enable environmental, social, and economic benefits. We have partnered
with both Peel region, local municipalities and other groups to
implement multiple sustainable neighbourhoods or snaps in order to retrofit
more resilient, livable neighbourhoods. We're very excited for the work
currently being done to develop two new snaps and peel
one each in CBC and TRCA's jurisdictions. And TRCA has
also continued their very strong work with the business community
through partners and project green to improve corporate energy, water
and waste management. This includes work supported both by PUR
region and by local municipalities in order to help businesses
find efficiencies and improve their environmental footprint. And protecting communities
from natural hazards in the impact of climate change is
a core part of both of the work of CDC
and TRCA in partnership with PL region. As one example,
TRCA recently launched its climate - ready homes program, providing
home assessments and practical advice to help residents improve the
resilience and efficiency of their homes, including 100 households in
PEAL. Together with regional staff, CBC and TRCA are also
helping to deliver peels first biodiversity and climate change strategy
while continuing to support local municipal climate action. By working
collaboratively, we're helping build more resilient communities, healthier ecosystems, and
a stronger future for peel residents. And CVC and TRCA
continue to report annually on the outcomes and impacts of
climate change initiatives funded through PEAL region. This year's report,
marks the 5th annual update to regional counsel. Highlighting key
achievements, measurable progress in opportunities to further strengthen climate resilience
across PEAL. The climate change performance measurement system is organised
around nine program areas and uses a range of assessment
tools, including expert panels, surveys, and performance reviews to evaluate
progress in effectiveness. In 2025, the assessment engaged 78 participants
and reviewed 68 projects programs and initiatives delivered across peel
region. We are pleased to report that all program areas
were rated very effective with results remaining consistently strong from
the previous year. This demonstrates the ongoing success of regional
investments in climate adaptation and mitigation and the strong partnership
between PLCDC and TRCA. Importantly, the process also identifies opportunities
for continuous improvement. Helping it's your appeal remains a leader
in building climate resilience and preparing for future challenges. Additional
details and findings are included in the report before council
today. And as we wrap up, um, I would just
like to thank Peel region and our local municipal partners
for the continued support and collaboration. Um, the work we've
highlighted today is only possible because of the strong partnerships
we've built together. Um, we look forward to returning to
CU with our proposed 2027 budgets. And we hope to
see many of you at our community events and initiatives
throughout the summer and this autumn. And as always, CBC
and TRCA remain committed to working very closely with council
regional staff, local municipalities and senior levels of government to
advance shared priorities, secure funding, protector environment, and build safer,
healthier, and more resilient communities. Thank you. Thank you. Well
done. And the questions, Councillor Pelesci. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Uh, thank you both for coming and giving the presentation
and so many great news stories, so much the partnerships
between, um, between yourselves and the residents and the municipalities
is unbelievable. Um, to having you here today and the
potential of only having you back one more time. Saddens
me. Mr. Chair, you know me well enough to say,
uh, you know, I feel that if another level of
government does something great, I'm the first one to say,
wow, that's fantastic. Another municipality does something. I want to
copy it. Um, but you also know me well enough
to say if there's other level of government does something
wrong. I'm the first one to say this is not
the right thing. And what the world that we live
in today, we have the flooding that's happening, the heat
waves that are happening, record breaking heat waves flooding hurricanes,
typhoons. In a tragic four earthquakes in the last 24
hours. Now more than ever, do we need the two
of you sitting at the table and we need stability
within these organisations and what the province is doing, unfortunately,
members of council is not providing that stability. And I
am sorry to bring a great news story, a little
bit of, of sadness. But the levels of government, the
province is not listening to you if you're saying something.
If you're not saying anything, well, they're definitely not listening
to you. But I'm telling you right now, what is
about to happen will create problems within all of conservations.
Not necessarily the ones that want to join because they
know that they need to join other conservations. But certainly
the ones that are here today. That will tell you
it will cause disruption. It will cause for many years
a great deal of disruption. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank
you both for coming here today. Thank you, Michael. Councillor
Tech. Thank you Mr. Chair. And thank you, Chair Pelosci.
Um, maybe giving you guys an opportunity to, uh, walk
through some of the transition instructions. I don't want to
call them plans. But the instructions that the provincial government,
uh, and the, uh, the new agency, uh, has, has
shared with you in terms of timelines that I know
you've shared with some of us who sit on conservation
authorities, but I know, uh, most of us don't. So
if that's something you could share with everyone, that would
be helpful for people to understand the timelines. You can
start in. Yes, thank you, uh, Councillor Tejo and through
you chair. Um, what we know to be true right
now and which has been, um, very strongly communicated is
that the province, um, is anticipating the legal statutory amalgamation
of the 36 conservation authorities into nine by February 1st
of 2027 and to achieve that goal. There are some,
uh, certain milestones that are happening very quickly. So as
John mentioned earlier, there will be appointments of what they're
calling the project executive who will become the regional, um,
CAO for the new amalgamated regional conservation authority. Those appointments
are expected to happen by mid - July. And then
the work of the transition committee is we'll start, um,
we believe immediately afterwards with the project executive, um, and
then the members, the appointed members typically the CAO and
a member of the board, um, that work will, uh,
happen. Ernste young, who the province has engaged to do
a lot of data collection and information are developing what
they're calling the regional consolidation playbook that will also be
provided at the same time to the transition committee to
then work through the legal steps to the amalgamation by
February 1st. And through the chair, I don't have much
more to add except that each CA has appointed and
I mentioned this, uh, has appointed and in the case,
I believe it's yourself. And then your chair, chair Peleshy.
And in the case of TRCA, it's chair de Barton
myself to be part of those transition committee processes once
they start. Um, we, um, you know, our, our, our
one for TRCA is probably less. Potentially disruptive because we
are, um, being asked to add in a geography of
what is the central lake Ontario conservation authority today, which
is really whippy, Oshawa and then a pretty significant part
of Clarington and some parts of Skugog and Oxbridge that
are on the Oak Ridge Marine where there isn't a
lot of development, but it's really those parts of Whitby
Osha and Clarenrington that are being, you know, amalgamated with
us. We already work with Durham region quite well. We
have a great relationship with their team, their senior team.
Our staff work with Kloka very closely. They're about 45
full - time staff today. Compared to DRCA, which is
approximately 650 full - time staff. And our budgets are
about 20 times bigger than theirs. So it's something that
we don't know if we, and we really are looking
to try to see if we can do this in
a much more efficient way where there is as little
disruption or as, because I recognise a concern about disruption
that you raised, we want to make sure that for
staff, that the continuity of service throughout any of this.
And we want to do this as quickly as possible.
I know it's a much different situation for the credit
valley conservation authority because of the larger geographic area, the
broader, uh, geography on top of that, municipalities involved. So
that is a different challenge that, uh, credit valley conservation
authority is facing. I recognise that. But, um, our, our
intent is to try to make sure that, uh, you
know, we're as transparent as possible. We do great work.
But apprising them of the great work we do is
really going to be an important thing right now. Recognising
the services we provide here, these two conservation authorities to
the region appeal. That's not done. In other parts of
Ontario like it's done here. And so making sure we
impress upon them how great the working relationship we have,
how we are those trusted longstanding partner, uh, delivery agencies
for our municipal partners. I mean, that's really important. And
so we're emphasizing that in these, uh, discussions and any
opportunities we have with them. Thank you. I just wanted
to top that up because chair slash Michael, you've said
it very well in a councillor attention. I think in
some of the sites that I've shared with the province
or this, this is again, my inimitable way of looking
at things at 35, 000 feet. And I apologise for
this analogy. Sometimes we suffer when from the provincial perspective,
we wish they used a sniper as opposed to a
shotgun blast. And what I mean by that is great
example that always comes to mind is plan use development.
So in Mississauga in Brampton and Caledon, we played along.
We built them what we've done. And so they can
work with us. As you know, and we don't deal
with them day by day, but the so many hamlets
in Ontario that have said, uh, bring us your development
application. We're saying no. We don't care if you've got
400 feet of frontage and want to turn one home.
We're just saying no. According to new phrase pulling a
shaggy, it wasn't me. It wasn't me. So they can
just say it wasn't me. It went to the, but
it wasn't me. It wasn't me. And I'm up for
re - election. It wasn't me. So the province has
to deal with them as well. So the shotgun blast
is MZOs. We'll just approve them. And that's it. Because
they've got to look at the whole province. To your
point and the point YouTube, as it relates to conservation,
we've had the same approach in a manner of speaking
that we've had with development files. We'll work with you.
We'll deal with it. And the proof is in the
pudding. My God, we've been too Mississauga Brampton and now
of the fastest growing places in Ontario. You clearly haven't
held us up to an exhaustive degree that jobs gotten
done. But I'm afraid you're getting lumped into the shotgun
blast. Sing, but in other places, concert, it's just no.
It's a no, you can't. This is a. Okay. But
you know, we have to accommodate 1. 5 million. How
do we make it work? We've always made it work
to a great degree. Not always, but we're getting caught
up in the shotgun blast for all the other hamlets
that were just a problem. They're seen as a problem.
And we're getting thrown into that. And that is the
message that I can beat on this file. Cause I
believe it to be a hundred percent true because I've
worked with both of you. And I've been, we've gotten
the projects done to a degree. We need this mitigation.
We need this recollection of our understanding what needs to
be done. But now in their zeal to clean up
everything else in the province, I think probably more so
unfairly on this file than any other our conservation authorities
have gotten caught up. And I've shared those sentiments as
well. So great conversation carry on. You're doing great work.
I'm going to have receipt moved by Councillor Pelessi and
Councillor Tedger, all those in favor carried. Okay. Next up
7 - 2. Dehabo Ahmed Omar chief executive officer, Sagal
Abdi, director Black North Initiative. And Mike Lab, chief executive
officer and founder home opportunities regarding an update on the
implementation, appeal regions, home ownership program related to item 13.
1. Welcome.
So good after, Evil, good morning still. Um, everyone. You
know, I think, uh, so, so thank you, Chair and
members of council and PL staff for the opportunity to
be here. I will take a moment to, um, just
acknowledge Aileen Byrd who wasn't, I mean, is an incredible
woman who took on an incredible responsibility and worked very,
very diligently with us at Black North. And, you know,
understood right from the get - go, um. She understood
that you guys had a responsibility in ensuring that communities
were centred and valued. She always put us first. She
listened a lot, asked really important questions and made sure
that the goal of the program was accomplished. And so
her and I had a quick chat earlier. And, you
know, just, just remembering all of the struggles that we
had gone through over the last couple of years. And
it's sad to see her go happy for her. But
I thank her sincerely and deeply for her service to
our community specifically. Um, and so my name is Dehabo,
I'm at Umer. I am the chief executive officer of
Black North Initiative. I've been with the organisation now for
six years. Um, our organisation, uh, our goal is to
bridge the gaps that exist between our communities and systemic
anti - Black racism largely our work is with the
corporate sector, you know, we build a model that allows
us to use a muscle of corporate Canada to be
able to move forward with respect to social impact in
our communities. And we've been able to create incredible impact
over the last six years, uh, chair, chairman has been
a part of that very much. And Mayor Brown, of
course. And so I think a big part of our,
of our, uh, work has been to ensure that communities
felt really present in our, in our programming and initiatives
we wanted to, I mean, we could address very many
issues. There are, you know, if you looked at the
map of the black community and you asked the map,
where does it hurt? It'd probably tell you everywhere, uh,
because there are challenges across all of the different sectors
within the black community, whether it's education, employment, uh, the
justice system, health, mental health specifically. And so we, we
took it upon ourselves to really focus in some key
areas that you see on the screen, education, employment, economic
empowerment, health and wellbeing as well as housing and home
ownership. And we're here today to give you an update
on the home ownership bridge program. But I will, um,
Mike LeBay introduced himself. He has been, and I'll just
say it now because he won't let me do it
after. Mike Lobby has been an incredible partner in the
homeownership rich program and very much like Aileen has ensured
that black community's voice is always centred. He, you know,
we're used to being relegated to the margins and to
have a partner who understands the importance of black voices
and black communities has been a blessing and a joy.
And so Mike, I'll let you introduce yourself. Yes. Just
briefly. Some of you know me, um, I've been doing
affordable housings in 1979, the work that home opportunities net
is doing now is related to affordable home ownership, which
I think has a bigger role to play than it's
played in the past in terms of solving housing problem.
And our mandate is to make society better. And certainly
partnering with black north is an incredibly valuable and important
way to get us to that goal. He's very humble.
Um, and so, you know, I think I want to
be able to at least at first say thank you
to the regional council for its leadership and continued commitment
to this program. And especially on expanding equitable access to
home ownership opportunities in 2021, as you may remember council
made a significant investment into black North initiative, home ownership
bridge program with the goal of supporting 50 black renter
household in pill region. Since that time, we have worked
very diligently to build the necessary partnerships as well as
secure additional capital and develop, um, sustainable model capable of
delivering on that vision. And today we are pleased to
report that we have secure 10 million dollars through the
CMHC shared equity mortgage providers fund and establish a strong
implementation partnership that positions black north and home opportunities to
move forward with confidence. Yes. And, and. Got to push
the button. So, uh, Mount Pleasant Commons. And I do
want to recognise the leadership that, uh, Brampton Council provided
to put the project forward and help us through a
lot of hurdles as we've moved our way through. And
the partners have joined as we've come along, but Brampton
started the process and PL has been supportive of. I
thought it'd be interesting for council to know what we've
been achieving in terms of our targeting on that project.
So remember, and this is home ownership, uh, the starting
income that allows you to qualify for purchasing a studio
unit in this project is 36, 000 dollars a year.
The starting income that you need to qualify for a
one bedroom is 50, 000 dollars a year. The starting
income you need for a two bedroom is 75, 000
dollars a year for a three bedroom. It's 97, 000
dollars here and for our four bedroom townhouse, it's 85,
000 dollars a year. So that is the starting point
and then it moves up from there because we have
a mixed income community. But that's all from the help
that this group is provided and others. So the alignment
of shared equity lending and all of the other lending
that has come along effectively allows us to offer chance
for people to own at a caring cost that's half
of their purchase price. And then that money is repaid
and used to help others when they sell. So very
important to borrow the analogy from the chair, um, we're
hoping to add three buckets to your bailing, uh, through
home ownership as long as we can work together on
it. Because without needing large amounts of grants and subs,
just loans, we can scale to any level that you
want us to scale to. And because it's to blend
it income community, we can talk about a thousand units
in a community. And that's not something you can do
when you're dealing with other programs. So your funds are
supporting 50 families. To get out of rental. Into home
ownership. And remember that as an interesting point. Every time
you pull some out of a rental, you create an
opportunity for another renter. And then you move people onto
home ownership. We specifically target 35, 000 for studios because
that allows us to pull people out of support of
housing and create another free space and supportive housing. So
this is innovation. That Brampton helped us start to create.
Thank you, Mike. And so our focus for the coming
months is really around making sure that we are reaching
out to our community that we're identifying and qualifying families.
And look, I mean, there's so many incredible families who,
um, have the understanding who have never seen, you know,
or thought about home ownership as a possibility for them
and who are ready to take on this new incredible
opportunity. And so our goal is to really focus on
identifying those eligible families, preparing them for the future and
making sure they are ready to participate fully into the
program. We do remain very confident in our ability to
identify and support 50 peel households, um, it's contemplated through
pill regions investment. Of course. And, you know, we are
absolutely excited in what's coming ahead. I think a big
part of what, um, the few members of our team
here, Seagal and Shelton and Mike and myself and others
have really been just daydreaming on a regular about what
this could look like for black families in the pill
region. And so on behalf of Black North as well
as home opportunities and very many of our project partners,
we thank you for your partnership and for your commitment
and for your investment into your communities and our communities.
Thank you. Excellent presentation. Questions Councillor Reed. Thank you. Thank
you Mr. Chair. Thank you so much for that presentation.
Um, I just, I just want to just pause and
say thank you. I've seen this work from a distance
as a councillor in my first term 2021. I saw
a lot of this coming out and I was really
curious to see how it was going to be what
the uptake was going to be like, uh, if people
would understand exactly what's happening. And you've brought this to
a great place, uh, an amazing opportunity for these families.
So thank you, those are my brand to councillors as
well, uh, for taking the leadership on us. This is,
this is very significant. And I'm just, uh, just beyond
grateful for the worth you guys are doing. Thank you.
Mayor Brown. Yeah. Just to say this, um, it's really
encouraging. I think it's what we had envisioned when we
joined the black North pledge. I remember West Hall talking
passionately and challenging cities and regions to be part of
it. And so this is great and just hope that
we can have discussions of how we can continue this.
Um, and support this across the region appeal. And so
thank you for the update and hopefully there's an ongoing
conversation of how we can, for all the housing accelerator
tools we have, how we can, how this can be
part of, um, the toolkit. So thank you for being
here and looking forward to more. Thank you. Well, um,
I'm just going to top it up and say, you
know, you had me at hello. Um, this is such
a great initiative. And I've had the privilege of speaking
to it. And I've used this very quickly, this analogy
before. This is a brilliant model. And the analogy that
I used at one of the groundbreakings was this. It's
just relates to me and my family. My oldest son,
he's gone by 15, wanted to buy his first home.
God blessed me to worked hard. He had a down
payment. But he couldn't qualify for the mortgage. So dad,
because of white privilege and intergenerational wealth, notwithstanding the mortgage
on my home, could put my home up to hypothecate
his home. Because I knew he would make the payments.
He had the down payment, but the bank said he
couldn't do it. But my wife and I said, we
know you'll make the pain. And we're not going to
make you default. So with that, 15 years ago, we
did the paperwork. My son owns that house now. 15
years later. Didn't cost us a penny. He paid the
bills himself. But I was just in a position my
wife to say, take a chunk of my home in
theory and we'll substantially, don't worry, you won't go broke
bank. We'll pay you out. Just how banks work. In
this instance, and the reason the fine point I'm making
is my son, I knew could make the payments. There
are so many people out there paying rent now that
it would cover a mortgage. But they can't get in
the door. It is not apples to apples to apples
like my, I knew he was going to make the
payments. There's so many, we're already paying rent. We're paying
2, 900 a month where we are. But we haven't
got the first little startup to get us in the
door. And 15 years later, we're going to be nando
- son or daughter. They just like everybody else did
it. So why wouldn't we help them at the front
end? The model makes sense that whatever we can do
using my son's analogy and other formats like that to
say, these are people that can make the, let's get
them started. And relative to what they're, 50 people years
later, that's hundreds of millions of dollars of value of
property. We put in two and a half million bucks.
It's just a pittance for people that we know are
going to carry on and make the payments. So I
love your model in all its forms. And I'm a
huge proponent of it. And Mayor Brown from the outset
was as well. I know. And so many members of
council, Godspeed in any way we can continue to help
you. So with that counselored, you have a motion that
you're going to hold. Okay. Very good. So with that,
we'll move receipt of the delegations, all those in favor,
Carrie. Thank you very, very much for being here today.
Okay. Moving on. 7, 3 James Wang regional coordinator PO
region science fair regarding PO region science fair winners at
the Canada wide science fair 2026. James, welcome.
Hi, how are you, everyone? Good morning. Um, my name
is James Wang. I'm a secondary school teacher and also
the original coordinator for PO region science fair. And next
to me is a doctor Benedetti. He's a professor at
the University of Toronto, Mississauga, also of the fair director.
Um, the PO region science fair is a registered, sharebow
organisation that has inspired Yale scientists since the 1980s. After
a break from COVID, um, the fair restarted again in
2023 with only 2A projects. This year we were, we
work on about 150 students from the 20A PO schools
who presented 119 innovative projects at our FAIA. We're proud
to send six finalists representing the project to the Canada
Y science fair in Edmonton this year. And probably to
say that every final list came back was a medal.
That was great. So today, um, our job here, just
to briefly introduce our work and recognise PO's understanding, um,
outstanding science champion, if a time permit. So may have
them to talk about their experience a bit. Now I'm
going to, um, pass the floor to that Benedetti to
talk about our, um, fare. Thank you. Uh, I'd also
like to say, sorry for the Mississauga councillors who heard
us yesterday, but it's nice to see you two days
in a row. Um. So as James mentioned, uh, the
appeal regional science fair is a registered charity and it
was founded over 50 years ago. And the fact that
this is the first time we're coming to the region,
uh, and, you know, having you CS and we meeting
you 50 years later, I think is long overdue. So
that's part of the reason why we're here. We are
run entirely by volunteers. None of us draw any sort
of salary or benefit in any sort of way. From
running this. All of us are educators. And, uh, this
is what we do. And this is what we're passionate
about. Uh, the main program that we do is we
organise and run the peel original science fair. It's hosted
at the one of the only universities in the peel
region, the University of Toronto, Mississauga. But in addition to
that, we also help mentor students and chaperone them and
get them ready for the Canada wide science fair. This
is held in various locations in different years. This year
was held in Edmonton. So the students behind me were
three out of the six of them who went. They
went to Edmonton. They got on a plane with their
projects. Some of them have equipment that they have to
bring on the plane with them. Uh, and then they
present on a national level representing our region and doing
us all proud. And the third program that we offer
is small bursaries for families in need that need, uh,
need Bristol board or some sort of scientific materials to
run a science fair project. And as James mentioned, we
did have a bit of a hiatus during COVID as
we all did. And we lost some momentum there. Our
first year back in 2023. We had a small number
of students, but now I'm pleased to say in 2026,
our fair of that just ran locally here at UTM
in April. We had over 150 students attend. So we're
back up to the numbers we had before COVID, which
is really, really nice. And they come from a large
array of educational backgrounds here within PEAL, a lot of
which come from peel district school board, but also private.
We have a lot of students attend from private schools
as well. And, uh, a small fraction come from, uh,
different peel. Now all of this takes money. And although
the volunteers don't draw salary, we need to pay for
things like parking, uh, awards. And we fundraise quite a
bit to send the students behind us to compete in
Canada wide. This includes flights. They're accommodation. They're food. Um,
and any other activities that go on at the Canada
wide level. And our running costs are what we feel
like is a lot of money, but now that I'm
hearing other budgets from other people seems pretty small. It's
about 30, 000 dollars a year. And we are three
people, James and I are two of the three people
who organise this. Um, so we're trying our best to
do our fundraising. And that's part of why we're here
today is, uh, show you what we do and have
you familiar with us. And try to garner some support
for future years so we can continue growing and supporting
these students. As I mentioned, a lot of what we
do is the mentorship as well. And it provides an
opportunity for these students to, um, start their careers. We
saw a lot of, uh, retirements today as well. Um,
and these are the faces of hopefully some of the
people who will be sitting here in the next 10,
15 years or maybe above us in industry. Um, pioneering
the world, um, that we have to liaise with. So
this is, this is the primary point of having, having
us here today. The six students you see on the
screen and the three students behind me, uh, these are
the faces of the people you are directly impacting, uh,
and have been. And we are really hoping to foster
some supports with you guys, uh, starting now, hopefully, and
moving into the future. Uh, and if we do have
a little bit of time, I'd like to turn over
the microphone to some of these students who you've directly
helped impact. So before, um, Laylam speak, the couple of
things I want to just mention. Number one, the number
of student we can send to CWSF every single year,
depending on the funding availability that we have. So we
don't have money. We cannot send many people. Now I
just want to mention their schools. So from the left
to right from the overhead, Arch Patel is from Central
PO secondary school. Maya Shah is from Francis Xavier. Anaya
is from Turnal Phantom. Naviya is from Tomkin Road. Zunedra
is from mental college. And Maedaf is from Woolens. And
why don't you all take one minute to say here,
the students, here's who I am. And here's what my
projector initiative was. We'd love to hear from you. If
you can all take about a minute each and give
us that. Good morning. Everyone.
Good morning, everyone. My name is Anania Tangarola. Uh, I'm
a grade 11 student at Turner Fenton Secondary School. And
my project this year was a thermoelectric powered smoke ventilation
system for off - grade communities. Good morning, everyone. My
name is Sanerawasi. I am a great 10 student at
mentor college. And my project essentially discovered three novel combinations
of natural antimicrobial compounds that inhibited bacterial growth of e
- coli K - 12 and basilisptilis. Hello. I'm mother
served in. I'm a great 10 student at the woodland
secondary. And this year, my project was developing an end
- to - end framework for sepsis detection using machine
learning. That's absolutely amazing. Uh, please, the
questions, Councillor Russo. Threw the chair. Um, I, I won
some science fair. It was solar system. Fingerprints. At firstly
to, uh, through the chair, to the educators, uh, thank
you for what you're doing, uh, it is the time
that you do the time that you put in, um,
it's above and beyond having family members and people, we
all know educators that go above and beyond. So firstly
to you, thank you for what you're doing to the,
uh, participants. You guys are doing phenomenal work. And we,
we are so proud of you and keep doing what
you're doing. Um, I don't know how we can help,
but I'm sure we can, uh, whether it be, um,
collectively at the region here or individually through, um, private
sponsorships. We can always reach out and call on people
because I think this is so important. And, uh, I
think you're doing great work. So happy to talk to
you afterwards as well. But if we can do something
collectively, happy to support that as well. Thank you, Councillor
Dasko. Thank you through the chair. Good to see you
both again. And everyone, uh, that's joined in truly remarkable
stories. And for what you're doing, the passion that you
put into it. And also just, I mean, I can,
I don't know how you come up with the premise
of the topics that you want to cover. But those
are pretty, pretty remarkable to say the least. And, um,
as we're saying yesterday, just I think everybody doing a
little bit adds up to helping a lot. So thanks
again for coming. Yeah, I want to thank you on
behalf of council. So I just think this is marvelous.
So I'm going to make a suggestion because I think
this is the future quick side story. They did a
study many years ago at the OECD organisation of economic
cooperation and development to determine what the nature of wealth
is for countries. Everybody thinks it's education, but the number
one determinant of wealth is immigration. If you have a
lot of immigration, you are wealthy. That's why America's the
wealthiest nation in the world. They were built by immigrants,
entrepreneurs, people that had to. Number two is education. Here's
the point of my story. Because of immigration, Canada just
became the number one educated country in the world. And
one of the reasons why was through immigration, it's very
hard to make a PhD in engineering. But if one
gets off a plane, you've just added them to your
denominator. And that's what's happening in Canada with all of
the resources that we have. So the future is ours
and you young kids prove it today. So this one
means a lot to me. So if my colleagues refer
this to me, to the chair. And this is something
that I want to see if we can help you
out with with all of the entrepreneurs, the corporations that
we have in the region appeal. I'm looking at 30,
000 dollars here that must be so many, you're what
we all talk about. And yet when it comes to
income, we have 30, 000 so that these people can
carry on with initiatives like this. Like, are you kidding
me. Like it's what we should be encouraging. So I
want to be your loudspeaker in part as well as
long of my colleagues. So I'll be reaching out. We're
going to have a sit down and see what strategies
what we might be able to do because you kids
are the future and you make us so proud and
peel. So we need to try to find a way
to help you out. So with that, if the councillors
would move receipt, referral to the regional chair. And let's
talk about some strategies with our team of how we
can help to honour students like you. All those in
favor, Cary, thank you very much for being here. And
we'll be talking. Thank you. Thank you for your time.
Just last thing. With permission, I would like to invite
all of you to the PO science fair for 2027.
If you have time, please stop by and look at
their projects. Absolutely. And you'll send us all the information.
I will do. Thank you very much. And thank you
to the educators, Dr. Ben, for all your efforts as
well. Thank you. Okay. That takes us to item 7
for our last presentation. Penny Gagnon chief advisor commission on
accreditation of rehabilitation facilities regarding an overview of recent accreditation
survey. Penny is here virtually. So penny, if you can
hear me, you're up. Perfect. Um, are there slides? There
we go. Thank you very much. And so good afternoon
council. I'm very excited to have the opportunity to speak
with you today as I was introduced. My name is
Penny Ganyan and I'm the chief advisor with Carve Canada
calling in from Edmonton, Alberta. I have to say this
is a hard act to follow with the innovative students
that just presented to you. So over the next five
minutes, I want to share with you the value of
car for creditation. Why it matters specifically for the region
of peel. And what the evidence says about its impact
on the residents and the families that you serve every
single day. Uh, next slide, please. So car for creditation
provides a person centred framework that helps organisation strengthen the
quality accountability and performance and meaningful and more, more importantly,
uh, measurable ways. It requires organisations to demonstrate leadership, accountability,
intentional engagement with all the people that you serve. It
requires an informed and competent workforce. And the systems to
sustain improvement over time. And so every one of these
elements and, and many more as organisations go through the
survey process, these are independently evaluated during that site survey.
So accreditation for you as a region signals to your
funders and your partners and your community and the people
that you serve, that you are meeting those highest international
standards. You're driving person - centred care quality programming strategic
planning. It elevates your transparency. And it really does in
bed risk management into the culture and systems of your
everyday practices. Next slide, please. So your most recent car
survey for the region of peel was conducted April 27th
through the 29th of this year. And so a very
big congratulations to your team, the accreditation outcome resulted in
a new three - year accreditation decision, which is the
highest standing that car forwards, your accreditation is effective now
and tell May 31st, 2029. It's important to note that
you have been continuously accredited since 2011, meaning this is
your fifth consecutive accreditation cycle. That is over a decade
of sustained independently verified performance and quality improvement. The most
recent survey that occurred with the region of Peel was
your surveyors came in and they evaluated the programs under
a thousand individual standards. So the process is very robust.
They paid attention to aspire to excellence, fair processes for
persons served, adult day services. And person - centred long
- term care communities. And new to this cycle was
a dementic care specialty designation. And I want to point
out that not all organisations in this sector can demonstrate
this level of consistency and continuity. So again, a big
congratulations to your team. Next slide, please. So I just
wanted to highlight that your survey report had several pages
of standout strengths. And just to highlight a couple of
them, the butterfly model of care showed up, uh, many
times throughout those strengths. And particularly in relation to supporting
those person - centred environments, those meaningful relationships and the
emotional well - being and dignity of the people that
you're serving. Adult day services recognise for that person -
centred. Excellence benefiting the community at large persons served and
staff expressed praise for the organisation and the leadership. The
state of the art seniors health and wellness village at
peel manner was cited as an exceptional strength, as well
as the culture and well - being recognised for high
levels of innovation. Next slide, please. Um, just wanted to
take a special note to your dementia care specialty program
and really acknowledge the effort that was put into including
this as, as part of the accreditation. This is a
very, um, important component of your site survey. And it
really did confirm your commitment to person - centred care.
Next slide, please. So with car for creditation, you're required
to sustain and demonstrate a sustained and proactive commitment to
reviewing and improving both your service delivery and business functions.
And through your most recent survey, you were able to
do this where you are able to identify the gaps
that exist, take those data - driven decisions. And then
also reflect back on whether or not your actions are
making a difference. And next slide, and this is my
final slide. This is really important for you to be
aware of. The data that is available to us is
very important, uh, not only to CARP, but also to
you as a region. So in Ontario, Car for credited
long - term care homes, um, consistently outperform non -
car for credited homes on every clinical quality indicator tract
with lower rates of balls, pressure ulcers, physical restraints, depression,
and, and pain. And the region of peel is part
of this group. And you also track your own results
and you can see that you're ahead of, uh, the
CARF average on every single measure. And this is a
very exceptional celebration because these are not marginal differences. And,
uh, so it was really important to, to showcase this
to you as, um, regional council. And so next slide.
I just invite any, uh, questions that you have that
want to point you to a quote that I received
from your leadership. And this is Car for creditation has
help desk continue to strive to support person centred care
strengths or efforts to listen more closely to our residents.
Involve them in decisions and continuously improve how we support
their quality of life. It's more than a designation. It's
a commitment to putting each person at the heart of
everything we do. Thank you. Penny, thank you. Well, first
of all, thank you for your efforts. Like we keep
saying, I think we're real good, but it's nice when
your peers through a very objective exercise give you the
data that tells you how good you really are. I
think that's just marvelous. So on behalf of council to
the team that actually does the Rick Nancy, your team
and so many others. Well done. What an attribution from
an outside agency that compares us as I said, arm's
lengthened beyond and they come back and say, you're really
better than you even think you are. So Penny, thank
you very, very much for this and on behalf of
counsel receipt's been moved by Councillor McFadden, seconded by Councillor
Kovac. Aldos in favor carried. Okay. Thank you for your
presentation. All right, council, as said, now we've concluded all
of the presentations. I want to go in camera at
this time to deal with the two - end camera
items. And then we carry on from there. So I
have a motion move by Councillor Butt. Second tobic, Councillor
Kovac. The council proceed in a closed session. Consider reports
relating to the following bargaining update at number two information
explicitly supplied in confidence to the municipality or local board
by Canada, a province or territory or crown agency. All
those in favor carried. So we will move into in
- camera now.
I've got a thumbs up, so we're back in session.
Yes. I tell you, I'm going to introduce on next
steps. I beg your indulgence that before we break, we
could bring forward 20. 6 do have to step out.
As soon as I finish, make that point as soon
as I finish speaking, because absolutely. And you have approached
the chair on that earlier, Councillor Hart, I'm aware.
Okay, so everybody, welcome back. I understand we're back in
open session, just some formalities first moved by Councillor Keenan,
seconded by Councillor Hornick, that the closed session report listed
as item 22 - 4 on the June 25th, 2026
regional counsel to be received 22 - 6 that the
closed item matter item, listed as 22 - 6 on
the June 25th, 2026 regional count agenda be received. All
those in favor, that is carried. So what I'm going
to propose is coming out of the end camera, we
have a motion that we're going to deal with first.
I know Councillor Hart, you asked me and you mentioned
it before the approval of the agenda to the chair
as well, a matter of me might like to deal
with. One of the presentations that we have includes Dr.
Saha, who's here, who has to get on to other
business. So what I'm going to propose is we're going
to deal with the emotion coming out of the end
camera. We're going to deal with the motion councillor heart,
the matter that you want dealt with. I want to
deal with Dr. Saha's report. Then we will break for
lunch to deal with the other two reports, and the
six items still being held. So with that, we are
back in session. And the first item I have up,
Mayor Brown and Councillor Dasko, is your motion with regards
to the items on the agenda related to TMU and
the Lakeview Pier. Mayor Brown, over to you to introduce
your motion. Yeah, thank you, Chairunika. I know we've had
some passionate discussion about both these items. I think both
these items sort of fall under the same umbrella. There
are projects we support in our community. Of course, a
new peer would be lovely in Mississauga, of course. The
additional resources for the medical school is something that we
welcome. We're so proud to have the first new medical
school in 100 years in the GTA. The challenge with
both the peer and the medical school is they're not
local responsibility. And I have hesitation against jurisdiction creep. Already
everything falls in the backs of property taxpayers. Um, and
it's something that we sort of have to push back
on. Jurisdiction creep. We do a wonderful job. I believe
locally here in PL region. When we swim in our
lanes, if you look at what we do, whether it's
police seen paramedics, whether it's public health, the many areas
of regional responsibility, we hit it out of the park.
And I think there's a high regard for the services
we deliver. Where that gets diminished is if we try
to support areas beyond our responsibility. And too often the
expectation is that, oh, the local government can pay for
this because of, frankly, um, a lack of leadership of
senior levels of government, or simply not being in tune
to the same manner we are of local opportunities. And
when you look at the support, other medical schools have
around this province or this country. If you look at
the funding appears that I mentioned in past debate, the
example of the recent announcement from Prime Minister Carnity for
the White Rock Pier, really, I think we can expect
a greater percentage of our fair share. And I think
our discussion spoke the premier's office to act. And so
the communication we receive that they would commit to first
five million, um, is something that I think we can
live with. It sparks, um, a broader investment in these
two projects from the province. And, you know, the premier's
office did say they would have that the federal government
support them on the pier. But it sparks investment. And
so whether it's an additional 40 million that we have
come to the region because of our commitment, um, I
can live with that. I like to say, I think
in general, we should push back against any jurisdiction creep.
And this is jurisdiction creep, but it sort of water
in the wine, a smaller contribution for two projects that
are beneficial to the region. So I think this is
a compromise that, um, protects taxpayers and the theme that
we've discussed around this table protecting the issue of affordability.
Our residents are struggling with a mindful, how much we
can commit when people are struggling with the cost of
property taxes. Thank you. Councillor Dasko. Thank you through the
chair. And again, I just wanted to really thank Mayor
Brown and Mayor Parish for really going through a lot
of different hoops to make all of this come together.
Uh, it has been a topic of haunt debate for
sure. Uh, but also it's a, it's a thanks to,
uh, to the premier as well, uh, to, to have,
uh, an open, an open mind and listen to what's
going on. Um, this is, this is really significant, I
think all the way around. It's great for region building.
It's, uh, it's great for both municipalities. And all municipalities
actually. And the other, I wanted to mention just over
on the housing file of things because we really have
done a lot of work to try to get shovels
in the ground, permits pulled, um, and go that extra
mile. Even with, uh, you know, if we took 50
percent of the DCs, as we're talking right now, and
we start getting permits pulled and shovels in the ground,
that still comes out to about 310 million dollars worth
of DCs here at the region of Peel. Uh, that
also will put thousands of people to work as well.
So, um, that peer alone is something that fits very
much into, uh, into the provincial and federal mandates of
what we're doing. So all levels of government would be
satisfied. All, you know, the economy here, uh, in peel,
and Mississaug and Brampton, I'll end Calvin all benefit significantly.
So, uh, just wanted to say a profound thanks to
everybody involved and that this is, uh, this is good
teamwork at its best. Thanks. Thank you, Councillor DeMarila. Yeah,
I just want to echo the comments made by Amy
Brown and Councillor Dasko. The only thing is I liked
what Mayor Brown said, which is it's water in our
wine, but it's water and wine that I'm not happy
about because this happens all the time. We're constantly being
asked to, we've been nickeled and dined, but it adds
up. My only ask is we really need to find
a way to let our residents know on their tax
bill. What portion is jurisdictional creep? We need to find
a way to let residents know, because unless they know
this is not going to change. We are constantly, these
one - offs where things that should be a hundred
percent funded by the province are now 90 percent funded
by the province and somehow we are made to feel
grateful about it. It's ironical that we feel grateful that,
uh, senior levels of government short change as frankly. So
that's my only comment. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Tour.
Thank you, three Mr. Chair. I'm not excited as everybody
else here just to express how I look at this
motion. Uh, one, the two items shouldn't, should have never
been bundled together, uh, we're talking about a medical school.
That is, uh, an investment in healthcare in our region
here. And the other is a tourist landmark. Putting them
together in one motion, I know how the politics of
this has played out. Um, but it's unfortunate to see
this. Um, so I, I request the vote on those
items separately as well. Um, and just looking at the
five million dollars for funding for the Lake V here.
It's five million dollars. Again, that's coming out of our
banks. It's coming out of our communities every single time.
I've repeated this point time and time again. Uh, I
don't care if it's a hundred thousand dollar ask or
a 10 million dollar ask. We're giving money, uh, way
to places that are probably not a priority, especially for
my residence. I'll speak for mine alone. Uh, it's definitely
not a priority for them. We have debated it. To
its death over a year, uh, about our investment in
places like Patman, how it doesn't serve people in Mississauga.
And people in Mississauga don't even know about Pama. Don't
even come up to city of Branton to visit Hammer.
Uh, now we're talking about a tourist destination in city
of Mississauga. I'll make the same argument. Nobody in my
area is going to open this. They're not going to
go up there. This is funding. They don't care about.
This is investment. They don't care about. I can't go
to my residents and say that look in a time
like this where every single day you read horrible news
in the newspapers where the lines at the food banks
are growing longer and longer. We're talking about governments doing
bailouts after bailout whether it's for the housing industry, whether
it's for health sciences, for everything that we're seeing. I'm
talking to, uh, residents on a daily basis. I have
messages on my phone that I do not respond to
anymore from parents reaching out to me saying, can he
get my kid a job. Can we put food on
the table. My summer students talk to me about it
all the time about their, their classmates looking for summer
jobs to help out their parents to buy food so
they can put it on the table. My residents are
talking to me like that every single day. I don't
know if your residents are talking to you the same
way. I have tears in the eyes of my residents
every single day. It's gotten hard for my staff to
go down to the lobby of city hall and meet
with residents. See tears in the eyes asking for support.
Every single day. It happens every single day. I cannot
in good conscience go out there and say I'm giving
five million dollars to an amazing. It's amazing project. It's
a landmark tourist destination. There's no doubt about it. It'll
add value. A lot of tourism dollars. I understand the
economic concept of this. But how do I go out
there and say I'm spending five million dollars on something
that we could wait on. Maybe one day somebody could
pull up. If the province is stepping in to pull
up Again, it's jurisdictional creepy keep hearing about it. I
could still justify our donation or our contribution to TMU
at the city of Brampton. We've done a lot for
them. But I see the value today, the return to
their dollar today in my community. I see that ongoing.
I'm not going to see that at this tourist destination
here. So in good conscience, I cannot absolutely, I won't
support a single daughter from the region appeal. From the
regional appeal going towards this project. I cannot look any
of my residents that come with tears in the eyes.
I cannot look them in the INC. I gave five
million dollars of taxpayer money towards this. It's absolutely ridiculous.
So I'd ask if we can vote on these separate
loop. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Pelesci. Thank you Mr.
Chair. Um, Mr. Chair and Councillor Tour does bring up
some, some good points. And, um, and as a councillor
in the North, does it service my residence? Maybe it
does. Maybe it's, it's, it's a nice place to go
and, uh, it's a nice place to visit. Much like
a lot of places right through the greatest region in
Canada. As far as I'm concerned. But I also am
chair of Credit Valley Conservation Authority. And I know the
importance of not only the Jim Tovi, but what this
peer does and brings back to the habitat of, uh,
of the environment species at risk, um, there is a
great benefit. And in the, I started off this meeting
today saying to the province, what you did today was
wrong. What you're doing to the conservations is wrong. And
now I'll be the first one to come back and
say, you saw a conflict amongst municipalities. And through the
work of Mayor Brown, um, Mayor Parish, Merrick Groves, members
of council, um, you've, you've provided us with an opportunity
to now come back together. Um, continue to strengthen the
region. Work on things, uh, together. And predominantly in the
best, what's best for, for the residents of the region
appeal. The return on investment, I'm sure is going to
be significant. And much like other areas in, you know,
Brampton, when we invest in something, we know that there's
going to be the return. On investment cannot doesn't just
have to be dollars and cents. We're turning on investment
is also the happiness that it brings people that are
going to be able to go down, visit the pier.
But it also is in terms of, you know, chair
of credit value conservation, the amount of species that are
now coming back to up one's area that was devastated.
And nothing was, was living in. So it's, I think
it's, uh, it's definitely something that's brought balance, I think
and balances the, is the greatest way to describe, uh,
what the province has done, uh, for us here today.
And, uh, and I'm happy to support, um, this going
forward. Speaking on the TMU side, always a fan favourite
of, uh, of the university and, uh, and happy to
support that as well. Thank you, Councillor Russo. Through the
chair, uh, I guess to quickly expand on where Councillor
Pelesci was that on Councillor and others have raised concerns
and their valid concerns. And we do have to make
those tough decisions very often on allocation of dollars. The,
the key, the way I see this is that we've,
we've discussed it. We've looked at it and we've, we've
recognised the jurisdictional creep that we've discussed. But we've took
in a position that's done the best or providing the
best result for our regional residents collectively. I've said this
very often. When we sit at this table, absolutely we
need to, um, fight for our residents of our local
areas and our wards that we're represent. But we did
do and we did provide an oath of what's the
best decision for the region of peel. This motion as
it stands is providing the best opportunity for the collective
region of peel. We're going to get assets and provide,
um, opportunities to our residents that we wouldn't have had
if we took a position or put that line in
the sand of we can't do it because of this.
We've instead of saying we're not doing it because of
this. We've said, how can we get it done? And
we provided a solution. And I think that is the
most valuable, um, thing that we're doing is we're finding
opportunities while pushing back to upper tiers saying that we
can, we don't have the ability to do this at
all times, but we found a pathway forward. And that's
why I think putting this forward and giving the opportunities
to our residents and to our, uh, our children, uh,
we're talking about we went to Jim Tovey's kickoff for
ribbon cutting and we saw the, the absolutely phenomenal work,
our conservation authorities are doing this will just add to
that. So I, and, and, and TMU, let's not talk
about the opportunities we have, um, as we grow as
a region to be able to have these medical, uh,
facilities throughout our municipalities. So I think this is a
great, um, a great end story to something that was
challenging, but we found a pathway forward. Thank you, Councillor
Santos. Thank you through you, Mr. Terra. Sorry. I just
had a hard time hitting mute. Hopefully you could hear
me now. Um, I just, I want to say thank
you to Mayor Brown and also agreeing with many of
the comments shared by colleagues around the table. This was
a challenge to get through. And I, I do agree
with Councillor DeMurla about the, um, jurisdiction creep, uh, onto
the region again. However, you know, I think about all
the times I go up to Caladin and ride the
Caledon Railway trail. I think about the incredible work that
TRCA CVCA are doing with our waterways, the river walk
project that's coming up. And quite frankly, I often go
to port credit and visit the lake view. Brampton doesn't
have a lake view, but peel region does through, through
Mrs. Salga. And with TMU, obviously I'm a huge supporter
and finding this compromise and Mayor Brown being able to
reach out to the province to hold them accountable to
the jurisdictional creep on this one. If they come forward,
like just a reminder that this motion is conditional on
the province coming forward with, with the accountability and the
money to, to support both projects. So at the end
of the day, I do think it is a win
- win. And while I hear councillor tours concerns about,
you know, whether or not we could afford this, whether
or not this priority, I just want to remind folks
with TRCA, CBCA coming forward today, incredible work they are
doing, but also quality of life and providing these sorts
of beautiful amenities for our residents to enjoy is also
part of a healthy community and a complete community. Um,
things that would be offered for free. We're not charging
people to be part of this peer, but we're giving
them an amenity to enjoy. And so I just want
to say thank you to Mira Brown and colleagues around
the table who are supporting this. I'll certainly be supporting
this. And thank you for, uh, finding compromise and holding
the province accountable for the money that is owed to
these two projects. Thank you. And if I could, just
before we deal with the motion, thank you for all
the comments that have been made that I agree with
entirely. A very multi - layered issue. First thing I
want to do is though, I want to reach out
particularly and thank the premier himself. Um, because without the
premier's interdiction, we would not be here. Uh, and, um,
we have a lot of conversations about what we do
in PIL. We sometimes have to remind them some of
our friends do well. I'm going to say it publicly.
Nice to see our friends next door. We got 1.
5 billion dollars for levies. And we're waiting to be
treated just as well. Very, very soon. Uplifting some highways,
et cetera. But it tells us he knows we're in
his thoughts and in his concerns for us. And without
his interdiction, we would not be here. So a shout
out to the premier in his office and the ministers
that are willing to make this thing work. Um, Mayor
Brown and Mayor Parish did all the heavy lifting behind
the scenes. I have to give them a tremendous amount
of credit as well. One of the points that I
want to make, though, in fairness to the taxpayer, jurisdictional
creep, please don't bring it up again. It didn't start
today. It started 38 years ago when I arrived. It's
always been the case. And let me tell you why.
It's very, very, very simple because the federal government has
all the money through the power of direct taxation because
the provincial government has all the power because of the
British North America act and the Constitution Act where we
are creatures of the province, which means we have all
the problems. It's been true for 38 years. You want
to talk about jurisdictional creep. Why do we give money
to the food bank? Why do you give money to
dental plans? We've always done it. So at some point
we have to parse out that conversation. If you want
to start that conversation, shut the place down today. Shut
the place down today. Love the young kids talking about
technology. I'm pretty sure that's education. That's not us. Bobo,
what can we do? How can we help in the
chair to go? Why. Because if we don't, nobody else
will. So get used to that. The next point I
want taxpayers to understand. I'm going to coach it this
way. I can build the pier for 25 cents on
the dollar right now. Forget the peer. It's tough economic
times and we're sitting around your household. You know, the
car is falling apart. We need a new car, honey.
It's how we pay the bills. We cannot afford a
new car now. But I tell you what, it's 25
cents on the dollar right now. But we get through
these hard times two years. We'll make this jalopy work
and we'll do it in two years. What happens in
two years? You're paying 100 cents on the dollar. Oh,
we might want to have a discussion around that. Might
want to think that one through. It doesn't sound like
it makes sense. But if you're telling me somebody's giving
you 25 cents on the dollar now, but we really
can't afford to do it. But in two years, you
can go ahead when times are better, but you're paying
100 cents. Or not building it at all. Keep that
in mind. Number three, I'm going to tell you, just
like we give money to an equestrian centre in Caledon
and I fully support it. I'm glad because it's a
great regional asset. Bell fountain, things of that sort. Great
cities have great waterfronts. And I'm going to remind you
of something of the oath that you've all taken. When
we come here, we're not supposed to act like three
communities. You took an oath. If you looked at it
from the lens of this being the city of Peel,
which in a matter of speaking is the lens you're
all supposed to have. Great cities have great waterfronts. This
is a tremendous asset. And what it is in the
hospital is infrastructure. Understand it that way. This is tremendous
infrastructure on both of us, educating the next generation on
healthcare and animating our waterfront and all the ancillary services
and the restaurants that open the given new condos being
built. These are economic engines that will spur development. And
finally speaking on my own behalf to bring the whole
conversation. Because I, in part got you into this pickle,
when I was asked to meet with the premier, the
proponents, the municipality. Nandere, are you in for 25 cents?
I was the first one to shake everybody's eye men.
You know why? Because I'm used to a world for
38 years where I owned 90 percent of the stuff
and got 10 cents on the dollar. So I want
everybody to hear it from me. If I get another
offer like this on anything, the chairman's saying yes. Because
I go back to, no, let's go back to the
old model. Well, that's the model where I get eight
cents on the dollar of all the taxes. And we
own three quarters of all the stuff. Somebody's come in
and just said, I got 50 million bucks for you.
And it's going to cost you 10. Why on earth
would I shame? No. So I'd like to fix confederation.
We're not going to. You have to assess these in
and of themselves and in and of themselves, they are
great projects for the region of peel. So for that
reason, I made an early commitment when I stand by
it. Thanks to the premier and the mayors and everybody.
I think we've classic wonderful compromise. And I think when
all is said and done, it's a great day for
peel. So I wanted to explain my role and how
I see it and I leave it to a vote.
One last speaker, Councillor DeMarila. Sorry, Chair. I couldn't resist.
You made some interesting comments. And as always, you're very
eloquent. But I think I'm going to disagree with you
with the idea get used to it. No. I'm not
going to get used to it as long as I'm
a councillor here. I don't think it's fair to say
that. And one of the reasons I think senior levels
of government get away with it is because we are
willing. To own the tax increases. We do not clearly
say this is happening because we are not funded. This
is something that I think if the property taxpayer knew
where their money was going, senior levels of government would
hear about it. It would change things. I don't think
we can stop trying. I don't think we should get
used to it. And the only other last thing I'm
going to say is picking up on what councillor tour
said. I think there's many of my residents. Who are
unable to renovate their kitchen or their roof even on
25 cents on the dollar. But I'm asking them for
25 cents on the dollar for something far away. I
think we should keep that in mind as well. Thank
you. Thank you, Councillor. Thank you. And apologies again to
get back on the board, but just following the theme
of disagreements with comments, uh, I disagree with a lot
of the comments as well. I understand the spirit of
it. But, uh, you know, talking about jurisdictional creep, again,
I, I've never brought that up. I just said that
as a project, we're not funding. But when you're talking
about, uh, why are we giving money to the food
banks? Why are we giving money towards dental care? Where's
childcare supports any of those things? If we stop doing
any of those things, those are critical functions. We don't
have an option to stop funding those. Even if other
levels of government don't step up a hundred percent, We
don't have an option to stop providing any of those
services. You know what we can stop, not building that,
but you know. The issues of that. That's not critical
infrastructure. Unless somebody can prove me wrong on that one,
like is that critical infrastructure? Cause I've never heard about
it as such. It's been, it's been posed here as
an extraordinary landmark and a major tourist attraction. To compare
that to say, yeah, it's because we, you know, we
fund all of these things that are outside of a
jurisdiction. So go ahead and we can do that as
well. That is absolutely a very, uh, a wrong comparison
to make. We're in those lines of businesses because those
absolutely critical functions. We don't have a choice to stop
funding any of those. We have a choice of these.
And everybody's making a conscious choice on this. So no
matter how you want to package this, it is right
here in front of you. And so vote accordingly, no
hesitations. Everyone supports this, but please let's not mix this
with other things as critical infrastructure. Something that families cannot
live without. Thank you. Great conversation. Madam Clerk. I bring
the vote back to you and I understand I wanted
to be split up or I'm in your hands. I
dually have the motion before me move by Mayor Brown
and Councillor Dasko. You have it before you written. Madam
Clerk over to you. We'll start with the, uh, motion
as it relates to the Lakeview peer. And, uh, you
will see that on your screen. And we're going to,
this is a recorded vote because I recorded vote.
Madam Clerk, I'm finding a hard time trying to figure
out how to vote here online. We're just, we're just
getting ready to start it. And if not, we'll go
to a straw vote that I'll adjudicate. Here we are.
I think we're on our way. Councillor
Kovac, on behalf of Councillor Mahoney, your vote. Yes.
Yeah. Mr. Nextor Dasko on behalf of the mayor. Yes.
Yes.
Councillor Dasko or Councillor. Santos. Did you need us to
enter your vote on your behalf? Yes, please in favor.
Your vote is yes. Okay. Just a moment, please. Thank
you.
Councillor Fortini, your vote on behalf of Councillor Medeiros. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Okay. And Councillor Santos votes yes. There's a
24. Go ahead and, uh. And I too would be
voting in favor as well. All. Good. Yeah.
Clear it passes. Okay. So the vote is closed and
the motion carries. Just a moment. We're just a moment.
We'll show the screen. Councillor Tor. Yes. Put your point
avoider. If you want to take back your commentary, you
just said in public right now. Do you want to
put on public record? Would you just said or you
want to take it back right now? You want to
take you back right now. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
Okay. Madam. Okay. Madam Clerk, you're satisfied
with the vote. That carries. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Madam
clerk back to you for the second component of the,
we're just going to put it on the screen. Just
give us one moment.
Is this recorded as well? According to vote? Yes. There
we go. Everybody please for the recorded vote on the
peer funding. Oh, this is TMU. TMU. Oh, sorry TMU.
My apologise. It just switched over now. For a TMU,
Councillor Dasco, you're going to need to vote for Mayor's
problem. Correct. Okay. Counciled Asco on behalf of Mayor Parish.
Yes.
Councillor Santos. Councillor Santos. Your vote. Yes. But I figured
out the online. Okay. All right. I'm going to go
ahead and do it for you since I have you
entered, if that's okay. Thank you.
On behalf of Councillor Mahoney. Yes. Thank you. And one
more councillor. Fortini on behalf of Councillor Maderos. Yes.
I think. We. Should have one more. Is everybody enter
their vote. And Madam Clerk with my vote. Can I
declare that unanimous? Uh. No. You only would vote if
there was a time. Okay. There we are. 24. It's
unanimous. And that carries. Okay. Thank you. So with that
now, getting back to the last two items before we
take a break councillor heart, you want it to introduce
an item. Moving around the agenda. I know we're having
a very busy day with a lot of important issues.
Look at these based on experiencing this sort of thing
for supportive housing and affordable housing in our communities is
10 years. So I'd like you to sit with that
for a moment. And imagine how difficult that gap would
be to navigate if you are someone who is looking
for housing for yourself and your families that create a
safe space and prevent you from going back into an
environment that offers abuse and potentially continuing that cycle for
generations to come. So while again, I took those as
friendly amendments. I would encourage us to look at in
our next term asking staff to do a review of
whether or not this type of support is best placed
with the province or if it's something that we should
be doing. We have a policy that says we don't
turn anyone away, and yet our emergency shelters for gender
- based violence are turning people away on a daily
basis. A daily basis. And these women are not safe
where they are. They're not just not safe because they're
sleeping on a bench or they're in an encampment or
anything else. They're not safe because they are experiencing violence
within the four walls of what should be their homes.
And so, you know, I'm grateful for all the work
and the support we had from staff, the incredible stories
that we heard from survivors, the incredible participation we had
from staff from both planning and human services and beyond
and the developers who came into that room. But we
really need to look at how we provide these emergency
shelter as well as the transitional housing that's needed, because
we're not going to break this cycle if we don't
answer this housing issue. It is a critical component to
this. As someone who came, you know, back to Mr.
Saga after a long time away as a result of
finding myself standing next to the highway, calling my mom
to come and get me to escape this. I am
embarrassed. That we don't take care of this kind of
issue, because not everybody has my mom. You know, not
everybody has a mom they can call. Not everybody has
a family that will house them. They will create an
opportunity for them to become a voice at this table.
So I hope that this will get the two -
thirds support it needs. I appreciate your indulgence in letting
me speak for so long, and I will leave it
there. And thank you. You're welcome. And what I'm going
to do before I go to Councillor Santos. I have
to deal with it and get two - thirds. So
it is duly moved by Councillor Hart and Councillor Santos.
I first asked for the two - thirds, is anybody
opposed? Seeing none so the motion is properly before me.
Councillor Santos, if you'd like to speak to your motion.
Thank you so much. And thank you so much, Councillor
Hart for bringing this forward into the city staff and
all the incredible women's organisations who also provided many of
these amendments as well. This is definitely something that we
continue to deal with at the region of Peel that
still needs significant support from our provincial partners. Um, the
breakthrough cycle summit last week was fantastic. As Councillor Hart
had shared, there were dozens of folks from various sectors
participating and a big shout out to the councillors and
Mayor Brown, who attended the summit as well. This is
just one component of what was shared as a major
challenge to break a cycle is the emergency shelter system.
With respect to other issues for housing to break the
cycle, it was very pointedly pointed out at the summit
again that we don't have enough transitional housing. Um, and
so while emergency shelters is within community, um, social services,
uh, ministry at the province, the minister of housing and
representatives from the ministry of housing were not present at
the time at the summit either. And so I know
that the organisers of the breakthrough cycle summit, the women's
groups who were involved will be providing a briefing for
council on some of the next steps in action items
coming from the summit on Friday, which were fantastic. But
this first motion, and I appreciate everyone for bringing for
allowing us to move it forward is certainly an important
one to get us going. So thank you, Councillor Hart,
for bringing this forward. Thank you to all the women's
groups, the regional staff who participated TMU who also hosted
it and councillors and mayor for attending last Friday. Thank
you, Councillor Hornet. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I think
Councillor Santos and Hart just said a lot of what,
uh, needed to be said. And they did a great
job organising that conference with the groups that were present.
Uh, it was really good to be there. Um, I
think Commissioner Jakes perhaps has an ad to the motion
that will enhance it, both reaching out to the province
a little bit. Commissioner, do you want to just mention
that. Yes. So thank you through the chair. Thank you,
Councillor Hornig. Uh, just didn't, um, in the, uh, therefore
to be resolved and section three, I would add the
ministry of health. As another partner ministry. As we know,
and, you know, Commissioner Posinelli knows that in any of
these spaces, if health is not part of it, then
we've only solved half the problem. And they have access
to greater funding and they provide the support services that
needed support services for all our vulnerable residents. And they
need to come to the table as well. With housing
and with community and social services. So thank you for
that opportunity. Thanks, Commissioner. I really appreciate it. And I
think that's a very good addition. Um, I guess one
of the thing I would just share is, you know,
I served on the Arma House Board of Directors for
six years. And, you know, I heard a lot of
the hard stories, but, um, just being at the conference,
there was one that really did stick with me that
I think I want to just relate. And I think
I mentioned this saga council. One of the women was
saying, you know, when she was looking for shelter space,
she had to call each of the shelter's individually. And
each time they'd ask her to tell her story. Each
time they're basically re - traumatizing her. Makes no sense
at all. And Minister Williams, Charmaine Williams, was there. And
I hope one of the asks maybe to her would
be they're from council at a future date would be,
you know, having a central intake. So you only have
to tell that story one time. I'm not calling up
the shelter and Barry. And then the shelter in Brampton.
And then the shelter room is a saga. Desperately looking
for a bed. Um, I think that would be something
that perhaps the ministerial level would be a really good
ask. And frankly, I can't even think of a cost
that much, to be honest. Uh, you could take that
and do that. In the afternoon. So I think that's
a future ask, but this motion in front of us
is excellent. And thank you to Councillor Hart and Santos.
This will make hopefully some really good impact in our
community and the lives of people who are suffering terrible
trauma. So thank you for working on that. Thank you
Mayor Groves. Thank you, Chair. And through you, um, thank
you, Councillor Hart and Santos for bringing this motion forward.
I think it's very important. This is something that's been
around for many, many years. And Council Hart, thank you
for sharing your story. Um, you know, one of the
challenges, I think, these folks feel or experience is they're
afraid to come forward. Um, and it takes courage to
come forward. Um, you know, I did some work at
a women's shelter in Vaughn at one point in my
life. And I can tell you, I've seen it firsthand.
And we've often said to these women don't even worry
about taking anything. Grab health cards, birth certificates and just
leave. They are terrified to leave. And they are terrified
of being found, um, so this is, this is a
very important issue. Commissioner Jacques, thank you for suggesting Ministry
of Health. I think it is more than just something
that, uh, for shelter, certainly impacts people's health. And I've
seen it. I've seen it with the women. I've seen
it with the children when they come into the shelter.
Um, I can tell you that, you know, my mom
was a victim of that. She didn't have the courage
or the strength to come forward. She had six children.
She had to concern herself with. So, you know, I,
again, this is something that's been around for years. And
Councillor Hornick, you make a very good point. Why do
these women have to relive that every time? Every time
they tell the story, it's reliving the horror. It's reliving
all of those terrible, terrible things. Um, and nobody wants
to relive that. So just, and Councillor Santos, you've been
a strong advocate on this. And, um, and to all
the groups, you know, when you come together with one
voice, it's much stronger, much, much stronger. And, and really
again, we talk about it all the time. And councillor
Santos, do you make a very good point? Because that
was one of the most difficult things that the shelter
is finding that transitional home, those transitional homes to get
these women back out there, building confidence, get them a
place to live. Because at the shelter, you can only
keep, they can only stay for a limited time because
it's just not enough room. So once again, thank you
both for bringing this forward happy to support it. Thank
you, Councillor Fonseca. Thank you through you chair. I just
wanted to say, um, uh, it was both heartbreaking and
heartwarming. To attend the summit. Um, just wanted to say
a huge thanks to both councillor Santos and Councillor Hart
and all of the collaboration in making the summit happen.
Um, I was very honoured to be able to participate.
And as was said, uh, by Councillor Hornick and councillor
Santos and heart, um, this is really, it's really breaking
the cycle, the whole purpose of the summit event was
to look for action oriented solutions. Uh, and outcomes. Um,
I'm looking forward to the next steps. Um, I think
this motion is wonderful. Uh, one of the things I'm
not sure, maybe it's clear enough in the motion, um,
but one of the things that was identified along with
the re - traumatization, uh, that Councillor Hornick pointed out
was the fact that, um, and it was, it was
acknowledged by everyone that was there, including, um, minister Williams
is that, um, once somebody actually wants somebody is, um,
uh, admitted or taken into a shelter stay, the clock
starts ticking. I know that it says, and whereas adequate
shelter stays are often required. Um, I don't know if
it underscores, uh, I don't know if that underscores enough,
um, the, the alarming, like the, the length of stay.
I think it's 30 days or something. Like it's such
a short period of time. So maybe there should be,
I don't know, maybe it doesn't have to happen here.
Maybe it can happen in a, in another motion. Um,
where it's acknowledging the need for a, um, somebody within
the shelter system to help individuals navigate that transition, um,
from the shelter state to the longer term, uh, longer
term housing solution. I'm not sure if, I don't know
if this is strong enough to like the wording that's
here. Maybe it's not needed, but that seemed to be
something that was, um, created a lot of anxiety within
the guest speakers, uh, that spoke about once they were
actually, um, taken into a shelter. So anyway, I just
wanted to reference that, um, and say again, uh, congratulations
and thank you for everybody involved. And yes, the next
step is extremely important. Thanks. Thank you. That's my list
of speakers. You have the motion before you all those
in favor. Anybody opposed that carries unanimously. Okay. And final
item before the break. Dr. Saha, if I can call
you up, we're going to deal with item eight to
senior services 2025 annual report. And as Dr. Saha is
coming up, one formality. We dealt with the last motion,
but I should have brought up report 17 three and
17 five at the time. Brad, if you'll move those
forward just to be dealt with and receive seconded by
Councillor Dasko, all those in favor. Cary. Thank you. And
Marie and Dr. Saha, welcome and please proceed. Thank you
for your patience. Thank you. Good afternoon, chair unique and
members of regional council. Thank you for the opportunity for
us to be here today. And it's especially meaningful to
us to provide this update during the seniors month as
we reflect on our ongoing efforts to support and enhance
the well - being of seniors across Peel. My name
is Anne - Marie Case Volckerd and I'm the senior
director for our five long - term care homes and
here with me today as Dr. Suredh Sahar, senior medical
director. This report aligns with your responsibilities as members of
the committee of management in ensuring that the region's five
long - term care homes comply with all the requirements
under the fixing long - term care act. Our presentation
will also build from the upcoming presentation by Kathy Granger
and Ray Applebaum on advancing integrated services for seniors, as
well as pennies earlier delegation, highlighting the importance of creditation
and continuous quality improvement. We will focus on key annual
updates and share how we are improving the quality of
life for seniors we serve while meeting provincial standards and
strengthening our workforce. Can you hear me.
Jernica members of regional council. Thank you very much for
giving us an opportunity to speak to you today and
a very warm welcome. Um, as you will be aware,
peel region continues to experience a significant demographic shift with
old adults over 65, presenting with increasingly complex care and
support needs. As the population changes, so to do the
health and social care requirements of this group. Peel region,
has a critical rule to play in supporting seniors and
responding to the growing complexity of care required to look
after this aging population. The service is operated by the
region span the full continuum of care. And I believe
you're doing an excellent job as far as that's concerned.
From community - based supports for seniors and complex needs
for people who are living independently. This is through to
hire equity services like our integrated care model or long
- term care homes where residents require 24 - hour
medical and personal support. More specifically, we are seeing increasing
demand for responsive person - centred care and services that
are making a meaningful and measurable difference to the lives
of seniors and their caregivers. Through our adult - day
services and long - term care homes, we support seniors
with a complex health and social care needs. This includes
a significant proportion of individuals living with cognitive impairment. And
two - thirds of people living in long - term
care homes are people living with dementia. And essential component
of our care and services is the provision of person
- centred emotion - based care, which the region has
both initiated as well as continues to lead. And which
recognises responses and response to the individual needs of this
vulnerable population and their families. The impact of this work
is best understood through the words of those we serve
and those with whom we work. As one family member
shared, everyone at the Davis Centre long - term care
centre is incredible. They are professional, kind, loving and extremely
respectful of my loved one. They provide exceptional care, and
I'm extremely happy in relieved that my loved one is
at the Davis Centre long - term care centre. That's
the kind of work we are currently doing. I'd also
like to state that William Osler Health System is proud
to have achieved three years of butterfly accreditation. They would
like technology and thank PL region for its valued partnership
in this venture. Thanks to the ongoing support from regional
council, senior services is recognised as a leader in service
excellence in an innovation in seniors care. You've already heard
about our successful three - year CARF accreditation. A milestone
made possible by the incredible work of our teams and
strong support of our corporate partners. Earlier this year, we
were also honoured to receive advantage Ontario's innovation and excellence
workplace quality award. Recognising our culture and well - being
program and efforts in building a resilient and supportive workforce.
Additionally, VRAM Davis Centre recently became the first long -
term care centre in Ontario to achieve butterfly certification across
the entire centre. Demonstrating leadership and emotion - based dementia
care across adult - day services and long - term
care. This was supported through one - time provincial funding
under the improving dementia care program. Together, these achievements reflect
our continued focus on delivering compassionate, high - quality care.
As part of the province's continuous quality improvement program, the
region's long - term care homes monitor a number of
key quality indicators, which I present to you today. Six
of these indicators that reported to the Canadian Institute for
Health Information and are publicly reported by all long -
term care homes in Ontario. They're used to measure health
system performance, support benchmarking and informed targets within quality improvement
plans. Our homes continue to exceed provincial averages across most
of the quality care indicators, as you can see. Our
performance has also been stronger than that of non -
accredited long - term care homes. These results reflect our
ongoing commitment to delivering evidence - informed person - centred
in emotion - based care. Over the past year, there
were pending amendments to the fixing long - term care
act in accompanying regulations through Bill 14 support for seniors
and caregivers act. Bill 14 is still awaiting second reading
since council was last updated in the fall. We will
continue to provide updates as these legislative changes continue to
evolve. The Ministry of Long - Term Care also conducts
different types of unannounced inspections in every long - term
care home across the province. Inspections include interviews with residents,
family members, and staff, a review of records, as well
as direct observations of how care services are being delivered.
The ministry also recently launched a new dedicated Ontario long
- term care home inspections reports website where reports are
now accessible. Inspections have increased significantly across the province with
29 inspections in 2025 for our homes. And each lasting
approximately six days. These inspections have resulted in 79 findings
and one compliance order. The order was related to abuse
and neglect as a result of an altercation between residents
and was promptly addressed. To mitigate risk to residents, we
have proactive measures in place, take immediate action to address
any non - compliance findings. This includes policy revisions developing
new processes and tools, enhancements to training, quality improvement and
risk mitigation initiatives, and reinforcing roles and responsibilities of the
interdisciplinary team. It's important to note that the Ministry of
Long - Term Care Investigations Unit is also fully operational
with a dedicated team. While it is separate from the
inspection program, it is a component of the enforcement actions
available within the fixing long - term care act. This
team will complete investigations and follow - up to allegations
of provincial offences. As outlined in the Act. The delivery
of safe, high - quality care in our centres is
a 24 - 7 operation made possible by the dedication
and coordinated efforts of our skilled interdisciplinary teams. In 2025
alone, this meant managing over 500, 000 scheduling calls to
fill approximately 34, 000 shifts. Underscoring the scale in the
complexity of staffing in long - term care and adult
- day services. To support our stuff, we invest significantly
in learning and development to ensure teams have the skills
needed to respond to increasingly complex client and resident needs.
We also continue to take a multifaceted approach to psychological
health and well - being recognising that a supported workforce
is critical to delivering compassionate care. These efforts are helping
us stabilize staffing, reduce burnout, and build a culture where
staff feel valued, supported, and empowered to meet the growing
needs of peel seniors. Looking ahead, our priorities are guided
by our senior services strategic plan and a vision for
individuals to receive person - centred, innovative, integrated care and
support that enhances their quality of life. We will continue
advancing our psychological health and well - being program to
ensure staff are supported in today's evolving care environments. We're
also strengthening continuous learning and training, including enhancements to nursing
mentorship, frontline, mental health training. These initiatives will build staff
capacity to respond to the evolving clinical needs of seniors
while supporting staff safety and well - being. Expanding a
motion - based care beyond designated home areas remains a
priority to ensure all seniors in our care have equitable
access to this approach. At the same time, we continue
to advocate for sustainable provincial funding. While leveraging one -
time investments to address immediate system pressures and enhanced care
delivery. We are committed to continuing our work with partners
across health, the health system to ensure seniors in PIL
receive the care and support they need. Thank you, Chair
and Regional Council for your ongoing support for our initiatives
to improve the lives of seniors across Peel. Dr. Saha
and I welcome any questions that you may have at
this time. And there are, thank you, Mayor Groves. Thank
you, Chair, and thank you both for the presentation. I
always enjoy your presentation and always look forward to that.
Um, I will say that, uh, just a little bit
of bragging, that peel region was the first, I think
in the country to pilot that butterfly program. And we
were the leaders in that program. And it's great to
see that, uh, Veredavis has been certified, and I think
you said William Osler. I guess, um, Dr. Sched was
here, and I can't recall how long ago it was,
but it was after the program, we ran the program,
we piloted the program. He came back and reported, I
think it was, what is after a year that the
program ran, and he gave some stats on, um, the
residents who had dementia and their percentage of not the
dependency or not depending on the antipsychosis medication. I would
like to understand if there was any further data there
to show, um, how that has improved the quality of
life for these individuals and not depending so much on
that antipsychosis medication. We have anything like that. Thank you
very much, Mayor Groves. I'm very pleased to mention that
based upon data that we've collected over the course of
the past one and a half years, specifically in an
acute care unit, we have published earlier on this year
in the Canadian Geoatics Journal, which is a level one
journal, about the results that we had in our unit
as compared to another unit, which didn't have this program.
And what we were able to see is that antipsychotic
usage was lower. Incidence of falls was lower. Caregiver satisfaction
was higher. And out comes with patients were higher. So
in all of these aspects, which I consider to be
critically clinically important, we have a methodology that is delivering
results. I'm very proud to support it. That's great. And
I'm, I'm happy to see that our stats are actually
where we're actually beating the provincial average. I significant numbers.
Yes. So that's really good to know. I mean, I
know, and I've always, I always brag about our homes,
whether it's supportive housing or long - term care that
we have the best in the country, I believe. I
would agree with that. I can tell you from very
- Waiting list support that as well. Absolutely. But then
we have a great medical officer through our medical director.
So it's great. Um, one of the things, though, and
I know we talk about the support we provide for
the residents. But, you know, I'm always concerned about caregiver
burnout. What are, I mean, I don't know that that's
our responsibility solely, but is there anything that we are
doing and whether we're working with the ministry just to
understand that and see what is provided? Like, what are
we providing? What is the province providing for these caregivers?
No, okay, I can start and then you can jump
in. Through the chair, thank you so much for that
question. And you're absolutely right caregivers are an important part
at partner in the system. Um, supporting their loved ones.
And we actually do support caregivers across the continuum. So
through our adult day services program, a lot of support,
um, is, is provided through the sheer fact that we
have co - located adult day services programs. Um, we
have education sessions, virtual programming as well that supports, um,
that we have both at Davis Centre and now at
Senior Health and Wellness Village at PLManner also support caregivers
in that, um, respect as well, uh, we, we support
our social workers in the adult day program also are
supporting through social prescribing and really looking after the caregiver.
As far as on the other end of that continuum
in long - term care, we are partnering currently with
the Ontario Caregivers Association or organisation, sorry. Um, to really
look at our caregivers, our families that are visiting long
- term care oftentimes elderly themselves and requiring supports themselves
and supporting, how can we support in terms of system
navigation, connecting them in the community. So that is something
we're right in the midst of looking at how we
can enhance that support. Thank you, and I'm really glad
to hear you say that because to your point, a
lot of the caregivers that are supporting their mums or
dads, they're older themselves. And I know I've had a
lot of my residents who, you know, some of them,
their parents are in their late 80s or 90s. So
you can well imagine the caregivers, they are in their
70s. And it's difficult on them. So I'm, I'm really
happy to hear you say that because they are an
integral part of the system. We know, we have burnout
of the, um, the nurses, the doctors, or the healthcare
professionals. And I think they help to take some of
that burden from the healthcare professionals. So thank you for
that. Glad to hear that you're working with the Ontario
caregiver's association. Organisation on OCO. So Ontario Caregater. That's perfect.
Is there anything that we can do? And I don't
know how these caregivers do they know about the program
or is there anything we can do to spread the
word so that, um, they, they can, they know what
we're providing and the support that we're providing. I think,
and it's, it's, we also have another report coming as
well that's really focused on the community side of things
as well and how we can better, um, support, uh,
socialized isolation and support other components of, um, for seniors
living in the community supporting and supporting them in that
way. I don't know if you wanted to add something.
So, Migra, if I want to take a step back,
and again, I've highlighted to regional council prior that for
people who have dementia, the best place for them to
age is actually home. And what we try to do
from the perspective of the butterfly model, once these patients
have reached a level of complexity that they cannot be
looked after at home is to provide a home -
like environment. However, based upon the questions that you're asking,
there is a significant demographic or significant group of people
who want to continue to look after their elderly ones
at home who have advanced dementia. And that is something
that we acknowledge. And we are doing leading work in
that at the region of Pale through the course of
the work that we are doing at our adult age
services at peel manner in particular through the Thrive program.
And this is a specialized program that we have developed
at the region that is based upon evidence - based
protocols from the United States called the pace model. We
have now recruited about 70 or 80 people. Our target
is about approximately 100. And the initial statistics that we
have gathered from this are extremely favorable. I don't want
to sound too ambitious, but our intentions here is to
do once again for the adult day services landscape, what
the butterfly model did for the long - term care
landscape is to fundamentally reinvent and to show to the
province that there is a better way to do adult
- day services that is more supportive. And that is
perhaps more conducive to people living with advanced dementia. Specifically
from caregiver support at the pill minor facility, we also
have a variety of respite beds available that can provide
it some respite to caregivers we're getting burnt out. So
quite a lot. We're also adding, just in terms of
as well as community paramedicine and the importance of that
in supporting caregivers as well for people who are either
on the wait list for long - term care or
choosing to age in place in their own homes in
the community. That's great. Well, thank you both so very
much. And to your team, your entire team, thank you
for all that you do. Um, you do great work.
I just want to recognise Keith Ward in the audience
there. He's a face from the past. And yeah, nice
to see you, Keith. Anyway, thank you so very much.
I'm really glad to hear that because, like I said,
I think those caregivers, they're forgotten a lot of times.
So thank you. Shout out to Keith hasn't changed at
all, by the way. I had a bit of a,
am I still a councillor when he walked in? I
go, nothing's changed. And good to see you. Uh, Councillor
Reed. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, Dr. Saha
and Emery on your amazing work. And we had people
from the region at our seniors fair on Friday sharing
all the different resources, which is great because a lot
of these projects and things that you're working on are
kind of more in the north and not necessarily in
our area. Um, and people, people don't know boundaries when
it comes to it. So they're definitely taking advantage of
those, uh, services. Um, but I wish the story was
told a little bit more. You know, we're talking about
these, these are best in the province, best in the
country program statistically and experientially. But for a lot of
people in my areas, you don't know that they exist.
So just for them to know that they're there, not
even that they're the best, but that they're there. The
senior sphere is great. And your team's amazing coming out
to that. Uh, so we have programs like Molly's club.
That was one of the other groups that came out.
And it's like a private business that's trying to do
some of the work that the region is doing. Uh,
do you have any partnerships with any of these organisations
that are trying to do some of this work and
trying to fill some of those gaps in areas that
don't have some of those services. Any partnerships with any
of those private organisations doing like the day looking at
my, my community counterparts, um, for supporting that. There are
partnerships with community organisations. I don't have the list on
hand. And I don't know. If it's going to come
up in your presentation or not. Kathy. I'm not sure.
Mr. Sorry through the chair. I was actually just going
to say what you were going to scream out. That's
a very good question. Um, councillor. And it really does
speak to the next presentation that will be had after
lunch. And it is about the work that we're doing
in senior services and across the organisation to reach out
to those senior programs and continuing to build those relationships.
And that matrix of support for our community. Hold on
to that one. All right. Definitely. I just, I just
really overjoyed. You have such great leadership and we're doing
amazing work. And I just want to make sure everyone
knows about it. So thank you so much. Thank you.
Um, that concludes my list. Thank you for your presentation
receipt moved by Councillored and Mayor Groves, all those in
favor carried. Okay members of council with that, we're going
to take a well - deserved break, especially for the
staff. I want everybody back at 12, sorry, 1. 30
so that we marshal on the last handful of things.
So a recess till 130, thank you.
Okay everybody, welcome back. As a day with quite a
few highs and lows, there was another low unfortunate, I
blame myself that on otherwise a great day, we gotten
a lot done. We were in behind and they brought
us a little cupcakes and I didn't bring a candle
to put on Mayor Groves'cupcake because it's her birthday. Doesn't
she look great for 30 years old? Isn't you just
amazing. 25 years of public service on only 30 years
old. It's remarkable. Congratulations, Madam Mayor. Okay. All right, moving
on in that celebratory theme. Moving on, presentations of staff.
We're on to our next one with thanks for everybody
waiting patiently. Item 8, 1 advancing integrated senior services responding
to demand through service alignment advocacy and sustained investment. Here
for information, Ray Applebaum's here from the Peel Council of
Aging and Kathy Granger, General Manager Senior Services. Welcome.
Okay, I guess it's good afternoon. Chair members of council,
and thank you for the opportunity to present here today
to highlight our senior's work. My name is Kathy Granger,
as chair said, and I'm the general manager of senior
services at PL region. And joining me today is Raymond
Applebaum, representing the Peel Council on Aging, where he serves
as board secretary. I think most of you know, Ray,
he's no stranger to us at the region. And he
brings extensive experience across the senior sector. Including leadership and
advocacy, policy, and service delivery. His work includes leadership with
paces, Canada's advisory board. Senior social action, provincial policy and
advocacy advisory committee, as well as serving as former CEO
for PL senior link and co - founder of the
metamorphosis network. Today, as part of seniors'month, we're pleased to
present an overview of our work on advancing integrated services
to support our seniors, respond to demand through service alignment,
advocacy, and sustained investment. And what we'll share today is
really about three things. The growing demand and complexity we're
seeing across the system in its aging population. And what
we're learning about the importance of integration and coordination. And
where we see opportunities to strengthen how we support seniors
and caregivers moving forward. And I see we're already on
the next slide. I'm going to start to talk about
the need. Over the past several years, demand across senior
services has continued to grow both in volume and complexity.
We're seeing this across the whole continuum. Significant wait lists
for adult daycare services. Long - term care and increased
reliance on programs like community paramedicine and strong demand for
transportation and housing supports. At the same time, peels seniors
population and needs are also rapidly increasing. More individuals are
living with chronic conditions and dementia. Rising levels of social
isolation will impact health and well - being underscoring the
importance of social connection for overall key component of healthy
aging, as we discussed in the previous presentation. At the
same time, many of our seniors are navigating significant financial
pressures alongside limited access to primary care. Taken together this
highlights that while needs are increasing, they're also becoming more
complex. And urgent placing growing stream on our health and
social services system and outpacing traditional service models.
From the perspective of seniors and caregivers, the system is
an experience as separate programs. Its experience as one journey,
often with multiple transitions. And those transitions are often, and
most often, not seamless. We're seeing increasing pressure on our
community services as hospital much more on community - based
care, which further highlights the importance of strong integration across
our community. There's a clear opportunity to improve how services
our connected and coordinated and shift more intentionally to prevention
and early support. And strengthen our ability to support people
to age safely in place. When integration works well, we
will see. Easier navigation and better continuity of care. And
more efficient use of resources across the system. In
PO, we're strengthening our role as an anchor provider by
advancing a more integrated sustainable approach to seniors across four
key areas. First, we prioritize preventative person - centred care
through interdisciplinary models exemplified by the senior's health and wellness
village at PL Manor that you heard about this morning,
and many of you have come to see. And the
community access to long - term care program, which connects
services and support seniors with complex needs to remain at
home longer. Second, we are deepening cross - sector partnerships
across health, housing, and social services to improve navigation coordination
and access. And third, we support aging in place. And
reduce caregiver strain through initiatives like community paramedicine, along with
rustbite care and adult day programs. And finally, we are
focused on system transformation and sustainability with early results showing
improved access, better coordination, and reduced pressure on hospitals and
long - term care. At the same time, we know
that strong community partnerships are essential. To sustaining this progress
and ensuring services remain grounded in lived experiences of seniors
and caregivers. And with that, I'd like to invite Raymond
to share perspectives from the field council on aging. Thanks
so much. Great to be here. Chair, councillors. Uh, it's
a great opportunity to be able to share with you
a little bit about the peel council on aging and
the work that we're doing along side - by -
side with the region. Um, I think the only thing
that's changed as you look younger. Last time I was,
you're all looking younger. So I'm really pleased to see
that, um, you know, I'm enjoying my retirement and only
10 months in, but Kathy pulled me back and I'm
here today with you. Um, I think one of the
things I like to just start with quickly, uh, is
just some commentary on what I see as success. And
as I've sat here since early this morning and watched
and listened to many excellent presentations and commentary, there's common
themes throughout all the presentations. Yes, the context is different.
They're talking about different subject areas. But really in general,
I've heard a couple of things that really rang true
for me. The first is partnerships. When I came in
1991 to start working here in Peel, um, and I
met this wonderful guy, Keith Ward, who's sitting behind me,
um, Keith was all about partnerships. And the region is
all about partnerships. And if you, you know, your policy
stated, the way that you communicate with one another. And
the way you've connected with your community in such a
positive way. So I would say just keep on going
in terms of partnerships and how we're going to get
through tough times and always challenging times to be able
to do things together. The second is the integrated health
and human service message. That was heard several times for
me this morning. Um, and that's something of course that
we continue to work on, uh, here at the region
of Peel. You've done some amazing work in this area,
the Swift project that I've had the pleasure of serving
on the advisory team right from the get - go
when the vision was put forward. And now look at
where you're at. You look at that amazing new long
- term care facility. The adult day program, the clinical
services, all of that together really makes for a fantastic
campus. Advocacy. The advocacy message came out lied and clear
in a couple of dialogues that I've heard here this
morning. And I think that that continues to be something
that we all have to do. We all have to
work together to advocate and ensure that we're educating and
informing the public in the citizens, but at the same
time, we have to be sure that the work that
we do really reflects the ability to be able to
advocate on behalf of the vulnerable populations that we all
serve. And the last is sustained investment. Um, the grants
and the programs that you offer and you participate in
are amazing. And they really have been supportive to the
community. But it's that sustainability. It's, it's being able to
rely on the fact that you're going to have a
core grant that's going to be available to you to
enable you to enable you and your organisation to continue
to go into the future. So those are just some
side comments. In terms of community partners emphasizing three main
needs, the first is a simpler navigation and reduced system
complexity. We hear that all the time. I'm sure you're
hearing it with your residents. Um, the need to be
able to navigate a very complex system is something we
just have not really stepped up and resolved. And that's
something that we continue to work at the peel council
on aging. And we're talking about ways in which we
can establish solutions to work towards that. The second is
a stronger coordination across sectors. This is not new. It's,
it's an old message that we've heard before. I know
back in 1986, I was seconded to the province of
Ontario to write a paper on this. It was called
one stop access. Some of you might actually remember it.
Um, and it was a paper on coordination and service
integration. That's what it was all about between multiple sectors.
And you're proving it right here in the region appeal,
you're doing it. So I would say, uh, you know,
I heard, I think it was Councillor Reed mentioned this
morning. We need to get the message out. We need
to let them know that we're already doing these things.
We're ahead of the curve. And the third is around
being more responsive in person - centred services. Again, a
message that was, I heard a couple of times this
morning that reflected the verse needs of our older adult
population, which is increasing rapidly, not just in numbers, but
in the complexity of their needs. We heard that in
one of the presentations where we heard about the client
population has much more severe and acute needs and are
going to require level of care and support. These highlight
the critical value of community partners working together. When partners
come together, they bring complementary expertise, strengthen coordination and are
better positioned to lead solutions that are grounded in the
lived experience of seniors. Their leadership is essential in driving
meaningful system level improvements. The peel council on aging plays
an important role in addressing these needs. Firstly, they advocate
for senior's needs and ensure their voices are representative. Secondly,
they help inform age - friendly policies and influence decision
- making. The third is to work to advance age
- friendly communities and support healthy agent. They are promoting
and connecting community awareness, helping reduce isolation. And finally, they
lead initiatives like the seminar on aging. Which brings together
seniors caregivers and service providers for knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Further reinforcing the strength and leadership of community partnerships. Just
on the summit on aging, we have now established a
date, November the 25th post - elections. Um, we're delighted.
Mayor's not sitting here, but Mayor Brown has stepped forward
along with councillor Vicente, who are working with us and
they have offered to support us in this event. Um,
and they are providing the Bob Callahan Centre for our
facility. And are also going to serve as a premier
sponsor. So we're just delighted. And thank you, Paul, for
that. Really appreciate it. So we invite all of you
to join us. In terms, at the same time, there
are structural challenges that continue to shape what we're able
to do. They include ongoing fragmentation and navigation that I
mentioned earlier. Increasing caregiver burden, interesting mayor grows raise that
this morning. Um, it is a problem. It has been
a challenge for a long time. Only 20, just a
piece of information. Only 25 percent of all cares provided
by professionals. Is that not shocking statistic? And that hasn't
changed for all the decades that I've been involved in
healthcare. So it really is something for us to pay
attention to and to recognise this is a real problem.
And this impacts individual's ability been to maintain their ability
to be a caregiver continue in a job if they
are somebody that's working in the system. And it's really
important that we come up with ideas about how we
can support the caregivers. Time limited and unstable funding models.
What I look at when people look to peel, I
say, but these are pockets of excellence. Like we've done
it. Yes. Is it replicated across the province? No. Much
of what you were talking about here this morning. And
you've already accomplished. I haven't seen it across the province.
In what I would call maybe pockets, but not consistently.
Wouldn't that be wonderful if people could take something like
the butterfly program and just replicate that in all the
homes across Ontario? How fast things would change and limited
ability scale successfully, these kinds of programs. These pressures don't
just affect service delivery. They impact the overall sustainability of
the system. Recognising and addressing these challenges will be key
to moving forward effectively. Thank you.
So looking ahead, we are focusing on several key priorities.
And you've heard some of this throughout our presentation. Simplify
access and improving navigation pathways, strengthening cross - sector collaboration
and care continuity. Expanding supports for caregivers. And we've talked
about that a number of times this morning, including rust
bike care, mental health supports, and social prescribing programs. And
advancing provincial advocacy to support aging in place and more
sustainable funding models, including collaboration with influential, provincial associations like
seniors for social action, Ontario. Ontario Association of Councils on
Aging and Advantage Ontario. These priorities reflect both community needs,
but also data inputs. Council leadership and investment in integrated
wraparound models like the seniors, health and wellness village have
improved coordination across care settings. Regional staff will continue advancing
service integration, leveraging partnerships and supporting coordinated advocacy efforts, including
through AMO this summer. Continue council support is essential alongside
sustainable provincial funding to maintain progress and prevent growing system
pressures. So I'll close with this demand, as you saw
from our council report, continues to grow needs are becoming
much more complex. And at the same time, there's a
strong foundation to build on through our partnerships. And strong
shared commitment to seniors and caregivers. By continuing to focus
on integration, alignment and advocacy, we can build a more
connected and sustainable system. Thank you for your time today.
And we'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you.
And there are counselored Reed. Okay, thank you. Uh, thank
you, Mr. Chair. So Kathy and Ray, thank you so
much for your presentation. Uh, I just wanted to give
you an opportunity to just unpack a little bit more
about those community connections with some of the private sector
that's trying to do some of the great work that
we're doing here at the region and how you're supporting
them. And if, if and however supporting them. I'll start.
Thank you for. Yeah. Um, through you, um, chair. Thank
you for the question. Yeah. Well, we don't have formal
partnerships with our for - profit providers because you funded
us so well and we are a sector leader. We
do do a lot of presentations at events. Like we
hope at the summit and other provincial organisations. So we
do make a lot of connections there and have a
lot of people through tours. Um, I also, um, you
reach out to us regularly and we, we do partner
that way. No formal partnerships, but certainly we do make
lots of connections. And that's certainly a priority for us.
Yeah. No, they're great. Like at our seniors fair, people
are pleasantly surprised at all those services that are available
for them. And then also shocked that they're not like
in their next, like they're right there. They actually travel
a little bit. So, um, it'd be great if you
could send some of that information to my office. I'm
sure all the councillor colleagues would appreciate that too. We
could put it in our newsletters and things over the
years. It's great to have that information ready to, uh,
increase awareness of the great work that you're doing. So
thank you so much. Yeah. We're happy to. Did you
want to add on? Chair, can I expand on that
just for a minute? Uh, so from PO council on
aging's perspective and the work that we're doing in the
community and the way we've established ourselves, we don't differentiate
between nonprofit and private sector companies. They are involved in
two primary ways, one in which they sit on our
round tables, we call them in one of the slides,
you'll see the five different round tables, healthy aging housing,
staying mobile, building community and safety. So they are involved
in those conversations, whether their technology companies might be the
case. They might be home care providers. Um, so there
are private sectors involved sitting at those tables. And the
summit, which is annual, this will be the fourth annual
summit. We have over 80 vendors who come and join
us. And they, they've taken a number of those tables.
Great. So are the city missed a saga and city
of Brampton representatives at those tables as well. They've been
involved with us on the first three years. So the
first summit was sponsored here in Brampton. And they, they
had representation through their staff, city of Mississippi second and
then Calladin was third. And now we're back in Brampton
this year. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I just one quick one. I don't want to worry
about my story. They've all heard it before. And it's
so ironic. I shared it with the medical officer of
health this morning. And you've heard me all say this
before. So I'll say it quick. When I was born,
I was supposed to be dead at 72 if you
were born when I thought you'd be dead 75. The
good news, you know, my joke, the good news is
you're probably going to live to a hundred. The bad
news is you're probably going to live to a hundred
and you're going to outlive your body, your mind, your
money or your family. And I would say, and then
you're going to come looking to the state and we'll
be broke by then. You've all heard me tell that
story a hundred times. What you've just addeded that I
was unaware of, Oh, and by the way, historically, the
state's only ever looked after one in four. Yeah. I
did not know that. So now I get to add
that and say, and by the way, the state has
only historically. So for the other 75 percent of you
as you're going home or looking at the forehead, have
you figured out what you will be doing for yourself
to look after you're aging. I've never added that because
I never had that piece of the puzzle. And I
bet a lot of people think, Oh, no, it's not
25. You're going to look after all of us, aren't
you? We never have. And we certainly won't. So three
quarters of you. I hope you have a contingency of
some kind unless something cataclysmic happens. Wow. The other piece
that I had incidentally just because the province of Ontario
last year spelt about 240 billion dollars They predict because
of us aging baby boomers. It'll take 240 billion just
to look after aging. I don't think they're going to
blow the whole budget on just old people. I think
we still need schools. I think we still need law
enforcement. Oh my God. It's an ugly graph in those
lines are going to cross at some point. And as
I said, I've now learned brother and sister heal thyself
because of the pond. We've got lots we have to
do individually and collectively. Okay. Great presentation. Councillor Reed moving
receipt along with Councillor Daskoldo's in favor carried. Okay. And
our last staff presentation, item 8, 3 impacts of peels
strategic agenda 2024 to 2027 and the 20 year strategic
plan here for information. Presentation by Sharona Holman, director strategy
and transportation office of the CAO.
And a welcome.
Good afternoon regional chair and members of regional council. I
am Sharona Holman and I'm the director of strategy and
transformation out of CEO Gary Kent's office. Today I'll be
today, I will be bringing forward our organisational performance story.
Our story of impact, progress, influence and transformation. This story
belongs to all the regional staff. It is through their
dedication, commitment and hard work that we've been able to
achieve all that we have. Thank you to all staff
in public works, in legislative services, corporate services, human services,
health services, and the Office of the CAO. The story
also belongs to you, every member of regional council. It
is through your leadership, your decisions, and your deliberations that
we've been able to move or organisation and community forward.
Thank you, Regional Council. Were you collective leadership and your
commitment to the residents and businesses of PEAL. Before I
go into how we're moving the needle, I would like
to take you back in order to bring you forward.
I will take you back to 2015. In
2015, our world was a different place. Many of today's
defining challenges were emerging but had not yet reached their
current scale. Peeled was already one of Canada's fastest growing
regions and was becoming one of Canada's most diverse communities
where immigration field population and labour market growth. And housing
affordability was beginning to gain attention across the GTA. The
world was changing, and so was peel. In anticipation for
a changing world and a growing community through the leadership
of regional counsel, we launched our 20 year strategic plan.
And our vision of community for life. Where everyone has
a sense of belonging. And as access to the services
they needed every stage. Since 2015, we've seen our community
grow and evolve in ways that we could not have
imagined. And we face challenges and disruptions. We have come
out stronger and more resilient. In 2024, with
regional councils endorsement, we launched peel strategic agenda. In our
rapidly shifting world, as we navigate and respond to a
multitude of interconnected pressures and risk, our strategic agenda enables
us to move forward with clarity and direction. It is
an outcome - based framework positioning peel to anticipate and
respond to complexity in a coordinated, aligned, and intentional manner.
Focused on housing and social impact, sustainability, service excellence, our
people, and future readiness. Peele strategic agenda lays out the
short - term work to achieve our long - term
outcomes. A key aspect of our short - term work
is collaborating with your staff at the cities of Brampton
and Mississauga and the town of Kaladin. And partners and
our provincial partners to successfully and responsively transfer waste collection,
roads, pamma, and water and wastewater.
It's not. Okay, thank you, Brian. Brian Denise, the manager
of strategy and continuous improvements on my team. In safety
to Brian. I forgot to switch to slides. I apologise.
And with that, let's dive into how we're driving impact
and how we're being recognised. On the pillar of housing
and social impact, we are achieving collective impact, strengthening partnerships,
and responding to critical community needs. We affordably housed and
supported more than 43, 000 households in 2025. We accelerated
over 30 water and wastewater projects to support housing growth
and provincial targets. We protected community health by conducting nearly
20, 000 public health inspections distributed over 30, 13, 000
naloxon doses and supported over 8, 000 clients through mobile
harm reduction services. And we opened our PL reception centre.
The largest facility of its kind in Canada, serving both
peel and the GTA. For a silent claimance. We also
secured over 100 million dollars in federal funding to strengthen
long - term capacity. And we're being recognised through independent
third independent third - party validation for our efforts. You
heard Steve Jakes, our commissioner of human services speak to
this this morning. We received a 2025 Institute of Public
Administration of Canada Innovation Award for our silent claimant response
and the 2025 Ontario Municipal Social Services Association local champion
award for our coordinated encampment response recognising partnership, dignity, and
our human rights approach. Through our sustainability pillar, we
are delivering value for money. And working diligently to ensure
appeal remains environmentally and financially sustainable. This is exemplified by
keeping our water and racewater rates affordable for peeler residents
and businesses. We are 30 percent below the GTA average.
We are also advancing our climate change efforts through council's
approval of our net zero emissions building retrofit policy and
standard. And we're optimizing trans help and improving efficiencies that
are translating to approximately 100, 000 dollars in savings monthly.
And once again, we're being recognised. We received cannabis clean
50 top project award for our leadership and sustainability. And
the AMSA local champion award for a water rate affordability
program, recognising our commitment to affordability, equity, and support for
residents facing financial pressures. For
our service excellence pillar, we are delivering high quality services,
ensuring value and elevating organisational effectiveness. We've integrated AI as
part of our digital strategy to improve resident experience, operations,
and to ensure where our future ready, future - proofed
organisation. Through a long - standing, continues to improvement program.
We achieved over 11 million dollars in cost savings and
cost avoidance in 2025. And since 2021, we've achieved over
100 million in cost containment inclusive of 28 million in
cost savings. And over the last three years, we've achieved
an service channels. We also rolled out our vendor performance
management program across PEAL, Peel Housing Corporation, and PEAL Regional
Police. Holding our vendors accountable and taking early remedial actions
were needed. And we launched the one - free program
along Transhelp users to transverseemlessly across TTCOTRANSIT and local services.
We recently received the 2026 Canadian Association for Municipal Administrators
Award for collaboration. For our innovative first of its kind,
PEAL region, service Ontario Inducated Service Hub. A one -
stop service centre located at 10 - peel combining both
provincial and municipal services in a single location. This partnership
could be precedent setting. It allows us to imagine the
possibilities of what further partnerships could look like with our
provincial and federal government. We also received the Forbes Canada
best employers award for the last three years and excellence
Canada's Platinum Award for Excellence Innovation and Wellness, demonstrating peel
strength and leadership, strategic planning, continuous improvement, and our people
and customer focus. Turning our attention to our people pillar.
You've heard Gary say this on numerous occasions. Our people
are the heart of our organisation. And he's absolutely right.
Our people are truly remarkable. This pillar focuses on supporting
the wellness, growth, and creativity of our people. And our
regional values are a big part of this. How we
care and support each other, how we demonstrate leadership in
the work we do, how we include others, and create
space for diversity, psychological safety, and a sense of belonging.
How we collaborate effectively and efficiently, and how we operate
in a transparent manner to build trust. Through our continued
investments in the psychological and physical health of our people,
our focus on inclusion and diversity, and our modernized people
strategy, we are building our healthier, future - ready, inclusive
workplace. And our employees continue to demonstrate a spirit of
generosity and kindness. They have raised over 4 million dollars
for the United Way over the last 15 years. And
over 250, 000 dollars in 2025 supporting 71 local agencies
and more than 90 community programs. And our people are
recognised for this and the municipal sector and beyond. Our
paramedics and public health team have received the governor general
exemplary service medals for service excellence and contributions to community
health. Our HR team received the human resources director Canada
Innovation Ward for our employee service centre. And we recently
received an award from the American Society for Quality for
advancing public sector and continuous improvement. This recognition from the
American Society for Quality was awarded to Brian Denise and
manager and a lien - sick Sigma Black Belt on
my team. Brian was the one who came and saved
me for a few minutes ago. Our people, our key
part of us being a future - ready organisation. Future
readiness is about ensuring that we can respond to disruption,
volatility, uncertainty, growth, and complexity with resilience and foresight. We
developed a future readiness strategy and partnered with the province
as the first municipality to deliver an online incident management
training. Thereby strengthening and emergency - preparedness and readiness to
protect residents and services during disruptions. We are also protecting
community health, safeguarding residents, and a reducing pressure on their
broader health system. This is through the administration of more
than 81, 000 immunizations distributing over 1. 1 million vaccine
doses to peel healthcare partners and vaccinating more than 54,
000 school - age children.
We received the utility of the future award, prepeals water
and wastewater services, highlighting innovation, operational accidents, excellence, and a
future focus service delivery. We've also received the chief information
officer award, recognising our CIO and our digital peel program
celebrating innovation and the enhancement of business value through technology.
And of course, being future ready always means keeping an
eye. On the ball and towards the future. As we
look at to the future, we're working on the refresh
of our strategic agenda. To ensure we continue to focus
on what matters most to regional counsel. And what matters
most to our community. And to ensure we are positioned
for what comes next. We will continue to listen carefully
to regional counsel and to engage you in the fall.
Once again, thank you to Regional Council. Thank you to
all staff. Thank you to Gary Kent, our CAO for
your visionary leadership and your drive for excellence. And thank
you to Peel's executive leadership team for your unwavering commitment
to our people and our community. None of this would
be possible without your collective leadership and efforts. And with
that, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
Thank you. Well, I haven't got any questions, but maybe
I'm going to bring it home for council just to
tell you, what a marvelous presentation in terms of our
strategic agenda. And so one thing you're focused on for
me when my time comes, which may be sooner rather
than later. And if I was forced to give one
word of what that 10, 12 years might have looked
like, I always thought the word that I would use
is resilience, because we've been incredibly resilient. Transformational is right
up there now. The more I think about. These were
transformative times in and of themselves. So between transformational and
resiliency, remembering we did it against the backdrop of COVID
like everybody else. And dissolution unlike everybody else. So it
is remarkable how transformational and how resilient we've been through
all of it. And that is a reflection of the
staff and all that they have done from the senior
management team. Now know that people work in the lines
today. And so a tip of the hat to them,
because I also know, and this is my last thought,
it's come at a price relative to the organisational health
and well - being of the organisation. And it's only
when you step back and look at the last 15
years and say, no question transformational. We've been the fastest
growing region in North America. No question we had to
show a lot of resilience to get through it. COVID
beat the stuffings out of all of us globally. And
you had to throw in dissolution just for fun while
you were along the way. Boy, that's a lot. So,
um, nice that you've given us a perspective and a
snapshot of where we've come and what lies ahead. But
again, my last shout out acknowledging the organisational health of
the organisation. And all everybody's done to get up one
more morning come to work and make it work. And
it's had its strains and we want to say thanks.
I certainly do. Because it's taken its toll and something
we also have to keep mindful of. So thank you.
Thank you very much for the presentation. Receipt moved by
Councillored, seconded by Councillor Kovac. All those in favor carried.
All right. That is it for the presentations. I now
go to the remaining few items. The first one I
have up, it may just be a formality, but as
it relates to items related to human services, counselored is
the chair. But Councillor Reed, the two items you asked
held. So why don't I just take the chair to
see if the need to do with regards to 13,
one and 13 too. I know 13, one was the
black north initiative that we dealt with. So Madam Clerk,
first of all, Councillored, I know I don't, I'll throw
it over to you, Councillor Reed. Tell me how you'd
like to proceed with 13 one. Yeah. Thank you, Mr.
Chair. Uh, don't need a full presentation on it, but
I just wanted to, uh, just touch and highlight some
of the community improvements. Where I had the detained notes
here in front of me here. One second. Um, it
was so long ago. I've held that now. I'm just
trying to find my spot here.
Sorry, one second here.
Oh, yes. Sorry. It was just around the fund. And
with, with the monies for that, um, and the different
benefits we have, the food, the B3 funding, uh, and
other, what are the other programs with it. And, uh,
the monies that are going to that once this, um,
allocation is done. So can you just speak to just
a little bit more about the program specifically and what
the next steps are for it. Thank you through you
chair. Uh, thank you, councillor, for the question. The funding
that we have, I'll flip it over to Jabari and
he can give you an itemized list of all the
groups that we fund through our community investment, uh, program
so that those are groups that provide social support community
mental health and other issues. Builds capacity within a variety
of communities within, within any municipality. Another part of that
is the food security funding that we have. Around food,
so I'll take food security because it's the one that,
that has a combination of funding. So we do have
base funding, but if you will recall last two budgets,
uh, there was a request and approved by council to
increase the amount of funding forefood security within the region
appeal. And that came from a reserve fund. So, um,
that ends this year at the end of 2026 that
augmentation to the funding ends at the end of 2026.
So it'll be next year's counsel to either provide us
direction or a decision on whether or not they want
to continue with augmenting that funding. Um, four food security
through all the food banks that we've had delegate before
us or whether or not they just want to revert
back to, um, back to the base funding, which is
like one point. Two, three or three million dollars in
food security. Um, so if it's not coming out of
a reserve fund and we've heard the state of our
reserve funds, then there would have to be another funding
stream through tax base or through some other mechanism, uh,
to continue on with that level of funding, uh, should
counsel desire. And Jabari, maybe you want to speak to
some of the other funds that we provide. Just to
answer the question, Councillored, we do have a list now
of the funded, um, organisations that we can make aware
to counsel. But that 4. 0 million, uh, from the
reserve primarily is distributed to the core fund to increase
the number of organisations we were able to work with.
Uh, the B3 and indigenous nonprofit organisations that you're well
aware of. And as Steve spoke to the variety of
food insecurity, whether it be through direct organisations to increase
their capacity or through the distribution models that you have
discussed before. So the idea is that the, I think
the other piece of the question you're asking is that
the need hasn't subsided from the decision council made two
years ago. Um, so we're looking to see, as Steve
spoke to, uh, how we might diversify that funding because
count the community, uh, deeply uses deeply as a need
for this funding. And we've had a 22 million dollar
request over the last year anytime we put out an
ask for RFPs through our grand funding. We get an
overwhelming ask. Uh, so to not have that 4. 0
million is going to be a bit of a challenge
that we're going to have to figure out. Right. Um,
so the separate presentation coming on the return on investment,
what those money's gone to and stuff. Is that coming
up. We have a presentation that we're planning for around
the food insecurity, as was requested by council. Um, but
this report is just a given update to the CIP
program. Okay. And so can you speak to the B3
piece of that too? I guess it's Arlene or? Yeah.
I'm going to let Arlene talk because as some of
your problem wondering, why am I even here, uh, two
months ago, uh, as you saw Jason, sorry, must have
felt like two months ago. This morning, uh, Jason, I
got to tell my story better. I'm still, I'm still
with the family in my mind. So apologies for my
discon population. Uh, Jason Hastings now the general manager for
peel living. He was the director of social development partnerships
and planning of which I am now of assumed leadership
over. So the weeds that you're asking about, Arlene is
the more, uh, intricately involved. And she'll be able to
answer your question about the B3 funding directly. Okay. Thank
you. Through council. So with B3, uh, we receive 1.
25 million through the reserves. We've had great success over
the last two years, 42 organisations, B3 organisations were funded
in the report. You'll also see the bit of an
ROI out of the 42 organisations, 23 of them outside
of regional funding. We're successful to receive almost upwards of
a million dollars. So the investment was quite well deserved.
So thank you to council for that investment. Okay. That's
great. Um, yeah, I just look forward to the future
reports on what to do next with this money. And
I guess that'll be, you guys can figure out how
to do that. But that conversation definitely is needed. We're
seeing some good results from this. Okay. Um, so to
help me up, Madam Clerk, I think we've covered off
13, one and 13, two. How do you, I'm going
to read this motion for 13. One moved by Councillored.
Second of my council Russo to tidy up 13, one
that the director of housing services, the authorized to execute
amendments to the grant agreements with black North Initiative on
business term satisfactory at the commission of human services for
the approved grant funding of 2. 5 million and on
legal term satisfied to the regional solicitor and commissioner of
legislative services. All those in favor carried in Madam Clerk
with regards to 13 - 2. From Councillored, motion over
seat, seconded by Councillor Tedjo, all those in favor. That
is carried. Apologies to Councillor Kovac. I went right by
9 - 2 that you asked held under public works.
The red light camera agreement extension. In the absence of
Councillor Maderos and Councillor Fortini, I will assume the chair
and come to you with regards to item 9, 2.
Just waiting for my red light to come on. There
it is. Thank you so much. Uh, not a problem.
And I apologise. I could have handled this, uh, outside
of council. And with the indulgence of the commissioner, uh,
regarding the contract that will be extended for a period
of six months and ending in June of next year.
I got really no problems with that. It's just that
when I talk with residents, especially of late who are
exceedingly becoming aware of the fact that we've lost the
automated speed enforcement cameras that are in schools, uh, with
rodent safety and their mind on my mind, um, speeding
which kind of continues to be a bit of an
epidemic. And residents feeling that we could do more, whatever
that is. And they're believed that we can install more
cameras. I was more sort of curious how many do
we have in the region of peel? And what really
is the process for getting, getting a red light camera
installed. Thank you. And through the chair to councillor Kovac,
we currently have 34 red light cameras that are installed
in the region. Um, the process for having those installed,
um, in the report, it talks about the group procurement
that we have through city of Toronto. And so annually
we negotiate with the group on how many cameras, um,
we would be allocated for each new year. And then
we budget accordingly for that. Um, the process for installation,
we've got network wide screening process. So all intersections are
rated based on their, uh, potential for collision for being
preventable collisions and reducing those by installing, uh, having the
red light cameras as a deterrent. I can say that
it has been a very successful program to date. We
have, uh, we don't have the numbers for 2025 yet,
but in 2024, we saw a 20 percent reduction in
injury and fatal collisions, um, with no fatal injuries recorded
at the red light camera locations. Or if I could,
thank you so much. Uh, has it ever happened where
we've maybe relocated one? Like we found a certain area
that has had the red light camera, maybe not really
a great need to have it anymore. And so since
we already have 34, maybe we could just sort of
shuffle them around and put them in an area that
has become more problematic. Whereas the area that might have
one or others has become less so. Yes, we have.
I'm looking back at Sean Nix, who has confirmed that
we have. And it's typically due to construction or reconstructions
that take place. So we are constantly reviewing and screening
and prioritizing throughout the network. Thank you. With that, you
have the motion in our agenda before you move by
Councillor Kovac, seconded by Councillor Barr. All those in favor.
That is carried. That takes me all the way down
to other business and councillor inquiries. Looking in the chamber
seeing none and nothing on my screen. On the notices
of motion. Items held 20. 3 motion regarding Grant Louis
Sodochuk, Ukrainian nursery as held by Councillor Fonseca. Councillor Fonseca.
Thank you, Through Chair. So a couple of weeks ago,
there was some discussion, some questions asked. Um. Took, took
it back and to do more work on it. And
today the motion before you has, I believe, done some
more due diligence around this. And I wanted to say
thank you for everybody for allowing this to be on
the floor again today. Um, and I'll just leave it
at that for the moment. I'm not sure if anybody
has any questions. And oh, I just will say, um,
because Mayor Parish is, uh, not here today. She's aware
and Councillor Dasko as her proxy will be, will be
the seconder. And if I have no other speakers, thank
you very much. Remember at the time, I'm one of
the people that said, queen, get more clarity, ask and
answered. So here it is before us. So with that,
it has been moved by Councillor Fonseca, seconded by Councillor
Dasco, any other speakers to the motion before you. Seeing
none, all those in favor. And he opposed that is
carried. Thank you, Under 20. 4, held by Councillor Tedjo,
the motion regarding Shisha regulations and PO region, counselored Tejo.
If you want to introduce your motion, please. Thank you.
Mr. Chair, and thank you to Councillor Butt as well
for seconding the motion. Um, both he and I had
the opportunity to meet with staff. Um, and chat about
things. And also a number of, um, business owners, uh,
in this space. And so we think that this is
timely to, uh, bring this as a request for report
from staff. Um, that could, uh, create a regulated framework
in the future. Uh, while obviously doing some consultation as
well with, uh, with affected business owners, um, and, uh,
we'll let the new council decide the future of it
going forward. Um, but that we wanted to see some,
uh, some work being done before that was, uh, the
case so that, um, new council can make an informed
decision. For the secondary wants to make any councillor butt
has duly seconded it. And more of a, first I
perked my ears up, but when I read, is it
time to have another look at this and see what
the state of affairs are and come the new year.
And I think like anything else, why not have another
look at it? So, uh, it makes sense to me
to come back in the future months. You have the
motion before you. I have no other speakers. All those
in favor. Any opposed. That is carried. Adam clerk, uh,
because of our earlier work, I think that takes me
all the way down to, uh, bringing at home. So
the first motion I have from Councillor Hornick seconded by
Councillored that the bylaws listed on the June 25, 2026
regional council agenda being by law 40 2026 to 42,
2026 conclusive, be given the crowd number of readings taken
as read signed by the regional chair and the regional
clerk on the corporate CLB fix there too. All those
in favor, any opposed, that is carried. Moved by Council
Vicentic. Second to my councillor sheen that the closed session
bile listed on the June 25, 2026 regional council agenda
being by allow 43, 2026, be given the required number
of readings, taking his red signed by the regional chair
and the regional clerk and the corporate seal be affixed
there too. All those in favor, that is carried. Moved
by Councillor Barr, seconded by Councillor Santos. That bylaw 44,
2026 to confirm the proceedings of regional counsel, its meaning
held on 25, 2026 June to authorize the execution of
documents in accordance with the region appeal bylawise relating thereto.
Be given the required number of readings taken his red
signed by the regional chair and the regional clerk and
the corporate seal be affixed there too. All those in
favor, Carrie. And moved by the birthday girl, seconded by
Councillor Sheen a motion to adjourn. All those in favor,
Cary, thank you all. You're going to come into my
office. I need.