[0:00] back. >> Oh yeah.

[1:29] Okay.

[1:34] » Call this meeting ordered. Where is there as a council present and

[1:40] the time is 6:30 p.m. resolved that this regular meeting be open for business

[1:46] and that the minutes of the regular meeting of December 10th, 2025 be

[1:50] approved? I have a council Phillips second. Councelor Burns all in favor.

[2:01] [snorts]

[2:04] Uh we resolve and be added to the regular

[2:08] agenda. A5 award for electronic voting. Have a for that. Councelor Hobbs.

[2:17] Second. Councelor Carol Krabs. All in favor?

[2:31] We begin this meeting by acknowledging that we are on land that has been

[2:35] inhabited by nations. We would like to acknowledge that the land

[2:42] is the traditional territory of the saga and we would like to give thanks for

[2:47] sharing this land. >> Do we have any disclosures for judary

[2:52] interest? None being heard. We'll move on. Uh no delegations.

[2:59] Uh consent agenda

[3:04] be resolved that items A1, G1, and G1 and G6 contained on the consent agenda

[3:11] be adopted. So for that

[3:16] second question, anyone comments? All in favor?

[3:44] Okay, we have

[3:48] an amendment by resolved that staff be directed to

[3:54] amend the temp of bylaw 2013-04 as amended by bylaw 2018-08.

[4:05] Gradual Christian Brethren Fellowship as an eligible charity or similar

[4:10] organization for 100% property tax rebate and to

[4:16] remove the Royal Canadian Legion branch 432 as the Legion property is now exempt

[4:22] from taxation under section three of the assessment.

[4:28] Do you have a mover for that? [clears throat and cough]

[4:32] » Second council. Any questions, comments?

[4:38] Being heard. All in favor?

[4:43] [cough and clears throat]

[4:50] » [laughter]

[4:56] [laughter] >> rearrange.

[5:00] » Uh, be it resolved that council agrees to extend the boat lodge lease agreement

[5:05] with Waterfalls Lodge for an additional 5-year term and that bylaw be prepared

[5:11] for the January 28th, 2026 council meeting. Did I have a mover on that?

[5:16] Council Phillips second. Councelor Hobs. Any questions, comments?

[5:23] All in favor?

[5:36] Be it resolved that the council in the township of Stable Spanish Rivers with

[5:41] the recommendation to accept the tender from Sequent Tech for the provision of

[5:47] an online voting system for the 2026 municipal and schoolboard elections at a

[5:53] cost of $3,412.37.

[5:59] have a onel secondary

[6:05] crab. Any questions? Anyone from now? All in favor?

[6:16] These

[6:23] results require department report for the month of December 2025 be accepted.

[6:29] Got a mover for that. Council second

[6:34] Phillips. Any questions on the report?

[6:40] I did uh I was looking at that with regard to uh campfires. I thought there

[6:48] was going to be a request that the

[6:52] » the bylaw that we just was on the consent agenda was the revamp and one of

[6:57] the things was to remove the um restriction for daytime.

[7:02] » Oh, for campfires. >> I I looked through it.

[7:06] Yeah, it's because it it said which which campfires were not permitted. And

[7:10] if you look at campfires, they'll be permitted during the day now.

[7:14] » Okay. So, >> okay. Very good.

[7:18] Uh there's no questions on the fire

[7:22] department report. All in favor?

[7:36] » [clears throat] >> that the 2026 OP building statement for

[7:40] the township Any

[7:51] comments or questions on

[7:58] it?

[8:02] All in favor?

[8:14] It resolved that the attached paint certificate number four release

[8:19] maintenance hold back in favor of Dave Van Construction 2005 limited in the

[8:25] amount of 11,284 including HSD for the liquid fire line

[8:31] be approved for payment. I have a mover on that. Council Burns second

[8:39] everything is good. We've had no issues whatsoever since installation.

[8:45] » Very good. >> Second counc.

[8:49] Any other questions or comments? That's a job well done

[8:55] under the bridge. >> All in favor? Carry.

[9:01] [clears throat]

[9:11] So, we got some surplus equipment. We've resolved that the council of the

[9:15] township Spanish river to declare the following items as surplus to the needs

[9:21] of the municipality and advertised for sale accordingly. Uh, number one, a 2005

[9:27] Volvo G740B motor graater to be advertised on GV

[9:33] deals. Number two, tandem axle eager beaver 20XPT heavy equipment trailer

[9:40] unfit to be advertised locally. And number three, a tandem tra trailer

[9:47] privately manufactured again unfit to be advertised locally. And that and further

[9:53] that funds acquired through the surplus and sale be added to the municipality's

[9:58] general surplus. I have a mover on that. Council Phillips

[10:04] second. Council any questions anyone?

[10:10] This has been reviewed by public works I guess to judge the viability equipment.

[10:15] So yeah, we've talked about it. I guess the the third grader is less

[10:21] a necessity now. >> It's it's not a necessity now. And the

[10:25] concern is because it's not obviously [clears throat] summertime, you can

[10:29] always find a little bit of work for it, but what we're seeing now, it's sitting,

[10:33] it's already starting to seize up on us. >> Um so the thought was it's dressed for

[10:38] winter. We should be able to pull top dollar for it. We've got two good

[10:42] machines now. That's We've got two good machines. And the reason, as you'll

[10:46] recall, we held on to it last year was we were short 110.

[10:51] » We have a full complement of equipment. >> Good. Thanks, Sean.

[10:57] And with that, all in favor

[11:10] resolve that the council of the township stable Spanish rivers award a one-year

[11:14] contract extension to pension for waste management site monitoring and recording

[11:21] in the amount of $37,129.70.

[11:26] cents plus applicable taxes. Could I have a mover for that?

[11:31] Council second council burn questions, comments

[11:38] they've been doing a good job for us. Yes, they've been doing an extraordinary

[11:43] job. Um, but this there's already been two extensions

[11:48] plus this third if it's approved one year extension. It's just due diligence

[11:54] to go out and uh and just confirm that they they are still below the price. The

[12:00] other piece is that we are expecting that report back with a comprehensive

[12:04] report. Scope may change. So not prudent to extend it for one year

[12:10] but go to tender for next year. Okay. Thank you Sean. All in favor?

[12:27] resolve the council of the township of sable Spanish rivers renew the contract

[12:32] for land site attendant with Mr. John van Norman for a three-year term

[12:37] commencing March 2026 and that the hourly rate for services be

[12:43] set to align with the rate for public works casual labor as identified and

[12:48] resoped township Spanish river on that

[12:58] second council. Any discussion, questions?

[13:12] » Yes, that's correct. He's quite happy. He's quite content. Yes.

[13:17] » He does a good job for quite a while now. All in favor?

[13:33] Gilbert is here to speak to council an update on the department.

[13:37] » Okay. Mr. Gilbert would like you'd like to come upuce

[13:44] myself to everybody officially a couple days I haven't seen. So my

[13:51] prica

[13:54] Phillips nice to meet you. What else you And yeah,

[14:00] just uh like to say, thank you for for inviting me into your community.

[14:06] » And uh as I hope Cass has mentioned, we got some exciting ideas going on for the

[14:11] upcoming winter carnival trying to expand it to a week long and not just

[14:15] massive, but make it more of a township feel. I believe I might have sent you an

[14:19] email about what might what community center might be doing. So if we can get

[14:24] uh some feedback on on that, we've reached out to Library, actually the

[14:29] Massie Library. So they're making all their events that week to be carnival

[14:34] events as well. So between our, you know, senior skates, senior socials, and

[14:40] public skating and stuff like that, we're actually being able to fill in

[14:43] that week gap between the new fishing derby, and that's where the the

[14:48] connection between the weekends comes in. It's the new fishing derby.

[14:51] everybody's kind of regular stuff going on, but it's gonna get branded as a

[14:55] winter carnival and then our our annual stuff that we always do on that that

[14:59] final weekend and just kind of start from there. see if we can't grow it into

[15:03] something more in the future include SWAT if they want to do stuff on that

[15:08] opening weekend and kind of blend in and again help not merge but bring their two

[15:15] communities uh even closer together more important and uh still trying to reach

[15:20] out to the the museum

[15:24] because they're the ones that tend to have operated the poker walk because we

[15:28] have a new idea for the poker walk even where it's not just a poker Rhyme on one

[15:32] day where everyone's trying to go around and get their five cards from different

[15:36] business, but poker walk where you can take your time over the course of the

[15:40] week and attend the events and the stores that are participating and either

[15:44] build up one hand or maybe play multiple hands and see if at the end of the week

[15:48] it's more of like a chase the ace where you're, you know, a daily hand is drawn

[15:53] that wins 25% of that pot, 25% goes to the end of the week pot, right? And so

[16:00] eventually over time on the by the time we have the Saturday um dance hopefully

[16:06] we've got a a pretty good sized you know grand prize hand that nobody knows what

[16:13] it is because we're not going to tell we'll tell people who the winner is but

[16:16] we won't tell them what the winning hand is right because we want to keep oh they

[16:20] got a full house already bottom up you want to keep them interested right and

[16:25] then they and you know then that hopefully that brings more people out to

[16:28] the dance as So everything is meant to to try and help those regular community

[16:34] events attract more visitations because hey I can draw a card there.

[16:40] » Awesome. >> Any questions

[16:44] good work sounds great. >> I mean I I would like to add I think

[16:50] Sagami is participating. Mr.

[16:54] organization.

[17:04] So very much >> I would think in terms of future year

[17:08] like when if they I'm going to not I'll say when they get their outdoor ring

[17:12] operational and like I say even mentioned to the chief there that you

[17:18] know we can that running track they have a look at winterizing that make it into

[17:24] a skating hole for speed skating something like that. So

[17:27] » I'm sure we're going to be more involved together. So it's good to see us Yeah,

[17:34] because I see like even that I see there's ideas for not with the parks

[17:39] master plan but even stuff for Teasdale where you see based on what Tealale's

[17:43] property line is >> and the um there's some crown land and

[17:48] then Sagal County. So just working with three different levels of of government

[17:52] see if you can't make a a trail network that connects the two. Yeah, apparently

[17:57] there was one there one one time trail or something.

[18:03] Yeah, it' be nice to see something. >> There's definitely

[18:08] good

[18:16] » stuff.

[18:19] [clears throat] >> Okay, so we have some law amendments.

[18:27] We resolve that bylaw 2026-07 being a bylaw to amend bylaw 2013-04

[18:36] being a bylaw to establish a tax rebate program be read first and second time

[18:42] for that second

[18:48] crabs any questions on that discussed it earlier all in favor

[18:54] Okay.

[19:03] And be it resolved that bylaw 2026-07 bylaw bylaw 2013-04

[19:11] being bylaw

[19:14] be final time passed and open council. I have a mover.

[19:22] Second, council. All in favor?

[19:36] And that's it until we go into close. I just like to say uh it's 2026.

[19:43] I think going to be a big year for us here. Uh there's a lot going on.

[19:49] election's not

[19:53] working for the rural Ontario Municipal Association

[19:58] convention and there's a lot of things on the table. There's infrastructure.

[20:03] There's housing for our clinic. Uh there's senior housing questions for

[20:10] DAP. All kinds of things and I think we have a lot of government support on our

[20:17] side and very hopeful to get some positive results. I'm going counselors

[20:25] hops and crabs are coming with me.

[20:32] positive event. There's a few extracurricular things

[20:37] going on there for township. I'll wait for further announcements for that.

[20:44] Um, anything around the table before we

[20:48] close? Okay, very good.

[20:53] » Uh, one thing while I have council wall here. So, uh, KLB Consulting is ready to

[20:59] deliver the final economic diversification strategy and, um, so

[21:05] Espanola is wondering if, uh, the four councils could do a joint meeting or

[21:09] would you prefer that it be presented, um, to ours that if we could do a joint

[21:15] meeting, then she's, she does one final presentation for all

[21:19] » councils.

[21:22] » Well, each council has two. Yeah, each coun each of the four municipalities

[21:25] would be doing would be accepting. >> So would we do it as a joint meeting

[21:31] with four council? >> Yes. So that's the question is is

[21:35] council interested in having a joint council meeting have all four councils

[21:39] meet together and espanol for the presentation and adoption of the

[21:42] strategy. Otherwise they could arrange to have them at each meet each

[21:46] » council wasn't really brought in on that. That's that's the meeting I went

[21:50] to. Oh, no. She was here and she did her presentation

[21:53] » last meeting. >> Yeah.

[21:55] » The economic diversification strategy. >> No, sorry. That's Yeah,

[22:01] » that was No, that was age friendly. >> That was Kim.

[22:04] » Oh, she was Yeah, she Sorry, that was age friendly. Yes,

[22:08] » the diversification. Yes. Sorry,

[22:10] » she was here. >> She was here.

[22:12] » She was on She >> by Zoom.

[22:15] » She was on Zoom. Yeah. >> Yeah.

[22:19] » I have no problem before this meeting. I'm not sure where.

[22:24] » It would be sometime in late March is what it would be. So,

[22:28] » no, but I mean location wise. >> Yeah.

[22:30] » I mean, I guess we could offer the Saddowski room.

[22:33] » Well, they're talking about meeting in Espanola.

[22:35] » Oh, Espanola. >> Yeah, it would probably be at the

[22:38] complex. Yeah, it would have to be because the boardroom at the town all

[22:44] » as long as we all have sufficient time to ask questions.

[22:48] » Yeah, >> that that's my concern.

[22:50] » All of us are there as opposed to her >> doing a presentation to us individually.

[22:58] » I don't know. >> Well, I mean, how how do we feel about

[23:01] that? If if you want if you want an individual

[23:07] presentation, we can do I just think sometimes when you have a

[23:13] bigger presentation, more people ask questions and

[23:17] » yeah, >> eventually you hear what you want to

[23:19] hear.

[23:24] » What's everybody think? I'm good with

[23:28] the group. Sure. as well.

[23:38] » I'll let the clerk >> I'll let the clerk know.

[23:46] » Um actually too at the last woods meeting I asked about uh

[23:55] our regional economic development officer being available for

[24:01] for our economic development meetings in light of

[24:06] » of Amanda's absence >> and uh she said yeah absolutely anytime

[24:13] » so feel free to reach out you know if the need is there and you'd like to have

[24:19] a meeting >> yeah I she did reach out to me and I I

[24:23] said I wasn't sure what we were doing right now for

[24:25] » for um meetings but if we have something we can I don't want the committee there

[24:33] just as you know there for advice and a bit of guidance

[24:38] » because our regular economic development officers on leave for a while. So

[24:45] » there things we don't want dropped the ball on.

[24:48] » Yeah. Well, >> and she reached out to you. So I'm glad

[24:51] to hear that. >> Great.

[24:54] » Yeah. She would just need assistance coordinating agendas and access to the

[24:59] the building. So, which is easy enough. >> Yeah. Okay.

[25:04] » Right.

[25:09] [clears throat] It resolved that we move into close session after

[25:13] 65.

[25:19] Pursuant to section 2392 of the municipal act consider personal matters

[25:25] about identify.

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