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good okay so continuing on uh Municipal
of uh SAS public meeting for Wednesday

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June 19th uh this is the opportunity for
public input there are comments for uh

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on the Strategic plan so uh if anybody
has a comment please stop over to the

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mic so we can have it uh recorded uh
we're taking notes and just state your

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name and just the where you're from
within the community or outside the

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community uh so we uh we have an idea
where you're from so open put it up to

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anybody
just just for clarification we're just

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going to receive the comments we're not
here to debate or anything like that

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okay no I mean if there's a question we
can answer a question but yeah no it's

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about taking the input and then you know
getting it into our plan or discussing

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it or adding it on for sure yeah yeah
good question that for sure

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good day my name is James guest I have
just recently about three years ago

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moved into this
community um my background was military

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and every time I ever heard the words
mission statement it always referred to

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whose mission it was is this mission
statement you're coming up with the

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mission statement for the board and the
administrators within the offices here

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so we uh uh and the rest of my question
is if it is then why don't we see the

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words
transparency and um what's the other one

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go with
that transparency and accountability and

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any sort of a mission
statement uh I think those are important

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things and that's just something to
think about yeah no thanks James I'll

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just yeah I'll just make one comment on
on that was uh we did do a public survey

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so we did take information from the
public survey as well so uh yeah so it's

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it's the community and the board and the
staff's idea of

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Mr good feedback thank you for that

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James other comments anybody

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good even May BR I'm just curious i' I'm
been a resident of of South thass since

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1981 and I've always heard about the
beauty of this area that's why my father

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moved here because of all the
opportunity um I was curious do you guys

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have plans to monetize the
Waterfront U like anything that could be

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set up down there to encourage people to
come and maybe have picnics and

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barbecues and I'd also be curious that
who do I speak to in regards to to the

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investment for investors you guys have
an investment

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group yeah so
uh yeah so uh uh on on the waterfront so

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we do have two Waterfront committees one
in each community of Morrisburg has up

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done that and they meet uh jointly so
that's the uh the group that uh organize

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or promote events back through the
council uh the team so things within the

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Waterfront could go through you know the
counselor Veno and his committee you

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take ideas through to them and
activities yeah so both uh both

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Waterfront committees and morberg both
accept delegations and uh since I've

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been doing it I haven't had one yet so I
would really like to if you have some uh

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input yes we'd love to hear it um um
it's an ideal location for festivals

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like so many people I'm also vice
president of the African Caribbean

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cultural Society so I see a lot of
people they when I when they find out

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I'm from morb they're always asking do
they have this do they have that will

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they be open to this and I'm like well I
can ask can I get your name sorry Marcus

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Grant Marcus thanks Marcus could we get
your contact

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info that up yeah yeah definitely have
delegation or waterfronts and get them

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all rolling on activities and as far as
investment uh or CIO and economic

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development uh people can reach out to
you for sure there was there's land on

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the other side of the waste treatment
that's available

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[Laughter]

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yeah any other comments comments from uh
staff as well uh you know what we put

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together we had a training event okay
well yeah come I was just going to say

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from staff too if there's any inputs or
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my name is John Saunders I'm the owner
of SE CF

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bu something is vitally important to
business now is highspeed internet is it

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on the docket is it in the
works it attracts business if you don't

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have highspeed internet makes it very
difficult to

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do web comerce right so yeah no uh it is
part of the eastern Ontario region for

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that but I think we should make that an
activity line that we discuss further

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details so that that's good input for
sure um I know we we have that at some

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of our uh rural areas that don't have a
lot of broadband so I think that's

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something we should add to our action
plan uh based based

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on it makes education opportunities for
younger people uh connects older people

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with their distant families so but when
you got dial up and you get travel back

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at 6 o00

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yeah oh for sure no we could we can have
that as in our actions he understand

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what what what U what we have today and
and how we can do better I guess no it

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it really is a fair point I mean the
expansion of high speed and fiber is is

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very important to us so that is
something we should probably focus on

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here as well
so I think that is there is there's a

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place for that for
sure well that fair point for sure we'll

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make sure it's on

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the uh yes thank you mayor brought
through you so we do have a delegation

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um coming to our July 17th council
meeting and it's uh Rogers and they will

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be presenting uh their plan to expand
their wireless network in uh South

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Dundas um and there's also a public
meeting um that they've uh sent notices

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to uh will be in on June
29th um so I can connect with you after

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the meeting if that's something you want
to attend I can share the details with

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cool any other
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input man so I can elaborate elaborate a
little bit more on the uh highspeed um

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question that was just posed so through
the infrastructure Ontario uh program um

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they've introduced what they're calling
the accelerated high-speed internet

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program and they're focusing out in the
rural areas for bringing fiber um that's

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why if you've noticed you've seen um new
poles in installed on Coons Road uh

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Snowbird Road anyways they're focusing
on said said roads to kind of connect

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the rural to to the high-speed world
through the fiber world so I'm receiving

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numerous uh I'm the director of
Transportation so I look after the

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roadside so I'm receiving numerous
drawings

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on roads that they're implementing um
through that program so that is another

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step forward for so dund they are in
North Dundas they are in South Stormont

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um they're coming this way but it's
focusing on the rural area not so much

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in The Villages of Morrisburg or arqua
or even Williamsburg so over time it

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will get there it's just with the Fiers
side it's just not there yet but they

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are they are coming this way so just s
off a little bit more information on

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that if so again that should probably be
a focus of our councils to to try to

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yep good if we want business y yeah I
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and it still
sucks perhaps May that could be part of

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our growth Corridor SE we can't
establish a new grow corrid if we don't

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haveu so

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hi my name is Sandra doy I'm a member of
this community and I've lived in

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Morrisburg now for almost 35 years um I
agree with most of the statements that

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are in here it is a great place to live
there's no doubt about it but I really

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don't think I could give any additional
comment on the report

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itself the St
are are generous and kind and all the

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positive thoughts of it but for me there
isn't enough detail to be able to say

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it's a good strategy or not and the one
item that's missing from all of this is

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the price tag which always makes a
difference and how exactly are even to

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cover that price tag is it through
Federal uh payments is it from

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provincial payments is it
fundraising you know it's it's all very

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important to have all that information
so it's like when you ask someone are

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you in World PE the only answer is going
to be yes so I just wanted to say it's a

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good beginning but I find it very high
level and there's really not enough need

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for me to comment down on thank you yeah
okay cool thank you for

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that just a comment uh yeah totally
totally understood that that these are

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the pillars to work from and then that
should drive our work so the price dat

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comes from uh our our budgeting right in
our budgeting sessions on what we can

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afford on a yearly basis uh but these
are the activities on where we want to

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improve on as well right thinking those
things well yeah no definitely and I

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think as actions become uh or the words
become actions statements and then we'll

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see uh more details on on the work ahead
but understood understood the the

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comment for

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sure good evening good evening I'm Emily
Moss I uh spent my formative years here

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in morber live for two decades and moved
back last year raising a young family

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here very happy to be back uh thanks for
all the work so far just a couple of

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questions about the business Vision you
have for morberg or the economic

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development of the the businesses in
town uh there's a comment of I think

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four to six businesses by 2026 a
business can be a sole proprietor at of

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a home it can be a national franchise
that opens next to Horton um do you have

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a vision for what the future of morberg
looks like as we grow the business

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landscap here
so what um you know what type of

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business yeah so I mean certainly uh you
know a what becomes available so we do

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know uh a lot of companies uh have
scorecards right and they only come to

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an area you know when those scores meet
uh a specific uh trigger right so so

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from a franchise you or business that
you know you know they kind of go hand

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in hand on the growth of residents come
come new business add a bit more context

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uh some of the small towns I've spent
time in prior to moving back to morberg

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had very different approaches to their
growth um I can think of most recently

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outside of Ottawa we can take Elmont if
anyone's familiar with that very much

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prioritizes a homegrown no big box
stores uh keep keep everything kind of

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local and really optimize the friendly
feeling of the Town versus Carlton Place

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which has embraced more of a subb feel a
lot more box stores um very different

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approach to growth so I'm just wondering
if there is a vision or if you do see

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yourselves prioritizing One Direction
Over another because it does influence

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the type of businesses that you would be
willing to attract

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yourself so we have not and we're going
to take public opinion on that over the

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next 30 days sure so let's get so a good
comment on the question we should ask

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yeah yeah um another piece of feedback
based on the brochure documentation um

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the page that references diversity and
inclusion I would recommend that we

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include some photos that may show a bit
more diversity of skin color ethnicity

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uh other than just there diversity in
age um but maybe showing some women

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playing hockey uh just a bit more
diversity and inclusion or uh

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representation of the retired folks
playing with the children or a merchant

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diversity of of businesses that already
do exist in town so Merchants with their

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Pat as opposed to what's there as very
good yes thanks so much good feedback

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thank you for

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that any other

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comments any comments for final from
staff final comments from Council

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team thank you mayor broad no I I I love
hearing all the uh all the feedback

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certainly um we we can get into a little
bit more details on our plan and I think

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that is kind of important for us uh
because because if we want to show uh

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the public what our kind of our
measurables are we should maybe try to

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expand this a little bit so I really
appreciate all the input uh that's been

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provided I also
uh want to say thank you to the people

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who put this together because I think it
is really a good draft uh and uh there's

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a lot of hard work I mean we did been a
couple of sessions already going through

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this so I think there has been a lot of
hard work by a lot of people close

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together so I just want to say thank you
to St for pulling this together thank

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you to the people for uh actually
showing up we should have more public

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meeting this is our biggest uh biggest
host here so yeah I just look forward to

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listening to our committees and getting
uh some comments back and feed your

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committees to refine this and getting
this actually publicized thank you just

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on the business piece because I really
liked Emily's comment there um I think

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we need to look at you know exactly what
type businesss we want like you

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mentioned and what goes with that is we
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it's our geographic location you know
between mon aut one Toronto the 401

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Corridor the Seaway and that's more
industrial looking but then also look at

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the strengths of our population or like
our populace that we have here our

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Workforce and uh and then also what the
community wants to see for businesses

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because you know we can have
distribution centers like Cornwall and

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lost villes or lost Villages uh long suo
um Prescott or not we can go a different

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direction too so I think that's a very
good point that we really need to nail

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down what kind of business that we do
want here and then we can focus on

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attracting that educ business so we
should be looking at things

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that's that's a good point

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absolutely thank you everybody who's
giving the comments tonight um I wasn't

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exactly sure what we were going to
expect in the in the comments uh uh

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everything's been very positive U
everybody who was up tonight I would

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like to have them working on our side if
possible a lot of great feedback there

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um whenever we did our uh water
Wastewater rate capacity study um we

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realiz it we're really set up very good
here for future growth and I don't know

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if everybody realizes exactly how good
how good we have it here uh we were at a

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conference I think it was the good roads
conference we were at back in April end

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of April was and we
saw Municipal groups from all over the

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province uh going in for delegations for
to Cabinet ministers looking for money

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for water plants
facilities and it was just one after the

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other after the other after the other
and then and that just got us or got me

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to realize just exactly how good set up
we we are here so um I don't know if

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everybody knows that
but it's it's it's it's only good for

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here excellent
thanks and just to expand on that uh

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counselor uh I agree with you on the
whole hardly the issue though it it goes

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back to the comments about uh the cost
um we've got it in house but we need to

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get that water and that sanitary sewer
pipes to somewhere so we can kind of

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grow and that's really where the
provincial government needs to step up

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and and provide some funding to help us
do that I mean we know we can go um to

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the east we know we can continue going
to the West so um that it all stems back

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from yeah we have the capacity we need
the money to grow uh and that's where we

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you know mayor brod and I and and
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MVP noan Quinn's office uh and get and
get us s the BS for some funding to help

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us with that growth as well so I I agree
with what you're saying it is expanded

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so can the W I'll just say my final my
final piece here so I appreciate

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everyone coming out tonight um maybe you
didn't want to share some of your

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feedback but hopefully you'll share it
uh with staff you can always email I I

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assume that the emails on the website so
you can certainly share it at that time

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um and hopefully that the people
listening or watching in the future can

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share their feedback as well I think
it's really important that as a

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community that you do provide your
feedback Council listens to you but we

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can only listen to what is said to us so
if you're not telling us what you want

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it's really hard for us to know where we
where we can go next as a community and

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I think Community connections are super
important and I think that's highlighted

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well in our document um I really
appreciate the feedback there's

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definitely some ideas we think of and
that's why these sessions are extremely

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important um so again thank you for
attending um thank you to staff for

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putting this together and thank you for
attending the multiple sessions that it

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took to get to this document I think um
to the the one uh the one comment from

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Sandra you know it doesn't it doesn't
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information but mayor broad what what he
hasn't shown you what you can't see

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right now is the endless amount of
documents that staff have basically

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taken it and make it made it smaller so
maybe we can share some of that

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information so people can see that
finite details that we had talked about

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um one of the things I I wanted to
mention too and to counselor Smith's

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Point um you know we're in a really good
position right now but um as someone who

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knows that that can quickly change and
into Miss moren's point of growth needs

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to be controlled and and controlled
growth in the right spot is is what we

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really need we need to be careful too we
need to plan for the future right so we

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might be in a good spot now we can track
all the development we want but what are

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we going to do and to your point
reinvesting that development that tax

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based growth that's something that maybe
we should get a lot of feedback from the

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public where do you want to see that
that tax based growth reinvested too do

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you want to see it reinvested in
infrastructure do you want to see it

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reinvested in service level increases
because at some point we probably won't

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be in that position we probably won't
have good uh infrastructure so something

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to keep in mind I think um hopefully you
guys can give us some feedback on that

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but I really appreciate everyone's
attendance and I I really appreciate

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Council working together too it was
really great exercise for all of us I

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think thanks thank you uh yeah so final
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uh yes yes come

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on mik Mike Thomson Mike I'm just
wondering the committee who's on the

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committee are any businesses uh which
committee the for this whole uh

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so yes so strategic strategic plan right
so uh we all are we we all are so the uh

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you mean one one committee um uh that
certainly will work about you as input

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to it is the economic and Tourism
Committee right which uh you know on

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that committee is Jeff Pops from Ross
video Ryan Gilmore from Gilmore

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Pharmacy
uh Donnie B Canada Playhouse uh s Al

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Peters right former chamber uh so that's
you know that group but it's it's really

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uh you know and the the committee all
the other committees have input to to

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the council so it's everybody's combined
input but any any public members like

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taxpayers well they're all
tax they're all they're all taxpayers

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there's no there's no committee we've
taken input there's no committee that's

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designed this we just taken all the
input yeah first I've heard about

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this uh so uh we we did surveys in the
fall I the survey right so that's that's

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public opinion right so during the
survey you answer 50 questions of all

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the things you want to see and then we
compile that data into what people want

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to see can someone like myself get on
the committee there is no there's no

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strategic plan committee what what mayor
BR is saying is we're going to bring

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this plan that staff and Council created
we're going to bring that to our

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Economic and Development Committee for
specific feedback and our Waterfront

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committee and other committees that's
being generated their committee councils

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that you you used to sit on the morberg
waterfront committee years ago which was

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a committee of councel they're the
committee councils we're referring to to

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get some more feedback so we're having
this general public and then we're

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specifically going to the Committees
that's been already been developed okay

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but anyway if you have any input we're
we're open to any input for sure well it

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was well written I didn't understand it
it wasn't down to my education level

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right so I think the next the next Fe
the the process is uh we wanted to we

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wanted input on this is you know uh are
these the pillars do we want operational

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excellence right yes or no right if we
do then let's show all the actions we

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can do to have operational excellence
right do we want to have sustainable

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growth right uh controlled sustainable
growth uh yes we do okay so what are all

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the actions so that'll be like the next
piece that we'll go and and stop and

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start working now we've done some of the
work like the water study we thought

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that was really important so we already
done that so those are be the next

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pieces but we want to make sure that you
know this is you know what we felt from

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the survey and and what the pillars were
we're going to work from that's how we

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kind of that's how it kind of kind of
works as the process for sure sure

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enough but I think your input is on the
actions right and we're totally open to

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actions uh and like our econ our
Economic and Development Committee is

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open to the public so we'll send you an
invite if you're interested to come to

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to the meeting I've already been to one
meeting okay but oh yeah for sure yeah I

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know that yeah yeah oh absolutely yeah
that's right you came yeah so for sure

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so okay definitely take input at any
time uh feedback is welcome for sure

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very yeah thank you thanks thanks for
clarifying that particular

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piece yes I kind of described what the
next steps were moving forward so

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certainly uh you know we we posted the
document uh we want to take feedback

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over the next two or three weeks uh and
our July 12th July 12th I think is our

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next uh well 17 1 July 17th council
meeting we'll come back and approve what

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the pillars are uh and then we'll start
to work on the action so over the next

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uh three weeks any input onto that you
know some of the comments we're going to

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add some new verbiage and it's a dynamic
plan so it's not static that we're going

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to print a thousand hard copies and this
is you know what we're going to live by

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it's Dynamic right so as we'll move
along and we'll we'll we'll we'll focus

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on we have some work to do on what type
of business we want right there's work

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to do to create all the actions
underneath and those are what you're

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going to see at Future Council meetings
or or or announcements right are the

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actions that that that go with

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the options that go with the pillars
that we' listed

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in I don't think he likes you yeah it
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agreement very
good okay well we'll uh

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uh last comment we be thank you
everybody for attending tonight thanks

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for staff counsel uh thanks for
everybody in attendance for your

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comments and coming tonight and uh look
forward to our next steps in our

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strategic plan so good night