[0:05] That me that had

[0:07] my speaker on?

[0:10] Yep,

[0:11] we're

[0:18] good. Okay.

[0:21] Good evening, everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the regular meeting of Council

[0:24] Corporation Council of the North Shore, Wednesday, August 12th,

[0:28] 2020. 6:00, so we're now 6:00 PM.

[0:31] Thank you. A land acknowledgment first. Ani Mako.

[0:33] We

[0:34] acknowledge and give thanks to the land on which we live and work, and the people

[0:38] who have cared for it. This land is traditional territory of

[0:42] the Anishinaabe Nation of the ""

[0:44] treaty.

[0:46] Need a mover and seconder to approve the agenda.

[0:51] Moved by Councilor Green, seconded by Councilor Simon.

[0:57] Be it resolved the Council for the Corporation of the Township of the North Shore

[1:00] approve the agenda as circulated.

[1:03] All in favor?

[1:05] Minute.

[1:07] Carried.

[1:10] Any disclosures of pecuniary interest?

[1:15] Seeing none, move on to item four, presentations and

[1:19] delegations. There being none, moving on to item five, adoption of

[1:23] the minutes. Need the mover and seconder to adopt the minutes of

[1:27] July 15th.

[1:29] Moved by Councilor Minar, seconded by Councilor Green.

[1:33] Be it resolved the Council for the Corporation of the Township of the North Shore

[1:36] approve the minutes of the July 15th, 2026

[1:40] regular council meeting. Questions or concerns with respect to those

[1:44] minutes?

[1:50] Seeing none, all in favor?

[1:52] Aye.

[1:53] Carried.

[1:55] Need

[2:09] a mover and seconder with respect to the reports and motions of

[2:12] municipal staff, committees, and communications, the first one being

[2:16] administration activities. Mover and seconder?

[2:20] Moved by Councilor Simon, seconded by Councilor Green.

[2:23] Be it resolved the Council for the Corporation of the Township of the North Shore

[2:27] receive the administrative activities report for information

[2:31] purposes.

[2:37] Questions or concerns with respect to the administrative report?

[2:52] Still working with the auditors. Hopefully

[2:55] they ask the question again this week.

[2:57] And we're waiting on the transfer payment agreement for the

[3:02] extended notice funding.

[3:05] Supposed to be in by the end of July.

[3:07] Didn't get it, so by any time, it won't be until September.

[3:14] All those in favor then?

[3:17] Aye.

[3:18] Carried.

[3:26] Item 7B, variance report to July 31st.

[3:31] Need a mover and seconder.

[3:35] Moved by Councilor Minar, seconded by

[3:38] Councilor Simon.

[3:41] Be it resolved the Council for the Corporation of the Township of the North Shore

[3:44] receive the variance report dated July 31st for

[3:48] information purposes.

[3:54] Questions or concerns with respect to the variance report?

[4:08] Seeing none, all in favor?

[4:11] Aye. Carried.

[4:22] Report C, report regarding waste collection date in September.

[4:27] Need a mover and seconder.

[4:31] Moved by Councilor Minar, seconded by Councilor Simon.

[4:36] Be it resolved the Council for the Corporation of the Township of the North Shore

[4:39] receive the report from staff on waste pickup

[4:42] dates.

[4:59] Great.

[5:00] Thank you. Your Worship, just point out if council did want to make any changes to

[5:04] this resolution to be amended to note what those changes are.

[5:09] Given the time of year that we're at, typically

[5:13] it would be the week after Labor Day from things like the eighth to the 11th,

[5:17] if my memory serves,

[5:18] would be the days that we would have the

[5:23] waste pickup.

[5:26] It was mentioned maybe we could have just extended hours at the

[5:29] dump and tried it. I did a

[5:33] little bit of a cost analysis.

[5:36] Presently, it costs about $5,000

[5:39] for two people and working six hours a day for four days

[5:44] with the equipment to pick up the waste.

[5:47] If we didn't pick up the waste, though,

[5:49] we wouldn't necessarily be saving any money because there would just be other

[5:53] duties that these people could do.

[5:56] Keeping the landfill open six hours a day for the week following Labor Day

[6:01] Would require

[6:03] three days of six hours and three hours on one

[6:07] day, so 21 hours,

[6:09] basically cost $500. The other thing to bear in mind is

[6:13] that we're picking up waste when

[6:17] people could be at work,

[6:19] and not everybody has the means to take waste to the dump.

[6:24] Did Councilor Weldon have a say?

[6:26] Yeah.

[6:26] Councilor Weldon.

[6:27] Thank you, Your Worship. To you.

[6:29] A couple of things. I'd like to hear Councilman Maynard's explanation, his thinking

[6:33] on this. Why change it? We're three weeks away.

[6:38] Only got one person that signed up.

[6:41] So what's your thinking on this?

[6:46] Councilor?

[6:47] My thinking,

[6:50] through you, Your Worship.

[6:52] My thinking on this is the cost. The cost

[6:56] of having a public employee

[7:00] go pick up garbage,

[7:02] whereas 12 kilometers away, it's there.

[7:07] It's open.

[7:09] That's my reasoning.

[7:10] Thank you.

[7:18] Well, thank you. Councilor?

[7:20] Well, we only have one person that's signed up so far.

[7:23] So what's the cost on...

[7:25] What are we looking at, two hours of labor?

[7:28] As opposed to-

[7:28] Might even be-

[7:28] ... opening the dump for four hours or four days.

[7:34] And

[7:37] so I'm not sure why we would open the dump for four days.

[7:40] We've got one person using it. I believe the spring cleanup wasn't even

[7:45] utilized.

[7:48] Maybe people are taking their stuff on their own time, I'm not sure, but

[7:53] doesn't make sense to throw away this week,

[7:57] open the dump, when we only have one person that's going to use the dump.

[8:03] The spring cleanup map was well used, was it not?

[8:06] Yes.

[8:07] We see every day.

[8:08] Oh, it was well used.

[8:09] Yeah. But anyhow, as councilor mentioned, at this stage of the game,

[8:13] we only have one for the September pickup requesting,

[8:17] uh,

[8:18] assistance with

[8:20] garbage. Matt? People normally call in the week before. Okay.

[8:25] Last minute.

[8:26] But we should be looking at moving it anyways, I think.

[8:30] It's the week before May 2/4, and then the week after Labor Day, correct?

[8:34] The week of May.

[8:35] Oh, yeah.

[8:35] The week of.

[8:36] Yeah.

[8:37] Yeah. Assuming that week, people have help.

[8:40] 50, almost 50% of Algoma Mills' resident are

[8:44] seasonal. So they're not getting any use out of that

[8:49] if they go home by Labor Day weekend.

[8:52] That's what we should be looking at.

[8:53] Council?

[8:55] Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Yes, I agree, but I think now us making a

[8:59] decision

[9:01] could be something that next

[9:09] Councilor Green.

[9:14] I'm just going to offer another suggestion.

[9:17] I do see... It's kind of awkward on how we're doing

[9:21] things.

[9:22] I do see some benefits to having

[9:26] the extra days

[9:29] opening at the landfill area.

[9:34] I think that that might be able to reduce all the

[9:38] garbage that they overfilled the bins with.

[9:41] To tell you the truth, I've seen a lot of things in Sprague here specifically.

[9:45] I haven't checked all of the other ones, but it does

[9:49] happen where there's just too much material there.

[9:52] So,

[9:55] I'm not sure I've decided on the

[9:59] days that are picking up. But,

[10:02] is that

[10:05] cost of 5280, is that similar? Is that

[10:09] comparable to what we've had in last year's,

[10:13] as far as the other pickups?

[10:17] Greg?

[10:19] Thank you, Your Worship. The cost would be similar, but as I also said,

[10:23] if we didn't pick up the waste, the township wouldn't necessarily be saving that

[10:27] cost because people would just be doing other duties rather than picking up

[10:31] waste.

[10:32] Mm-hmm.

[10:32] So that time of year,

[10:35] we would have a full-time public works employee,

[10:39] as well as the casual, seasonal part-time

[10:44] works employee doing various things.

[10:48] Just in the last couple of years, they've been picking up waste in that week.

[10:51] So it still would be a cost that the municipality

[10:54] would have. Matt-

[10:56] Yeah

[10:56] ... would there be any difficulty in moving it up prior to

[11:00] Labor Day? Because Councilor Weldon and

[11:03] Councilor Simon indicated that maybe that would allow more

[11:07] people to take advantage of the pickup.

[11:11] Sure.

[11:14] Councilor?

[11:16] Yes. Thank you, Your Worship. Through you.

[11:18] If we only give one day of free dump during

[11:22] that week as well, so people are choosing to come and bring their own,

[11:27] we have the dump open for a day instead of, for those that have trucks and

[11:31] trailers to do that dump at

[11:34] our landfill site.

[11:36] So similar to the one trip to the dump with the tipping fee, but,

[11:40] uh-

[11:42] Just that type of thing, to combine the two.

[11:44] If you do pick up, but we could also say have a day where

[11:48] you can dump your stuff for free.

[11:53] We did that last year.

[11:54] Yeah, I think so, because we gave them a-

[11:56] The pick-up day

[11:57] ... free tipping fee that landfill-

[12:00] Yes

[12:01] ... would allow them to do that.

[12:02] We could,

[12:03] if I might, Your Worship, just incorporate that through the whole cleanup week

[12:07] there So people have a choice, either they can do a pickup or

[12:11] drop off.

[12:12] Give them that option.

[12:16] So then a couple of

[12:19] recommendations. But one recommendation certainly is to move the

[12:23] date

[12:25] prior to the Labor Day weekend so that people

[12:29] who would may well be leaving during that particular

[12:33] time would have

[12:34] availability of that pickup, and then-

[12:38] Yeah

[12:38] ... to also have or continue on with our free

[12:42] chipping fee coupon.

[12:49] I believe Councilor Simon's talking about giving a free day

[12:53] in three weeks.

[12:56] Is that what you were saying?

[12:58] Correct. Thank you. So if we're doing the spring cleanup with everybody,

[13:02] instead of having like a couple of works, so there would be that option.

[13:06] People are like, "Oh, I need to get picked up for free," they don't have to book a

[13:09] dump. We can have a day of dump free.

[13:19] Any other ideas with respect to

[13:23] waste pickup days?

[13:27] Well, how many of council then would first of all be in favor of moving it ahead so

[13:30] that it's not Labor Day weekend, but the weekend before?

[13:34] Which would allow residents who may well be leaving

[13:39] during Labor Day weekend to avail themselves of the pickup.

[13:44] Well, we can't do that now. That's too soon.

[13:47] Too soon?

[13:48] Like

[13:49] Councilor Simon said, next term. I

[13:52] would say leave it the way it is and open Saturday up

[13:56] all day

[13:58] for free dump. Bring your tax bill or bring some sort of ID.

[14:06] Because if we only get two or three more people,

[14:10] it's still cheaper to use Matt, the summer help, than

[14:14] it is keeping the dump open all day.

[14:17] Yeah, and as Matt stated, it's usually a couple of days before that they

[14:21] get an influx of people who want-

[14:23] Yeah

[14:23] ... that pickup.

[14:24] But

[14:25] we could open the dump and nobody could show up.

[14:40] Well,

[14:41] based on the last comment,

[14:43] we'd be looking at a mover and seconder, my direction to

[14:48] open the dump on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend

[14:52] for free tipping fee other than free on tire.

[14:56] If we have to

[14:57] remove the tire.

[14:58] Not the Saturday of Labor Day. The week of

[15:03] the

[15:04] Labor Day, which would be Tuesday to Friday, right?

[15:07] Okay, so the Saturday after Labor Day.

[15:12] Yeah.

[15:12] Saturday after Labor.

[15:20] So move and seconder on the-

[15:22] Okay, moved by Councilor Simon, seconded by

[15:26] Councilor Green.

[15:29] Vote on the direction staff will open the dump

[15:33] Friday of Labor Day, after Labor Day weekend,

[15:37] for no charge.

[15:40] No tipping fee charge.

[15:43] All in favor?

[15:46] Aye.

[15:47] Carried. Then

[15:50] receive the report of that direction of the main.

[15:54] All in favor?

[15:59] All in favor for report.

[16:02] So all in favor then of the report

[16:06] from that on the waste pickup dates.

[16:10] Moved by Councilor Simon, seconded by Councilor Green.

[16:14] All in favor?

[16:16] Carried.

[16:17] Aye.

[16:25] Moving on to the consent agenda.

[16:27] We need a mover and seconder to approve or receive

[16:31] items A to C of the consent agenda.

[16:35] Moved by Councilor Minard,

[16:38] seconded by Councilor Green. Be it resolved the Council for the Corporation of

[16:42] the Township of the North Shore receive August 12th consent agenda

[16:46] items A to C for information purposes.

[16:58] Questions or concerns with respect to those

[17:01] items?

[17:06] All in favor of approving the consent agenda?

[17:09] Aye.

[17:10] Carried.

[17:18] Moving on to item 10, introduction, reading, and consideration of

[17:21] bylaws.

[17:23] Need a mover and seconder.

[17:27] Moved by Councilor Minard, seconded by Councilor Simon.

[17:30] It resolved the Council for the Corporation of the Township of the North Shore

[17:33] hereby approve bylaw number 2637, being a

[17:37] bylaw to enter into an agreement with Idola Consulting Corporation.

[17:41] Be read a first, second, third time, enacted, and

[17:45] pass.

[17:47] Great.

[17:48] Have you worked with the last bullet under

[17:52] item two,

[17:53] basically the cap of fees for clerk and treasurer duties at

[17:57] 7,000 a piece? It is that way because then clerk

[18:01] retires and I'm only doing treasurer, then I don't think we

[18:05] need to have a new agreement. It would just automatically 7,000 would be the cap

[18:08] for treasurer

[18:10] And like pointed out, it's a cap, so if I don't get up to

[18:14] that hours, I don't bill 7,000.

[18:17] Like give or take, it's what it is.

[18:21] And that was deferred from the July 15th.

[18:23] Yes, sir.

[18:24] Council Welner. Councilor Welner.

[18:26] Thank you, Your Worship. Through you. Thanks, Craig, for bringing that back.

[18:29] Quickly, it says normally monthly fees for both the

[18:33] clerk.

[18:34] Yeah.

[18:34] Normally means just what you said?

[18:37] If there

[18:39] was something that I thought was extra special,

[18:42] then either take it to the mayor or to council based on what the mayor said, saying

[18:46] like, "Hey, this sort of is outside." But if it's

[18:50] normal duties-

[18:52] Yeah

[18:53] ... then that's what it would be, and that's why I say

[18:56] normally. It does give the ability,

[19:01] if there's a special case,

[19:04] to request something.

[19:05] Since I've been here, I don't think there's been any

[19:09] special cases

[19:11] that would warrant.

[19:13] That's going to be at the $150 an hour, correct?

[19:16] Yeah.

[19:17] If there is anything approved over and above, that would be at the

[19:21] $150 an hour.

[19:24] Okay. Thank you.

[19:25] Yeah. Not to necessarily admit it, but that rate's been the same since-

[19:28] Yeah

[19:29] ... since I started.

[19:34] All in favor of the bylaw?

[19:38] Aye.

[19:39] Carried.

[19:47] Opposed to the motion? There are none. We move to closed session.

[19:50] Need a mover and seconder.

[19:53] Moved by Councilor Simon, seconded by Councilor Menard.

[19:58] Be it resolved the Council for the Corporation of the Township of the North Shore

[20:01] move to closed session pursuant to Section 2392 of the

[20:05] Municipal Act to consider the personal matters about an identifiable

[20:09] individual, including municipal or local board employees.

[20:13] Item F, advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including

[20:17] communication necessary for that purpose.

[20:20] The purpose of human resources and legal matters with members of council, the

[20:23] acting clerk, and the fire chief or a portion will be in

[20:27] attendance.

[20:29] All in favor?

[20:32] Carried.

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