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Trailing table.

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It's nice.

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Good evening. It's 6:30. Members of

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council are assembled when you are ready

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to begin. Thank you very much. Good

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evening everyone. Like to welcome all

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members and uh welcome everyone in the

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gallery and everyone watching via the

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live stream uh this evening.

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Second item on the agenda is the land

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acknowledgement. I'll read the land

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acknowledgement this evening. We

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acknowledge that we are meeting on the

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traditional lands and treaty territory

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of the Sagin Ojiway nation which

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consists of the Chipuis of Sagin and the

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Chipois of Naywash unseated First

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Nation. We understand this land holds

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immense significance to the people of

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the Sagin Ojiway nation. We appreciate

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those who live and work alongside us

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today and who continued the traditions

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of their ancestors as stewards of the

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land we are privileged to inhabit. We

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thank them for the contributions they

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have made in both caring for the land

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and in shaping this community. We commit

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to truth and reconciliation to

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acknowledging the truth about what

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happened to indigenous peoples because

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of colonization and to reconciliation

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which begins with each and every one of

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us. And I might just share at this

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moment that um a couple of weeks ago I

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uh participated with Chief Richie in the

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ice bucket challenge at GC. I'm not sure

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if that was part of reconciliation or

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not, but it was certainly uh we both

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left uh cold. I'm not sure either of us

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have fully warmed up at this point, but

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it was it is a great exam. just it's a

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it really is always amazing to go there

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to GC Houston school and see the uh

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connection that the that uh school

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community has with the First Nation. Uh

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and that the school is always there to

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support things uh with the First Nations

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and the First Nation is always um the

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Sagine First Nation is always uh eager

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to be at the school and and support the

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programming that goes on there. And so

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it's just I just always appreciate going

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there. I think it's an outstanding

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institution in our community. Uh, and I

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just wanted to note that. So, as a local

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government and public organization, we

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are dedicated to learning about

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indigenous culture, to fostering a

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better relationship with First Nations

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and their people, and we commit

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ourselves to actions that move us

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forward on a path to healing along with

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the Sagino Jiuway nation. Third item on

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the agenda is disclosure of peerary

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interest. Ask any member if you have one

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of those you'd like to declare at this

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time. Seeing none, of course, you can do

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so anytime if you need to. Uh so that

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moves us on to adoption of minutes. We

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have uh the regular council minutes of

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May 20th, 2025 and May 26, 2025. And the

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resolution is the council adopt the

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minutes of the regular council meeting

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of June 9, 2025 as presented. Is there a

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mover and seconder? Moved by councelor

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Mayott. Seconded by councelor Dinsky.

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What did I read? Did I Oh, it said June.

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was right, didn't I? Uh, so we are

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adopting the recommendation of adopting

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the May 20th, 2025 and May 26, 2025

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minutes. And it's been moved by Matt,

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seconded by Dinsky. Uh, questions or

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comments to either of those sets of

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minutes? Seeing none, all in favor? That

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is carried. Okay, so we're on to

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delegations. We have two delegations uh

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this evening. Just remind our

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delegations that council's allotted 10

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minutes for each of our delegations.

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Appreciate it if you'd stick to those

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timelines. Our first one is from the

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Society of United Professionals. They're

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here to talk to us about the Canada

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United campaign supporting Canadian

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labor

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force. And when you gentlemen are ready,

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the floor is

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yours. Mayor Charbano, Sagian Shores

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Council. Hello. We are Canada United

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campaign coming out of the uh Society of

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United Professionals. Uh up to my left I

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have our local vice president Dave

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Chexers and to my right we have unit

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director uh Jeff Lawson and I'm Eric

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Teasler, unit director as well. So this

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composes of I guess uh three fifths of

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our executive board team that actively

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bargains on behalf of over 1,400 members

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now growing 1500 members across site at

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the Bruce. I also like to recognize an

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exLVP Dave Matt uh is in the house. So,

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hello. Good to see you. Um for those of

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you that don't know, um Oh, you had one

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job, Dave. One job.

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It's okay. Uh don't fire me, please.

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Okay. So, um the Society of United

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Professionals represents actually over

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10,000 uh professionals across Ontario.

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um including engineers, scientists,

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supervisors and uh legal aid lawyers

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more uh recently as well as Aboriginal

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uh rights lawyers. So um our biggest

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bargaining units is uh OPG um Hydro 1

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and Bruce Power of course the

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descendants from Hydro 1.

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Um, and we're proud to say that we

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represent uh some very fantastic members

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in your community, uh, including here,

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King Carden, and across Graham Bruce

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County. So, what is our ask? Uh, we're

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here to ask your support, which is

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similar to what you've already done,

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which is a passed a resolution back in

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October, uh, supporting Cano Energy, uh,

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and also Canadian supply chain. So, um,

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we got these beautiful shirts here and,

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uh, they are Canadian made, okay? And

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they are unionade as well. So, at the

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end of this presentation, I know some

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of, uh, your members here have already,

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uh, walked up to my uh, little booth

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over there, but I have some sizing. I I

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don't have So, we can maybe put it

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through uh, one of the assistants here

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an order, and we can bring them back to

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you. Um, but the intent here is to, I

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guess, celebrate uh, unity within

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Canada. Of course, we've all seen um,

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what's been going on down south with our

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neighbors?

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one. Uh, where do you got to point it?

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pass it over to Jeff.

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I'm like uh Ron Burgundy. I need I need

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to have this in front of me. Oh, there

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you go. Okay. So, Canada is experiencing

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an unprecedented moment in in our

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history. So, there's been never been a

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more important time to uh be unified and

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you've seen it in the media. uh you've

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seen that uh you know we got through a

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federal election which was you know a

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little bit divisive at times uh but uh

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certainly uh the rally cry came loud and

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clear when Mr. Trump decided to um

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leverage his authority uh and create

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tariffs that have an impact to uh not

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just our our community but all

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Canadians. And uh so our union thought

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up of a campaign that would kind of

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dovetail nicely in um so we've raised

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over uh $3,500

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uh using these shirts in the workplace

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as uh you know we we sell them as a

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donation.

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um and we're able to give back to the

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community where people are going to

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start feeling the impacts of the tariffs

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if not now very very soon in terms of

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food supply. Um the other thing that we

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are concentrating on of course is to

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reinforce the argument uh that Bruce C

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should be a a can do unit. There's a lot

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of back and forth as to why an American

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uh reactor last year, certainly at CNA

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last year, it was all Westinghouse. Um,

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so I think what we're advocating for is

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if you're being, you know, asked or

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tasked by corporations that uh wish to

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have your

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support, think about Canadians first and

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ask those good questions to say say

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where's the engineering coming from?

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Where's the uranium coming from? Where

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is the labor coming from? you know, like

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we've we've enjoyed 60 years of success

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at Douglas Point, uh, Bruce A, Bruce B,

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and and so forth. Safe operation by our

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engineers and by our people, right? So,

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keep that in your hearts and minds. Um,

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questions or concerns. Well, thank you

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guys very much for your presentation.

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Thank you for the t-shirts, your

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beautiful t-shirts. I got mine here and

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I know all the other members if they

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don't have one already will put their

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orders in. Are there questions or

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comments from the members, the vice

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deputy mayor? Yeah, thanks for your

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presentation, uh, Eric and others. And I

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just for my order, I'd probably need

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like an extra large or something like

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that if you have an extra large t-shirt.

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actually. That'd be wonderful. um just

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your messaging is is spot on and really

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appreciate the message what you bring

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tonight. And I just want to say while

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you're here though too is u thank you

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for all the good work you do in our

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community. I know you made a significant

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contribution to Lamont Sports Park

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wellness center, our doctor's residence

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and many many other projects. So I just

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want to say thank you very much.

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Absolutely. We'll get uh vice we'll get

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councelor Mette and then councelor

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Halpin. Thank you Mr. Mayor through you.

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Um as far as keeping the can do brand in

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Canada I think that's a great great uh

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endeavor to pursue. Keep and and I think

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uh at our our first um resident who's

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are going to be building at our

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innovation park is actually the Monarch

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brand candy reactor. Right. So, um the

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the town has put quite a bit of effort

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into building that in uh innovation park

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and uh hopefully one day very soon we'll

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see some groundbreaking there to get

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that uh can do brand built right into

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our community. So, we're with you on

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that one. Thank you. Absolutely. Council

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helping.

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Thank you, Mayor Tru. Uh just want to

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say keep up the good fight. Keep up the

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good work. Keep up the good fight.

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Elbows up.

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Thank you, Councelor Dinsky.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Through you,

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gentlemen. Thank you for your

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presentation. Thank you for the shirt.

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It speaks volumes. And I might

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add maybe a month and a half, two months

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ago, this council spoke volumes where we

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are proud to be able to support Canadian

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workers at anything we look at. Um,

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that's our first that's our first goal.

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If we have to go elsewhere, we have to

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go elsewhere. But, uh, it's elsewhere

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out this way as opposed to down south.

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So, thank you. Uh, thank you for that.

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Are these sweaters or t-shirts will they

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be available to the general public as

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well? I think uh we have a multiplatform

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state right now. It was like core Bruce

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power workers which is our you know

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bread and butter. Now we're reaching out

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to council and then eventually like

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we'll have shirts still to offer. I

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think we'll uh concentrate on Labor Day.

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I think uh Labor Day is the appropriate

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place for us to showcase this. So

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there's a good strong possibility we

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will have a vehicle ready and and giving

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out shirts to unify like giving out the

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last of them to uh kind of round out the

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campaign. I think that would be include

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people that are at the parade. Well, Mr.

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Mayor, I think that would look terrific

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as a picture with the streets

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solidified, solid, Canada united. So,

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best of luck and thank you. Thank you.

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Are there further comments? I just um

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for myself will just echo uh what the

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vice deputy mayor said about thanking

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society for all the work that you do in

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our community, all the support that you

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give us and recognize of course the fact

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that the reason why society is able to

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support the pool and our doctor

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recruitment and all of the things you

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support is because you are Canadian, you

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know, your workers in our community

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because there is um investments being

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made in Canadian technology and Canadian

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workers. that's why society has

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membership and uh and and so I think you

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know that is a a really important

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message to give to the community right

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that to get all to have all these things

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we're so lucky we live in the best place

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in the world um and the reason why it's

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such a great place is because we have

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people like yourselves working in our

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community earning a decent living who

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are able to give back and uh and you

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can't do that if uh you're if the

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technology you're building is all US

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technology. In fact, I learned from you,

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Eric, just at CNA, just how the

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um some of those US technologies how I

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had always thought, well, you build a

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nuclear reactor, Canadian engineers are

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going to get to work on it. It's in

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Canada, but that's not the case. Like,

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it's very much the case that you know

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where that technology is from very much

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dictates where the money will be spent

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and where the jobs will be to support

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that technology. So when you mix that in

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with the idea of having to buy enriched

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uranium from the United States and do

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other things uh with these other

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technologies, it just you know this

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council's already passed a resolution as

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you mentioned supporting can do

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technology. I I hold that view more

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firmly today than ever. Uh I mean we

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Canada should be building should we you

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know our next set of reactors should be

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Canadianmade can do reactors. It's the

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best nuclear technology on earth. uh

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safest, most efficient, most effective,

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and it employs Canadians. Um so I sure

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hope that you guys continue this

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campaign, get around all the rest of the

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municipal councils and everywhere else

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that you can send that message because

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we really need to be united, I think, in

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that view that Canadian technology is

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the best technology we could be. We

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should be the leaders. We should be the

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world's leaders in nuclear technology.

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We have everything that's required for

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that. Uh including all of your members.

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So, um, anyway, thank you guys for

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coming in. Thanks for the shirts and,

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uh, and we'll see you, well, we'll see

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you before then, but we'll see you on

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Labor Day. Yes, Labor Day. Okay, thanks,

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guys.

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All right, our second delegation is from

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the Canadian Federation of University of

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Women. It's Odet or Nikki. And, uh,

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Odette, whenever you're ready, the floor

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is yours.

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I told the gentleman before me not to

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screw the technology up, so let's

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see. It's going to be me

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instead. There we

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go. Mr. Mayor, council, members of the

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public at home and in the gallery and

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the town

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staff, CFUW is a nonpartisan voluntary

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voluntary self-funded uh organization.

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We have 90 clubs, 6700 members, which is

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down from a few years ago during the

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pandemic. And half of those clubs and

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members exist in the province of

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Ontario. CFUW Southport, which is our

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local club, was founded in 1989. We

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celebrated our 35th anniversary back in

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September, and our mayor was there.

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Thank Thank you for that. Uh we

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currently have 113 members and we are

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open to all women and individuals who

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identify as women and a university

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degree is not required. That's a a thing

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that sticks in the name because of legal

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uh requirements but um we have many many

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members now that do not have university

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degrees and we definitely value

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different types of education including

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life itself.

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Our main goal is we work to improve the

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status of women and to promote human

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rights, public education, social justice

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and peace both here at home. We do it

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locally, we do it proincially, we do it

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nationally and we do it globally. We

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have a voice at the UN every year which

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is very important to us.

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We have a scholarship fund here which to

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date has given out over $90,000 in

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scholarships. Uh that scholarship fund

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was established in our second year in

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1990 by uh Miss Jane Kramer. Many of you

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know

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Jane. Right now we give out six

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scholarships for students who live in uh

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SGEN First Nation, Sagin Shores, Bruce

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County depending on which the

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scholarship is. They are for students

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graduating from St. Mary's in Owens and

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from Sin District Senior School here in

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Port

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Elgen. Two of the scholarships are for

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indigenous students. We also have one

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that is a memorial scholarship for Liz

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Squires uh specifically for a graduating

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student pursuing uh a career in

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education or in a field that helps

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children and youth. We also have a

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memorial scholarship by our founder

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Carolyn Day who is a very big

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environmentalist if any of you knew her.

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Uh there is a national uh provincial

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award uh dedicated to her as well. Um,

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we give an award in her name to a

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student who ha is or has been in the

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care of Bruce Gay uh, Child and Family

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Services. That student can live anywhere

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in Bruce County. And of course, there

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are two additional um, scholarships as

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well. In addition to the high school

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scholarships, we give a mature woman

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scholarship. And this is for a candidate

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who has been out of high school for

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whatever reasons for a minimum of one

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year. And that is the same criteria that

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most colleges use in this province. Um

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the candidate can be pursuing

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post-secary education through

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university, college or trades or

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apprenticeship programs. And there are

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other certificate programs that we

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consider too. Our new scholarship that

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we're here to talk to you about and I'm

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behind this um is a woman in trades

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scholarship. We're very very proud to

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kick this off uh this year. You may have

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seen uh information in the local

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papers. Only 8.1% or 7.4 nationally of

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the 144 skilled trades recognized in

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Ontario are filled by women. And yet 51%

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of the work for force is women. Kind of

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doesn't make sense when we're all

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looking for people to fill skilled

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trades

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jobs. I'm going to put a quote up for

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you. Women make up nearly half of the

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entire Canadian workforce, but the

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perception still exists that certain

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jobs, particularly those in the skilled

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trades, should only be done by men. In

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reality, women excel in all

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traditionally maledominated careers,

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including those in construction,

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manufacturing, automotive, mining, and

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welding and more. And that quote comes

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from an article um of a research article

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under the Canadian um Ontario Colleges

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website. And they have done studies that

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show that for some trades, for example,

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um I'm just going to forget the name of

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this. It's the welding that builds

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vessels or

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tanks.

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Pressure pressure welding. That one

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women have shown um to far outpace men

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in their ability to do that job.

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I I know there are things men do better

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too. Um the mature women scholarship,

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sorry this should be the women in trade

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scholarship is a winwin for sin shores.

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We know that here we've got a high

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growth rate in uh housing needs and

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other types of construction development

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as well as the green energy that um the

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previous uh speakers talked about. Uh in

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fact, we learned recently uh by visiting

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our spark center here in town that Bruce

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Power has 700 electricians hired. 700. I

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don't know what all the others are, but

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that's that's a lot of people to keep

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replacing uh with attrition and with

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growth. Women are also um able to better

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provide for their families when they

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have well-paid jobs. And here's where

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I'm going to go a little bit aside and

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tell you about a woman I met in Windsor

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uh about this time last year. Uh she was

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at Fansaw call fans Shaw College with a

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group of people promoting a uh

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government funded Canadian federal

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government prof funded skills trades

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program for women. That grant has since

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died. But what she told my partner and I

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is that prior to doing that course um

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she was a single mom with two kids. She

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worked at a grocery store full-time and

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she worked two part-time jobs and her

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total income was

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$37,000. After completing an

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electrician's program, she is now making

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close to 100. You can imagine the

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difference that makes to her family and

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her life. Uh I think it's really

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important. I mentioned Sparks briefly.

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Um my um scholarship committee uh mates

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and I had a lovely visit to Sparks. If

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you haven't had that chance, it's worth

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going. You will see uh both men and

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women of a variety of different programs

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doing the welding and electrical right

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now. And I I think they had plumbing and

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probably some others at different times,

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too. I've been told um by uh Rob Stanley

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how many they've graduated out of there.

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And the night that I was there, there

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were uh union officials from Boiler

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Makers and another union and they were

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there to recruit these these young

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people. So, it's a great program. I know

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the town uh provides some funding for

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them and I also know that their bigger

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grants are up.

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Uh we have some good partners that are

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helping us to get get our um program off

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the ground and there they are. Ryan

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Walker of Walker Homes, Lynn James

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Interiors by Design and Elsen Melie Oxa

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from Shorebound um Contracting. I hope I

539
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have pronounced uh the names correctly.

540
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Um but when they were approached by

541
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members of the scholarship committee

542
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about the idea, a they said um do you

543
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have any women you know who are ready

544
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now and b yeah yeah we'll we'll support

545
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your scholarship. So it's going to be

546
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awarded um by September and we will let

547
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you know about that. We're we're really

548
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looking forward to um announcing the

549
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winner of our first women in trade

550
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scholarship and we're very proud to be

551
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doing that in the town of Saging Shores.

552
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Thank you. Well, thank you very much.

553
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Questions or comments from members? Uh

554
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the deputy mayor.

555
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Um thank you Odet for the presentation.

556
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I I just wanted to

557
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um show appreciation for the the entire

558
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group CFUW Southport for providing some

559
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support for students. Um, I know when I

560
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was a kid going to school here that um I

561
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received some help from a number I it

562
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was before CFUW Southport existed, but I

563
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received support um in my own university

564
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experience from a number of local groups

565
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and it it made a difference and um so

566
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thank you very much for adding to the

567
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list um and um supporting people who

568
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from our area who are are doing

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interesting things and that support as I

570
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said it just it makes a big difference.

571
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So, thank you very much for that. Thank

572
00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:26,960
you. Further questions or comments?

573
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Councelor Grace.

574
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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thanks, Odette.

575
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And I'm part of that committee. So, um

576
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I'm a little biased about this uh

577
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program, but um I also just wanted to

578
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say a few things also about the Sparks

579
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tour that we had, which was really

580
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fascinating,

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um and very inspirational. And I want to

582
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thank councelor Met and councelor Halpen

583
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for their work in volunteering to be

584
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part of that program. And I'm glad our

585
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town is supporting that program. Um Rob

586
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told us on the tour a couple of

587
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statistics. I think he said

588
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34% of the attendees are women. Um

589
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30 around that 33 32% are indigenous. I

590
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know the other thing we saw, we saw a

591
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number of um people who were immigrants

592
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and uh I just wanted to call people up

593
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who who uh criticize immigration in our

594
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country and say come and look at these

595
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young folks who are in here learning how

596
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to uh wire something properly or

597
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learning how to weld. a very

598
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inspirational uh couple of young men we

599
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met who started their lives in an

600
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Ethiopian refugee camp and are now

601
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living in Owen Sound and learning how to

602
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weld and doing a fantastic job of it. So

603
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,640
anyway, I could just break it. I could

604
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go on and on about that. Those two young

605
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men from Ethiopia uh last week were um

606
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given apprenticeships at Leona.

607
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And I should mention too that councelor

608
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Grace is um co-chair of the scholarship

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committee and has done a wonderful job.

610
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Thank you again. No surprise there.

611
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Further questions or comments? Uh

612
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council man. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

613
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Thu. Yes, I I I'm really really pleased

614
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to see that you're offering this skilled

615
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trade scholarship and I'll put it out

616
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there as as a director and and same as

617
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councelor Halpin on the board for the

618
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Sparks Training Center that uh we would

619
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be pleased to work with you in any way

620
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to help you find suitable candidates to

621
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to fit into that scholarship program

622
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because I think it'll just be a great

623
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kickstart for for any young lady or

624
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maybe not so young lady that wants to

625
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redefine her career and get things going

626
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and and there's lots of opportunities

627
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through the you mentioned the the union

628
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partners. I was remiss when I didn't

629
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mention the uh the Society of United

630
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Professionals is also a great sponsor of

631
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the Sparks Training Center and they've

632
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been at most of our events as well. So

633
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um congratulations and keep up the good

634
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work and look forward to hearing from

635
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you. Thank you. Are there further

636
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questions or comments counselor HP?

637
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,399
Thank you mayor through you.

638
00:29:19,399 --> 00:29:22,240
um working in Spark but also working for

639
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,440
years as a high school teacher. Uh you

640
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,679
know, our female students just have

641
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always had a greater attention to

642
00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:32,720
detail, better manual dexterity, and

643
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that makes them excel at woodworking and

644
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welding. Those two things, I mean,

645
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welding and electrical wiring. And uh so

646
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those are and and I believe electrical

647
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is the trade job that has the highest

648
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amount of uh female

649
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membership. And I would just encourage

650
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anyone out there thinking of

651
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that, try it, you know, like let let's

652
00:30:01,679 --> 00:30:03,520
let's forget about Walmart and those

653
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places and let's let's give those people

654
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a chance to, as you say, really improve

655
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their livelihood and the life of their

656
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families. So, thank you for the work

657
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that you're doing with that. Thank you.

658
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Are there further questions or comments

659
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from members? Well, I'll just reiterate

660
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the comments. Thanks to you, Odet and to

661
00:30:20,559 --> 00:30:22,480
CFW for all the work that you do in our

662
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community. This sounds this is a great

663
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uh scholarship. I think that uh you know

664
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there's um we hear all the time that

665
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there's as you mentioned a deficit in

666
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the number of folks working in our

667
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skilled trades. How we need more people

668
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working in skilled trades and we have

669
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you said what only 8% of the folks

670
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working in skilled trades are women.

671
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That number should be at least 50%.

672
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That's a heck of a gap, right? That's

673
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42%. We should be that's a lot of people

674
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who we could be getting into the skilled

675
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trades and help us fill that gap and

676
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help us build the things that we plan to

677
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build and want to build in Canada. We're

678
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hearing a lot of talk about building new

679
00:30:55,919 --> 00:30:58,440
projects and getting Canad Canada's

680
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economy rolling and uh and so women

681
00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:03,440
should should play as much a part of

682
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that as men do. And uh and so helping

683
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this kind of help uh that you're

684
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offering to get uh women the opportunity

685
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to get those kinds of jobs is fantastic.

686
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And I would just conclude by saying it's

687
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really

688
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cool sitting here to see we get all of

689
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these we all the synergies are happening

690
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between groups and organizations right

691
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in our community we had society here we

692
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have two representatives of sparks you

693
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,080
folks here from CFUW and all the

694
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collaboration that is happening between

695
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all these different groups and

696
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,080
organizations that are making things

697
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,240
happen you know in our community

698
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creating these opportunities for young

699
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,679
people uh you know it's it's it's the

700
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kind of thing that it gives you so much

701
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,480
optimism, I guess, about about what our

702
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,320
future's going to look like and and and

703
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,919
how we can overcome whatever challenges

704
00:31:49,919 --> 00:31:50,960
we have because we have all these

705
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,480
different groups and organizations

706
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,279
making things happen. So anyway, and one

707
00:31:55,279 --> 00:31:57,360
of them uh one of the most valued is CFW

708
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and we really appreciate all your work.

709
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So thanks for coming in tonight, Odette,

710
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and we'll see you again

711
00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:04,799
soon. Okay, so that brings us to the end

712
00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:09,840
of our delegation. So um we uh we have

713
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no items uh for um decision. We have a

714
00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:15,200
we have a series of items on the consent

715
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agenda. Does anybody want to have any of

716
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,720
the consent items voted on separately or

717
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,720
questions or comments are okay but votes

718
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,679
uh we need to pull it out for. So if you

719
00:32:25,679 --> 00:32:28,080
don't wish to vote on any of these items

720
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,840
separately, I will just read the

721
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recommendation that items 10.1 through

722
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10.8 be approved and received for

723
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information. Is there a mover and

724
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seconder for that? The deputy mayor and

725
00:32:37,919 --> 00:32:40,080
the vice deputy mayor. So questions or

726
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,159
comments on any of these items? Uh the

727
00:32:42,159 --> 00:32:45,840
deputy mayor. Um just to avoid bouncing

728
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,840
around. Um did you want to move through

729
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,640
each of them in turn to see if there's

730
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,080
questions? I can if if we think there's

731
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,080
going to be questions on on many of

732
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,840
them. Why don't I do that? How about

733
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,760
10.1? Anybody have any questions on the

734
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,480
art school lease

735
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,679
agreement? Don't see any. How about

736
00:33:03,679 --> 00:33:07,000
10.2? The IT manage detection and

737
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,039
response. Doesn't look like it. How

738
00:33:09,039 --> 00:33:14,350
about 10.3? The preliminary operating

739
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,840
financials. Nope. Uh the winter

740
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operations plan. Uh councelor man or

741
00:33:19,919 --> 00:33:21,360
pardon me. Geez, I'm forgetting who

742
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,640
everybody is. Councelor Alban.

743
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,880
Thank you, mayor, and through you. Um, I

744
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,000
think that this is just uh pretty

745
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,399
impressive the amount of sidewalk that

746
00:33:32,399 --> 00:33:35,200
we are plowing and I I recently heard a

747
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ghost to the moon. Um, but

748
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but I think

749
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that we're we're not just talking the

750
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talk. We're we're we're walking the walk

751
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,519
and plowing the walks when it comes to

752
00:33:50,519 --> 00:33:53,919
providing active transport for people

753
00:33:53,919 --> 00:33:56,240
and and for promoting that active

754
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,559
transport and for making it a more car

755
00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:01,279
like a walking friendly environment and

756
00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:05,519
everything. So, um you know I I think I

757
00:34:05,519 --> 00:34:08,000
think Sogging Shores just has excellent

758
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,320
snow removal and you guys have done a

759
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,240
good job and this is a great addition.

760
00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:14,520
So, just thanks very much

761
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,879
for for this and uh you know, this is

762
00:34:18,879 --> 00:34:20,320
going to cost a little bit more money,

763
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,079
but it seems that something that people

764
00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:24,399
really want. So, I think this is good

765
00:34:24,399 --> 00:34:26,240
news and it's good to see all that stuff

766
00:34:26,240 --> 00:34:27,960
plowed. Thank

767
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,159
you. Further comments on this one, the

768
00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:32,560
deputy mayor.

769
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,879
Um I just wanted to acknowledge too that

770
00:34:34,879 --> 00:34:37,919
it's a a really good read um the report

771
00:34:37,919 --> 00:34:41,599
and I do hope um I had sent in a a

772
00:34:41,599 --> 00:34:43,760
couple of comments that I think were

773
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,280
just um slight corrections to the report

774
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,599
um to include um language that I guess

775
00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:51,200
was a little more inclusive in terms of

776
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,800
priorities both Port Algen and

777
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,679
Southampton and um not just indicating

778
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,680
Port Algam but I think this is the kind

779
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,560
of report that um I know that the town

780
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,680
um social media IA stuff picks up on a

781
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,680
lot of things. It's a really interesting

782
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,760
read when you look at the the the

783
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,720
priorities associated with how roads get

784
00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:13,200
plowed in the winter and what the

785
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,760
priority route is. um which because a

786
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,760
lot of people um you know automatically

787
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,320
think the shore road but in fact you

788
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,800
know there's there's another road which

789
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,119
a series of roads that connect up that

790
00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:27,359
take Port Algen right into the hospital

791
00:35:27,359 --> 00:35:29,920
in Southampton that um it's the kind of

792
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,560
report that anybody um in in the

793
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,560
community I think would find something

794
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,200
of interest in it. So I'm sure it'll get

795
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,680
to be a Facebook post maybe at a more

796
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,440
appropriate time perhaps just before

797
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,839
snowfall next fall. Um, but thank you

798
00:35:43,839 --> 00:35:46,000
very much, Matt, for for just such a

799
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,200
great update. Um, it's it's very good.

800
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,560
Thank you. Just a note, there will be a

801
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,040
press release on this particular item

802
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,720
tomorrow likely. Councelor Grace.

803
00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,400
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you,

804
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,680
Matt, for the report.

805
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,880
I too want to say how pleased I am and

806
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,280
uh I know there are many residents in

807
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,280
Southampton who are very pleased to see

808
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,240
that additional over 10 kilometers of

809
00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:14,480
sidewalk being plowed in Southampton and

810
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,079
thanks to staff uh and council for

811
00:36:18,079 --> 00:36:21,839
budgeting for this additional plow. Um,

812
00:36:21,839 --> 00:36:24,960
and yes, we are so grateful and I hear

813
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:29,200
over and over how people really really

814
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,720
appreciate uh the fine work that our uh

815
00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:35,520
snow plowing and winter control group

816
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,920
do.

817
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,040
Um, I like the de deputy mayor said is

818
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,680
suggesting to residents that it is

819
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,320
important to read this report because

820
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,520
what this report makes clear is that is

821
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,599
the level of detailed preparation that

822
00:36:53,599 --> 00:36:56,800
goes into a successful winter operations

823
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,320
plan.

824
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,800
um that the training that staff goes

825
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,240
through every year, the maintenance and

826
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:06,960
and upkeep of all the equipment, the

827
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,839
materials that need to be ordered in

828
00:37:08,839 --> 00:37:11,400
advance, the weather

829
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,720
monitoring several times a day, every

830
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:17,119
calendar day between October 1st and

831
00:37:17,119 --> 00:37:19,760
April 20th, and then the rest of the

832
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:24,000
year, um once a calendar day. I pe you

833
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000
know, people don't I didn't know that.

834
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,400
Um, I should have, but I didn't. Um, the

835
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,320
fact that staff monitors our pavement

836
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,079
temperatures with infrared devices on

837
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:35,000
their

838
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,520
vehicles. I mean, it's it's pretty

839
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,119
intriguing. And so, um,

840
00:37:40,119 --> 00:37:44,320
and very comforting and it's then no

841
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,440
surprise that we have such great,

842
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,800
um, winter control operations. And we

843
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,640
also have dedicated staff who get up at

844
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,720
3:00 in the morning to actually go out

845
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:57,320
and and see what the conditions are

846
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,800
like. So, um, thank you very much, Matt.

847
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,440
It was a great, uh, great report and

848
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,359
your work all year round is great. Thank

849
00:38:05,359 --> 00:38:10,000
you. Thank you, Councelor Dinsky.

850
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,720
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I can only echo

851
00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:17,280
what everyone has said. Um, but I do

852
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,400
have a message for those that may be

853
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,680
tuning in and watching. Now is the time

854
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,400
to take a look at this report, not when

855
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,079
the first snowfall hits. Look at it now

856
00:38:32,079 --> 00:38:35,119
in in the sunshine out on your patio,

857
00:38:35,119 --> 00:38:39,040
whatever the case may be, and see what's

858
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,520
happening here. the plan that we have

859
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,200
not only for sidewalks, which councelor

860
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,760
Grace and I went through a lot with that

861
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,920
over the past couple of years, but the

862
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,440
new roads that will be plowed as well.

863
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,599
Don't wait until the first snowfall and

864
00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:58,240
then start calling in to Matt or anybody

865
00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:00,560
else because they're out there doing

866
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,320
their job based on what we're presenting

867
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,280
today. So, make sure you check this out

868
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,960
and uh do it now. Thank you. Thank you.

869
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,200
Further comments. Of course, we do all

870
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,680
this planning uh so that the folks out

871
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:16,720
there in the community don't need to

872
00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:17,920
think, don't need to worry about it on

873
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,720
their patios in the summertime. Uh and

874
00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:22,560
uh but it's but it's been a good note

875
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,720
that's been made by folks around the

876
00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:26,880
table that uh that an awful lot of

877
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,320
planning does go into the uh go into the

878
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,440
winter operations uh plan and all of our

879
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,920
operations and and I think it's worth uh

880
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,000
remembering that and uh and celebrating

881
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,880
it. I will note uh this evening uh we

882
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,079
have our uh new manager of operations

883
00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:47,280
Trevor Robinson in the room public oh

884
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,520
sorry public works our manager of public

885
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:54,240
works uh in the room so um he's got a

886
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:56,320
lot to do with implementing all of this

887
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,880
and uh and so we appreciate having him

888
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,280
in the room uh with us and I see that

889
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,960
the director has a comment he'd like to

890
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,320
make so the director

891
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:07,760
uh thank you and through your your

892
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,280
worship and I'd like to thank everyone

893
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,040
for their kind words acknowledging the

894
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,320
efforts of our staff. I do want to

895
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,760
acknowledge that uh Trevor Robinson who

896
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,839
is now the manager of public works as

897
00:40:19,839 --> 00:40:22,320
you indicated uh has succeeded Pete

898
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,040
Nectel but Pete also contributed to

899
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,920
contributing uh to this report as well.

900
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,680
Dave Souza um our other road supervisor

901
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,320
has currently Trevor is wearing both

902
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,200
hats until we backfill his position. Um

903
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,520
and we have decided to call him Skinny

904
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,240
Pete because it seems appropriate.

905
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,680
So well we'll probably we probably won't

906
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,960
refer to him as that at

907
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,520
council but anyway welcome aboard Trevor

908
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,119
and thank you for your work. I will just

909
00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:55,200
say that the real headline from this

910
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,480
report is 20 km of additional sidewalk

911
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,119
plowed which is a 33% increase in the

912
00:41:01,119 --> 00:41:03,119
amount of sidewalk that the towning jars

913
00:41:03,119 --> 00:41:04,800
will will be plowing. We're going to

914
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,079
increase the amount of sidewalk we're

915
00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:09,760
plowing by a full third uh which is a

916
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,319
huge huge increase which is going to

917
00:41:12,319 --> 00:41:14,480
improve pedestrian access throughout the

918
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,640
municipality. And I might add that a big

919
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,040
chunk of those sidewalks that are being

920
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:20,720
added are in existing residential

921
00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:22,480
neighborhoods. So, a chunk of them are

922
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,880
in new developments as you would expect,

923
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,400
but a bunch of them, a very large

924
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,839
percentage of them, maybe even half, am

925
00:41:27,839 --> 00:41:29,839
I about right? Give or take. About half

926
00:41:29,839 --> 00:41:32,319
of those uh 20 km are in neighborhoods

927
00:41:32,319 --> 00:41:34,359
that are already existing, which is a

928
00:41:34,359 --> 00:41:38,240
demonstration of the direct benefit that

929
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,160
people who have lived here their whole

930
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,760
lives get from the growth of the

931
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,520
community. It's only because the

932
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,160
community is growing that we are able to

933
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:49,040
buy new sidewalk snow plows and able to

934
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,440
enhance levels of service across

935
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,359
existing neighborhoods in the

936
00:41:53,359 --> 00:41:56,880
municipality. So, um, people often ask

937
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,640
me, you know, what do I get out of the

938
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,560
growth of this community? What benefit

939
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,720
do I see? Well, here it is. There's an

940
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:05,839
example right there. And I think it's a

941
00:42:05,839 --> 00:42:07,760
great thing. People ask us all the time

942
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,920
to clear their sidewalks. and uh

943
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,359
increasingly we're making our way

944
00:42:11,359 --> 00:42:13,440
towards getting all those sidewalks

945
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,280
plowed. It won't happen overnight, but a

946
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,520
33% jump in one year is a heck of a step

947
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,839
in the right direction. So anyway,

948
00:42:19,839 --> 00:42:21,920
thanks again Matt and Trevor and to your

949
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:22,680
whole

950
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,680
team. All right. Um so the next one is

951
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,200
10.5, the government relations and

952
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,200
advocacy report. Uh start with the

953
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,560
deputy mayor and then come down and

954
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,880
around.

955
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,680
Um thank you. Um I just wanted to get a

956
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,440
little more information. Um, there's

957
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,920
mention in this report about a specific

958
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,040
grant associated with the cemetery. Um,

959
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,960
someday I hope to live in one of our

960
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,079
cemeteries. So, I'm uh I'm just curious.

961
00:42:48,079 --> 00:42:50,400
I don't recall hearing about what this

962
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,960
grant is all about. So, I I I hope we

963
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:54,640
might just be able to get a comment or

964
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,680
two about what what the outcome of that

965
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,160
grant is. I think it's about $80,000. I

966
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,240
might be out by a few. I think that's

967
00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,040
right. The CEO.

968
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,119
Thank you. through you, Mr. Mayor. I'm

969
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:09,520
just trying to find it was a grant topup

970
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:14,319
on our um OMF funding of $80,000. So,

971
00:43:14,319 --> 00:43:17,760
over the last uh three years, uh Jill

972
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,040
Rude, our manager of strategic

973
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,640
initiatives, myself, the mayor,

974
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,960
Wellington, Dupont, and those members of

975
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,560
council that have traveled with us to

976
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,880
Roma or AMO know that we've made

977
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,800
repeated delegations regarding the

978
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,880
Pioneer Cemetery in Southampton. And uh

979
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,319
this year it was noted that that OMFP am

980
00:43:36,319 --> 00:43:39,640
I saying I always get it backwards.

981
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:45,560
OMPF OMF funding uh received a top up of

982
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,960
$80,000. I I would say that specifically

983
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,200
for Pioneer Cemetery, but they did note

984
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,960
that that could be one of our uses of

985
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,839
it. Uh I will also note that you know

986
00:43:55,839 --> 00:43:58,000
this council has in front of it a

987
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,760
significant budget request related to

988
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,000
that pioneer cemetery if we are going to

989
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,560
save it from um from any further

990
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,119
slumping into the sogggin. So we will

991
00:44:07,119 --> 00:44:10,319
continue to uh ask and invite our member

992
00:44:10,319 --> 00:44:12,560
of parliament uh Lisa Thompson to come

993
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,000
up which we're working on for this

994
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,560
summer to see it uh with the hopes of

995
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:17,839
continuing to have that conversation

996
00:44:17,839 --> 00:44:19,280
with the province of Ontario for

997
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:20,599
additional

998
00:44:20,599 --> 00:44:23,119
funding. Councelor Halpin and then

999
00:44:23,119 --> 00:44:25,040
Grace.

1000
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,480
Thank you, Mayor and through you. Um,

1001
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,599
uh, how much do we pay, uh, Dupont

1002
00:44:31,599 --> 00:44:40,309
Wellington DW per year, the CEO?

1003
00:44:40,319 --> 00:44:41,599
Thank you for the question. And through

1004
00:44:41,599 --> 00:44:43,599
you, Mr. Mayor, uh, we budgeted

1005
00:44:43,599 --> 00:44:47,440
approximately 72,000 in 2025 for

1006
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:52,870
Wellington Dupont's retainer.

1007
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,480
And um uh sometimes uh we you also

1008
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,040
mentioned in this that you have grant uh

1009
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,680
you have grant writers working and how

1010
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,760
does the the grant match writers? How

1011
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,200
does that work and how are they

1012
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,190
renumerated?

1013
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,440
Thank you for the question. So yeah, so

1014
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,440
it's a team effort any time we apply for

1015
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,040
the grants and a shout out to all those

1016
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:16,480
in the room tonight that have helped the

1017
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,640
town in acquiring over that $5 million

1018
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,280
mark that we've had in the last year. Uh

1019
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,000
and so we do use a company called Grant

1020
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,000
Match and they help us with um

1021
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,520
completing the submissions for the

1022
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,599
grants because they are quite ownorous.

1023
00:45:29,599 --> 00:45:32,720
Uh Grant Match is um on retainer with

1024
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:35,760
the town and uh their retainer is that

1025
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,079
if they are successful they are paid.

1026
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:39,680
So, while they're included in the same

1027
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,319
report around government um relations

1028
00:45:42,319 --> 00:45:45,119
and advocacy, uh Wellington Dupont and

1029
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:47,359
Grant Match are two separate entities

1030
00:45:47,359 --> 00:45:53,109
that we contract with.

1031
00:45:53,119 --> 00:45:55,040
Okay. Thank you. And I was kind of

1032
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,200
surprised to learn that the connecting

1033
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,240
links was something that we had to apply

1034
00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:03,000
to or that all of these

1035
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,560
grants are so competitive to get. I

1036
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,319
thought by right because we have a

1037
00:46:08,319 --> 00:46:10,079
highway running through us that the

1038
00:46:10,079 --> 00:46:12,079
government by right would help to look

1039
00:46:12,079 --> 00:46:15,920
after that but that is not the case.

1040
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,000
I might I can just note that with

1041
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,440
several years now of experience with

1042
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:20,920
connecting

1043
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,640
links we're we have traditionally been

1044
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,400
less successful than successful with

1045
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:27,680
getting connecting link funding like

1046
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,680
it's been a challenge to get connecting

1047
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,200
link and there was a period actually

1048
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:32,480
under the previous government where they

1049
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,800
almost eliminated the program altogether

1050
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,480
um but uh um I would say and I think

1051
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,880
it's a real that to me is sort of a a

1052
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,400
real testament to the success we've had

1053
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:43,920
with Wellington Dupont is the fact that

1054
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,680
in the last couple of years we've We've

1055
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,599
received several like what are we at

1056
00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:49,440
three now connecting link grants in like

1057
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,640
two years which is in my experience

1058
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,599
completely unprecedented. So, um, so

1059
00:46:55,599 --> 00:46:58,960
that's a it's true that, um, everybody

1060
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,960
knows that you shouldn't have to

1061
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:02,240
advocate, you shouldn't have to have

1062
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:04,800
lobbyists to get this money. Uh, but in

1063
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:06,960
the end, uh, if you want to get the

1064
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,119
money, that's what you do and it works.

1065
00:47:09,119 --> 00:47:11,440
Council helping you.

1066
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,760
Thank you, Mayor. And those are my

1067
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,560
thoughts. Uh, exactly. I think it's a

1068
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,640
shame that we have to spend taxpayers

1069
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:23,760
money to talk to the government which is

1070
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,040
run on the taxpayers's money and I I

1071
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,839
don't think it should be like that. I do

1072
00:47:29,839 --> 00:47:34,079
have to acknowledge the success of DW

1073
00:47:34,079 --> 00:47:36,480
and the amount of grant money that we've

1074
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:40,560
had this particularly this last year and

1075
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:45,119
um I was you know I was eager to get rid

1076
00:47:45,119 --> 00:47:47,760
of them at the last budget time but the

1077
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,000
fruit seemed to have coming in but again

1078
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,160
I I just think it's a this is no

1079
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,240
criticism of all the people that work in

1080
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:56,480
the grants. It is not a criticism of it,

1081
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,960
but I I just think you kind of can't get

1082
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,240
over it that we have to use taxpayers

1083
00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:05,599
money to talk to the government. So, but

1084
00:48:05,599 --> 00:48:06,720
uh thank you and thank you for

1085
00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:09,200
everyone's work on all these grants and

1086
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,119
they is there a total number for how

1087
00:48:11,119 --> 00:48:13,440
many how much grants we received this

1088
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,440
year the CEO through you Mr. Mayor? So,

1089
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,680
the number right now sits at just around

1090
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:23,040
5.2 2 million and the report outlines um

1091
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,200
not only the additional grants we're

1092
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,200
looking at applying for but also the

1093
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,520
advocacy issues that aren't related to

1094
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,280
grants that uh Wellington DuPont um is

1095
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,280
working on with us and there's several

1096
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:36,880
under that area as well that they're

1097
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,720
helping support us on and I just want to

1098
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:41,280
give a shout out to our staff as well

1099
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,480
who do spend a lot of time um director

1100
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,680
Shrider and her staff uh director Paulie

1101
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,559
uh Rulin uh have done a lot of work on

1102
00:48:50,559 --> 00:48:52,319
those grant applications to get them in

1103
00:48:52,319 --> 00:48:55,599
as well. So, thanks to all of them.

1104
00:48:55,599 --> 00:48:57,599
Uh, thank you. Thanks to staff and thank

1105
00:48:57,599 --> 00:48:59,599
you, Mayor. Thank you, Councelor Grace.

1106
00:48:59,599 --> 00:49:02,319
And then the vice deputy mayor. Uh,

1107
00:49:02,319 --> 00:49:04,079
thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, thank you,

1108
00:49:04,079 --> 00:49:07,440
Cara, for the report. Um, I know I've

1109
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,000
said this before that I witnessed

1110
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,200
firsthand, experienced firsthand the uh,

1111
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,720
preparation and the fine preparation and

1112
00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:21,680
support that Wellington Dupont provided

1113
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,760
to our team at the uh, AMO conference in

1114
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,400
Ottawa last summer.

1115
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,839
And uh but I until I read this report, I

1116
00:49:31,839 --> 00:49:34,520
did not know

1117
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:38,480
the variety of ways that they are

1118
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,520
advocating for our

1119
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,760
municipality. And uh just one example,

1120
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,760
something that I was involved in when I

1121
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,720
was a member of the rail trail board, um

1122
00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:51,839
trying to get those paved shoulders on

1123
00:49:51,839 --> 00:49:54,800
the rail trail to try and make it the

1124
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,880
highway crossing more accessible to

1125
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,599
people. uh who are coming off the rail

1126
00:49:59,599 --> 00:50:02,880
trail and trying to, you know, trans

1127
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,000
transition from that gravel shoulder to

1128
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,839
the highway uh pavement. And um so

1129
00:50:09,839 --> 00:50:11,680
apparently that's something that they're

1130
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,400
assisting with and looks like we're

1131
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,960
successful in getting that. That's

1132
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,359
something that the rail drill has been

1133
00:50:19,359 --> 00:50:22,160
trying to get for years. So uh I

1134
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,960
completely support our use um of

1135
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,680
taxpayer money. I think it it is a shame

1136
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,480
we have to do it but that's the way of

1137
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,640
the world and I think Wellington Dupon

1138
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,960
is doing a really fine job for us. Thank

1139
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,040
you. Hugh the vice deputy mayor. Yeah.

1140
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:40,720
Thank you Mr. Mayor and I I also think

1141
00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:42,880
Wellington Dupon are doing a an

1142
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,520
extremely good job there. I did I did I

1143
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,599
had a question for the CEO. I did meet a

1144
00:50:47,599 --> 00:50:49,680
um a company and at the Olsson

1145
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,880
conference who would dearly love to be

1146
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,160
able to bid on this contract and um I've

1147
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,640
been in the business 25 years and gave

1148
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,119
me some ideas around some of their

1149
00:51:01,119 --> 00:51:03,119
successful projects and so there are

1150
00:51:03,119 --> 00:51:04,559
other companies and I guess my question

1151
00:51:04,559 --> 00:51:08,079
to the CEO you may is that car was this

1152
00:51:08,079 --> 00:51:11,760
was this soul sourced um did we go for a

1153
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,200
request for proposal was it a tender

1154
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:22,710
process or was it soulsource source.

1155
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:24,240
Thank you for the question and through

1156
00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:26,559
you, Mr. Mayor. If you'll remember back

1157
00:51:26,559 --> 00:51:29,760
to 2023, I think is when we started

1158
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:31,839
working with Wellington DuPont, we

1159
00:51:31,839 --> 00:51:33,760
specifically brought them on board in

1160
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,880
relation to the uh aquatic and wellness

1161
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,920
center and securing funding for that. If

1162
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:41,599
they're watching at all tonight or

1163
00:51:41,599 --> 00:51:43,359
anyone from the province or the federal

1164
00:51:43,359 --> 00:51:44,480
government is watching, we're still

1165
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,559
waiting for funding for that. So it is

1166
00:51:46,559 --> 00:51:48,319
one of the places where weekly we're

1167
00:51:48,319 --> 00:51:50,880
asking for the updates on but that was

1168
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,040
the original intent in in bringing them

1169
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,400
in and it did um sort of grow from there

1170
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,160
to the request that we made of council

1171
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,880
last year to extend their contract. So

1172
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,319
it hasn't gone through an RFP. Uh if

1173
00:52:04,319 --> 00:52:07,440
this was a recommended uh company to us

1174
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,440
from our member of parliament and so if

1175
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,119
there is somebody else that you have in

1176
00:52:11,119 --> 00:52:12,800
mind, I'd be happy to explore that

1177
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,680
option with them. And I thanks for that.

1178
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,319
I just I I promised I would raise that

1179
00:52:18,319 --> 00:52:20,319
when the time was appropriate. So I'm

1180
00:52:20,319 --> 00:52:21,680
raising it this evening and I'll pass

1181
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,640
that contact uh along to and and one of

1182
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,040
the contacts is actually a seasonal

1183
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,760
resident in Southampton. So, um I think

1184
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,920
if there's an opportunity to uh to

1185
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,559
tender RFP, Wellington Dupont are doing

1186
00:52:34,559 --> 00:52:36,960
a great job. So, uh this council may may

1187
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:38,559
very well decide that we'll just stick

1188
00:52:38,559 --> 00:52:40,559
with Wellington to Dupont, but I just

1189
00:52:40,559 --> 00:52:43,359
wanted to pass it on. Thank you. Further

1190
00:52:43,359 --> 00:52:45,520
comments? Yeah, I think it's Oh,

1191
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:49,750
councelor Matt. Go ahead.

1192
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,599
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Could I go back to

1193
00:52:51,599 --> 00:52:54,160
um I think it's number three, the IT

1194
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,559
managed one. Well, why don't we just let

1195
00:52:56,559 --> 00:52:57,920
me just I have a comment just I want

1196
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,760
briefly on this. We can go back. Um, I

1197
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,040
just I just wanted to um follow up on

1198
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:04,480
what the vice deputy mayor just said and

1199
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,160
and note that I think probably it is a

1200
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:10,400
good idea since we sort of um this has

1201
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,720
sort of become a thing since as the CIO

1202
00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:13,920
raised because of the aquatics and

1203
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,079
wellness center and we've sort of

1204
00:53:16,079 --> 00:53:18,559
realized the usefulness of having a

1205
00:53:18,559 --> 00:53:21,440
government relations firm and so um it's

1206
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:22,880
been evolving for the last couple years

1207
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,960
I would say and now it's maybe reaching

1208
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:26,720
more of a state of maturity in terms of

1209
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:28,400
becoming more of a permanent part of our

1210
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:29,520
operations.

1211
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,119
In which case, I think probably it's

1212
00:53:31,119 --> 00:53:34,079
smart uh to go along the lines of what

1213
00:53:34,079 --> 00:53:35,359
the vice deputy mayor said to start to

1214
00:53:35,359 --> 00:53:37,920
formalize it and and at some point put

1215
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,800
it into a routine RFP. uh because as the

1216
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,000
vice deputy mayor quite rightly points

1217
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,920
out there are many government relations

1218
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,040
firms uh in the world all of which have

1219
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,280
um pros and cons to them and and we

1220
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,400
should um you know I find an appropriate

1221
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,599
time and and tender this like you would

1222
00:53:55,599 --> 00:53:58,240
your auditors and other things like

1223
00:53:58,240 --> 00:53:59,920
that. So um so I think that's a good

1224
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:01,920
note and one that we should definitely

1225
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:03,520
um follow up on. I just wanted to make

1226
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,839
that point. If there's nothing else on

1227
00:54:05,839 --> 00:54:08,160
the uh government relations and advocacy

1228
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,240
report, we can double back up. The

1229
00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:11,760
councelor wanted to talk about the

1230
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,160
number 10.2 IT manage detection and

1231
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,319
response. Counselor. Yes. Thank you, Mr.

1232
00:54:16,319 --> 00:54:18,960
Mayor. U when I read this one that a

1233
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:20,400
question came into my mind and I just

1234
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,559
remembered it now is was uh like we keep

1235
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:26,160
getting these uh fake I presume fishing

1236
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,480
type emails and because this I usually

1237
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:29,680
just delete them because they do look

1238
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:33,119
fishy but um I'm just wondering uh with

1239
00:54:33,119 --> 00:54:35,520
the current system that we have we had

1240
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,960
any attacks that have been repelled by

1241
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,160
our current system or have we uh or do

1242
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,319
you have a way of detecting that? That's

1243
00:54:44,319 --> 00:54:49,549
why you never answer any of my emails

1244
00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:52,000
daily. The manager of it. Yeah. Thank

1245
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,079
you. And through you, Mr. Mayor. Uh we

1246
00:54:54,079 --> 00:54:58,000
do every day have uh things. It could be

1247
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,160
a website, could be a fishing email.

1248
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,480
That is almost all of them are

1249
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,960
definitely the bi-weekly automated ones,

1250
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:06,640
but we do get occasionally ones that

1251
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,800
come through and they do get flagged and

1252
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,280
and blocked and we have metrics on that.

1253
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,599
But um the the platform we're looking at

1254
00:55:14,599 --> 00:55:18,559
is not related to the training part. Uh

1255
00:55:18,559 --> 00:55:20,559
it's just through MISA and some of our

1256
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:23,680
working groups. There is uh some newer

1257
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,880
services that are 247 a little more

1258
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,599
proactive. You know, all of us have time

1259
00:55:29,599 --> 00:55:32,000
off. They have staff and there are a

1260
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,720
couple that are fully Canadian um

1261
00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:38,319
staffed designed. So, uh, just it's just

1262
00:55:38,319 --> 00:55:40,720
an FYI that we'll most likely be going

1263
00:55:40,720 --> 00:55:46,000
to RFP in 2026 for a new platform.

1264
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,920
And how much does, um, burgeoning AI

1265
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,839
space play into this? Uh, through you,

1266
00:55:53,839 --> 00:55:56,160
Mr. Mayor. So, the some of the new

1267
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,880
systems do have machine learning, which

1268
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:02,640
is a form of artificial intelligence. um

1269
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,319
the gathers all that information from

1270
00:56:04,319 --> 00:56:06,720
every single computer, cell phone,

1271
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:08,240
brings all the information back. So the

1272
00:56:08,240 --> 00:56:09,839
biggest part is we're we're getting

1273
00:56:09,839 --> 00:56:12,000
almost too much information from

1274
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,920
everybody's devices for an average

1275
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:18,799
person to sit there and make a decision.

1276
00:56:18,799 --> 00:56:21,040
This is much more proactive. It makes

1277
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:22,640
all those decisions in the cloud and

1278
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,960
then sends us all the alerts. and they

1279
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,720
have staff that are monitoring it so

1280
00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:29,520
that two in the morning doesn't matter

1281
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,400
if if your computer's on or I'm asleep

1282
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,640
someone's watching it and making those

1283
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,280
proactive decisions so we don't end up

1284
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:38,880
like an you know some of the

1285
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,240
municipalities that we have seen that

1286
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:44,040
didn't have this service so

1287
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,400
okay if there's nothing further on that

1288
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:48,160
one then we'll we're all the way down

1289
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,079
back and thank you Darren we're all the

1290
00:56:50,079 --> 00:56:52,640
way back down to 10.6 6, the 2024

1291
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,480
council remuneration. Any questions or

1292
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,160
comments on that? Seeing none, then 10.7

1293
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:00,160
is the Bruce County Roads Authority

1294
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,079
Assessment Study. Anybody have anything

1295
00:57:02,079 --> 00:57:05,280
on that one? The deputy mayor. Um, thank

1296
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,079
you. Um, I don't know who who the

1297
00:57:08,079 --> 00:57:10,720
question is directed at. This this looks

1298
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:13,680
really interesting, but it's also a

1299
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,760
little bit concerning um because it does

1300
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,920
talk about uploading or downloading

1301
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:21,280
roads eventually. So, um, and, um, it

1302
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,119
says something along the lines of we're

1303
00:57:23,119 --> 00:57:25,920
expecting a report perhaps by the end of

1304
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,880
this year, which, um, you know, that

1305
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:30,880
doesn't give us much time to prepare if

1306
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:35,520
if the situation is is recommending, um,

1307
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:37,520
the downloading of some roads and

1308
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:39,359
because it's not just county roads, it's

1309
00:57:39,359 --> 00:57:41,599
talking about provincial roads, too. So

1310
00:57:41,599 --> 00:57:44,480
um who will participate in this from our

1311
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:48,319
community and um what are the

1312
00:57:48,319 --> 00:57:50,480
expectations in terms of timeline for

1313
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:54,079
council to hear um about how it's all

1314
00:57:54,079 --> 00:57:56,160
unfolding because it does sound very

1315
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,079
interesting and make sense and we all

1316
00:57:58,079 --> 00:57:59,440
know that there are roads in our

1317
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,440
community that part of them is ours,

1318
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,839
part is the county and you know the a

1319
00:58:03,839 --> 00:58:06,079
provincial highway crosses at an

1320
00:58:06,079 --> 00:58:08,040
intersection. So, there's three

1321
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,720
different I'm talking about the CAW

1322
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,040
concession 6, highway 21 um

1323
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:14,799
intersection. There's three different um

1324
00:58:14,799 --> 00:58:16,720
levels of government involved, but I'm

1325
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,520
I'm just curious um and I see two people

1326
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,920
at the mic. Um who's participating from

1327
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,799
us and and when when my council will be

1328
00:58:24,799 --> 00:58:26,720
hearing some results of what's coming

1329
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,079
out of the working group and um I I look

1330
00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:32,240
forward to the response. Thank you. The

1331
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,559
director of operations.

1332
00:58:34,559 --> 00:58:37,119
Thank you. and through your worship. Um

1333
00:58:37,119 --> 00:58:39,520
we've uh talked and we've decided that

1334
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:41,280
Trevor will stick handle participation

1335
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:43,440
in this uh Bruce County Roads Authority

1336
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:46,880
Assessment Study. Uh consequently, um he

1337
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:48,960
was prepared to do some speaking on this

1338
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,280
and I'm willing to let him do that right

1339
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:56,230
now as his debut before you.

1340
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:57,839
Thank you. And uh through you, Mr.

1341
00:58:57,839 --> 00:59:01,040
Mayor. So, um, to answer the question,

1342
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,599
um, ultimately I think any changes at

1343
00:59:03,599 --> 00:59:05,599
the Sogging Shores level, they will be

1344
00:59:05,599 --> 00:59:08,319
have to report back to to town council.

1345
00:59:08,319 --> 00:59:10,960
Um, but as stipulated in the report, it

1346
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,520
looks like their final final report, um,

1347
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,319
is expected in Q3 2026. So, that's

1348
00:59:16,319 --> 00:59:18,400
something that, um, I think we're

1349
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:19,680
hopefully a long ways away from

1350
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,079
actually, uh, doing that and seeing

1351
00:59:22,079 --> 00:59:24,640
what, uh, what findings come from this

1352
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:29,430
working group.

1353
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,760
Any further questions? I can just uh say

1354
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,200
too that uh in terms of the upload

1355
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,440
download scenario, but at least between

1356
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,760
the town and the county, it's very

1357
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:40,960
likely that that will be done

1358
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:44,160
cooperatively. And I I wouldn't uh I

1359
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,400
wouldn't be afraid that somehow we're

1360
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,240
going to have a lot of county roads

1361
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:52,000
downloaded on us or or um if if anything

1362
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,319
um it will be done I assume in a way

1363
00:59:54,319 --> 00:59:55,680
that works out to the best in the best

1364
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:57,920
interest of both parties. There are some

1365
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,040
roads out there where we are, you know,

1366
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,280
for example, doing uh snow clearing in

1367
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:04,559
the winter that are county roads,

1368
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:06,240
picking up pieces of those roads or

1369
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:07,839
there may be oper there may be scenarios

1370
01:00:07,839 --> 01:00:09,440
where it makes more sense for one

1371
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,200
jurisdiction or the other to have

1372
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:12,880
ownership, but as I say, I don't think

1373
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,400
we're going to I'm um I can be you can

1374
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:17,599
be pretty confident that we're not going

1375
01:00:17,599 --> 01:00:19,599
to be um the pro the county at least

1376
01:00:19,599 --> 01:00:21,119
will not be downloading a major burden

1377
01:00:21,119 --> 01:00:24,079
onto the town of Hogy Shores. Are there

1378
01:00:24,079 --> 01:00:28,559
further uh comments on this one? I don't

1379
01:00:28,559 --> 01:00:29,760
see any. So, thank you, gentlemen.

1380
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:31,119
Appreciate it. Hope the vice deputy

1381
01:00:31,119 --> 01:00:32,400
mayor, you have some. No, I just want to

1382
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:33,839
circle back to one if I would. Oh, yeah,

1383
01:00:33,839 --> 01:00:35,720
sure. Go ahead. Which one? Yeah,

1384
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:40,480
it was for Jim a bunch and uh Jim um it

1385
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:42,880
was nice to see Daniel's signature on

1386
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,760
this report and yourself and um I just

1387
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,760
um it was a question I had Jim of um

1388
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,880
when you talk about the surplus of 13.8

1389
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,440
8 million and I know much of that is

1390
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:57,839
attributed to the uh tax stabilization

1391
01:00:57,839 --> 01:01:00,480
reserve and the remaining 8.2 million is

1392
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:02,119
reserves predominantly water and

1393
01:01:02,119 --> 01:01:05,680
wastewater. Um so I look at that 13.8

1394
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:08,000
million and then I and I I flip over to

1395
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,480
the the other attachment

1396
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,559
um you know with showing the numbers for

1397
01:01:12,559 --> 01:01:15,359
the just flipping to it and it's the

1398
01:01:15,359 --> 01:01:17,280
operating results net operating income

1399
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,359
excluding debt. In the bottom right hand

1400
01:01:19,359 --> 01:01:22,000
corner it says grand total. Uh on the

1401
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,640
right hand column it says remaining and

1402
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,480
um there's

1403
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:30,799
758,554. Jim, could you explain the 13.8

1404
01:01:30,799 --> 01:01:33,200
million surplus versus that bottom right

1405
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:36,160
hand number?

1406
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,040
The director of corporate services.

1407
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:40,480
Thank you for the question and through

1408
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:44,079
you Mr. Mayor. Uh the difference is in

1409
01:01:44,079 --> 01:01:46,319
the column that's titled actual full

1410
01:01:46,319 --> 01:01:50,319
year that is our our net income. So we

1411
01:01:50,319 --> 01:01:54,319
had net income of $13.8 million. We had

1412
01:01:54,319 --> 01:01:57,599
budgeted for net income of $13 million.

1413
01:01:57,599 --> 01:02:00,079
That meant that we had a favorable

1414
01:02:00,079 --> 01:02:03,280
variance to the budget of 3/4 of a

1415
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,270
million

1416
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,680
dollars. That explains it. So, um that

1417
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:12,480
758554

1418
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,799
um that that that surplus at year end

1419
01:02:14,799 --> 01:02:15,799
for

1420
01:02:15,799 --> 01:02:19,040
2024, where do those funds end up uh end

1421
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:20,559
up at the end of the year? Tax

1422
01:02:20,559 --> 01:02:25,069
stabilization, where does it end up? The

1423
01:02:25,079 --> 01:02:29,359
754 the um as it relates to the impact

1424
01:02:29,359 --> 01:02:32,160
on reserves, it is the actual column

1425
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,040
that of the 13.8 million that will be

1426
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:37,440
impacting reserves. It'll be impacting

1427
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:40,559
reserves better than we had expected uh

1428
01:02:40,559 --> 01:02:42,160
back when we did the budget by

1429
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:46,309
threequarters of a million dollars.

1430
01:02:46,319 --> 01:02:49,599
Okay. And that and the that accumulated

1431
01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:51,760
surplus is up to what now? What's the

1432
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:53,440
number again? I think it's in the

1433
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:57,549
report, but I

1434
01:02:57,559 --> 01:03:00,880
just as it relates to tax stabilization,

1435
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:02,640
uh we don't have the precise numbers at

1436
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:04,319
this time because there's this is just

1437
01:03:04,319 --> 01:03:06,799
the net income. We still have transfers

1438
01:03:06,799 --> 01:03:08,480
um that we're still working on and

1439
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:10,160
that'll be part of that what we'll

1440
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:12,000
present with the audited statements that

1441
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:13,520
we're hoping to bring forward in

1442
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:16,160
September of this year. Um but I'm

1443
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:18,559
anticipating that the tax stabilization

1444
01:03:18,559 --> 01:03:20,079
reserve is going to be somewhere in the

1445
01:03:20,079 --> 01:03:22,400
magnitude of around $6 million which

1446
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:23,920
would be an improvement of about a

1447
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,680
million half dollars from where it was

1448
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,160
the year before.

1449
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:30,960
Just a final comment. Is that 3/4 of a

1450
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:34,000
million dollar net operating surplus

1451
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,319
that one of the highest we've seen in

1452
01:03:36,319 --> 01:03:39,870
the last 5 10

1453
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,680
years? Yep.

1454
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:45,680
Um I would say it's probably in the

1455
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:47,280
order of magnitude of what we've seen in

1456
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:51,309
the past.

1457
01:03:51,319 --> 01:03:54,720
Okay. All right. So um we're down on to

1458
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:56,319
communications. four communications

1459
01:03:56,319 --> 01:03:57,920
items there. Anybody have any comments

1460
01:03:57,920 --> 01:03:59,319
they want to make to any of

1461
01:03:59,319 --> 01:04:03,520
those? I don't see we will I'm just this

1462
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:05,200
is the last one under the consent

1463
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,440
agenda. So, do you have a comment the

1464
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,839
vice depos

1465
01:04:09,839 --> 01:04:12,319
um Mr. Mayor, I I you know, at the last

1466
01:04:12,319 --> 01:04:14,079
meeting when they they spoke here as a

1467
01:04:14,079 --> 01:04:16,880
delegation, um you did have a fair

1468
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:18,319
number of questions and they were great

1469
01:04:18,319 --> 01:04:20,880
questions and uh there was a follow-up

1470
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:24,000
request at the last budget meeting to to

1471
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,160
call the shareholders meeting and we're

1472
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:28,240
working on that and I know you've been

1473
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:30,000
in touch with uh with the with the

1474
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,960
partnering municipalities and uh so I

1475
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:34,799
think that's that's something that we'll

1476
01:04:34,799 --> 01:04:36,240
look forward to and we have a meeting

1477
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,520
coming up in two weeks time where uh the

1478
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:41,599
boss for partner municipalities were

1479
01:04:41,599 --> 01:04:44,799
asked to bring to the U table um some

1480
01:04:44,799 --> 01:04:46,480
suggest some some suggestions

1481
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,960
recommendations around how our very old

1482
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,680
agreement could be upgraded the 1998

1483
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:53,760
agreement I think it is so that that

1484
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,200
discussion is going to take place in a

1485
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:56,960
couple weeks

1486
01:04:56,960 --> 01:04:59,920
very good thanks for your work on that

1487
01:04:59,920 --> 01:05:02,559
on any of the correspondence if not that

1488
01:05:02,559 --> 01:05:03,760
brings us to the end of the consent

1489
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:05,680
agenda uh so the resolution's been moved

1490
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,640
and seconded all in favor of that is

1491
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:09,520
carried

1492
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,200
Okay, so now we're on to motions and

1493
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:14,240
notices of motion. And so presented here

1494
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,400
isn't really a motion, but it's the only

1495
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:18,160
place on the agenda we have to put these

1496
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:19,599
things at the moment. So there you go.

1497
01:05:19,599 --> 01:05:23,599
Uh these are a set of um draft mayoral

1498
01:05:23,599 --> 01:05:27,280
decisions uh presented by me to you for

1499
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:29,280
your review. You should you can think of

1500
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,680
this as something similar to what we do

1501
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,000
with site plan approval. I put them

1502
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,000
before you in their draft form. You tell

1503
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,160
me what you think of them. I take your

1504
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:42,400
input and uh if there is input and um

1505
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,880
and change them accordingly if required.

1506
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:48,480
So um so there's three here. I the first

1507
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:50,799
delegating the authority to appoint a

1508
01:05:50,799 --> 01:05:53,280
chief administrative officer to council.

1509
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:55,280
The second delegating uh the management

1510
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:56,880
of the town's organizational structure

1511
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:58,720
and employment matters to the chief

1512
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:00,799
administrative officer and the third

1513
01:06:00,799 --> 01:06:03,200
delegating uh the establishment uh

1514
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:05,119
function and appointment of chairs and

1515
01:06:05,119 --> 01:06:07,280
vice chairs of all committees of council

1516
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:10,480
to council. Um these are the first

1517
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:14,640
three. There will be uh a uh future

1518
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:16,880
decision uh which I will put before you

1519
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:18,799
at some point uh pertaining to the

1520
01:06:18,799 --> 01:06:23,440
budget. uh but these are uh the most uh

1521
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:24,960
critical for the moment for the time

1522
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,400
being with respect to the operation of

1523
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:29,520
the municipality. So um I'm open to your

1524
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:31,119
comments or questions on these items.

1525
01:06:31,119 --> 01:06:34,000
Councelor Alen,

1526
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,799
thank you Marin through you. Uh well,

1527
01:06:36,799 --> 01:06:38,559
Mayor, I I I really think you've done

1528
01:06:38,559 --> 01:06:40,480
the right thing with this and I believe

1529
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,240
that you've uh earned a lot of respect

1530
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,400
in the community for what you're doing

1531
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:47,920
and um I I just really respect you for

1532
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:49,760
this and I think it's the the best

1533
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:52,880
decision. Thank you. Thank you, uh

1534
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:54,960
councelor Matt.

1535
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,359
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You I agree this

1536
01:06:57,359 --> 01:06:59,119
you you've done taken the high road here

1537
01:06:59,119 --> 01:07:01,680
and it's been recognized uh and it will

1538
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,520
be recognized in the media, I'm sure.

1539
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,000
Um, one question I have is will these

1540
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,680
have to be um, redone every term of

1541
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,240
council, do you think?

1542
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,799
I guess that's a open question. I would

1543
01:07:14,799 --> 01:07:19,119
think that a a new mayor will need to

1544
01:07:19,119 --> 01:07:21,599
make a a statement to the public and to

1545
01:07:21,599 --> 01:07:23,680
council as to how they intend to use

1546
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:27,359
strong mayor powers. Um, I think that as

1547
01:07:27,359 --> 01:07:30,000
long as I am mayor, uh, these decisions

1548
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:33,039
will stand. Um, so I don't anticipate

1549
01:07:33,039 --> 01:07:35,599
renewing them, um, or changing them in

1550
01:07:35,599 --> 01:07:38,559
any way. Um, but I think my guess is

1551
01:07:38,559 --> 01:07:40,160
that the best approach would be a new

1552
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:42,319
mayor should make some statement about

1553
01:07:42,319 --> 01:07:43,760
what they intend to do since it really

1554
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:47,710
is an individual's

1555
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:49,680
decision. Further questions or comments

1556
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:52,880
on these items? If not, uh, then, uh,

1557
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:54,799
you can anticipate that I will sign

1558
01:07:54,799 --> 01:07:58,680
these decisions, uh, at the earliest

1559
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,520
opportunity. All right. Uh so now we're

1560
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:04,240
on to bylaws. Uh and we have one bylaw

1561
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:07,280
there which uh is uh well the resolution

1562
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:09,920
is that bylaw 61-2025 is here by red

1563
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:11,640
pass and sealed this 9th day of June

1564
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,760
2025. Is there a mover and secondary?

1565
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:15,039
Moved by the deputy mayor. Second by

1566
01:08:15,039 --> 01:08:16,719
councelor Dinsky. Questions or comments

1567
01:08:16,719 --> 01:08:19,839
to the bylaw? Uh the deputy mayor.

1568
01:08:19,839 --> 01:08:21,279
Um thank you. It's not really a

1569
01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:22,880
question. It's just an observation. And

1570
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:26,319
I just wanted to um point out um the

1571
01:08:26,319 --> 01:08:28,279
addition of the the

1572
01:08:28,279 --> 01:08:31,199
the sentence the two sentences or the

1573
01:08:31,199 --> 01:08:33,600
sentence at the bottom of the bylaw. And

1574
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:35,920
perhaps you can just speak to that. And

1575
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:38,400
um cuz I I had called cuz I thought it

1576
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:40,880
was funny that there's two lines for you

1577
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:42,400
to sign. There's just one right above

1578
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:43,920
the other. And I thought, you know, that

1579
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,400
seems a little awkward, but I think the

1580
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:48,000
second signature relates to the

1581
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:49,600
statement. So perhaps maybe that

1582
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:51,520
signature should be underneath it. But

1583
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:53,120
basically it reads, "By signing this

1584
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bylaw on June the 9th, 2025, I, Mayor

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Luke Sharbono, will not exercise the

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power to veto this bylaw pursuant to

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subsection 284 um section 11 um item 4

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um sub item A. Can you just explain what

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that means because it's it's something

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new on the bylaws and I I definitely

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01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,279
respect that it's here and um just want

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01:09:15,279 --> 01:09:17,839
to point it out um that I think it's a

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01:09:17,839 --> 01:09:20,319
good good thing. So I'll just let you

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comment. Sure. Yeah. So you'll recall

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when we heard from uh John Mascaren at

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our was that our last meeting or the

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01:09:26,319 --> 01:09:28,159
meeting before uh a couple of meetings

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ago. Um we talked about the the new uh

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01:09:32,480 --> 01:09:35,040
power that the mayor has to veto a

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bylaw. Uh the mayor has a certain amount

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01:09:37,440 --> 01:09:40,719
of time to exercise that authority. Um,

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01:09:40,719 --> 01:09:44,319
so that puts our bylaws into limbo um

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01:09:44,319 --> 01:09:46,400
for a period of time where after council

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01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:48,799
votes on it, it's uncertain whether the

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01:09:48,799 --> 01:09:51,040
mayor might veto it or not. So to

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01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:54,400
overcome that um we've added this line

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to each bylaw whereby I will So the way

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I conceive of this is that the top line,

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the first line

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um is a B is a that's the mayor or the

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01:10:07,679 --> 01:10:09,440
chair of the committee. You know, if you

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01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:10,960
were in the chair, deputy mayor, you

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01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:13,120
would sign that line. What that is is

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the chair or presiding officer

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certifying the fact that council has

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approved the bylaw. So, if council, if a

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01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,400
majority of members of council vote I,

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it's the obligation in my view of the

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01:10:24,239 --> 01:10:26,080
presiding officer to sign on that line

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because that certifies council's

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01:10:27,679 --> 01:10:30,719
approval. So, it's a separate signature

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01:10:30,719 --> 01:10:34,480
line for then the mayor to say, "Council

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01:10:34,480 --> 01:10:36,960
has approved this and I am not going to

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01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:40,159
veto it." Um, and so that's why it's two

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lines. It's a little awkward, but in my

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01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,239
this was done at my request in this way

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because I think it's the cleanest way

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and clearest way to do it. And so this

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01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:51,360
way I can eliminate the limbo on the

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01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:54,239
night I I can sign I can sign as the

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01:10:54,239 --> 01:10:55,760
presiding officer and then immediately

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01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:58,080
certify that I won't veto the bylaw. And

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then it everyone can be certain that it

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01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:01,760
will be in full force in effect at that

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moment without having to wait

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01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,400
for what's two days and then you can

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take two days to indicate you're going

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to do it and then another 15 days to

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actually do it. So it can put a bylaw

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01:11:11,679 --> 01:11:14,719
into into limbo for two weeks which in

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01:11:14,719 --> 01:11:16,800
many of our decisions would be which

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would be a long time. So I anyway this

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cleans that up and and um prevents that

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limbo. I hope that's a clear enough

1645
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,560
explanation. the deputy mayor. Um, thank

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01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:29,360
you for that and and um to my colleagues

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01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,080
on councel. Uh, I guess if we don't see

1648
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:32,920
that

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there, we we'll have some questions. Uh,

1650
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so I really appreciate you putting that

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in into the the the format and the

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01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:42,080
process going forward. That's that's

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01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:43,760
very good. I might just add that there

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01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:45,960
will be situations for example if I am

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01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:49,120
away where you will deputy mayor we will

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01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:51,760
sign on behalf of council but obviously

1657
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:53,520
you don't have the authority to decide

1658
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:54,960
whether or not it will be vetoed in

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01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,440
which case my signature will not if I'm

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01:11:57,440 --> 01:11:58,560
out of the country I won't be able to

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01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:03,920
sign the bylaw uh so um it could be

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01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:05,440
there there may be occasions where my

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signature does not show up on that line

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which is not an indication that I intend

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01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:11,520
to veto the bylaw if the deputy mayor

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01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:13,600
signed it likely that I wasn't present

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01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,360
uh in time to do that, but I'll make

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every effort perhaps through electronic

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01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:19,120
means or something. We can work with the

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01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:20,960
clerk's office to ensure that my

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01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,120
signature is placed on that line as soon

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as

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01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,080
possible. Further questions or comments

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01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:27,480
to this

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01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:29,719
bylaw? Uh seeing none, then all in

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01:12:29,719 --> 01:12:33,760
favor? That's carried. Okay. Uh so now

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01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:35,760
we're on to the confirmatory bylaw. Uh

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01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:38,480
and it's resolved that bylaw 62-2025

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being a bylaw to confirm the proceedings

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01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:41,440
of the council of the towning shores is

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hereby read passed and sealed this 9th

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01:12:43,199 --> 01:12:45,679
day of June 2025 is remove and seconder.

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01:12:45,679 --> 01:12:47,600
Uh councelor Grace councelor Halpen all

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01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:49,440
in favor that is carried. And finally

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the resolution is that this regular

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01:12:50,719 --> 01:12:52,800
council meeting of June 9, 2025 hereby

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adjourns at 7:42 p.m. Mover and

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01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:58,320
seconder. Uh c the vice deputy mayor

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01:12:58,320 --> 01:12:59,760
councelor Grace all in favor. Council

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01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:00,960
stands adjourned. Have a good evening

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01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,960
everybody.