Yes.
Trailing table.
It's nice.
Good evening. It's 6:30. Members of
council are assembled when you are ready
to begin. Thank you very much. Good
evening everyone. Like to welcome all
members and uh welcome everyone in the
gallery and everyone watching via the
live stream uh this evening.
Second item on the agenda is the land
acknowledgement. I'll read the land
acknowledgement this evening. We
acknowledge that we are meeting on the
traditional lands and treaty territory
of the Sagin Ojiway nation which
consists of the Chipuis of Sagin and the
Chipois of Naywash unseated First
Nation. We understand this land holds
immense significance to the people of
the Sagin Ojiway nation. We appreciate
those who live and work alongside us
today and who continued the traditions
of their ancestors as stewards of the
land we are privileged to inhabit. We
thank them for the contributions they
have made in both caring for the land
and in shaping this community. We commit
to truth and reconciliation to
acknowledging the truth about what
happened to indigenous peoples because
of colonization and to reconciliation
which begins with each and every one of
us. And I might just share at this
moment that um a couple of weeks ago I
uh participated with Chief Richie in the
ice bucket challenge at GC. I'm not sure
if that was part of reconciliation or
not, but it was certainly uh we both
left uh cold. I'm not sure either of us
have fully warmed up at this point, but
it was it is a great exam. just it's a
it really is always amazing to go there
to GC Houston school and see the uh
connection that the that uh school
community has with the First Nation. Uh
and that the school is always there to
support things uh with the First Nations
and the First Nation is always um the
Sagine First Nation is always uh eager
to be at the school and and support the
programming that goes on there. And so
it's just I just always appreciate going
there. I think it's an outstanding
institution in our community. Uh, and I
just wanted to note that. So, as a local
government and public organization, we
are dedicated to learning about
indigenous culture, to fostering a
better relationship with First Nations
and their people, and we commit
ourselves to actions that move us
forward on a path to healing along with
the Sagino Jiuway nation. Third item on
the agenda is disclosure of peerary
interest. Ask any member if you have one
of those you'd like to declare at this
time. Seeing none, of course, you can do
so anytime if you need to. Uh so that
moves us on to adoption of minutes. We
have uh the regular council minutes of
May 20th, 2025 and May 26, 2025. And the
resolution is the council adopt the
minutes of the regular council meeting
of June 9, 2025 as presented. Is there a
mover and seconder? Moved by councelor
Mayott. Seconded by councelor Dinsky.
What did I read? Did I Oh, it said June.
Oh, yeah. I just read that off like it
was right, didn't I? Uh, so we are
adopting the recommendation of adopting
the May 20th, 2025 and May 26, 2025
minutes. And it's been moved by Matt,
seconded by Dinsky. Uh, questions or
comments to either of those sets of
minutes? Seeing none, all in favor? That
is carried. Okay, so we're on to
delegations. We have two delegations uh
this evening. Just remind our
delegations that council's allotted 10
minutes for each of our delegations.
Appreciate it if you'd stick to those
timelines. Our first one is from the
Society of United Professionals. They're
here to talk to us about the Canada
United campaign supporting Canadian
labor
force. And when you gentlemen are ready,
the floor is
yours. Mayor Charbano, Sagian Shores
Council. Hello. We are Canada United
campaign coming out of the uh Society of
United Professionals. Uh up to my left I
have our local vice president Dave
Chexers and to my right we have unit
director uh Jeff Lawson and I'm Eric
Teasler, unit director as well. So this
composes of I guess uh three fifths of
our executive board team that actively
bargains on behalf of over 1,400 members
now growing 1500 members across site at
the Bruce. I also like to recognize an
exLVP Dave Matt uh is in the house. So,
hello. Good to see you. Um for those of
you that don't know, um Oh, you had one
job, Dave. One job.
It's okay. Uh don't fire me, please.
Okay. So, um the Society of United
Professionals represents actually over
10,000 uh professionals across Ontario.
um including engineers, scientists,
supervisors and uh legal aid lawyers
more uh recently as well as Aboriginal
uh rights lawyers. So um our biggest
bargaining units is uh OPG um Hydro 1
and Bruce Power of course the
descendants from Hydro 1.
Um, and we're proud to say that we
represent uh some very fantastic members
in your community, uh, including here,
King Carden, and across Graham Bruce
County. So, what is our ask? Uh, we're
here to ask your support, which is
similar to what you've already done,
which is a passed a resolution back in
October, uh, supporting Cano Energy, uh,
and also Canadian supply chain. So, um,
we got these beautiful shirts here and,
uh, they are Canadian made, okay? And
they are unionade as well. So, at the
end of this presentation, I know some
of, uh, your members here have already,
uh, walked up to my uh, little booth
over there, but I have some sizing. I I
don't have So, we can maybe put it
through uh, one of the assistants here
an order, and we can bring them back to
you. Um, but the intent here is to, I
guess, celebrate uh, unity within
Canada. Of course, we've all seen um,
what's been going on down south with our
neighbors?
This
one. Uh, where do you got to point it?
There over there.
Oh,
pass it over to Jeff.
I'm like uh Ron Burgundy. I need I need
to have this in front of me. Oh, there
you go. Okay. So, Canada is experiencing
an unprecedented moment in in our
history. So, there's been never been a
more important time to uh be unified and
you've seen it in the media. uh you've
seen that uh you know we got through a
federal election which was you know a
little bit divisive at times uh but uh
certainly uh the rally cry came loud and
clear when Mr. Trump decided to um
leverage his authority uh and create
tariffs that have an impact to uh not
just our our community but all
Canadians. And uh so our union thought
up of a campaign that would kind of
dovetail nicely in um so we've raised
over uh $3,500
uh using these shirts in the workplace
as uh you know we we sell them as a
donation.
um and we're able to give back to the
community where people are going to
start feeling the impacts of the tariffs
if not now very very soon in terms of
food supply. Um the other thing that we
are concentrating on of course is to
reinforce the argument uh that Bruce C
should be a a can do unit. There's a lot
of back and forth as to why an American
uh reactor last year, certainly at CNA
last year, it was all Westinghouse. Um,
so I think what we're advocating for is
if you're being, you know, asked or
tasked by corporations that uh wish to
have your
support, think about Canadians first and
ask those good questions to say say
where's the engineering coming from?
Where's the uranium coming from? Where
is the labor coming from? you know, like
we've we've enjoyed 60 years of success
at Douglas Point, uh, Bruce A, Bruce B,
and and so forth. Safe operation by our
engineers and by our people, right? So,
keep that in your hearts and minds. Um,
I'll stop there and see if there's any
questions or concerns. Well, thank you
guys very much for your presentation.
Thank you for the t-shirts, your
beautiful t-shirts. I got mine here and
I know all the other members if they
don't have one already will put their
orders in. Are there questions or
comments from the members, the vice
deputy mayor? Yeah, thanks for your
presentation, uh, Eric and others. And I
just for my order, I'd probably need
like an extra large or something like
that if you have an extra large t-shirt.
Uh, no, but I wouldn't mind a t-shirt
actually. That'd be wonderful. um just
your messaging is is spot on and really
appreciate the message what you bring
tonight. And I just want to say while
you're here though too is u thank you
for all the good work you do in our
community. I know you made a significant
contribution to Lamont Sports Park
wellness center, our doctor's residence
and many many other projects. So I just
want to say thank you very much.
Absolutely. We'll get uh vice we'll get
councelor Mette and then councelor
Halpin. Thank you Mr. Mayor through you.
Um as far as keeping the can do brand in
Canada I think that's a great great uh
endeavor to pursue. Keep and and I think
uh at our our first um resident who's
are going to be building at our
innovation park is actually the Monarch
brand candy reactor. Right. So, um the
the town has put quite a bit of effort
into building that in uh innovation park
and uh hopefully one day very soon we'll
see some groundbreaking there to get
that uh can do brand built right into
our community. So, we're with you on
that one. Thank you. Absolutely. Council
helping.
Thank you, Mayor Tru. Uh just want to
say keep up the good fight. Keep up the
good work. Keep up the good fight.
Elbows up.
Thank you, Councelor Dinsky.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Through you,
gentlemen. Thank you for your
presentation. Thank you for the shirt.
It speaks volumes. And I might
add maybe a month and a half, two months
ago, this council spoke volumes where we
are proud to be able to support Canadian
workers at anything we look at. Um,
that's our first that's our first goal.
If we have to go elsewhere, we have to
go elsewhere. But, uh, it's elsewhere
out this way as opposed to down south.
So, thank you. Uh, thank you for that.
Are these sweaters or t-shirts will they
be available to the general public as
well? I think uh we have a multiplatform
state right now. It was like core Bruce
power workers which is our you know
bread and butter. Now we're reaching out
to council and then eventually like
we'll have shirts still to offer. I
think we'll uh concentrate on Labor Day.
I think uh Labor Day is the appropriate
place for us to showcase this. So
there's a good strong possibility we
will have a vehicle ready and and giving
out shirts to unify like giving out the
last of them to uh kind of round out the
campaign. I think that would be include
people that are at the parade. Well, Mr.
Mayor, I think that would look terrific
as a picture with the streets
solidified, solid, Canada united. So,
best of luck and thank you. Thank you.
Are there further comments? I just um
for myself will just echo uh what the
vice deputy mayor said about thanking
society for all the work that you do in
our community, all the support that you
give us and recognize of course the fact
that the reason why society is able to
support the pool and our doctor
recruitment and all of the things you
support is because you are Canadian, you
know, your workers in our community
because there is um investments being
made in Canadian technology and Canadian
workers. that's why society has
membership and uh and and so I think you
know that is a a really important
message to give to the community right
that to get all to have all these things
we're so lucky we live in the best place
in the world um and the reason why it's
such a great place is because we have
people like yourselves working in our
community earning a decent living who
are able to give back and uh and you
can't do that if uh you're if the
technology you're building is all US
technology. In fact, I learned from you,
Eric, just at CNA, just how the
um some of those US technologies how I
had always thought, well, you build a
nuclear reactor, Canadian engineers are
going to get to work on it. It's in
Canada, but that's not the case. Like,
it's very much the case that you know
where that technology is from very much
dictates where the money will be spent
and where the jobs will be to support
that technology. So when you mix that in
with the idea of having to buy enriched
uranium from the United States and do
other things uh with these other
technologies, it just you know this
council's already passed a resolution as
you mentioned supporting can do
technology. I I hold that view more
firmly today than ever. Uh I mean we
Canada should be building should we you
know our next set of reactors should be
Canadianmade can do reactors. It's the
best nuclear technology on earth. uh
safest, most efficient, most effective,
and it employs Canadians. Um so I sure
hope that you guys continue this
campaign, get around all the rest of the
municipal councils and everywhere else
that you can send that message because
we really need to be united, I think, in
that view that Canadian technology is
the best technology we could be. We
should be the leaders. We should be the
world's leaders in nuclear technology.
We have everything that's required for
that. Uh including all of your members.
So, um, anyway, thank you guys for
coming in. Thanks for the shirts and,
uh, and we'll see you, well, we'll see
you before then, but we'll see you on
Labor Day. Yes, Labor Day. Okay, thanks,
guys.
All right, our second delegation is from
the Canadian Federation of University of
Women. It's Odet or Nikki. And, uh,
Odette, whenever you're ready, the floor
is yours.
I told the gentleman before me not to
screw the technology up, so let's
see. It's going to be me
instead. There we
go. Mr. Mayor, council, members of the
public at home and in the gallery and
the town
staff, CFUW is a nonpartisan voluntary
voluntary self-funded uh organization.
We have 90 clubs, 6700 members, which is
down from a few years ago during the
pandemic. And half of those clubs and
members exist in the province of
Ontario. CFUW Southport, which is our
local club, was founded in 1989. We
celebrated our 35th anniversary back in
September, and our mayor was there.
Thank Thank you for that. Uh we
currently have 113 members and we are
open to all women and individuals who
identify as women and a university
degree is not required. That's a a thing
that sticks in the name because of legal
uh requirements but um we have many many
members now that do not have university
degrees and we definitely value
different types of education including
life itself.
Our main goal is we work to improve the
status of women and to promote human
rights, public education, social justice
and peace both here at home. We do it
locally, we do it proincially, we do it
nationally and we do it globally. We
have a voice at the UN every year which
is very important to us.
We have a scholarship fund here which to
date has given out over $90,000 in
scholarships. Uh that scholarship fund
was established in our second year in
1990 by uh Miss Jane Kramer. Many of you
know
Jane. Right now we give out six
scholarships for students who live in uh
SGEN First Nation, Sagin Shores, Bruce
County depending on which the
scholarship is. They are for students
graduating from St. Mary's in Owens and
from Sin District Senior School here in
Port
Elgen. Two of the scholarships are for
indigenous students. We also have one
that is a memorial scholarship for Liz
Squires uh specifically for a graduating
student pursuing uh a career in
education or in a field that helps
children and youth. We also have a
memorial scholarship by our founder
Carolyn Day who is a very big
environmentalist if any of you knew her.
Uh there is a national uh provincial
award uh dedicated to her as well. Um,
we give an award in her name to a
student who ha is or has been in the
care of Bruce Gay uh, Child and Family
Services. That student can live anywhere
in Bruce County. And of course, there
are two additional um, scholarships as
well. In addition to the high school
scholarships, we give a mature woman
scholarship. And this is for a candidate
who has been out of high school for
whatever reasons for a minimum of one
year. And that is the same criteria that
most colleges use in this province. Um
the candidate can be pursuing
post-secary education through
university, college or trades or
apprenticeship programs. And there are
other certificate programs that we
consider too. Our new scholarship that
we're here to talk to you about and I'm
behind this um is a woman in trades
scholarship. We're very very proud to
kick this off uh this year. You may have
seen uh information in the local
papers. Only 8.1% or 7.4 nationally of
the 144 skilled trades recognized in
Ontario are filled by women. And yet 51%
of the work for force is women. Kind of
doesn't make sense when we're all
looking for people to fill skilled
trades
jobs. I'm going to put a quote up for
you. Women make up nearly half of the
entire Canadian workforce, but the
perception still exists that certain
jobs, particularly those in the skilled
trades, should only be done by men. In
reality, women excel in all
traditionally maledominated careers,
including those in construction,
manufacturing, automotive, mining, and
welding and more. And that quote comes
from an article um of a research article
under the Canadian um Ontario Colleges
website. And they have done studies that
show that for some trades, for example,
um I'm just going to forget the name of
this. It's the welding that builds
vessels or
tanks.
Pressure pressure welding. That one
women have shown um to far outpace men
in their ability to do that job.
I I know there are things men do better
too. Um the mature women scholarship,
sorry this should be the women in trade
scholarship is a winwin for sin shores.
We know that here we've got a high
growth rate in uh housing needs and
other types of construction development
as well as the green energy that um the
previous uh speakers talked about. Uh in
fact, we learned recently uh by visiting
our spark center here in town that Bruce
Power has 700 electricians hired. 700. I
don't know what all the others are, but
that's that's a lot of people to keep
replacing uh with attrition and with
growth. Women are also um able to better
provide for their families when they
have well-paid jobs. And here's where
I'm going to go a little bit aside and
tell you about a woman I met in Windsor
uh about this time last year. Uh she was
at Fansaw call fans Shaw College with a
group of people promoting a uh
government funded Canadian federal
government prof funded skills trades
program for women. That grant has since
died. But what she told my partner and I
is that prior to doing that course um
she was a single mom with two kids. She
worked at a grocery store full-time and
she worked two part-time jobs and her
total income was
$37,000. After completing an
electrician's program, she is now making
close to 100. You can imagine the
difference that makes to her family and
her life. Uh I think it's really
important. I mentioned Sparks briefly.
Um my um scholarship committee uh mates
and I had a lovely visit to Sparks. If
you haven't had that chance, it's worth
going. You will see uh both men and
women of a variety of different programs
doing the welding and electrical right
now. And I I think they had plumbing and
probably some others at different times,
too. I've been told um by uh Rob Stanley
how many they've graduated out of there.
And the night that I was there, there
were uh union officials from Boiler
Makers and another union and they were
there to recruit these these young
people. So, it's a great program. I know
the town uh provides some funding for
them and I also know that their bigger
grants are up.
Uh we have some good partners that are
helping us to get get our um program off
the ground and there they are. Ryan
Walker of Walker Homes, Lynn James
Interiors by Design and Elsen Melie Oxa
from Shorebound um Contracting. I hope I
have pronounced uh the names correctly.
Um but when they were approached by
members of the scholarship committee
about the idea, a they said um do you
have any women you know who are ready
now and b yeah yeah we'll we'll support
your scholarship. So it's going to be
awarded um by September and we will let
you know about that. We're we're really
looking forward to um announcing the
winner of our first women in trade
scholarship and we're very proud to be
doing that in the town of Saging Shores.
Thank you. Well, thank you very much.
Questions or comments from members? Uh
the deputy mayor.
Um thank you Odet for the presentation.
I I just wanted to
um show appreciation for the the entire
group CFUW Southport for providing some
support for students. Um, I know when I
was a kid going to school here that um I
received some help from a number I it
was before CFUW Southport existed, but I
received support um in my own university
experience from a number of local groups
and it it made a difference and um so
thank you very much for adding to the
list um and um supporting people who
from our area who are are doing
interesting things and that support as I
said it just it makes a big difference.
So, thank you very much for that. Thank
you. Further questions or comments?
Councelor Grace.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thanks, Odette.
And I'm part of that committee. So, um
I'm a little biased about this uh
program, but um I also just wanted to
say a few things also about the Sparks
tour that we had, which was really
fascinating,
um and very inspirational. And I want to
thank councelor Met and councelor Halpen
for their work in volunteering to be
part of that program. And I'm glad our
town is supporting that program. Um Rob
told us on the tour a couple of
statistics. I think he said
34% of the attendees are women. Um
30 around that 33 32% are indigenous. I
know the other thing we saw, we saw a
number of um people who were immigrants
and uh I just wanted to call people up
who who uh criticize immigration in our
country and say come and look at these
young folks who are in here learning how
to uh wire something properly or
learning how to weld. a very
inspirational uh couple of young men we
met who started their lives in an
Ethiopian refugee camp and are now
living in Owen Sound and learning how to
weld and doing a fantastic job of it. So
anyway, I could just break it. I could
go on and on about that. Those two young
men from Ethiopia uh last week were um
given apprenticeships at Leona.
And I should mention too that councelor
Grace is um co-chair of the scholarship
committee and has done a wonderful job.
Thank you again. No surprise there.
Further questions or comments? Uh
council man. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Thu. Yes, I I I'm really really pleased
to see that you're offering this skilled
trade scholarship and I'll put it out
there as as a director and and same as
councelor Halpin on the board for the
Sparks Training Center that uh we would
be pleased to work with you in any way
to help you find suitable candidates to
to fit into that scholarship program
because I think it'll just be a great
kickstart for for any young lady or
maybe not so young lady that wants to
redefine her career and get things going
and and there's lots of opportunities
through the you mentioned the the union
partners. I was remiss when I didn't
mention the uh the Society of United
Professionals is also a great sponsor of
the Sparks Training Center and they've
been at most of our events as well. So
um congratulations and keep up the good
work and look forward to hearing from
you. Thank you. Are there further
questions or comments counselor HP?
Thank you mayor through you.
um working in Spark but also working for
years as a high school teacher. Uh you
know, our female students just have
always had a greater attention to
detail, better manual dexterity, and
that makes them excel at woodworking and
welding. Those two things, I mean,
welding and electrical wiring. And uh so
those are and and I believe electrical
is the trade job that has the highest
amount of uh female
membership. And I would just encourage
anyone out there thinking of
that, try it, you know, like let let's
let's forget about Walmart and those
places and let's let's give those people
a chance to, as you say, really improve
their livelihood and the life of their
families. So, thank you for the work
that you're doing with that. Thank you.
Are there further questions or comments
from members? Well, I'll just reiterate
the comments. Thanks to you, Odet and to
CFW for all the work that you do in our
community. This sounds this is a great
uh scholarship. I think that uh you know
there's um we hear all the time that
there's as you mentioned a deficit in
the number of folks working in our
skilled trades. How we need more people
working in skilled trades and we have
you said what only 8% of the folks
working in skilled trades are women.
That number should be at least 50%.
That's a heck of a gap, right? That's
42%. We should be that's a lot of people
who we could be getting into the skilled
trades and help us fill that gap and
help us build the things that we plan to
build and want to build in Canada. We're
hearing a lot of talk about building new
projects and getting Canad Canada's
economy rolling and uh and so women
should should play as much a part of
that as men do. And uh and so helping
this kind of help uh that you're
offering to get uh women the opportunity
to get those kinds of jobs is fantastic.
And I would just conclude by saying it's
really
cool sitting here to see we get all of
these we all the synergies are happening
between groups and organizations right
in our community we had society here we
have two representatives of sparks you
folks here from CFUW and all the
collaboration that is happening between
all these different groups and
organizations that are making things
happen you know in our community
creating these opportunities for young
people uh you know it's it's it's the
kind of thing that it gives you so much
optimism, I guess, about about what our
future's going to look like and and and
how we can overcome whatever challenges
we have because we have all these
different groups and organizations
making things happen. So anyway, and one
of them uh one of the most valued is CFW
and we really appreciate all your work.
So thanks for coming in tonight, Odette,
and we'll see you again
soon. Okay, so that brings us to the end
of our delegation. So um we uh we have
no items uh for um decision. We have a
we have a series of items on the consent
agenda. Does anybody want to have any of
the consent items voted on separately or
questions or comments are okay but votes
uh we need to pull it out for. So if you
don't wish to vote on any of these items
separately, I will just read the
recommendation that items 10.1 through
10.8 be approved and received for
information. Is there a mover and
seconder for that? The deputy mayor and
the vice deputy mayor. So questions or
comments on any of these items? Uh the
deputy mayor. Um just to avoid bouncing
around. Um did you want to move through
each of them in turn to see if there's
questions? I can if if we think there's
going to be questions on on many of
them. Why don't I do that? How about
10.1? Anybody have any questions on the
art school lease
agreement? Don't see any. How about
10.2? The IT manage detection and
response. Doesn't look like it. How
about 10.3? The preliminary operating
financials. Nope. Uh the winter
operations plan. Uh councelor man or
pardon me. Geez, I'm forgetting who
everybody is. Councelor Alban.
Thank you, mayor, and through you. Um, I
think that this is just uh pretty
impressive the amount of sidewalk that
we are plowing and I I recently heard a
ghost to the moon. Um, but
but I think
that we're we're not just talking the
talk. We're we're we're walking the walk
and plowing the walks when it comes to
providing active transport for people
and and for promoting that active
transport and for making it a more car
like a walking friendly environment and
everything. So, um you know I I think I
think Sogging Shores just has excellent
snow removal and you guys have done a
good job and this is a great addition.
So, just thanks very much
for for this and uh you know, this is
going to cost a little bit more money,
but it seems that something that people
really want. So, I think this is good
news and it's good to see all that stuff
plowed. Thank
you. Further comments on this one, the
deputy mayor.
Um I just wanted to acknowledge too that
it's a a really good read um the report
and I do hope um I had sent in a a
couple of comments that I think were
just um slight corrections to the report
um to include um language that I guess
was a little more inclusive in terms of
priorities both Port Algen and
Southampton and um not just indicating
Port Algam but I think this is the kind
of report that um I know that the town
um social media IA stuff picks up on a
lot of things. It's a really interesting
read when you look at the the the
priorities associated with how roads get
plowed in the winter and what the
priority route is. um which because a
lot of people um you know automatically
think the shore road but in fact you
know there's there's another road which
a series of roads that connect up that
take Port Algen right into the hospital
in Southampton that um it's the kind of
report that anybody um in in the
community I think would find something
of interest in it. So I'm sure it'll get
to be a Facebook post maybe at a more
appropriate time perhaps just before
snowfall next fall. Um, but thank you
very much, Matt, for for just such a
great update. Um, it's it's very good.
Thank you. Just a note, there will be a
press release on this particular item
tomorrow likely. Councelor Grace.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you,
Matt, for the report.
I too want to say how pleased I am and
uh I know there are many residents in
Southampton who are very pleased to see
that additional over 10 kilometers of
sidewalk being plowed in Southampton and
thanks to staff uh and council for
budgeting for this additional plow. Um,
and yes, we are so grateful and I hear
over and over how people really really
appreciate uh the fine work that our uh
snow plowing and winter control group
do.
Um, I like the de deputy mayor said is
suggesting to residents that it is
important to read this report because
what this report makes clear is that is
the level of detailed preparation that
goes into a successful winter operations
plan.
um that the training that staff goes
through every year, the maintenance and
and upkeep of all the equipment, the
materials that need to be ordered in
advance, the weather
monitoring several times a day, every
calendar day between October 1st and
April 20th, and then the rest of the
year, um once a calendar day. I pe you
know, people don't I didn't know that.
Um, I should have, but I didn't. Um, the
fact that staff monitors our pavement
temperatures with infrared devices on
their
vehicles. I mean, it's it's pretty
intriguing. And so, um,
and very comforting and it's then no
surprise that we have such great,
um, winter control operations. And we
also have dedicated staff who get up at
3:00 in the morning to actually go out
and and see what the conditions are
like. So, um, thank you very much, Matt.
It was a great, uh, great report and
your work all year round is great. Thank
you. Thank you, Councelor Dinsky.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I can only echo
what everyone has said. Um, but I do
have a message for those that may be
tuning in and watching. Now is the time
to take a look at this report, not when
the first snowfall hits. Look at it now
in in the sunshine out on your patio,
whatever the case may be, and see what's
happening here. the plan that we have
not only for sidewalks, which councelor
Grace and I went through a lot with that
over the past couple of years, but the
new roads that will be plowed as well.
Don't wait until the first snowfall and
then start calling in to Matt or anybody
else because they're out there doing
their job based on what we're presenting
today. So, make sure you check this out
and uh do it now. Thank you. Thank you.
Further comments. Of course, we do all
this planning uh so that the folks out
there in the community don't need to
think, don't need to worry about it on
their patios in the summertime. Uh and
uh but it's but it's been a good note
that's been made by folks around the
table that uh that an awful lot of
planning does go into the uh go into the
winter operations uh plan and all of our
operations and and I think it's worth uh
remembering that and uh and celebrating
it. I will note uh this evening uh we
have our uh new manager of operations
Trevor Robinson in the room public oh
sorry public works our manager of public
works uh in the room so um he's got a
lot to do with implementing all of this
and uh and so we appreciate having him
in the room uh with us and I see that
the director has a comment he'd like to
make so the director
uh thank you and through your your
worship and I'd like to thank everyone
for their kind words acknowledging the
efforts of our staff. I do want to
acknowledge that uh Trevor Robinson who
is now the manager of public works as
you indicated uh has succeeded Pete
Nectel but Pete also contributed to
contributing uh to this report as well.
Dave Souza um our other road supervisor
has currently Trevor is wearing both
hats until we backfill his position. Um
and we have decided to call him Skinny
Pete because it seems appropriate.
So well we'll probably we probably won't
refer to him as that at
council but anyway welcome aboard Trevor
and thank you for your work. I will just
say that the real headline from this
report is 20 km of additional sidewalk
plowed which is a 33% increase in the
amount of sidewalk that the towning jars
will will be plowing. We're going to
increase the amount of sidewalk we're
plowing by a full third uh which is a
huge huge increase which is going to
improve pedestrian access throughout the
municipality. And I might add that a big
chunk of those sidewalks that are being
added are in existing residential
neighborhoods. So, a chunk of them are
in new developments as you would expect,
but a bunch of them, a very large
percentage of them, maybe even half, am
I about right? Give or take. About half
of those uh 20 km are in neighborhoods
that are already existing, which is a
demonstration of the direct benefit that
people who have lived here their whole
lives get from the growth of the
community. It's only because the
community is growing that we are able to
buy new sidewalk snow plows and able to
enhance levels of service across
existing neighborhoods in the
municipality. So, um, people often ask
me, you know, what do I get out of the
growth of this community? What benefit
do I see? Well, here it is. There's an
example right there. And I think it's a
great thing. People ask us all the time
to clear their sidewalks. and uh
increasingly we're making our way
towards getting all those sidewalks
plowed. It won't happen overnight, but a
33% jump in one year is a heck of a step
in the right direction. So anyway,
thanks again Matt and Trevor and to your
whole
team. All right. Um so the next one is
10.5, the government relations and
advocacy report. Uh start with the
deputy mayor and then come down and
around.
Um thank you. Um I just wanted to get a
little more information. Um, there's
mention in this report about a specific
grant associated with the cemetery. Um,
someday I hope to live in one of our
cemeteries. So, I'm uh I'm just curious.
I don't recall hearing about what this
grant is all about. So, I I I hope we
might just be able to get a comment or
two about what what the outcome of that
grant is. I think it's about $80,000. I
might be out by a few. I think that's
right. The CEO.
Thank you. through you, Mr. Mayor. I'm
just trying to find it was a grant topup
on our um OMF funding of $80,000. So,
over the last uh three years, uh Jill
Rude, our manager of strategic
initiatives, myself, the mayor,
Wellington, Dupont, and those members of
council that have traveled with us to
Roma or AMO know that we've made
repeated delegations regarding the
Pioneer Cemetery in Southampton. And uh
this year it was noted that that OMFP am
I saying I always get it backwards.
OMPF OMF funding uh received a top up of
$80,000. I I would say that specifically
for Pioneer Cemetery, but they did note
that that could be one of our uses of
it. Uh I will also note that you know
this council has in front of it a
significant budget request related to
that pioneer cemetery if we are going to
save it from um from any further
slumping into the sogggin. So we will
continue to uh ask and invite our member
of parliament uh Lisa Thompson to come
up which we're working on for this
summer to see it uh with the hopes of
continuing to have that conversation
with the province of Ontario for
additional
funding. Councelor Halpin and then
Grace.
Thank you, Mayor and through you. Um,
uh, how much do we pay, uh, Dupont
Wellington DW per year, the CEO?
Thank you for the question. And through
you, Mr. Mayor, uh, we budgeted
approximately 72,000 in 2025 for
Wellington Dupont's retainer.
And um uh sometimes uh we you also
mentioned in this that you have grant uh
you have grant writers working and how
does the the grant match writers? How
does that work and how are they
renumerated?
Thank you for the question. So yeah, so
it's a team effort any time we apply for
the grants and a shout out to all those
in the room tonight that have helped the
town in acquiring over that $5 million
mark that we've had in the last year. Uh
and so we do use a company called Grant
Match and they help us with um
completing the submissions for the
grants because they are quite ownorous.
Uh Grant Match is um on retainer with
the town and uh their retainer is that
if they are successful they are paid.
So, while they're included in the same
report around government um relations
and advocacy, uh Wellington Dupont and
Grant Match are two separate entities
that we contract with.
Okay. Thank you. And I was kind of
surprised to learn that the connecting
links was something that we had to apply
to or that all of these
grants are so competitive to get. I
thought by right because we have a
highway running through us that the
government by right would help to look
after that but that is not the case.
I might I can just note that with
several years now of experience with
connecting
links we're we have traditionally been
less successful than successful with
getting connecting link funding like
it's been a challenge to get connecting
link and there was a period actually
under the previous government where they
almost eliminated the program altogether
um but uh um I would say and I think
it's a real that to me is sort of a a
real testament to the success we've had
with Wellington Dupont is the fact that
in the last couple of years we've We've
received several like what are we at
three now connecting link grants in like
two years which is in my experience
completely unprecedented. So, um, so
that's a it's true that, um, everybody
knows that you shouldn't have to
advocate, you shouldn't have to have
lobbyists to get this money. Uh, but in
the end, uh, if you want to get the
money, that's what you do and it works.
Council helping you.
Thank you, Mayor. And those are my
thoughts. Uh, exactly. I think it's a
shame that we have to spend taxpayers
money to talk to the government which is
run on the taxpayers's money and I I
don't think it should be like that. I do
have to acknowledge the success of DW
and the amount of grant money that we've
had this particularly this last year and
um I was you know I was eager to get rid
of them at the last budget time but the
fruit seemed to have coming in but again
I I just think it's a this is no
criticism of all the people that work in
the grants. It is not a criticism of it,
but I I just think you kind of can't get
over it that we have to use taxpayers
money to talk to the government. So, but
uh thank you and thank you for
everyone's work on all these grants and
they is there a total number for how
many how much grants we received this
year the CEO through you Mr. Mayor? So,
the number right now sits at just around
5.2 2 million and the report outlines um
not only the additional grants we're
looking at applying for but also the
advocacy issues that aren't related to
grants that uh Wellington DuPont um is
working on with us and there's several
under that area as well that they're
helping support us on and I just want to
give a shout out to our staff as well
who do spend a lot of time um director
Shrider and her staff uh director Paulie
uh Rulin uh have done a lot of work on
those grant applications to get them in
as well. So, thanks to all of them.
Uh, thank you. Thanks to staff and thank
you, Mayor. Thank you, Councelor Grace.
And then the vice deputy mayor. Uh,
thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, thank you,
Cara, for the report. Um, I know I've
said this before that I witnessed
firsthand, experienced firsthand the uh,
preparation and the fine preparation and
support that Wellington Dupont provided
to our team at the uh, AMO conference in
Ottawa last summer.
And uh but I until I read this report, I
did not know
the variety of ways that they are
advocating for our
municipality. And uh just one example,
something that I was involved in when I
was a member of the rail trail board, um
trying to get those paved shoulders on
the rail trail to try and make it the
highway crossing more accessible to
people. uh who are coming off the rail
trail and trying to, you know, trans
transition from that gravel shoulder to
the highway uh pavement. And um so
apparently that's something that they're
assisting with and looks like we're
successful in getting that. That's
something that the rail drill has been
trying to get for years. So uh I
completely support our use um of
taxpayer money. I think it it is a shame
we have to do it but that's the way of
the world and I think Wellington Dupon
is doing a really fine job for us. Thank
you. Hugh the vice deputy mayor. Yeah.
Thank you Mr. Mayor and I I also think
Wellington Dupon are doing a an
extremely good job there. I did I did I
had a question for the CEO. I did meet a
um a company and at the Olsson
conference who would dearly love to be
able to bid on this contract and um I've
been in the business 25 years and gave
me some ideas around some of their
successful projects and so there are
other companies and I guess my question
to the CEO you may is that car was this
was this soul sourced um did we go for a
request for proposal was it a tender
process or was it soulsource source.
Thank you for the question and through
you, Mr. Mayor. If you'll remember back
to 2023, I think is when we started
working with Wellington DuPont, we
specifically brought them on board in
relation to the uh aquatic and wellness
center and securing funding for that. If
they're watching at all tonight or
anyone from the province or the federal
government is watching, we're still
waiting for funding for that. So it is
one of the places where weekly we're
asking for the updates on but that was
the original intent in in bringing them
in and it did um sort of grow from there
to the request that we made of council
last year to extend their contract. So
it hasn't gone through an RFP. Uh if
this was a recommended uh company to us
from our member of parliament and so if
there is somebody else that you have in
mind, I'd be happy to explore that
option with them. And I thanks for that.
I just I I promised I would raise that
when the time was appropriate. So I'm
raising it this evening and I'll pass
that contact uh along to and and one of
the contacts is actually a seasonal
resident in Southampton. So, um I think
if there's an opportunity to uh to
tender RFP, Wellington Dupont are doing
a great job. So, uh this council may may
very well decide that we'll just stick
with Wellington to Dupont, but I just
wanted to pass it on. Thank you. Further
comments? Yeah, I think it's Oh,
councelor Matt. Go ahead.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Could I go back to
um I think it's number three, the IT
managed one. Well, why don't we just let
me just I have a comment just I want
briefly on this. We can go back. Um, I
just I just wanted to um follow up on
what the vice deputy mayor just said and
and note that I think probably it is a
good idea since we sort of um this has
sort of become a thing since as the CIO
raised because of the aquatics and
wellness center and we've sort of
realized the usefulness of having a
government relations firm and so um it's
been evolving for the last couple years
I would say and now it's maybe reaching
more of a state of maturity in terms of
becoming more of a permanent part of our
operations.
In which case, I think probably it's
smart uh to go along the lines of what
the vice deputy mayor said to start to
formalize it and and at some point put
it into a routine RFP. uh because as the
vice deputy mayor quite rightly points
out there are many government relations
firms uh in the world all of which have
um pros and cons to them and and we
should um you know I find an appropriate
time and and tender this like you would
your auditors and other things like
that. So um so I think that's a good
note and one that we should definitely
um follow up on. I just wanted to make
that point. If there's nothing else on
the uh government relations and advocacy
report, we can double back up. The
councelor wanted to talk about the
number 10.2 IT manage detection and
response. Counselor. Yes. Thank you, Mr.
Mayor. U when I read this one that a
question came into my mind and I just
remembered it now is was uh like we keep
getting these uh fake I presume fishing
type emails and because this I usually
just delete them because they do look
fishy but um I'm just wondering uh with
the current system that we have we had
any attacks that have been repelled by
our current system or have we uh or do
you have a way of detecting that? That's
why you never answer any of my emails
daily. The manager of it. Yeah. Thank
you. And through you, Mr. Mayor. Uh we
do every day have uh things. It could be
a website, could be a fishing email.
That is almost all of them are
definitely the bi-weekly automated ones,
but we do get occasionally ones that
come through and they do get flagged and
and blocked and we have metrics on that.
But um the the platform we're looking at
is not related to the training part. Uh
it's just through MISA and some of our
working groups. There is uh some newer
services that are 247 a little more
proactive. You know, all of us have time
off. They have staff and there are a
couple that are fully Canadian um
staffed designed. So, uh, just it's just
an FYI that we'll most likely be going
to RFP in 2026 for a new platform.
And how much does, um, burgeoning AI
space play into this? Uh, through you,
Mr. Mayor. So, the some of the new
systems do have machine learning, which
is a form of artificial intelligence. um
the gathers all that information from
every single computer, cell phone,
brings all the information back. So the
biggest part is we're we're getting
almost too much information from
everybody's devices for an average
person to sit there and make a decision.
This is much more proactive. It makes
all those decisions in the cloud and
then sends us all the alerts. and they
have staff that are monitoring it so
that two in the morning doesn't matter
if if your computer's on or I'm asleep
someone's watching it and making those
proactive decisions so we don't end up
like an you know some of the
municipalities that we have seen that
didn't have this service so
okay if there's nothing further on that
one then we'll we're all the way down
back and thank you Darren we're all the
way back down to 10.6 6, the 2024
council remuneration. Any questions or
comments on that? Seeing none, then 10.7
is the Bruce County Roads Authority
Assessment Study. Anybody have anything
on that one? The deputy mayor. Um, thank
you. Um, I don't know who who the
question is directed at. This this looks
really interesting, but it's also a
little bit concerning um because it does
talk about uploading or downloading
roads eventually. So, um, and, um, it
says something along the lines of we're
expecting a report perhaps by the end of
this year, which, um, you know, that
doesn't give us much time to prepare if
if the situation is is recommending, um,
the downloading of some roads and
because it's not just county roads, it's
talking about provincial roads, too. So
um who will participate in this from our
community and um what are the
expectations in terms of timeline for
council to hear um about how it's all
unfolding because it does sound very
interesting and make sense and we all
know that there are roads in our
community that part of them is ours,
part is the county and you know the a
provincial highway crosses at an
intersection. So, there's three
different I'm talking about the CAW
concession 6, highway 21 um
intersection. There's three different um
levels of government involved, but I'm
I'm just curious um and I see two people
at the mic. Um who's participating from
us and and when when my council will be
hearing some results of what's coming
out of the working group and um I I look
forward to the response. Thank you. The
director of operations.
Thank you. and through your worship. Um
we've uh talked and we've decided that
Trevor will stick handle participation
in this uh Bruce County Roads Authority
Assessment Study. Uh consequently, um he
was prepared to do some speaking on this
and I'm willing to let him do that right
now as his debut before you.
Thank you. And uh through you, Mr.
Mayor. So, um, to answer the question,
um, ultimately I think any changes at
the Sogging Shores level, they will be
have to report back to to town council.
Um, but as stipulated in the report, it
looks like their final final report, um,
is expected in Q3 2026. So, that's
something that, um, I think we're
hopefully a long ways away from
actually, uh, doing that and seeing
what, uh, what findings come from this
working group.
Any further questions? I can just uh say
too that uh in terms of the upload
download scenario, but at least between
the town and the county, it's very
likely that that will be done
cooperatively. And I I wouldn't uh I
wouldn't be afraid that somehow we're
going to have a lot of county roads
downloaded on us or or um if if anything
um it will be done I assume in a way
that works out to the best in the best
interest of both parties. There are some
roads out there where we are, you know,
for example, doing uh snow clearing in
the winter that are county roads,
picking up pieces of those roads or
there may be oper there may be scenarios
where it makes more sense for one
jurisdiction or the other to have
ownership, but as I say, I don't think
we're going to I'm um I can be you can
be pretty confident that we're not going
to be um the pro the county at least
will not be downloading a major burden
onto the town of Hogy Shores. Are there
further uh comments on this one? I don't
see any. So, thank you, gentlemen.
Appreciate it. Hope the vice deputy
mayor, you have some. No, I just want to
circle back to one if I would. Oh, yeah,
sure. Go ahead. Which one? Yeah,
it was for Jim a bunch and uh Jim um it
was nice to see Daniel's signature on
this report and yourself and um I just
um it was a question I had Jim of um
when you talk about the surplus of 13.8
8 million and I know much of that is
attributed to the uh tax stabilization
reserve and the remaining 8.2 million is
reserves predominantly water and
wastewater. Um so I look at that 13.8
million and then I and I I flip over to
the the other attachment
um you know with showing the numbers for
the just flipping to it and it's the
operating results net operating income
excluding debt. In the bottom right hand
corner it says grand total. Uh on the
right hand column it says remaining and
um there's
758,554. Jim, could you explain the 13.8
million surplus versus that bottom right
hand number?
The director of corporate services.
Thank you for the question and through
you Mr. Mayor. Uh the difference is in
the column that's titled actual full
year that is our our net income. So we
had net income of $13.8 million. We had
budgeted for net income of $13 million.
That meant that we had a favorable
variance to the budget of 3/4 of a
million
dollars. That explains it. So, um that
758554
um that that that surplus at year end
for
2024, where do those funds end up uh end
up at the end of the year? Tax
stabilization, where does it end up? The
754 the um as it relates to the impact
on reserves, it is the actual column
that of the 13.8 million that will be
impacting reserves. It'll be impacting
reserves better than we had expected uh
back when we did the budget by
threequarters of a million dollars.
Okay. And that and the that accumulated
surplus is up to what now? What's the
number again? I think it's in the
report, but I
just as it relates to tax stabilization,
uh we don't have the precise numbers at
this time because there's this is just
the net income. We still have transfers
um that we're still working on and
that'll be part of that what we'll
present with the audited statements that
we're hoping to bring forward in
September of this year. Um but I'm
anticipating that the tax stabilization
reserve is going to be somewhere in the
magnitude of around $6 million which
would be an improvement of about a
million half dollars from where it was
the year before.
Just a final comment. Is that 3/4 of a
million dollar net operating surplus
that one of the highest we've seen in
the last 5 10
years? Yep.
Um I would say it's probably in the
order of magnitude of what we've seen in
the past.
Okay. All right. So um we're down on to
communications. four communications
items there. Anybody have any comments
they want to make to any of
those? I don't see we will I'm just this
is the last one under the consent
agenda. So, do you have a comment the
vice depos
um Mr. Mayor, I I you know, at the last
meeting when they they spoke here as a
delegation, um you did have a fair
number of questions and they were great
questions and uh there was a follow-up
request at the last budget meeting to to
call the shareholders meeting and we're
working on that and I know you've been
in touch with uh with the with the
partnering municipalities and uh so I
think that's that's something that we'll
look forward to and we have a meeting
coming up in two weeks time where uh the
boss for partner municipalities were
asked to bring to the U table um some
suggest some some suggestions
recommendations around how our very old
agreement could be upgraded the 1998
agreement I think it is so that that
discussion is going to take place in a
couple weeks
very good thanks for your work on that
on any of the correspondence if not that
brings us to the end of the consent
agenda uh so the resolution's been moved
and seconded all in favor of that is
carried
Okay, so now we're on to motions and
notices of motion. And so presented here
isn't really a motion, but it's the only
place on the agenda we have to put these
things at the moment. So there you go.
Uh these are a set of um draft mayoral
decisions uh presented by me to you for
your review. You should you can think of
this as something similar to what we do
with site plan approval. I put them
before you in their draft form. You tell
me what you think of them. I take your
input and uh if there is input and um
and change them accordingly if required.
So um so there's three here. I the first
delegating the authority to appoint a
chief administrative officer to council.
The second delegating uh the management
of the town's organizational structure
and employment matters to the chief
administrative officer and the third
delegating uh the establishment uh
function and appointment of chairs and
vice chairs of all committees of council
to council. Um these are the first
three. There will be uh a uh future
decision uh which I will put before you
at some point uh pertaining to the
budget. uh but these are uh the most uh
critical for the moment for the time
being with respect to the operation of
the municipality. So um I'm open to your
comments or questions on these items.
Councelor Alen,
thank you Marin through you. Uh well,
Mayor, I I I really think you've done
the right thing with this and I believe
that you've uh earned a lot of respect
in the community for what you're doing
and um I I just really respect you for
this and I think it's the the best
decision. Thank you. Thank you, uh
councelor Matt.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You I agree this
you you've done taken the high road here
and it's been recognized uh and it will
be recognized in the media, I'm sure.
Um, one question I have is will these
have to be um, redone every term of
council, do you think?
I guess that's a open question. I would
think that a a new mayor will need to
make a a statement to the public and to
council as to how they intend to use
strong mayor powers. Um, I think that as
long as I am mayor, uh, these decisions
will stand. Um, so I don't anticipate
renewing them, um, or changing them in
any way. Um, but I think my guess is
that the best approach would be a new
mayor should make some statement about
what they intend to do since it really
is an individual's
decision. Further questions or comments
on these items? If not, uh, then, uh,
you can anticipate that I will sign
these decisions, uh, at the earliest
opportunity. All right. Uh so now we're
on to bylaws. Uh and we have one bylaw
there which uh is uh well the resolution
is that bylaw 61-2025 is here by red
pass and sealed this 9th day of June
2025. Is there a mover and secondary?
Moved by the deputy mayor. Second by
councelor Dinsky. Questions or comments
to the bylaw? Uh the deputy mayor.
Um thank you. It's not really a
question. It's just an observation. And
I just wanted to um point out um the
addition of the the
the sentence the two sentences or the
sentence at the bottom of the bylaw. And
perhaps you can just speak to that. And
um cuz I I had called cuz I thought it
was funny that there's two lines for you
to sign. There's just one right above
the other. And I thought, you know, that
seems a little awkward, but I think the
second signature relates to the
statement. So perhaps maybe that
signature should be underneath it. But
basically it reads, "By signing this
bylaw on June the 9th, 2025, I, Mayor
Luke Sharbono, will not exercise the
power to veto this bylaw pursuant to
subsection 284 um section 11 um item 4
um sub item A. Can you just explain what
that means because it's it's something
new on the bylaws and I I definitely
respect that it's here and um just want
to point it out um that I think it's a
good good thing. So I'll just let you
comment. Sure. Yeah. So you'll recall
when we heard from uh John Mascaren at
our was that our last meeting or the
meeting before uh a couple of meetings
ago. Um we talked about the the new uh
power that the mayor has to veto a
bylaw. Uh the mayor has a certain amount
of time to exercise that authority. Um,
so that puts our bylaws into limbo um
for a period of time where after council
votes on it, it's uncertain whether the
mayor might veto it or not. So to
overcome that um we've added this line
to each bylaw whereby I will So the way
I conceive of this is that the top line,
the first line
um is a B is a that's the mayor or the
chair of the committee. You know, if you
were in the chair, deputy mayor, you
would sign that line. What that is is
the chair or presiding officer
certifying the fact that council has
approved the bylaw. So, if council, if a
majority of members of council vote I,
it's the obligation in my view of the
presiding officer to sign on that line
because that certifies council's
approval. So, it's a separate signature
line for then the mayor to say, "Council
has approved this and I am not going to
veto it." Um, and so that's why it's two
lines. It's a little awkward, but in my
this was done at my request in this way
because I think it's the cleanest way
and clearest way to do it. And so this
way I can eliminate the limbo on the
night I I can sign I can sign as the
presiding officer and then immediately
certify that I won't veto the bylaw. And
then it everyone can be certain that it
will be in full force in effect at that
moment without having to wait
for what's two days and then you can
take two days to indicate you're going
to do it and then another 15 days to
actually do it. So it can put a bylaw
into into limbo for two weeks which in
many of our decisions would be which
would be a long time. So I anyway this
cleans that up and and um prevents that
limbo. I hope that's a clear enough
explanation. the deputy mayor. Um, thank
you for that and and um to my colleagues
on councel. Uh, I guess if we don't see
that
there, we we'll have some questions. Uh,
so I really appreciate you putting that
in into the the the format and the
process going forward. That's that's
very good. I might just add that there
will be situations for example if I am
away where you will deputy mayor we will
sign on behalf of council but obviously
you don't have the authority to decide
whether or not it will be vetoed in
which case my signature will not if I'm
out of the country I won't be able to
sign the bylaw uh so um it could be
there there may be occasions where my
signature does not show up on that line
which is not an indication that I intend
to veto the bylaw if the deputy mayor
signed it likely that I wasn't present
uh in time to do that, but I'll make
every effort perhaps through electronic
means or something. We can work with the
clerk's office to ensure that my
signature is placed on that line as soon
as
possible. Further questions or comments
to this
bylaw? Uh seeing none, then all in
favor? That's carried. Okay. Uh so now
we're on to the confirmatory bylaw. Uh
and it's resolved that bylaw 62-2025
being a bylaw to confirm the proceedings
of the council of the towning shores is
hereby read passed and sealed this 9th
day of June 2025 is remove and seconder.
Uh councelor Grace councelor Halpen all
in favor that is carried. And finally
the resolution is that this regular
council meeting of June 9, 2025 hereby
adjourns at 7:42 p.m. Mover and
seconder. Uh c the vice deputy mayor
councelor Grace all in favor. Council
stands adjourned. Have a good evening
everybody.