[1:05] Morning everyone. We begin with our land acknowledgement of the township of

[1:10] Severron. We recognize the following land acknowledgement. We would like to

[1:14] begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather in which the township of

[1:19] Severron operates is part of the traditional territory of Shaab. For

[1:24] thousands of years, indigenous peoples have been inhabiting and caring for this

[1:28] land. In particular, we acknowledge the territory of the Ojiway or Chipoaz

[1:31] peoples. This territory is covered by the Lake Simco Treaty 16 and the J

[1:36] Collins land purchase. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this

[1:40] land and by doing so give our respect to its first inhabitants and I'll sing our

[1:45] national anthem please.

[1:51] Oh Canada, [singing] [music]

[1:55] our home and native [music] land. True [singing]

[2:02] pat [music] love in all of us. [singing]

[2:10] With glowing hearts we see [singing] the rise the true north and free

[2:19] [singing] from far and wide oh

[2:25] we stand [singing] on guard for thee God [singing] keep our land

[2:36] glorious [music] [singing]

[2:38] and

[2:41] Oh Canada, we stand [singing]

[2:46] on God for [music] thee. [singing]

[2:52] Oh Canada, we stand on [singing and music] guard

[2:58] for thee.

[3:06] » Thank you. Approval of the agenda. Madame Clerk,

[3:11] » thank you. The motion reads that the agenda be adopted as circulated.

[3:14] » Move in a second. Moved by councelor Taylor, second by councelor Brennan. All

[3:17] in favor? That's carry. Thank you. Uh there no any disclosure of peunary

[3:21] interest. None. We have no presentations or

[3:25] delegations. The consent agenda. this any member of council councelor Dan

[3:30] Jansson >> I'd like to pull the uh E.5.1

[3:36] the cold water which is walk parking at bear drones please thank you

[3:41] deputy mayor Cox

[3:46] I don't I just want to speak to sorry [clears throat]

[3:51] um just a second I'll sorry Alison I

[3:57] the crosswalk. >> Okay.

[4:00] » Yeah. >> You want to just speak to it now?

[4:02] » I just want to speak to it now. >> I just wanted it to be known to anyone

[4:06] who's listening today that we are going to go into the design mode and it will

[4:10] be $20,000 and that that will help get it faster done faster so that we can get

[4:17] it to the budget in January and then we can get it going for uh the school year

[4:21] of 2027. Thank you. Okay. >> Any others?

[4:27] Okay. Seeing none, madame clerk, do you have a motion?

[4:32] » Thank you. Motion reads that the consent list for August 20th, 2026 and the

[4:36] recommendations contained therein be adopted as resolutions of council with

[4:39] the exception of E5.1. >> Move in a second, please. Move by

[4:42] councelor um McIntyre, second by Deputy Mayor Cox. All in favor? That's carried.

[4:47] Thank you. The following motion is that the council

[4:52] resolve into committee the whole. >> Okay. Move in a second, please. By

[4:57] councelor Brennan, second by councelor Taylor. All in favor? It's carried.

[5:01] Thank you.

[5:05] » Thank you. >> Yes. Good morning.

[5:08] » Yes. So for our whole business item is the E5.1 by councelor

[5:15] Jansen. >> Hey, thank you very much. Um at the last

[5:19] meeting we had before the notice of motion.

[5:32] No, not that one. You show the next

[5:46] » Okay, everybody can hear me without an echo. Okay, that's much better. So, at

[5:51] the last meeting, we put forward a a notice of motion was put forward in

[5:55] regards to a parking plan uh with the Cold Water BIA uh to use the

[6:00] fairgrounds. It would be a one-time use uh to allow parking at the fairgrounds.

[6:05] Um uh the plan is included in the agenda. Uh it was supported by the uh

[6:10] Cold Water Alliance Club. Um I did ask if any questions were to come forward to

[6:14] uh to let me know. Um I didn't receive any questions. I'm not sure if there are

[6:18] any questions and if there's if there's not then uh yep go ahead sorry

[6:23] » thank you council from a process perspective before any debate can happen

[6:26] on this issue council one has to vote to reconsider or first to wave the council

[6:31] procedural bylaw second is is to vote to actually

[6:36] reconsider this because council made a decision on this back in I think it was

[6:39] May um was the most recent decision as part of theou discussion so um those two

[6:44] motions and they do require a supermajority to both pass before the

[6:47] item can be discussed. So with that, the first motion would be that council wave

[6:52] section 66 to the council procedural bylaw.

[6:56] » And uh we have a mover. Second uh council McIntyre, second council Taylor,

[7:01] all in favor passes. The next motion will be that a

[7:06] portion of motion C 2026-148 be reconsidered as it pertains to the

[7:12] cold water BA and the Taba severance memorandum of understanding and the use

[7:15] of the cold water fairgrounds. Mover mover councelor Jansen second

[7:20] council McIntyre. All in favor that motion passes.

[7:27] » Now feel free to debate the motion unless uh member

[7:31] » any further discussion required. Seeing none. Oh, sorry. Did I answer?

[7:37] » Oh, I apologize

[7:41] question. >> Didn't think so. I thought you figured

[7:43] it. We are good discussion. that. >> Oh, I'm sorry. It's

[7:50] » um I have a and one of my uh discussion is is there's some suggestions and some

[7:57] questions. So, the first one is that we're coming in sorry

[8:03] we're coming in from the community center parking lot and I talked to you

[8:07] about this Dan. Uh, so we'll be going by the playground and it says here that

[8:12] there will be three volunteers per zone, right? I I I think maybe that one might

[8:19] need an extra only because if there are any children playing because which is

[8:24] what starts at 4. So we should just make sure we cover that and make sure that

[8:29] there's a lineup there. The other question I had was it says three

[8:33] volunteers per zone and then on the I'm very sorry, but then on the uh thing it

[8:41] says there's a little blue person that says nine station volunteers. Is there

[8:45] nine at every zone? Um

[8:48] » I believe the plan was to have three at at each zone.

[8:51] » Yeah, but if you look at the legend, it says nine stationed volunteers.

[8:56] That's I was just wondering how that worked.

[8:59] I think that would might have been total.

[9:03] » No, >> but there's a person everywhere.

[9:06] » But anyway, sorry. >> The volunteers are Yeah, just check on

[9:10] those because the volunteers are the if this is going to work. You need that

[9:14] those volunteers, right? We need lots of them.

[9:17] » And and um I would hope that you may have a backup because you never know

[9:21] because I've been there, done that. Oh, gee, I can't come or I forgot I was

[9:24] supposed to be there. The other one I have is [clears throat]

[9:28] instead of exiting out Robinson Street, which can get congested, I would might

[9:35] suggest that you go out onto Community Center Drive by the horse barn, just

[9:40] because if you come in that way, um if you go out around that way, you're sort

[9:45] of heading out of town, you could be right near the street and the flow might

[9:48] be better. And the other one I have is, and I

[9:53] talked to you about this soon, what happens if cars are left? I understand

[9:58] that you've got numbers. I understand what you're doing, but once again, I've

[10:02] been volunteers and rodeos and beer fests and everything else. What happens

[10:08] at 11:00? If there's six cars left, you got to lock them in. Then what happens?

[10:13] Cuz I don't know if we can tow them. And I don't know what happens then. And I

[10:18] have a fear that someone might say, "Oh, I'm just going to drive home and then

[10:22] decide that go to Legion or go somewhere and then leave their car." So, I think

[10:27] that's a big one because I think you may run into quite a few who do it. You

[10:32] might want to bump your time back because that way if it's

[10:37] 10:00, you might get them there to move a car

[10:40] over to the another parking lot or somewhere. It's just a concern I have

[10:44] about people leaving their vehic vehicles there. Okay. I just like

[10:50] » concerns and I can bring back clarification on that. Thank you.

[10:54] » Okay. >> Yes, councilor Minnings.

[10:57] » Hi, thank you through the chair. Thanks for bringing this back and for the new

[11:01] information.

[11:04] Would you consider signage? I know we've had parking in Cold Water an issue

[11:09] before and it was due to no signage. So, do you have signage for this event

[11:13] saying that the parking lot will be locked and closed at a certain time? Um,

[11:19] and that people should come before that, otherwise they can't get their car until

[11:24] whatever. Because, you know, communications is key. And when it

[11:27] doesn't happen, it's not fair to lock somebody in when they have no idea that

[11:32] their car will be stuck for the night or whatever. So, is that part of it, Dan?

[11:37] Is that what the committees has in place? I know that part of it is that

[11:41] the volunteers that are working at that front gate are to be instructing each

[11:44] driver that the lot will be closed at a certain time and and that's why that

[11:50] phone number requirement is there. >> So sorry just sub

[11:55] » but the I think the sign idea is a great idea uh to add a like a Bristol board

[12:00] sign or something. >> Thank you. I will only support this if

[12:04] there is an actual written sign because I know putting it on volunteers to

[12:09] mention it as people are going out I don't think is enough. I think in

[12:13] fairness Bristol board or what signage needs to be there and I think that's

[12:18] just a good basic practice. Thank you. >> I think that's fair.

[12:24] » Um yes, madam CEO.

[12:28] » Thank you. Uh the director of wreck is on vacation today so I'm bringing

[12:31] forward some of his concerns. Uh firstly to address deputy mayor's

[12:36] » hard to hear. >> Oh sorry because I'm not I'm not very

[12:40] loud but I'll try to be louder. How's that? Um to address the deputy mayor's

[12:45] concern about the inn out. Uh Craig also had some concerns. So if you choose to

[12:50] approve this I would suggest you direct them back to work with staff on a

[12:54] finalized plan. Um, but he did want me to remind council about why you closed

[13:01] it in the first place. So, uh, the gates were closed in 2020,

[13:06] uh, to vehicle traffic because we had concerns about conflicting with the

[13:11] playground. Um, and since then, numerous groups have

[13:17] come [clears throat] to ask for it to be open, and you have said no each time

[13:21] because you decided it should be closed. So his question was, if you say yes to

[13:26] this, how does it become a one-time thing? Can you say no to future groups?

[13:30] What's the criteria? How do you look at that? And he wanted me to remind you

[13:35] that the in the fairgrounds master plan, the fairgrounds is a green space um that

[13:41] isn't supposed to house cars other than the um [snorts] fair who has a separate

[13:47] agreement and liability insurance with us. So if you did it, you would also

[13:51] want liability insurance uh from the BIA to cover the township. Um witches walk

[13:58] sometimes has some alcohol involved. So there there is some risk there. So just

[14:02] some things to consider about if you okay this request, what do you do with

[14:07] future requests?

[14:11] » Okay. Uh yeah, Council Taylor.

[14:14] » Yeah, just a comment. Uh uh the witches walk is a huge event as a thing and to

[14:22] to comment on what Lori said. Uh I'm certainly in favor of a one-time trial,

[14:27] see how it goes. But to see all the community come together, especially the

[14:31] Lions Club to try and pull this thing off. They've got a proven track record

[14:34] of running large scale events and I think it's uh you live and learn. You

[14:39] try it this year and fine-tune for the next year. So, I would certainly support

[14:43] it and I have no problem councelor Minnings to put a sign up there and but

[14:47] I'm certainly support this. Thanks,

[14:53] » Council Minnings. >> Thank you. So, uh further to the um CO's

[14:58] comments. So, thank you for that around alcohol. That wasn't on my radar and

[15:03] it's I think the first time you mentioned So, my question is to uh

[15:07] councelor Jansen. Is the BIA selling or serving alcohol at the event?

[15:13] » Uh, the BIA does not serve alcohol. There are numerous restaurants in town

[15:17] as well as the Legion. >> Thank you. So, I just held an event for

[15:21] my seniors in Aurelia uh week before last. and the price for a two-day event

[15:28] for up to 200 people for liability insurance, which you also mentioned,

[15:33] which should be a standard. Um, naming the township as one of the payes or as

[15:39] one of the parties on the liability. If that's not on our contracts to use

[15:44] space, Branny Group, I think it should be. Um, it cost me under $20 for

[15:50] liability for my event uh with no alcohol. And if I was to serve alcohol,

[15:55] it would have gone up into the several hundreds. So, um I think that's is that

[16:00] a standard practice to have liability insurance with the township covered?

[16:06] » Uh yeah, m and then >> it is, but just we don't rent the

[16:10] fairgrounds out for this purpose. So, we don't have that process in place. So, I

[16:14] would suggest that council direct us to do that. But if you're renting a hall or

[16:18] something that we do rent, then yes, that's a standard practice.

[16:21] » Thank you. And I understand that about a capital building, you know, an event

[16:25] space or a meeting hall, a community hall, but isn't the pub uh the parking

[16:30] lot also township property?

[16:35] » It is. Yes. So then I would I would hope council would support whether it's just

[16:40] a one-off approval now for this event, but going forward that if that isn't

[16:45] covered in a contract for using a space uh for a public event that the p parking

[16:51] lot should be available and should be um uh under some kind of an insurance too.

[16:57] It is inexpensive for a non-alcohol event. Thank you.

[17:03] » Yes, councelor Jansen. Yeah, I uh I agree. And the the plan

[17:08] will be to once this plan is approved here by council to go and get liability

[17:12] insurance. I don't see any issue with uh um an addition of working with township

[17:17] staff. Um I think there has to be some coordination with township staff to uh

[17:22] to to have this um be successful on the day of. Um, I don't know if that needs

[17:28] to be added to the motion, uh, or or is it just assumed that township staff will

[17:33] be working with the, uh, uh, the BIA to pull this off.

[17:43] » Uh, thank you. So, based on the discussion, staff have updated what was

[17:47] the draft your draft motion. So, with your, um, acceptance, um, member,

[17:52] because this is your motion. Um, so the motion now reads that council allow the

[17:56] one-time use of the cold water fairgrounds for which is walk event

[17:59] parking to be held on October 16th, 2026 in accordance with the parking plan put

[18:03] forward with the Cold Water BAA and that the Cold Water BA assumes all

[18:07] liability for the use of the fairgrounds and provide the required liability

[18:10] insurance for use of the fairgrounds. And further that the Cold Water BA

[18:14] assumes all costs for restoration of any damages to the fairgrounds as a result

[18:18] of the use for its witches walk event. and further that the cold water BA be

[18:22] required to work with staff on a final parking plan for the use of the

[18:25] fairgrounds. >> If I may point of clarification here, so

[18:29] the issue of backup came up in this discussion. The issue of a different

[18:33] exit was brought forward. Uh the issue of the cars and the signage were brought

[18:37] forward. I'm not hearing a clear any unless these are issues to be

[18:44] resolved in a staff uh sharing thing. I'm not satisfied right now that I know

[18:49] that those issues have been dealt with. Uh in the insurance has been

[18:54] » uh yes uh my expectation is that that was covered under that they work with

[18:58] staff on a final parking plan. >> I that's fine then. Um

[19:04] councelor McIntyre and then deputy mayor.

[19:09] » Thank you the chair. Um I'm in agreement with a oneoff and see which way the wind

[19:14] blows after this. Uh I believe that Dan's put a fairly good plan together

[19:18] and with the additional uh requests through the deputy mayor and

[19:23] others that um this could be a very um interesting event and I think that it

[19:28] should be uh as Dan's put it and with the revisions I would support it.

[19:39] » Yeah. >> Through the chair to CEO. So when the

[19:44] BIA meets with staff, I would I would like to put forward a suggestion that at

[19:49] that time that information make sure we hang on to it. And I think we also have

[19:54] to say that it's a besides being a one time. Yeah, I guess one time is covering

[19:58] it. I'm I'm not keen on that. But um and and I I think that we should come up

[20:05] with a statement on why we are allowing this but we don't allow baseball people

[20:13] to go in or we don't allow anyone else to go in. So I think we need a generic

[20:18] statement that says about the fact of the people coming the safety whatever it

[20:24] is is going to be but we need a generic statement that covers the fact that if

[20:28] someone else comes forward this is different than something else because

[20:33] the duck race won't need it because it the numbers aren't there. The one issue

[20:38] we have is that that night there's hockey on so they take a lot of the

[20:43] parking lot which with the duck race they don't and and other ones that are

[20:47] being held that parking lot usually does not have people a lot of people in it

[20:52] because of the time of year like even the ferry event and all that that that's

[20:57] not a time of year that the community center is busy. We run into it with the

[21:02] Lions Club only for our floats getting in and out and for parking because it's

[21:07] December and the parking lot is busy. So, we'll wait and see what that goes

[21:11] on. But I I would suggest that maybe we start to monitor or have the groups

[21:16] monitor um any parking issues they hear, Rob, or if they have any volunteers

[21:22] because I know for our duck race, we have people on ATVs going around for

[21:27] safety for people walking down the street and stuff. just to note are we

[21:30] jammed as bad as we thought we were and is it a problem. So I just think those

[21:34] are things we have to keep in mind for the future.

[21:38] » Thank you member.

[21:41] » Thank you through the chair. And just to add to uh member Cox's comments, this

[21:45] differentiates from any other event only because it's at night and the amount of

[21:50] people that are that come to our town of Cold Water. They're all dressed in

[21:55] black, so hard to see. And and it's a pilot project. I see this uh a one-time

[22:02] deal, but you know, if if all the stuff works out, hopefully future councils

[22:07] will allow it for this one event.

[22:14] » Dr. Jansen, >> thank you. Just on Deputy Mayor Cox's

[22:17] comments, uh a conversation has been had with uh Cold Water Minor Hockey as well

[22:21] as the the figure skating club. Um uh from what we've heard, they would need

[22:26] approximately 30 spots. Uh that did happen last year within the arena

[22:30] parking lot uh uh quite successfully. Um I was one of the volunteers manning that

[22:36] uh that parking lot area and uh with the township staff's help, we were able to

[22:40] cordon off an area to make sure and it does reduce the uh the parking in the

[22:44] arena um by by about a third. Um, so just wanted to answer that question for

[22:50] you >> and then back to councelor Jansen. Um,

[22:55] member Jansen. Yeah, I but what I'm thinking of is we may have other groups

[22:59] go, well, you did it. Why can't we? But we need to have a and and what the mayor

[23:04] just said and other people have said is all right, but you should have probably

[23:08] a a pat not a pat, but a a r good rationale. I mean, there's some at the

[23:12] beginning of this, but if you're going to do it and and making sure that you

[23:17] tell them you're going to have like 27 to 30 volunteers ensuring that

[23:22] everything is going to be covered and that at the end of your evening, making

[23:27] sure that all those people who were volunteers have a debrief the next day

[23:31] to ensure that everything went well or what the issues were. And and we do that

[23:34] a lot. So, you probably do with other ones and we've done it with our duck

[23:37] race. We we tend to go, did that work? No, we should have done this or we

[23:41] should have done that. And that always helps out for the next year. Thanks.

[23:48] » All right, seeing no further questions, madam clerk,

[23:52] » I will reread the motion. Um, so the motion is that council allow the

[23:56] one-time trial use of the Cold Water Fairgrounds for the Witches Walk event

[24:01] parking to be held on October 16th, 2026 in accordance with the proposed parking

[24:05] plan put forward by the Cold Water BA. I might add if you with the proposed I'll

[24:10] put draft parking plan if it's going to be subject to finalization with staff.

[24:14] So I'll start again.

[24:18] Okay. that. So, the motion then reads, "The council allow the one-time trial

[24:22] use of the Cold Water Fairgrounds for the for which is walk event parking to

[24:25] be held on October 16th, 2026 in accordance with the proposed draft

[24:30] parking plan put forward by the Cold Water BIA. That the Cold Water BA assume

[24:34] all liability for the use of the fairgrounds and provide the required

[24:36] liability insurance for the use of the fairgrounds. And further, that the Cold

[24:40] Water BA assumes all costs for the restoration of damages to the

[24:44] fairgrounds as a result of its use for the Witches Walk event. and further that

[24:47] the cold water BA be required to work with staff on a final parking plan for

[24:51] the use of the fairgrounds. >> Thank you. Mover moved by councelor

[24:56] Jansen. Secure. >> Oh, sorry. Second by councelor Menning.

[25:04] All in favor? That motion passes.

[25:10] Uh we move now to the rise recommendation.

[25:12] » Yes. So the motion is that committee rise and return back to the formal

[25:15] council session to receive a report on the proceedings of the committee. The

[25:18] whole >> mover

[25:23] moved by Mayor Pquette, seconded by Deputy Mayor Cox. All in favor? The

[25:27] motion passes. >> Okay. Next motion is that the

[25:30] recommendations of committee the whole for the meeting of August 20th, 2026 be

[25:34] adopted as resolutions of councel. >> Mover moved by councelor McIntyre,

[25:39] seconded by councelor Jansen. All in favor? And that motion.

[25:56] » Okay. Thank you. Okay. We have no notice of motions. Uh county council boards

[26:01] associate committee summaries. Councelor Taylor.

[26:05] » Got a few things here. Uh uh sustainable severance sound met on August the 13th.

[26:10] Uh Quest made a presentation of their net zero action pathway report to the

[26:15] committee. Uh this report is actually found on our agenda item today under

[26:19] E4.1. The township has requested quest to make

[26:23] a delegation to review this report in early 2027. So they'll be coming back uh

[26:28] with the new council in 2027. So uh in addition to that, there was uh excellent

[26:34] positive feedback from the attendees at our meeting. They really like what they

[26:37] saw. Uh secondly at AMO u a delegation to the ministry of environment

[26:44] conservation and parks minister McCarthy was there with uh the town of

[26:50] Penitentang Machine wanting to make sure that the province had no idea no

[26:54] intentions of taking away source protection authority from SSEA. So we

[26:59] were asked as the township to join them and Derek Burke and I attended that. It

[27:04] was very positive and they have no plans to change that rule. So, it's a very

[27:08] good thing there. And thirdly, the quarter mill. Uh just an update on music

[27:14] nights. The first night, first Friday, we had 55 attendees. The second Friday

[27:19] was 70. And the next one is tomorrow night. And the action uh the the uh

[27:26] Jacob Pier Pierce is the performer. So, it's a if the weather's good, we might

[27:30] crack a hundred there. So, thank you, >> Deputy Mayor.

[27:35] » to the chair to Mark. Mark, did they talk at all about um the conservation

[27:40] authority and what was going to happen with the SSEA or was this just on the

[27:43] source water? >> Yeah, they're saying that no, it's just

[27:46] strictly that uh they didn't want the CA to be doing source protection authority.

[27:53] So we we want to stick with SSEA >> that but I'm what I'm trying to say is

[27:58] the way they're doing the conservation authorities now is that the county will

[28:02] pay all the fees for the for the municipalities that have a conservation

[28:08] authority but we still have to pay SSEA if they leave them alone which I'm

[28:14] hoping you're telling me they may be leaving them alone as a con like as a

[28:18] environmental association and I just wondered if that came up. Do you know

[28:22] where I'm going on that? >> No, that didn't No, that had that had no

[28:25] bearing on. My understanding is that that they SSEA may be treated like a a

[28:30] CA and still being paid by the county, but that's uh wasn't part of the

[28:34] discussion. >> Thank you,

[28:37] » sir. Jansen.

[28:42] » Thank you very much. Uh the BIA hosted a very successful ferry night this past

[28:46] weekend on uh uh Saturday night. Uh there was uh quite a large turnout I

[28:52] think larger than we had anticipated which was really good for uh all the

[28:56] local businesses, the uh the vendors. Um I do have to say thank you so much to

[29:02] all of our volunteers that uh pitched in to help. Um we had young volunteers uh

[29:08] um that were helping as well. It was great to see the community come together

[29:12] to uh to host this magical event. And it really was magical uh seeing all of

[29:16] these uh very cute fairies uh running around town. Um the next event that's

[29:22] coming up uh in Cold Water, it's not a BIA event, but it is uh supported by the

[29:27] BIA, uh the Steampunk Festival. It's happening on August the 29th, uh just uh

[29:32] uh next weekend. And then the Witches Walk is coming up October the 16th. uh

[29:36] for the Chamber of Commerce uh SEG Bay, they have their golf tournament uh today

[29:41] which uh raises lots of money for the uh Georgian Bay Hospital in uh Midland. Um

[29:46] there is a silent auction if anybody's interested. Go to Seg Bay uh Seg Bay's

[29:50] website or you can go to their Facebook page and you'll find their silent

[29:54] auction uh items. It's online so you can participate even if you're not able to

[29:58] attend in person. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councelor Brandon.

[30:03] » Yes. Uh thank you, Mayor. Yeah. Um not going to provide any specific report. Um

[30:08] all four committees that I'm associated with are quite active

[30:12] uh with background work for various initiatives for September and October.

[30:19] So uh it's pretty dull stuff now, but it'll get exciting when the time comes.

[30:22] You'll hear from me before that. Thank you, Deputy Mayor Cox.

[30:26] » Yeah. Um library board, we don't meet in the summer. Um, but I did go to a

[30:31] delegation also with the mayor and and uh Derek. Uh, we went with uh Tom

[30:37] Roberts, the interim CEO from the soldiers memorial hospital and he was uh

[30:42] with the ministry of health. Uh he was speaking to the fact of the hip

[30:47] surgeries and knee surgeries which they get money but it isn't a sustainable

[30:53] amount every year. You have to keep reapplying. And so he was looking for

[30:56] the fact that could it be made that they would know what they're getting so that

[31:01] they can keep it and it's for staff reasons too. There was also 25 beds that

[31:06] each year they wait and they apply to see if they get that. Um the most

[31:11] interesting fact for me for a delegation because it's the first time I've ever

[31:15] been to a delegation that had the minister of health Sylvia Jones, the

[31:20] deputy minister and the head doctor of all of Ontario, Kieran was there. So, I

[31:25] was totally like, "Oh my gosh, I've never seen this." Uh, he did his report.

[31:29] She was very impressed with his report. She said it covered it all. Um, asked

[31:33] about um offloading and we said yes. The paramedic program and and the county

[31:41] gets funding from the ministry to have offloaded nurses. Uh, soldiers has kept

[31:46] their offload time down so they were not penalized. two other hospitals in uh

[31:51] Ontario, I mean in Simco County were she was quite happy about that. And then we

[31:55] said there was the paramedic home program that takes pressure off the e

[31:59] the um emergency department. She uh also wanted to um she asked uh a question

[32:08] that uh was everything going to be going on board uh and there would be no

[32:14] holdups with the new hospital and Mr. Robert said yes that things were working

[32:19] with the city of Burilia was in the hands of the lawyers and things were

[32:22] moving along nicely. So it was very promising. I I honestly felt very

[32:27] promising about the whole uh funding because she he had all those numbers. It

[32:32] was an excellent uh delegation. Thank you.

[32:35] » Thank you councelor Minis. >> Hi. Thank you. Uh West Shore is very

[32:39] busy this weekend. upcoming everyone's invited on Saturday is the annual Bayu

[32:46] Park Rate Payers Association uh fundraising day and uh carries on

[32:52] into a pig roast dinner and I think there's fireworks again at night. Um and

[32:58] uh we invite everybody to come out and um certainly meet the committee and

[33:03] participate with the community. Always hundreds of people there. familyfriendly

[33:07] event. On Sunday, the Cumberland Beach Rate Payers Group has their fundraising

[33:13] event from 3:00 to 5:00 at the Cumberland Beach Park. Uh both events

[33:18] are along the beautiful shoreline properties of uh Lake Cooching. So, um

[33:24] always a great day. So, uh, the Sunday event has, uh, our former Cumberland

[33:30] Beach, um, resident, uh, very young person who played in Mariposa Festival

[33:38] at 12 years old. Um, and she's performing live, uh, from 3 to 5,

[33:44] Samantha. Um, and we are just hoping that everyone

[33:50] will come. It's $15 to enter and there's lots of draws and good stuff happening.

[33:56] So, West Shore is busy that way. And um that's all that I have to report. The

[34:01] Aurelia Public Library Board, which I'm on, does not meet in the summer, but

[34:06] we'll be back in September. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councelor McIntyre.

[34:12] » Thank you through the chair. Um the sidewalk has been completed along 169 at

[34:18] the traffic light. So, the accessibility from the northlander when it comes to

[34:24] allow people to come into town and along the sidewalk across at the light has now

[34:29] been completed and it looks marvelous, I must say. Um, there was a bit of a

[34:34] hiccup at the end, but um, Director Burke corrected that. Um, I did attend

[34:40] by Zoom a joint accessibility advisory committee meeting um,

[34:47] in the last uh, week or so. Um they've introduced a multi-year accessibility

[34:53] plan that they're going about to enact during the next term of uh four years.

[35:01] So um regrettably that committee I it's there's one citizen on it. I like to sit

[35:09] on that committee as a citizen after my term is over here and I'll have to

[35:13] address maybe perhaps the clerk or somebody on that later. But um in any

[35:18] case, that's all I have at the moment. >> Thank you. So, I [clears throat] uh have

[35:23] no updates, but what I'd like to say is we lost two very special people this

[35:29] month. One was a resident of our township and a huge supporter of the

[35:35] hospital, a good friend of mine. Uh I guess I'm Am I allowed to say their

[35:39] names or no? Am I allowed to? So, Hugo Ruff, and for those of you who don't

[35:44] know, Hugo lived down on Wilson's Point, but his son owned Sunrise Toyota. A

[35:49] wonderful man, um, I went to his visitation, but the other person, I

[35:54] don't know if everyone knows this lady, a Holocaust survivor, an amazing,

[36:00] amazing lady that we had over to our house years ago for lunch. I'm standing

[36:07] in line because Lakehead used to invite uh me to the convocation. She's in front

[36:13] of me. I had no idea who she was. She drove a Zoom Zoom car, a Mazda car on

[36:18] her own. She was shunned by her family cuz she married outside the Jewish

[36:22] faith, lived in Bracebridgeidge with her son. Um when I read that in the paper, I

[36:27] just she she was in her 90s when she passed away. What what an amazing lady.

[36:31] if you ever had listened to her speak, had no hatred in her heart for what

[36:37] happened. Went to schools across all of Canada trying to educate kids

[36:43] uh on the atrocities that did happen. But what a wonderful woman. I just

[36:47] wanted to say a shout out to both those people. So, thank you everyone. So,

[36:51] we're moving on to close session. >> Thank you. The motion reads that

[36:57] committee resolve in a close session that this meeting is hereby now closed

[37:00] to the public pursuant to municipal black so 2001 chapter 25 section 2392

[37:04] for the purpose of considering personnel matters about an identifiable individual

[37:08] including municipal employees labor relations or employee negotiations

[37:14] » Taylor

[37:17] thank

[1:04:50] today madame clerk.

[1:04:57] » Okay, and we're back. So, the motion is that close session adjourn at 10:04 and

[1:05:02] the meeting is hereby now reopen to the public.

[1:05:04] » Move in a second, please. Moved by councelor McIntyre, second by councelor

[1:05:06] Minions. All in favor? That's carried. Thank you.

[1:05:09] » Okay. Next motion is that the confidential direction of staff

[1:05:12] respecting a personnel matter be confirmed and voted on in accordance

[1:05:14] with section 2396B of the municipal act. >> Move in a second, please. Moved by

[1:05:19] councelor Brandon, second by councelor Taylor. All in favor? It's carried.

[1:05:22] Thank you. >> Bylaws. So the motion is that bylaws

[1:05:27] number 2026657 through 202660 inclusive or hereby

[1:05:31] passed. >> Move in a second. Please move by defer

[1:05:34] Cox. Second by councelor McIntyre. All in favor? It's carried.

[1:05:39] » And then motion to pass by number 202661

[1:05:44] um is hereby passed and motion to adjurnn.

[1:05:46] » Move in a second, please. Moved by councelor Jansen, second by councelor

[1:05:50] Brennan. All in favor? That's carried. Thank you very much everyone.

Council - 20 Aug 2026

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