[0:00] good okay so continuing on uh Municipal
of uh SAS public meeting for Wednesday
[0:07] June 19th uh this is the opportunity for
public input there are comments for uh
[0:14] on the Strategic plan so uh if anybody
has a comment please stop over to the
[0:18] mic so we can have it uh recorded uh
we're taking notes and just state your
[0:22] name and just the where you're from
within the community or outside the
[0:25] community uh so we uh we have an idea
where you're from so open put it up to
[0:29] anybody
just just for clarification we're just
[0:33] going to receive the comments we're not
here to debate or anything like that
[0:37] okay no I mean if there's a question we
can answer a question but yeah no it's
[0:41] about taking the input and then you know
getting it into our plan or discussing
[0:45] it or adding it on for sure yeah yeah
good question that for sure
[1:01] good day my name is James guest I have
just recently about three years ago
[1:05] moved into this
community um my background was military
[1:10] and every time I ever heard the words
mission statement it always referred to
[1:13] whose mission it was is this mission
statement you're coming up with the
[1:17] mission statement for the board and the
administrators within the offices here
[1:24] so we uh uh and the rest of my question
is if it is then why don't we see the
[1:31] words
transparency and um what's the other one
[1:36] go with
that transparency and accountability and
[1:40] any sort of a mission
statement uh I think those are important
[1:45] things and that's just something to
think about yeah no thanks James I'll
[1:50] just yeah I'll just make one comment on
on that was uh we did do a public survey
[1:54] so we did take information from the
public survey as well so uh yeah so it's
[1:59] it's the community and the board and the
staff's idea of
[2:04] Mr good feedback thank you for that
[2:16] James other comments anybody
[2:31] good even May BR I'm just curious i' I'm
been a resident of of South thass since
[2:37] 1981 and I've always heard about the
beauty of this area that's why my father
[2:41] moved here because of all the
opportunity um I was curious do you guys
[2:47] have plans to monetize the
Waterfront U like anything that could be
[2:51] set up down there to encourage people to
come and maybe have picnics and
[2:56] barbecues and I'd also be curious that
who do I speak to in regards to to the
[3:00] investment for investors you guys have
an investment
[3:04] group yeah so
uh yeah so uh uh on on the waterfront so
[3:10] we do have two Waterfront committees one
in each community of Morrisburg has up
[3:14] done that and they meet uh jointly so
that's the uh the group that uh organize
[3:20] or promote events back through the
council uh the team so things within the
[3:25] Waterfront could go through you know the
counselor Veno and his committee you
[3:29] take ideas through to them and
activities yeah so both uh both
[3:35] Waterfront committees and morberg both
accept delegations and uh since I've
[3:40] been doing it I haven't had one yet so I
would really like to if you have some uh
[3:44] input yes we'd love to hear it um um
it's an ideal location for festivals
[3:51] like so many people I'm also vice
president of the African Caribbean
[3:54] cultural Society so I see a lot of
people they when I when they find out
[3:59] I'm from morb they're always asking do
they have this do they have that will
[4:02] they be open to this and I'm like well I
can ask can I get your name sorry Marcus
[4:07] Grant Marcus thanks Marcus could we get
your contact
[4:12] info that up yeah yeah definitely have
delegation or waterfronts and get them
[4:17] all rolling on activities and as far as
investment uh or CIO and economic
[4:21] development uh people can reach out to
you for sure there was there's land on
[4:26] the other side of the waste treatment
that's available
[4:34] [Laughter]
[4:46] yeah any other comments comments from uh
staff as well uh you know what we put
[4:51] together we had a training event okay
well yeah come I was just going to say
[4:55] from staff too if there's any inputs or
comments think
[5:01] my name is John Saunders I'm the owner
of SE CF
[5:06] bu something is vitally important to
business now is highspeed internet is it
[5:13] on the docket is it in the
works it attracts business if you don't
[5:18] have highspeed internet makes it very
difficult to
[5:21] do web comerce right so yeah no uh it is
part of the eastern Ontario region for
[5:29] that but I think we should make that an
activity line that we discuss further
[5:33] details so that that's good input for
sure um I know we we have that at some
[5:38] of our uh rural areas that don't have a
lot of broadband so I think that's
[5:43] something we should add to our action
plan uh based based
[5:47] on it makes education opportunities for
younger people uh connects older people
[5:54] with their distant families so but when
you got dial up and you get travel back
[5:58] at 6 o00
[6:01] yeah oh for sure no we could we can have
that as in our actions he understand
[6:06] what what what U what we have today and
and how we can do better I guess no it
[6:13] it really is a fair point I mean the
expansion of high speed and fiber is is
[6:17] very important to us so that is
something we should probably focus on
[6:22] here as well
so I think that is there is there's a
[6:25] place for that for
sure well that fair point for sure we'll
[6:30] make sure it's on
[6:33] the uh yes thank you mayor brought
through you so we do have a delegation
[6:38] um coming to our July 17th council
meeting and it's uh Rogers and they will
[6:43] be presenting uh their plan to expand
their wireless network in uh South
[6:48] Dundas um and there's also a public
meeting um that they've uh sent notices
[6:54] to uh will be in on June
29th um so I can connect with you after
[7:00] the meeting if that's something you want
to attend I can share the details with
[7:03] you
[7:07] cool any other
comments
[7:15] input man so I can elaborate elaborate a
little bit more on the uh highspeed um
[7:22] question that was just posed so through
the infrastructure Ontario uh program um
[7:28] they've introduced what they're calling
the accelerated high-speed internet
[7:31] program and they're focusing out in the
rural areas for bringing fiber um that's
[7:37] why if you've noticed you've seen um new
poles in installed on Coons Road uh
[7:42] Snowbird Road anyways they're focusing
on said said roads to kind of connect
[7:48] the rural to to the high-speed world
through the fiber world so I'm receiving
[7:53] numerous uh I'm the director of
Transportation so I look after the
[7:56] roadside so I'm receiving numerous
drawings
[8:00] on roads that they're implementing um
through that program so that is another
[8:05] step forward for so dund they are in
North Dundas they are in South Stormont
[8:10] um they're coming this way but it's
focusing on the rural area not so much
[8:15] in The Villages of Morrisburg or arqua
or even Williamsburg so over time it
[8:20] will get there it's just with the Fiers
side it's just not there yet but they
[8:24] are they are coming this way so just s
off a little bit more information on
[8:29] that if so again that should probably be
a focus of our councils to to try to
[8:33] drive
that
[8:37] yep good if we want business y yeah I
know I have three internets in my place
[8:43] and it still
sucks perhaps May that could be part of
[8:47] our growth Corridor SE we can't
establish a new grow corrid if we don't
[8:51] haveu so
[9:11] hi my name is Sandra doy I'm a member of
this community and I've lived in
[9:15] Morrisburg now for almost 35 years um I
agree with most of the statements that
[9:20] are in here it is a great place to live
there's no doubt about it but I really
[9:24] don't think I could give any additional
comment on the report
[9:27] itself the St
are are generous and kind and all the
[9:33] positive thoughts of it but for me there
isn't enough detail to be able to say
[9:37] it's a good strategy or not and the one
item that's missing from all of this is
[9:41] the price tag which always makes a
difference and how exactly are even to
[9:45] cover that price tag is it through
Federal uh payments is it from
[9:49] provincial payments is it
fundraising you know it's it's all very
[9:54] important to have all that information
so it's like when you ask someone are
[9:58] you in World PE the only answer is going
to be yes so I just wanted to say it's a
[10:04] good beginning but I find it very high
level and there's really not enough need
[10:08] for me to comment down on thank you yeah
okay cool thank you for
[10:14] that just a comment uh yeah totally
totally understood that that these are
[10:18] the pillars to work from and then that
should drive our work so the price dat
[10:22] comes from uh our our budgeting right in
our budgeting sessions on what we can
[10:27] afford on a yearly basis uh but these
are the activities on where we want to
[10:31] improve on as well right thinking those
things well yeah no definitely and I
[10:35] think as actions become uh or the words
become actions statements and then we'll
[10:40] see uh more details on on the work ahead
but understood understood the the
[10:45] comment for
[10:52] sure good evening good evening I'm Emily
Moss I uh spent my formative years here
[10:57] in morber live for two decades and moved
back last year raising a young family
[11:02] here very happy to be back uh thanks for
all the work so far just a couple of
[11:06] questions about the business Vision you
have for morberg or the economic
[11:10] development of the the businesses in
town uh there's a comment of I think
[11:14] four to six businesses by 2026 a
business can be a sole proprietor at of
[11:18] a home it can be a national franchise
that opens next to Horton um do you have
[11:24] a vision for what the future of morberg
looks like as we grow the business
[11:28] landscap here
so what um you know what type of
[11:33] business yeah so I mean certainly uh you
know a what becomes available so we do
[11:39] know uh a lot of companies uh have
scorecards right and they only come to
[11:45] an area you know when those scores meet
uh a specific uh trigger right so so
[11:51] from a franchise you or business that
you know you know they kind of go hand
[11:55] in hand on the growth of residents come
come new business add a bit more context
[12:00] uh some of the small towns I've spent
time in prior to moving back to morberg
[12:04] had very different approaches to their
growth um I can think of most recently
[12:09] outside of Ottawa we can take Elmont if
anyone's familiar with that very much
[12:13] prioritizes a homegrown no big box
stores uh keep keep everything kind of
[12:19] local and really optimize the friendly
feeling of the Town versus Carlton Place
[12:24] which has embraced more of a subb feel a
lot more box stores um very different
[12:29] approach to growth so I'm just wondering
if there is a vision or if you do see
[12:34] yourselves prioritizing One Direction
Over another because it does influence
[12:38] the type of businesses that you would be
willing to attract
[12:41] yourself so we have not and we're going
to take public opinion on that over the
[12:47] next 30 days sure so let's get so a good
comment on the question we should ask
[12:52] yeah yeah um another piece of feedback
based on the brochure documentation um
[12:57] the page that references diversity and
inclusion I would recommend that we
[13:03] include some photos that may show a bit
more diversity of skin color ethnicity
[13:08] uh other than just there diversity in
age um but maybe showing some women
[13:14] playing hockey uh just a bit more
diversity and inclusion or uh
[13:18] representation of the retired folks
playing with the children or a merchant
[13:24] diversity of of businesses that already
do exist in town so Merchants with their
[13:28] Pat as opposed to what's there as very
good yes thanks so much good feedback
[13:34] thank you for
[13:43] that any other
[13:52] comments any comments for final from
staff final comments from Council
[14:03] team thank you mayor broad no I I I love
hearing all the uh all the feedback
[14:09] certainly um we we can get into a little
bit more details on our plan and I think
[14:14] that is kind of important for us uh
because because if we want to show uh
[14:19] the public what our kind of our
measurables are we should maybe try to
[14:23] expand this a little bit so I really
appreciate all the input uh that's been
[14:28] provided I also
uh want to say thank you to the people
[14:31] who put this together because I think it
is really a good draft uh and uh there's
[14:36] a lot of hard work I mean we did been a
couple of sessions already going through
[14:40] this so I think there has been a lot of
hard work by a lot of people close
[14:44] together so I just want to say thank you
to St for pulling this together thank
[14:47] you to the people for uh actually
showing up we should have more public
[14:51] meeting this is our biggest uh biggest
host here so yeah I just look forward to
[14:55] listening to our committees and getting
uh some comments back and feed your
[14:59] committees to refine this and getting
this actually publicized thank you just
[15:04] on the business piece because I really
liked Emily's comment there um I think
[15:09] we need to look at you know exactly what
type businesss we want like you
[15:13] mentioned and what goes with that is we
can look at our strengths of whether
[15:17] it's our geographic location you know
between mon aut one Toronto the 401
[15:21] Corridor the Seaway and that's more
industrial looking but then also look at
[15:25] the strengths of our population or like
our populace that we have here our
[15:27] Workforce and uh and then also what the
community wants to see for businesses
[15:33] because you know we can have
distribution centers like Cornwall and
[15:38] lost villes or lost Villages uh long suo
um Prescott or not we can go a different
[15:46] direction too so I think that's a very
good point that we really need to nail
[15:49] down what kind of business that we do
want here and then we can focus on
[15:54] attracting that educ business so we
should be looking at things
[15:59] that's that's a good point
[16:04] absolutely thank you everybody who's
giving the comments tonight um I wasn't
[16:08] exactly sure what we were going to
expect in the in the comments uh uh
[16:12] everything's been very positive U
everybody who was up tonight I would
[16:16] like to have them working on our side if
possible a lot of great feedback there
[16:22] um whenever we did our uh water
Wastewater rate capacity study um we
[16:29] realiz it we're really set up very good
here for future growth and I don't know
[16:35] if everybody realizes exactly how good
how good we have it here uh we were at a
[16:40] conference I think it was the good roads
conference we were at back in April end
[16:44] of April was and we
saw Municipal groups from all over the
[16:50] province uh going in for delegations for
to Cabinet ministers looking for money
[16:56] for water plants
facilities and it was just one after the
[17:02] other after the other after the other
and then and that just got us or got me
[17:05] to realize just exactly how good set up
we we are here so um I don't know if
[17:10] everybody knows that
but it's it's it's it's only good for
[17:15] here excellent
thanks and just to expand on that uh
[17:20] counselor uh I agree with you on the
whole hardly the issue though it it goes
[17:25] back to the comments about uh the cost
um we've got it in house but we need to
[17:31] get that water and that sanitary sewer
pipes to somewhere so we can kind of
[17:37] grow and that's really where the
provincial government needs to step up
[17:41] and and provide some funding to help us
do that I mean we know we can go um to
[17:46] the east we know we can continue going
to the West so um that it all stems back
[17:52] from yeah we have the capacity we need
the money to grow uh and that's where we
[17:58] you know mayor brod and I and and
Council needs to continuously uh visit
[18:03] MVP noan Quinn's office uh and get and
get us s the BS for some funding to help
[18:08] us with that growth as well so I I agree
with what you're saying it is expanded
[18:15] so can the W I'll just say my final my
final piece here so I appreciate
[18:20] everyone coming out tonight um maybe you
didn't want to share some of your
[18:23] feedback but hopefully you'll share it
uh with staff you can always email I I
[18:27] assume that the emails on the website so
you can certainly share it at that time
[18:31] um and hopefully that the people
listening or watching in the future can
[18:34] share their feedback as well I think
it's really important that as a
[18:38] community that you do provide your
feedback Council listens to you but we
[18:42] can only listen to what is said to us so
if you're not telling us what you want
[18:46] it's really hard for us to know where we
where we can go next as a community and
[18:50] I think Community connections are super
important and I think that's highlighted
[18:54] well in our document um I really
appreciate the feedback there's
[18:57] definitely some ideas we think of and
that's why these sessions are extremely
[19:01] important um so again thank you for
attending um thank you to staff for
[19:05] putting this together and thank you for
attending the multiple sessions that it
[19:09] took to get to this document I think um
to the the one uh the one comment from
[19:14] Sandra you know it doesn't it doesn't
seem like it contains a lot of
[19:18] information but mayor broad what what he
hasn't shown you what you can't see
[19:21] right now is the endless amount of
documents that staff have basically
[19:25] taken it and make it made it smaller so
maybe we can share some of that
[19:28] information so people can see that
finite details that we had talked about
[19:34] um one of the things I I wanted to
mention too and to counselor Smith's
[19:38] Point um you know we're in a really good
position right now but um as someone who
[19:43] knows that that can quickly change and
into Miss moren's point of growth needs
[19:46] to be controlled and and controlled
growth in the right spot is is what we
[19:50] really need we need to be careful too we
need to plan for the future right so we
[19:53] might be in a good spot now we can track
all the development we want but what are
[19:57] we going to do and to your point
reinvesting that development that tax
[20:00] based growth that's something that maybe
we should get a lot of feedback from the
[20:04] public where do you want to see that
that tax based growth reinvested too do
[20:08] you want to see it reinvested in
infrastructure do you want to see it
[20:10] reinvested in service level increases
because at some point we probably won't
[20:14] be in that position we probably won't
have good uh infrastructure so something
[20:19] to keep in mind I think um hopefully you
guys can give us some feedback on that
[20:24] but I really appreciate everyone's
attendance and I I really appreciate
[20:27] Council working together too it was
really great exercise for all of us I
[20:31] think thanks thank you uh yeah so final
words as we'll wrap up tonight's meeting
[20:37] uh yes yes come
[20:41] on mik Mike Thomson Mike I'm just
wondering the committee who's on the
[20:48] committee are any businesses uh which
committee the for this whole uh
[20:55] so yes so strategic strategic plan right
so uh we all are we we all are so the uh
[21:04] you mean one one committee um uh that
certainly will work about you as input
[21:10] to it is the economic and Tourism
Committee right which uh you know on
[21:14] that committee is Jeff Pops from Ross
video Ryan Gilmore from Gilmore
[21:19] Pharmacy
uh Donnie B Canada Playhouse uh s Al
[21:25] Peters right former chamber uh so that's
you know that group but it's it's really
[21:31] uh you know and the the committee all
the other committees have input to to
[21:35] the council so it's everybody's combined
input but any any public members like
[21:42] taxpayers well they're all
tax they're all they're all taxpayers
[21:47] there's no there's no committee we've
taken input there's no committee that's
[21:51] designed this we just taken all the
input yeah first I've heard about
[21:55] this uh so uh we we did surveys in the
fall I the survey right so that's that's
[22:02] public opinion right so during the
survey you answer 50 questions of all
[22:06] the things you want to see and then we
compile that data into what people want
[22:10] to see can someone like myself get on
the committee there is no there's no
[22:15] strategic plan committee what what mayor
BR is saying is we're going to bring
[22:19] this plan that staff and Council created
we're going to bring that to our
[22:23] Economic and Development Committee for
specific feedback and our Waterfront
[22:28] committee and other committees that's
being generated their committee councils
[22:32] that you you used to sit on the morberg
waterfront committee years ago which was
[22:36] a committee of councel they're the
committee councils we're referring to to
[22:40] get some more feedback so we're having
this general public and then we're
[22:44] specifically going to the Committees
that's been already been developed okay
[22:47] but anyway if you have any input we're
we're open to any input for sure well it
[22:51] was well written I didn't understand it
it wasn't down to my education level
[22:57] right so I think the next the next Fe
the the process is uh we wanted to we
[23:01] wanted input on this is you know uh are
these the pillars do we want operational
[23:07] excellence right yes or no right if we
do then let's show all the actions we
[23:11] can do to have operational excellence
right do we want to have sustainable
[23:15] growth right uh controlled sustainable
growth uh yes we do okay so what are all
[23:19] the actions so that'll be like the next
piece that we'll go and and stop and
[23:23] start working now we've done some of the
work like the water study we thought
[23:27] that was really important so we already
done that so those are be the next
[23:29] pieces but we want to make sure that you
know this is you know what we felt from
[23:34] the survey and and what the pillars were
we're going to work from that's how we
[23:38] kind of that's how it kind of kind of
works as the process for sure sure
[23:40] enough but I think your input is on the
actions right and we're totally open to
[23:45] actions uh and like our econ our
Economic and Development Committee is
[23:50] open to the public so we'll send you an
invite if you're interested to come to
[23:53] to the meeting I've already been to one
meeting okay but oh yeah for sure yeah I
[23:58] know that yeah yeah oh absolutely yeah
that's right you came yeah so for sure
[24:02] so okay definitely take input at any
time uh feedback is welcome for sure
[24:06] very yeah thank you thanks thanks for
clarifying that particular
[24:12] piece yes I kind of described what the
next steps were moving forward so
[24:17] certainly uh you know we we posted the
document uh we want to take feedback
[24:22] over the next two or three weeks uh and
our July 12th July 12th I think is our
[24:26] next uh well 17 1 July 17th council
meeting we'll come back and approve what
[24:32] the pillars are uh and then we'll start
to work on the action so over the next
[24:36] uh three weeks any input onto that you
know some of the comments we're going to
[24:39] add some new verbiage and it's a dynamic
plan so it's not static that we're going
[24:44] to print a thousand hard copies and this
is you know what we're going to live by
[24:47] it's Dynamic right so as we'll move
along and we'll we'll we'll we'll focus
[24:53] on we have some work to do on what type
of business we want right there's work
[24:55] to do to create all the actions
underneath and those are what you're
[24:59] going to see at Future Council meetings
or or or announcements right are the
[25:04] actions that that that go with
[25:09] the options that go with the pillars
that we' listed
[25:18] in I don't think he likes you yeah it
was an
[25:23] agreement very
good okay well we'll uh
[25:29] uh last comment we be thank you
everybody for attending tonight thanks
[25:32] for staff counsel uh thanks for
everybody in attendance for your
[25:35] comments and coming tonight and uh look
forward to our next steps in our
[25:38] strategic plan so good night