[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.