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Thank you, Mayor Dave. Just stepping back a couple

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was great about it was it was an opportunity to catch up highlight what was great

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job they continued.

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Fair Dave and looks.

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Thank you, Mayor Dave.

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didn't have my ear plugs.

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Thanks, Mayor Dave, and welcome to everyone here in the audience and online.

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Just to reiterate the BIA.

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Be birthday spears here.

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Right on the mic.

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So the BIA, as Councillor Popp mentioned, their day GM and is having an event on Saturday

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in town.

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I'll leave the mayor to announce the one for Friday night or Friday as well.

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But again, a congratulations, the presentation is going to happen just after announcements

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here this morning is extremely well deserved. I'll leave the name until then but certainly certainly I have.

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Hello, certainly a lot of experience with the recipient of this award having been the coach of both my boys.

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There's high school here and very well deserved so looking forward to.

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just off the top, thank you to 105.5, it's up to

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those that were impacted by the ice

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form. Their broadcast reached folks as far as pepper law that were able to come through and

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utilize the showers at the pool. So thank you to the pool staff for making that space available.

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Carging station in the spot where you'd be able to head out and send whatever email.

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I don't know if it's just me, but it looks like Ward 3 has the best act debris by the sides

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of the road for collections.

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So thank you to the residents all across the township for making sure that crews will

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be able to efficiently get that all cleaned up.

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And just to touch on the report that's coming up, our facilities are humming.

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We've seen an incredible amount of bookings come through recently, and that supports our

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community because that means that it's not the taxpayer that's needing to to

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cover those repairs. A big part of that is Joanne Haley has been doing really

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great work and making sure that is sufficiently booked. And so thanks for all

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that work. It's just fun to see great assets like those being well taken care of

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and that starts with being able to have confidence in the booking. Thank you very

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much.

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Good morning everybody. Just keep going. Hope that it will work. Council will

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remember that we had a presentation to do, it's called the North Durham Social Development

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Council, Interagency.

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The government came in and presented, encouraged, I offered to attend on behalf of Council.

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We had that meeting last week across the road at St. Andrews, and it was really good that

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there was 25 different agencies.

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Some were independent, some were regionally oriented, some local, they were all over North

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Durham, and it's just really interesting and encouraging to see them coming together

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There it is, trying to knock down any bureaucracy

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and do the best they can with the limited assets they've got.

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That follow-up was completed

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and we'll look forward to when the next one's going to happen.

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That's it for this week.

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Dave, thanks.

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Chris, do you want to talk about Friday?

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Oh, good Friday.

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I'll start and certainly not my initiative or my event.

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This was the Barton Farm Easter egg hunt got moved.

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The ladies were running that decided that they've had enough.

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And Dave had an idea who said let's make it a community. I'm just kidding. Let's have a community one. So a few of us are involved trying to get that organized. So it's Friday at 11. I think is what we chose.

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18. So two Fridays for now. Todd was just reminding me.

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Open to everybody you can sign up online. Probably going to limit it to 150 people.

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perhaps move that up a little bit if we can.

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This is gonna be a fun event.

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All ages, we're gonna separate the smallest kids,

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maybe from one to four or five into one area,

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and then let the wild ones run the park.

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And we picked up some eggs from the previous organizers.

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I think we got about 1,400 plastic eggs

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or something in that nature.

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Lots of fun to be had.

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This wouldn't be happening without the help of staff

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because it had some good ideas.

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and they corrected us, I think you'd say.

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and get this all done.

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So it's looking forward to Friday at Algonn Park.

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So I'm going to take a little bit of that.

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Thanks to the organizers of the Barton Farm's egg hunt.

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They ran this for a number of years.

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What way beyond what we're going to do,

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they were searching for prizes for,

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you know, a year in advance and just trying to make their dollars go further and just organized

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incredible events. We just wanted to find a way to keep as much of it as alive as possible. So

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that's what we're going to do at Elgin Park.

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We've been through a pretty tough week. You know,

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in Oxford, we had a number of residents that just got their power back yesterday, but we were certainly

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not alone. This was the biggest storm since the ice storm in 1998. So just huge damage across

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Ontario, unbelievable response from hydro one and all other hydro providers. Just working around

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the clock for an entire week to get us to this point. I think the status is still about 50,000 people

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with their power. Fortunately, a lot of those are sort of cottages and areas that don't have full-time

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residents, but I know one person in this room just got their power back yesterday,

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it went eight o'clock. And then to the community for coming together, whether it's scouts

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or just neighbors helping neighbors, I know there's a huge work bee because there's a lot of damage on

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interround algan pond yesterday with just a bunch of friends getting together with chainsaws.

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So, again, thanks to everyone who stepped up, thanks to the province of Ontario for stepping

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up in a meaningful way and an unbelievable response to the hydro workers.

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I know the ones that turned on the Ramara last night were from New Brunswick, so just phenomenal.

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he mentioned 105-5, but Dan Pollard is a guy who steps up in big ways across

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County, moderates debates. He's at most events and Dan and his family have lost

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their father yesterday morning. So just thinking about thinking about the family

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as they as they navigate that. I don't typically announce things from this chair,

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but Dan goes above and beyond and he's announced a public reality.

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Just thinking of all the loved ones of Ron Pollard during this very difficult time.

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So yeah, just on that somber note, did you want to mention the cleanup that I will start

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today through the minutes, like with regards to the storm, I can step in just quickly on

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Go away, go ahead.

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Yeah, the township has started.

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So for all those that had brush and trees that have come down, just leave them out by the

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front lawn, you can go to our website. There is some notice on it. So we'll be

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starting to collect all that from the area. So if you've had some trees come

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down, simply put the brush out there and we'll be looking after that for more

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I'm just going to talk a little bit about why we did that. This is

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not what we normally do. We don't typically collect this sort of debris.

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and has four branches or one tree that falls down,

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and how do you manage that?

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Do you own a crew to chip one tree or a few branches?

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Anyway, we knew that as a municipality,

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we could do this more efficiently as a whole.

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We wanted to make sure that we're serving our residents,

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we understand it

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more efficient.

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If we can do this cheaper than everyone else gets,

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I would be so.

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Council supported it.

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And again, thanks for staff for stepping up and making this happen, and thank you.

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All right, let's jump on with the rest of the agenda here.

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We're going to start with the presentation.

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Do you want to meet me up there?

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This is my first time standing over here at this podium.

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And so now I understand a little bit more of the angst.

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But we're here to celebrate someone that's been doing really incredible work here in the township of Artsbridge.

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which is pretty common of the folks that step up in our community.

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This individual has not only been a driver of supporting athletics in our community,

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but has also, by way of hosting events and bringing in different athletic organizations across Durham region,

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has been a good driver of tourism as well.

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And so as chair of tourism, it excites me to be able to go to some of these events

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and think of the folks that are now spilling out into our restaurants or touring many of our different

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facilities to check those out. And so we'll get into a little bit more of that, but I'll pass it

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over to Mary, Mary Dave. Thanks. And does the mic work? Hopefully, hopefully somebody's

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looked back on high school. You don't typically remember that one math class,

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the best one term

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or the play ball.

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Do you remember those,

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those trippin'

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into Hollywood

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with the band or going to Cuba

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with the rest of the

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memories?

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and it doesn't happen

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from nine to three until two.

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It happens after that.

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That comes at a cost for the coaches

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out of the personal lives.

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A couple different things here.

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And thanks for highlighting it. Aspect, I've thought of it before, but thanks for highlighting it because we know when we fill up the.

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And we've been a little bit secretive in the, in the name of the individual just so that we can maybe pass it over to Michael Citkovich, who has been working closely with this individual to share a few words. So Michael, if you.

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And members of council for this opportunity, my name is Michael Citkovich. I'm a.

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uh, have coach and official with, uh, with volleyball Canada, um,

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the thank you again, council for the opportunity to 28 years later.

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I'd also like to acknowledge my first ever boss, uh, council willie pop.

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It's great to see you again, sir.

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I've been fortunate in my professional career, uh, to present to city council in Toronto,

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Ottawa, Brampton and Whitby, but, but this one's personal.

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Oxbridge is known as the trail capital of Canada.

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But in many ways, it's also the unofficial center of volleyball in this province.

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largely due to the efforts of Tony Kiriaku.

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A long time proud teacher at Uxbridge Secondary,

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Tony has created a culture of success,

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participation, and belonging.

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To be a part of USS, you are also a member of the village.

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Through his passionate coaching style,

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USS won multiple Ontario High School championships in volleyball.

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In fact, Tony is one of a small handful of coaches in the history

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of Ontario High School sports,

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to have captured off-the-championships

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for both boys and girls.

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Oxbridge is the reigning three-time

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Office of Boys Champion,

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and the Tigers won the Girls Crown in 2016.

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One fact, the last two university,

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rookie of the year winners in Ontario,

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were also coached by Tony.

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He's been honored by Ontario volleyball

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and local clubs for his dedication and success.

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But beyond high performance volleyball,

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Tony's love for the sport shines every summer

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as he welcomes hundreds of new young

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and Uxbridge athletes to his very popular Tiger summer camp.

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Every Thursday, he also hosts development clinics for up and coming Uxbridge athletes.

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Local children are healthier because they are playing volleyball.

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Many coaches myself included volunteer their time as their own children play through the

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club volleyball system and then they stop.

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Tony's son and in a proud Uxbridge secondary alumni is currently a sophomore at the University

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of California Irvine, where he shines as a member of one of America's top collegiate

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teams.

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Many thought that would be the end of Tony's club coaching, including his wife.

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But this year, Tony enjoyed the shortest club volleyball retirement in history, and joined

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me coaching a group of young women, many of whom had a negative experience in the sport

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and questioned their participation in the game.

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Through their passion and care, I'm proud to report your worship that approximately half

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of these girls have now committed to play post-secondary volleyball next year, and a couple

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of them have joined us this morning to pay tribute to Coach Tariaku. Beyond the game, volleyball

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is also an important part, as mentioned, in sport tourism, and thanks to the popularity of the game

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through Tony's leadership. Every weekend, two Ontario volleyball tournaments are hosted at

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Oxford Secondary, bringing tens of thousands of dollars to economic impact to our community

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over the years. You see, Uxbridge is volleyball, and volleyball is Uxbridge. It's been an honor to

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share with you just a few of the highlights. So we're markable career of a

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colleague and a very dear friend.

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Experge has a champion, a role model, a teacher, and a coach, and a proud

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tiger in Tony Kiriaku. Thank you, you're welcome.

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Okay, we've got another delegation, and this is from Andrew from Hempson, talking

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about the preliminary results of the township's 2025 asset management plan.

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Thanks, Andrew.

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Just before you go, I apologize for the mics, obviously with the

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the power outages and everything that's happened a couple

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of the level problems here.

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Go ahead, Andrew.

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Thanks.

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There's a, I don't think your lights on, is it?

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It's fairly directional, especially today, so.

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Yeah, is there a deck that you know?

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Good morning, everyone.

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Members, council, my name again is Andrew Marabella,

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Associate Partner here at Hemson.

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We were retained to do an update to the township's asset

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management plan to comply with the 2025 requirements.

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So go to the next slide, just to kind of recap and won't go

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through exactly what S. Management is.

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I've been in front of you, Council, before a couple of times.

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So we'll just go into kind of where we're at.

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We've completed or township is complete effectively all the

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requirements up to date for their S and

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management plan, which relates to their existing level.

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All township assets that had to be completed by July 1 of

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2024. This particular update is to comply with the last phase, which is due July 1, 2025,

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asset management plan for all your municipal assets and the service framework. So effectively,

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we're going to be talking to you about some target levels of service and how that can relate back

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into the Act Council in the next month or so.

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Yeah, I can get right into it. Is that better?

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Okay. So go to the next slide. So just in terms of some of the key

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requirements here for the regulation. So as I mentioned has to be for all

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municipal assets has to be for both core and non-core assets and just

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reminder of your core assets means roads, bridges, culverts, and stormwater

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infrastructure. It also includes water and wastewater but recognizing that's at

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the region of Durham. That's not going to be in the township asset

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management plan. We have to do a level of service analysis

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for all your assets over the next 10 years and we have to set targets for the 10-year period.

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We have to do life cycle activities, all the associate costs with achieving those targets,

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as well as we have to look at what those life cycle activities are and a appropriate plan

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in order to get there over the 10-year periods. That's going to be the focus of this particular

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update for July 1 of 2025. We go to the next slide just to provide some bit more context here.

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the overall valuation of municipal infrastructure in the township is estimated at about $779 million,

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or almost $780 million. Most of which is related to your road network, that represents

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about 65% of the total. So certainly an increase since the previous year's iterations, as indicated,

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we kind of did that update in 2022 for your core assets as required in the legislation.

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will bring all of them together as part of kind of a one umbrella piece here for all your municipal

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assets, but again your roads, hard services representing the lion's share of that total value.

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So if we go to the next slide, just kind of thinking about the next stage of this as we have a

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replacement value as being a big part of it, then we have the condition assessments,

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which look at the actual condition of all your municipal infrastructure. So the good news is we're

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able to at least for some of the bigger ticket asset categories leverage a lot of the condition

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parameters from existing information and documents that you've already done, particularly

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by engineers.

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So on the roadside, we have the Roads Bass and Manjum Plan, which is done independently.

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I have your OSAM report for your bridges and culverts.

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We've had some detailed discussions with staff in terms of some of the other conditions

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for municipal facilities and some larger ticket assets that are uncovered by a traditional

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engineering report.

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So we're able to kind of pull on a couple different levers to get a good condition parameter framework for the quality.

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Over the next slide, just kind of summarizing those results.

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Generally speaking, overall the assets in the township are in good condition.

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You know, about 58% are in that good to very good category.

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There's about 17% in fair condition.

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Notwithstanding that, we always have to be cognizant of those assets that are in poor and very poor condition.

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which we do have to identify, but the overall weighted condition parameter here is good of

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that $780 million, but there's still quite a bit of assets that are in that poor category,

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very poor, largely still related to your road network and kind of underlying what some of the

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items are.

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But if we go just to the next slide, just kind of put that into a bit more perspective,

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we have our total kind of condition parameters for each of the different asset categories here.

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You'll see in most of the categories are good to very good still dominates most of the bars here, but there are some areas particularly in your roads.

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Again, as I mentioned, which we saw the previous slide, the very poor category. Most of that is in the road network from a dollar perspective.

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We see some other asset categories that have very poor assets that want to be linked to those.

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Some of those is just the batter of an age-based condition parameter when things are at the end of their useful life.

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based on when they came to service,

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they fall into that very poor category,

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recognizing some of that's gonna already be updated

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and reflected in the budgets.

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So some of that's just a natural turnover

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of your municipal assets as they come through

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the replacement cycle.

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So if we go to the next slide,

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I wanna spend a little bit of time

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on the level of service requirements here

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and really what the purpose of this next stage here.

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We have to as part of this plan

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understand what the current levels of services

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are in the municipality, and then we have to identify what those proposed targets are going to be

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over the planning period. And recognizing that in order to get from our current framework to our

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targets, there are things that the municipality would have to do. Some of that is what we call

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as a life cycle activity, so if it means increasing your replacement needs, increasing your

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renewal activities, resurfacing of your roads, those are activities that the municipality can do to

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achieve a target. Every activity usually comes with a cost. So if there is additional activities

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These are additional things that the betownship has to do in order to achieve our targets.

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Those are the costs that are going to be associated with it.

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And then we have to understand if there's any risk associated with the proposed level

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of service, and particularly if we don't meet them.

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And depending on the maturity level of immunospecality, sometimes the risk can be quantitative, sometimes

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it could just be a qualitative assessment of what those risks are, but certainly this

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is the municipality and virtually all communities in the province first go around at a target

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level of service.

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So some of this will naturally be a build on effort going forward.

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So we go to the next slide. I just want to comment briefly on some of the proposed levels of services and what we're trying to do here.

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It's a pretty consultative process that we had with municipal staff. We talk with every all the different departments in the service areas and finance as well.

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while trying to understand what would be appropriate targets and what would be appropriate levels

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of service that we should be measuring in the township of Oxbridge.

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And part of this, we just need to be cognizant of and won't go through every detail of the

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slide here, but we try to rein it back into what's an asset management related impact.

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We're trying to omit levels of services that are more operational, ones that don't have

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an impact on capital assets.

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So it really is about trying to write size it to an asset management area principle and

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But things that could be adjusted for based on life cycle activities.

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So can we expand our assets to meet our target level of service?

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Can we increase our replacement needs of our infrastructure, which will better the conditions

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of them?

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So things that directly tie to an activity and effectively would directly tie to a finance

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or a budget activity that we can then reflect.

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So go to the next slide and I know the slide deck was provided as well as the staff report

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that went into all the details here.

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So I'm not going to go through five pages of levels of service but I do want to touch upon

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At least some of the categories and some of the key ones that come within it so on this one

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We have our levels of service metrics for non core assets and the page reflects facilities and libraries

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So just to call kind of overarching comments here the province only provided

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Levels of service measures that we need to track for the core infrastructure assets

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They gave us very specific parameters on which ones we need to do you can add to that list but I didn't interpret it that we could remove

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but aiding on the non-core assets.

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It's really up to municipal staff, council,

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and consultations with us to determine

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what those appropriate levels of services might be.

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So this is an effort of collective effort of us

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and municipal staff.

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And the list overall that we've come together

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is pretty comprehensive for municipality of your size.

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So just as a comment there.

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So on the facility side we do have,

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we have the comments on our technical level of service.

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you'll see we'll have a column for current levels of service and then we have our our column for

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target levels of service. The current level of service is effectively reflective of our

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hormones over the last couple of years and and where we are today in terms of each of the measures

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there. Our target is where we're going to be we're trying to achieve in the next 10 years.

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Generally speaking for many of the service areas because the townships conditions are in pretty good

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state. We are seeing most of the levels of service about trying to maintain that good

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state of affairs that we're already in and partly again because you've done a fairly good

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job so far.

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structure there are elements that we are trying to approve upon and some of these trying to meet

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So we'll look at the facility's category. I'll maybe I'll just comment and pick on a few of them here. The condition of our overall facilities is the biggest ticket category within the facilities one, and which is the third measure down. We are trying to maintain our assets in that good condition that we are here in. That's going to be our target levels of service. We have some increases built in about converting our programs or our facilities to an LED efficient facility, which we've identified by what the current standard is and trying to move that up on the

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standard there. On the library program, we have a series of different measures that we've identified.

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The last measure on the page is about increasing the condition of our physical election materials

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from fair condition, which it's in now, to a good condition over the next 10 years. And about,

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again, increasing the replacement frequency. I'll move on to the next slide.

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Just to kind of look at some of the ones related to recreation and parks.

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most of which are going to be about maintaining your existing position.

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There's two elements here about increasing the condition of some of our machinery and equipment.

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Looking at increasing the number of CSA playgrounds in the municipalities for the accessibility

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standards, we want to be 100% compliant by the end of the 10 year period. And then as well as

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improving the average condition of our overall land improvements and equipment within our parks,

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would be for our current position being fair to a good position at the end of the period.

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For the next slide, just to talk a little bit about some of the animal control, fire,

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IT, and fleet service assets.

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Again, most of these are about maintaining at least our current level of service position.

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We have increases in some of the condition parameters within, and we also have about

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particularly areas like fire, they're currently in very good condition, recognizing just the timing of when assets get replaced.

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So, although we say the target level of service is good, it's about maintaining a minimum of good.

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We don't want to see a dip below in the timing of when infrastructure gets replaced and the timing of when you manage your drugs.

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That can all kind of fluctuate throughout a minute.

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So, and then the last one on here, just to bring attention to the beat one.

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So the cycle for replacement of snowplows to maintain a sufficient backlog, the current replacement schedule of your snowplows is on a 10-year period.

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This process means that we have to identify the need to maintain or increase our service level.

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We need to or should have a sufficient backlog of our fleet, so that would be about increasing the replacement cycle.

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You know, rather than a 10 year replacement cycle, we're going to be moving to an eight year replacement cycle on them, which would mean we require a greater investment in them in order to replace on that targeted replacement schedule for those.

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So then we'll get into the next slide on our core assets, which is about sidewalk stormwater and bridges and culverts.

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I'll bring the attention to the bridges and culverts, where we have identified the BCIs

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through the ocean reports or through the consulting engineers, in which your assets on the

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bridging culvert's eye is in good condition.

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We are required to measure the BCIs as part of your level of service framework through

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this process.

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We've identified that we want to maintain that good condition in your bridges and culverts.

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So we're looking to target a PCI, or sorry, a BCI of a minimum of 70 over the period.

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So we want to make sure that we maintain in that good bandwidth and just don't dip below 70 for most.

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If we go to the last one, which is just on roads, just again, recognizing these are required elements here.

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The big ticket one for the roads network is going to be measuring your pavement condition index network.

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work. They're currently in fair condition and through the 2024 votes AMP by the engineers,

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they've identified some targets within it, so we're looking to improve the pavement

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condition index of our roads from a 63, which is in fair condition, through our target of

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70 or minimum 70 over the 10 years period. And on the roads that have an average surface

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condition for your unpaid roads, maintaining that fair condition overall throughout the

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tenure.

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So, again, moving to increasing the PCI on our roadway network.

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So, just to kind of go into the next slide, and that was just an overview of the levels

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of service that we have.

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For all the levels of services in the asset management plan, effectively we have to look

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at what the life cycle activities are, and again, the life cycle activities are the planned

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actions needed to maintain those assets in the care.

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There are costs associated with any planned actions and those are effectively funneled through your operating budget or your capital budget in order to maintain your assets in the state of critical care.

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Life cycle activities with the appropriate life cycle activity treatment is going to be very dependent on the asset category and the type.

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So we need to work closely with the staff now to identify what's the appropriate treatment activity and our budget expense in order to try and achieve those targets.

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Although through this process and what you're going to what we're going to come back with council in the next month or so.

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And although there's going to be a financing strategy and there's going to be a recommendation in order to achieve our targets.

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It's going to be equally important that we monitor what those investments that we're making laid in back to our levels of service.

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Because this is the first time I mean this value is tracking how a level of service and the financing strategy are effectively going hand in hand.

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So, it's about taking into context what we're spending and how our levels of services are

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changing every year, and if we're getting closer to our targets, or if we're moving away

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from our targets, whatever the position is, it's about trying to understand how our investment

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strategies need to change in order to get us back to that target.

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And this is about a monitoring situation as well as much as it is a plan for today.

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When we think about life cycle activities on the next slide, there are six of them that

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are identified and primarily used for the purposes of the regulation.

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We have non-infrastructure solutions.

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We've got expansion activities, maintenance activities,

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renewal and rehabilitation activities,

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replacement and disposal.

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Most of those from a, when you kind of read the title,

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they're pretty intuitive in terms of what they mean.

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The only one that maybe I'll just put a little bit of comment on

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is the non-infrastructure solutions.

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Those are more studies, investments in kind of people,

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asset management programs, things that you can do as a corporation

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that will help extend the life of an asset, make better use of an asset without actually

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investing any money in the particular asset itself. The rest of the activities here,

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expansion activities were about building new infrastructure, expanding capacity,

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creating more space, creating more roads, um,

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maintenance activities, but the only other one

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that I'll mention, this is about things that are just generally going to maintain your assets in

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the state that it's in doesn't extend the use of life of an asset. It doesn't really make the

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asset any better, but if you don't perform your maintenance activities, your asset is likely to

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fail earlier in the process, and it made it choose for life. So about a vehicle, if you don't do your

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oil changes, you don't do any lake fluid replacements or lake food, your vehicle isn't going to last

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this life. Those are activities that are done, usually funded through the operating budget,

449
00:37:42,810 --> 00:37:44,070
needed to maintain that asset.

450
00:37:46,780 --> 00:37:49,900
So just on the last two slides here, I just wanted to go through kind

451
00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:53,900
of the sample life cycle approach that we're doing and just to kind of pick on the roads,

452
00:37:54,140 --> 00:37:58,020
bridges and culverts as kind of our sample and we're working through the rest of them with

453
00:37:58,020 --> 00:38:02,780
municipality but the level of detail that we're going to try and go through here is identify

454
00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:08,560
what the calculated needs are and this is based on the recommendations of either the engineering

455
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:13,480
reports or through the database that we have in terms of all your municipal assets and when

456
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:18,960
there needs to be replaced and then we have our assumed life cycle activity approach so what

457
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:25,880
is actually going to be included for in the financing strategy that relates back to trying to achieve those

458
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:32,280
target levels of service. Just in simple context here, your Rhodes study identifies a long-term

459
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:38,460
sustainability requirement of $9.6 million a year. And that's what's needed in order to optimally

460
00:38:38,460 --> 00:38:44,040
manage your road network. They'll give a range on the bottom end of the spectrum of a short-term

461
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:49,800
sustainability number of 3.6 or 3.9 million dollars a year where in the asset

462
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,800
management plan we're being somewhat more conservative obviously than the

463
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:58,100
long-term sustainability number where we're trying to tie our investment needs

464
00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:01,960
back to the target levels of service that we've identified which is your 70

465
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,900
PCI and they've identified a need of about four and a half million dollars a year

466
00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:12,300
in order to reach that 70 PCI and now part of what we have to do next is try and

467
00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:16,940
bring in all those different cost-to-mean strategies and identify what that means on a net tax

468
00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:21,360
levy impact for the municipality and come back to you with what that result is. But we're trying

469
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:26,960
to understand all the impacts at the asset level, so we understand what the true cost is our

470
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,600
in order to meet our target levels.

471
00:39:35,850 --> 00:39:37,930
We have the same information from our bridges and culverts

472
00:39:37,930 --> 00:39:42,990
coming from the engineers in terms of what's required, recognizing our level of service here is about

473
00:39:42,990 --> 00:39:47,490
making sure that we are compliant with the oaths and reports and we complete all the necessary

474
00:39:49,230 --> 00:39:55,510
So you'll see our calculated needs and our assumed lifecycle approach in this case is the same number between both of

475
00:39:58,550 --> 00:40:12,810
what I will leave you with is just the kind of understanding of your current asset management spending on the operating budget, you spend about $4.2 million annually in terms of maintaining your municipal infrastructure.

476
00:40:13,390 --> 00:40:17,750
Go through all your, go through the budget, identify all your maintenance items, all the

477
00:40:18,370 --> 00:40:21,690
spending and the activities that you do in terms of making sure that your assets maintain

478
00:40:21,690 --> 00:40:27,150
and stay in a good repair, where you've identified and kind of cost it up to 4.2 million and

479
00:40:27,150 --> 00:40:30,430
looking at it by asset basis or the way your budget area is structured.

480
00:40:31,290 --> 00:40:36,410
On the capital side, it's about 5.8 million dollars a year and some of that's related to

481
00:40:36,410 --> 00:40:41,530
your direct contributions from your tax levy to capital, but it's also about looking at

482
00:40:41,530 --> 00:40:47,250
what you're getting in from your deaf funding, your OSF allocations, and your gravel

483
00:40:47,250 --> 00:40:49,810
royalties that come in that are directed to capital spending.

484
00:40:50,710 --> 00:40:54,550
And in our financing strategy, we want to make sure that we're capturing all the different

485
00:40:54,550 --> 00:40:59,690
funding strategies and all the different sources of capital, and how this is going to kind of

486
00:40:59,690 --> 00:41:01,670
work its way out in the banking strategy.

487
00:41:01,950 --> 00:41:06,770
So quite a robust program that you have both an operating capital, and we'll have to kind

488
00:41:06,770 --> 00:41:08,790
of see where that leads us to.

489
00:41:15,110 --> 00:41:20,870
So with that, perhaps I went a little over my allocated time here, but just in terms of

490
00:41:20,870 --> 00:41:25,010
our next steps here, we're going to work closely with staff here to kind of update

491
00:41:25,010 --> 00:41:31,030
the plan and come back to you with the AMP that talks about the levels of service, the

492
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:36,650
targets and the financing strategy and something, again, has to be in place for July 1 of 2025

493
00:41:36,650 --> 00:41:37,290
from the deadline.

494
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,480
Happy to answer any questions.

495
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:44,980
That resonated.

496
00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:49,160
First of all, Andrew, thank you so much for coming in.

497
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,600
We talk a lot about asset preservation.

498
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,340
We concentrate on infrastructure kind of across the board.

499
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,140
So thanks for giving us a measuring tape,

500
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,240
so we know kind of where we, right?

501
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:04,560
Truly appreciate it.

502
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,820
Before we go to questions from council,

503
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:07,560
I just have one.

504
00:42:07,780 --> 00:42:10,440
Can we run back to slide 13 for one second?

505
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:11,440
Yeah,

506
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:19,940
yeah, can I get a motion to bring forward important a bird to your zero six twenty five?

507
00:42:21,260 --> 00:42:23,220
I said, um, on favor.

508
00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:24,460
Thanks.

509
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:34,860
So this was, um, on roads both, yeah, on roads both gravel and and heart surface.

510
00:42:34,860 --> 00:42:44,260
us. Do we compare us bridge to other like size municipalities on our gravel hard surface

511
00:42:44,260 --> 00:42:44,560
mix?

512
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,720
When you say compare like in terms of the condition comparison or the your treatment

513
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:57,940
activities. So treatment activities. So we've done that's a little bit different certainly

514
00:42:57,940 --> 00:43:05,120
than our neighbors both in Pickering and especially in Svughog is we've made a very significant

515
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:10,900
an effort to hard surface all of our roads that are not dead ends. That's come at a huge financial

516
00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:16,740
cost, but from an environmental standpoint, it's better from a resident perspective, it's better.

517
00:43:17,540 --> 00:43:26,170
But part of what we sacrifice with that is that we've decided not to the gravel roads that we have,

518
00:43:26,410 --> 00:43:31,710
we're converting, we're not putting new gravel on as much, right? So we kind of made that sacrifice

519
00:43:31,710 --> 00:43:37,530
because we know that once we get to them we will solve those gravel and problems

520
00:43:37,530 --> 00:43:44,430
kind of forever. But I don't know if your report shows that effort in any kind

521
00:43:44,430 --> 00:43:46,670
of meaningful way when you compare us to others.

522
00:43:48,030 --> 00:43:51,090
Yes, that's a good question. I mean we don't necessarily show it in a

523
00:43:51,090 --> 00:43:54,110
comparison of that's going to be of,

524
00:43:58,780 --> 00:43:59,740
but it

525
00:44:03,010 --> 00:44:05,030
does have the benefit of obviously

526
00:44:05,030 --> 00:44:07,190
to see you have more of a capital front,

527
00:44:07,350 --> 00:44:08,510
but then you save on your end.

528
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:16,180
That won't show unless we come up with a measure

529
00:44:16,180 --> 00:44:16,760
and we

530
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,900
progress you've made in changing over the year.

531
00:44:25,380 --> 00:44:26,680
So in improving your obviously,

532
00:44:27,660 --> 00:44:28,140
actually

533
00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:33,680
have left at the end of the 10 year period.

534
00:44:37,750 --> 00:44:39,970
Yeah, let's just to highlight that

535
00:44:39,970 --> 00:44:42,090
from a staff perspective, it's true.

536
00:44:42,650 --> 00:44:45,150
We know that has made our numbers look worse.

537
00:44:45,510 --> 00:44:47,810
Overall from an asset management perspective,

538
00:44:48,030 --> 00:44:51,810
even though I think everyone at the vast majority

539
00:44:51,810 --> 00:44:56,850
of us think that's the right move, but it does go and certainly makes our numbers look

540
00:44:56,850 --> 00:44:59,870
worse because of that sacrifice we're not doing some other things.

541
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,060
I will open up to other questions from Fed.

542
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:33,440
Through you to Andrew, thank you for bringing this to our attention. My first question is slide six, where we talk about 25% of our roads or are very poor. That is a dollar figure amount, not a roads count amount. That be a fair way to put it. So it's a dollar figure that's the 1991 point.

543
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:40,100
191 million is the 25% is am I right in it making that comment?

544
00:45:42,130 --> 00:45:46,750
19 million correct is a taller figure mostly related to roads it has other

545
00:45:46,750 --> 00:45:51,590
obviously as the categories in it but it's not an account it's what why I'm

546
00:45:51,590 --> 00:45:55,270
bringing it forward is as I want to say that 25% of our roads aren't in poor

547
00:45:55,270 --> 00:46:00,650
condition it's the dollar figure amounts like if if you look at it the wrong way

548
00:46:00,650 --> 00:46:03,930
it's not it's alarming I mean we still want our roads to be in the best

549
00:46:03,930 --> 00:46:10,690
condition possible. But at the same time, you're recognizing a dollar figure so that we can better plan and make

550
00:46:10,690 --> 00:46:18,900
the other side of it is just refreshing back to, as we look at this, this number might have been

551
00:46:20,060 --> 00:46:27,040
moderately different if we didn't have a boundary road bridge to fix. Because last year, as we started

552
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:33,040
to go through this exercise, I think we had just under 20 approximately 18 roads that we would have fixed

553
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,060
that were in the poor condition.

554
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,300
So when you do an asset management plan,

555
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:39,220
the roads that you fix completely

556
00:46:39,220 --> 00:46:41,600
are the roads that absolutely have to be repaired.

557
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,160
And we were moving towards that as Mayor Dave alluded to

558
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,120
with our asset management reserve

559
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,500
that we use on a regular basis of 2%

560
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,600
that this is what we're trying to do to achieve better roads.

561
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,520
We were progressing in the right direction

562
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:55,400
and we still are.

563
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,320
This allows us to plan.

564
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,120
This is a planning exercise.

565
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:03,000
it's not saying our roads are in bad condition, are in horrible.

566
00:47:03,780 --> 00:47:09,160
I just want to level set that because this is a tool that we're using to get better.

567
00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:12,140
It's not one to say that our roads are horrible.

568
00:47:13,300 --> 00:47:16,440
That's the one piece that the other thing that I wanted to ask about.

569
00:47:16,740 --> 00:47:26,500
There was a number I was confused as we look at that number Andrew and then we move up on to our conditions of our assets as a related to bridges and culverts.

570
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,940
It's that they're in kind of more of the poor condition.

571
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:36,440
I'm assuming that's because the cost of bridges and culverts is more expensive when you

572
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:37,800
reflected on that number.

573
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:46,160
Because otherwise I'm not sure because it didn't really reflect the number of what it is.

574
00:47:46,380 --> 00:47:48,340
And I don't think I'm explaining bridges

575
00:47:51,730 --> 00:47:55,710
and culverts in our analysis are in good condition.

576
00:47:56,110 --> 00:47:56,590
Right.

577
00:47:56,590 --> 00:48:00,970
But if you look at it, when you reference in the document, it says that they're there.

578
00:48:02,130 --> 00:48:04,410
I just want, anyways, I just wanted to look at it that way.

579
00:48:05,410 --> 00:48:11,730
The other thing I'll say is the good part about where we're at is we've got Courtney Clark and Bill Reiner

580
00:48:11,730 --> 00:48:17,970
that are looking at our asset management plan and our roads right now and the list of roads that we

581
00:48:17,970 --> 00:48:23,170
have is into our budget for this year. But I think we've got a new set of eyes on what we're doing

582
00:48:23,170 --> 00:48:27,630
it. So this is exactly the right time for us to get this information and move forward

583
00:48:27,630 --> 00:48:31,610
probably doing. I know I'm kind of talking and speaking kind of broadly right now and

584
00:48:31,610 --> 00:48:35,050
it's not a question, but I just want to reflect that I appreciate what you're bringing

585
00:48:35,050 --> 00:48:35,790
forward to us.

586
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,260
That's all the questions I have, Mayor Dave.

587
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:49,720
No problem. I don't look at this as a negative. I look at this and say, but it's really good

588
00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:55,560
that when, I'm going to say a bunch of us, the majority of us when we came on council,

589
00:48:56,540 --> 00:49:01,940
we had, we were putting $150,000 a year into asset preservation. And now I think the

590
00:49:01,940 --> 00:49:11,560
number Toby was 28-ish, something like so. Like we made the right decisions, the 2% of

591
00:49:21,330 --> 00:49:28,330
So we've made the right moves. We need to continue to focus on infrastructure. And this will get better all the time.

592
00:49:28,910 --> 00:49:35,450
I also look at some of the roads that we haven't done that we wanted to. You'll look at the tree streets in your neighborhood.

593
00:49:35,450 --> 00:49:42,030
But the reason why we're not doing those is because the pipes under the moon

594
00:49:44,460 --> 00:49:47,620
will never will never have read off this chart completely.

595
00:49:48,460 --> 00:49:50,600
Because that doesn't always make sense.

596
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:51,260
Because we have to wait.

597
00:49:57,060 --> 00:50:02,740
But, but it also sometimes it makes more sense to wait because we're ready for.

598
00:50:02,740 --> 00:50:08,340
an example, one of our worst roads right now that gets used a lot is is

599
00:50:08,340 --> 00:50:12,860
military. For us, if we had to replace military three years ago when we planned

600
00:50:12,860 --> 00:50:18,080
on it, it would mean that we'd have to rip it up again this year to replace

601
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:23,560
underground infrastructure. Making good strategic moves, we need to continue with

602
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:33,600
this approach on each one's asset preservation. And again, I'm pretty happy what's where we're

603
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,500
going. I know it's that we'd like to see less red on this, but we're going in the right direction.

604
00:50:41,060 --> 00:50:48,040
And I won't name names, but I did some comparisons to similar size and the qualities in our area.

605
00:50:48,260 --> 00:50:51,960
And when you start looking at the fair portion, it's quite larger.

606
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,840
You know, it's a lot to start wanting to look at and manage.

607
00:50:56,100 --> 00:51:00,240
And so when you look at what isn't good and very good standing for

608
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:05,080
us bridge, it means that we are able to target what needs to be more easily

609
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:09,980
than other municipalities that maybe have not managed in the way that.

610
00:51:12,910 --> 00:51:16,570
First, thanks for it if I'm a couple of things.

611
00:51:16,790 --> 00:51:19,190
One is, you know, it's a race against time.

612
00:51:19,610 --> 00:51:22,030
Our assets are going to decay over time.

613
00:51:22,030 --> 00:51:27,170
So, we do our best to try to get ahead of it.

614
00:51:30,980 --> 00:51:38,160
I think a great example of a department beyond roads does a fantastic job with the help

615
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,000
of the finance team, of course, is fire.

616
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:45,880
Their ongoing planning, I know, Toby is always looking at how we're going to finance the

617
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:46,400
next vehicle.

618
00:51:46,420 --> 00:51:52,000
So, all of that significant investment to make sure, in a reflected in your graph, to show

619
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,220
that there's something to that effect.

620
00:51:56,780 --> 00:52:01,560
One point, Emily, if you put up this slide, the one's the condition of assets by category,

621
00:52:01,820 --> 00:52:02,500
the bar chart.

622
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:03,740
That's it?

623
00:52:04,140 --> 00:52:05,120
Thank you.

624
00:52:05,380 --> 00:52:05,720
Then look up.

625
00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:07,160
We're really fast.

626
00:52:07,540 --> 00:52:07,980
Appreciate that.

627
00:52:08,660 --> 00:52:09,060
Thank you.

628
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:15,300
Mayor Dave spoke to the fact that we've gone from, for round number of 150,000 or something

629
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:23,280
to 2.8 million or whatever it is that we've talked away against the resistance of the tax

630
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:39,480
of making those moves and it shows where we are as of today is is data available to show what those asset categories would have been in four years ago, eight years ago, 12 years ago.

631
00:52:39,980 --> 00:52:41,520
Do you have that kind of information

632
00:52:43,890 --> 00:52:49,490
to the through the mayor, not particularly, you know, we have the last few years.

633
00:52:49,490 --> 00:52:56,430
And we can probably maybe do a comparison with that, but going back over a decade, it wouldn't happen.

634
00:52:58,230 --> 00:53:08,270
I think the only thing that the only comment I would say that's exactly what the point of public service is because that will now have at least our starting point of target.

635
00:53:08,270 --> 00:53:11,850
So, as you come forward as part of the regulation, you have to come back to California.

636
00:53:14,020 --> 00:53:19,900
We'll start tracking every year where we're moving to the level of service and tracking a lot of this information.

637
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,000
Or looking now, we can go back.

638
00:53:29,460 --> 00:53:31,340
There would be a change in conditions, I'm sure.

639
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:32,160
Absolutely.

640
00:53:32,700 --> 00:53:36,600
Both from, as I was saying before, the natural decay of assets.

641
00:53:37,220 --> 00:53:41,300
But also, you know, it's great that we've now got a baseline that we can measure going forward.

642
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,420
But it almost feels like this is the starting line.

643
00:53:43,420 --> 00:53:49,500
The starting line was a long time ago, and this council has been committed to maintaining

644
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:50,200
those assets.

645
00:53:50,860 --> 00:53:57,220
I just don't think we should lose track of the fact that we even, in fact, move this

646
00:53:57,220 --> 00:54:04,700
bar up quite a ways over the period of time against resistance that says, quite of my taxes

647
00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:09,120
go up so much, there's a good portion of why taxes go up as much as they do.

648
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:17,020
I'll get off my soapbox, but just to say repassion about the fact that we've been through

649
00:54:17,020 --> 00:54:21,200
council just make some decisions with staff of work hard to get to the point.

650
00:54:23,710 --> 00:54:26,950
Before you go, Todd, can I borrow that soapbox just for a second?

651
00:54:27,210 --> 00:54:27,610
Okay, thanks.

652
00:54:29,510 --> 00:54:33,850
It's not much to remember when I was first elected as mayor.

653
00:54:35,350 --> 00:54:36,230
I'm almost right away.

654
00:54:36,230 --> 00:54:45,050
one of my first after-hours duties was frozen pipes in the library. So we had a failing

655
00:54:45,050 --> 00:54:51,970
HFAC system. We had to close it a couple times in the summer because it got too hot. We had frozen

656
00:54:51,970 --> 00:54:56,030
pipes, a bunch of damage because it got too cold.

657
00:54:58,090 --> 00:55:00,630
We had a tower that was failing. We had bricks

658
00:55:00,630 --> 00:55:08,050
that were fallen off and we decided as a council and because of a man in the back

659
00:55:08,050 --> 00:55:15,270
that instead of hiring a library CEO, we had a vacancy and instead of hiring a library CEO,

660
00:55:15,590 --> 00:55:23,170
we would without that position, make a man to wear one additional hat and we would focus all

661
00:55:23,170 --> 00:55:31,810
that money on fixing the library. And because of that, we replaced the boilers, we made sure

662
00:55:31,810 --> 00:55:38,490
the children who were fixed all the PTAC units, added insulation where we needed to fix the

663
00:55:38,490 --> 00:55:46,690
brickwork. We completely rebuilt the tower from the inside out. And we're in way better shape

664
00:55:46,690 --> 00:55:53,010
been that building that we've ever been. And when we had the F2 tornado go through,

665
00:55:54,270 --> 00:56:00,510
a tower would have taken not quite a direct hit, but some pretty significant wins. Without

666
00:56:00,510 --> 00:56:04,870
rebuilding that, we could have been in even bigger trouble than we were already with that tornado.

667
00:56:05,450 --> 00:56:11,340
So it's our responsibility sitting here to make sure that we're spending the right amount of money

668
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:21,820
going without the right, some services to make sure that our infrastructure is in a way better shape, so just want to highlight that this is not accidental.

669
00:56:22,420 --> 00:56:32,720
This is because and our staff step up in huge ways, so thanks for that, and then we have that across the board with a bunch of other facilities.

670
00:56:32,740 --> 00:56:39,940
We've we've got folks from our museum here that continue to be really creative with how they make things happen.

671
00:56:39,940 --> 00:56:40,720
Well, thanks, Ben.

672
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:42,500
Go ahead, Todd.

673
00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:42,780
Sorry.

674
00:56:43,060 --> 00:56:44,300
I just had to jump in.

675
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:44,820
No.

676
00:56:45,300 --> 00:56:48,360
And my comments, certainly, follow that.

677
00:56:48,660 --> 00:56:51,920
And what you and the other counselors have already mentioned.

678
00:56:54,140 --> 00:56:55,600
Think one of the key aspects.

679
00:56:56,020 --> 00:56:58,040
And this is what is great about having this type of.

680
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,220
Richmond, I would have to staff.

681
00:57:03,580 --> 00:57:09,200
I've been, but to continue the education of public.

682
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,640
On what this actually means.

683
00:57:12,380 --> 00:57:17,260
as a simple example to the point that you made mayor in regards to why is this

684
00:57:17,260 --> 00:57:23,600
street not being paved yet? There's why there's work to be done for ground prior

685
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:28,700
to if we tear it up now we're turning it up two days two years and just

686
00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:32,210
making

687
00:57:32,210 --> 00:57:33,730
sure the fact communication is

688
00:57:53,190 --> 00:57:55,850
everything that council has been talking

689
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:07,880
yes

690
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:12,720
right at the moment there's a few streets or concessions that haven't been

691
00:58:15,250 --> 00:58:16,310
over

692
00:58:20,500 --> 00:58:30,880
all the residents out in please when we pave a road or and are working

693
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:37,140
towards paving. Excuse me and it makes a big difference.

694
00:58:50,170 --> 00:58:54,270
Just one more thank you back to Andrew. This information is exactly what we need

695
00:58:54,270 --> 00:58:59,210
when we go to AMO or Roma where we demonstrate that we've got needs that have to

696
00:58:59,210 --> 00:59:00,970
be addressed as a relates to infrastructure.

697
00:59:01,590 --> 00:59:02,650
I mean, we've done it already,

698
00:59:03,030 --> 00:59:04,770
but now we've got updated numbers

699
00:59:04,770 --> 00:59:07,690
that we can look at, and when we have delegations,

700
00:59:08,310 --> 00:59:10,630
we can continue to, I mean, everybody's asking

701
00:59:10,630 --> 00:59:13,030
for the same thing at the poor enter and 40 municipalities,

702
00:59:13,810 --> 00:59:15,990
but this demonstrates that we're doing,

703
00:59:16,210 --> 00:59:17,750
the work behind the scene centers.

704
00:59:19,110 --> 00:59:23,050
And we use that to chat with Minister Bethlyn Faulty

705
00:59:23,050 --> 00:59:24,950
and let him know why we need businesses.

706
00:59:25,550 --> 00:59:27,270
Thank you for the document.

707
00:59:30,550 --> 00:59:36,790
I agree with you on that. The only thing is if we pulled up this information for many

708
00:59:36,790 --> 00:59:42,790
of the other 444 municipalities, their numbers would look a lot different. Andrew, would

709
00:59:42,790 --> 00:59:43,130
you agree?

710
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,700
It depends on which municipalities, but I mean on the broader scale, your condition

711
00:59:48,700 --> 00:59:55,410
is especially when you get into Roma, where it's more of a less brand new infrastructure that

712
00:59:55,410 --> 00:59:56,690
was built by development.

713
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:11,000
So, it just, again, we have taken on some big projects that are extremely downtown culvert.

714
01:00:11,860 --> 01:00:26,460
He's school and very bridges and then all the distraction and work that happened around the tornado, but we need to continue to do the hard work. Our staff have to continue to do the hard work together.

715
01:00:26,460 --> 01:00:32,560
So let's continue to be focused and not forget about acid proliferation.

716
01:00:33,220 --> 01:00:36,100
Other thing that we need to be really careful of as a council.

717
01:00:38,180 --> 01:00:39,540
Add infrastructure.

718
01:00:42,100 --> 01:00:43,260
Have to maintain.

719
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:50,820
Let's be really careful with adding sidewalks where maybe we don't need sidewalks.

720
01:00:51,580 --> 01:00:58,620
That's really careful not to add lights or all the other beautiful bells and whistles that we want.

721
01:00:58,860 --> 01:00:59,400
We just need to be.

722
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,840
Everything we build has to be maintained long term.

723
01:01:04,700 --> 01:01:10,760
And we have a lot of needs above the new step. So just just think about future councils that we.

724
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:22,880
Andrew, thank you for anything else you want to tell us while you're here.

725
01:01:24,970 --> 01:01:26,370
I know nothing else is in particular.

726
01:01:26,370 --> 01:01:36,730
All right. Yeah. What do we vote on the report? You want to move it first? Yeah. So I'm on

727
01:01:36,730 --> 01:01:36,970
favor.

728
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,000
I'm going to go. I'm going to open finance.

729
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:54,260
Starting with 7.2. This is report number

730
01:01:54,260 --> 01:01:58,760
TR-0 425 from Sue in regards to our final tax levies.

731
01:02:01,380 --> 01:02:06,200
If there are no questions or comments

732
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,620
on or for just to move the recommendations.

733
01:02:09,380 --> 01:02:10,120
Thank you very much.

734
01:02:10,700 --> 01:02:14,340
First, I might have expected you to comment on

735
01:02:14,940 --> 01:02:17,840
the total amount of tax that goes to the region.

736
01:02:20,300 --> 01:02:20,880
Have that handy?

737
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:22,980
I just, I have high expectations of the year

738
01:02:22,980 --> 01:02:28,440
that you might have mentioned the 33.4 million dollars.

739
01:02:29,620 --> 01:02:31,460
That you can see the picture we could see.

740
01:02:37,820 --> 01:02:41,140
Okay, again, we talk about that a lot.

741
01:02:41,140 --> 01:02:46,060
Typically, especially in the next few years, you're going to see public

742
01:02:49,130 --> 01:02:51,810
works projects happening all over the place.

743
01:02:52,330 --> 01:02:55,650
You think of transit changes that have been made.

744
01:02:56,270 --> 01:02:58,870
You think of the additional policing services.

745
01:02:59,770 --> 01:03:05,170
Not happening and certainly I'm doing, I'm doing my part, but Bruce thanks for stepping up.

746
01:03:07,460 --> 01:03:08,660
Other comments on that?

747
01:03:10,820 --> 01:03:13,860
All in favor of, oh wait, we didn't get a motion on that, did we?

748
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:16,020
Okay, all in favor of that report?

749
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:17,060
That's carried.

750
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:17,780
Thank you very much.

751
01:03:21,540 --> 01:03:25,720
We are now at 7.2.2, and yeah, this is for the BIA.

752
01:03:26,060 --> 01:03:28,280
Can I move that?

753
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:31,420
Yeah, I'll move that.

754
01:03:31,740 --> 01:03:33,140
May I add a quick comment?

755
01:03:33,260 --> 01:03:33,500
Of course.

756
01:03:33,980 --> 01:03:39,620
It feels like this BIA, you know, we're so fortunate to have a BIA board that's been working hard,

757
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:41,480
you know, since the inception of Oxford.

758
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:47,880
I feel like this one in particular has been working really hard with all the additional challenges we saw a global pandemic

759
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:54,340
We've seen tornadoes ripped through our downtown core this group keeps coming together and doing incredible work

760
01:03:54,340 --> 01:04:01,180
And they're trying to do it on a very fixed budget. We saw a small increase. I believe it was the first

761
01:04:01,980 --> 01:04:03,780
increase since 2014

762
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:10,120
So just a really mindful group and we're wanting to make sure that the events are moving well

763
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:14,000
So just to move the recommendation, thank you.

764
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:15,660
Thanks for that.

765
01:04:18,180 --> 01:04:19,940
Any questions or comments, go ahead.

766
01:04:20,140 --> 01:04:25,980
Well, if you look at it as soon as report and the amount,

767
01:04:26,140 --> 01:04:28,760
I mean, nobody ever wants to add to the cost,

768
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:33,560
but across the entire BIA area and the amount of money that it costs.

769
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,020
I mean, every dollar matters to

770
01:04:41,290 --> 01:04:43,050
somebody who is a businessman.

771
01:04:43,050 --> 01:04:44,090
Any

772
01:04:57,400 --> 01:04:57,840
other questions?

773
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:18,200
Any unfinished business? Any other business? Any questions from the press end of the public?

774
01:05:24,580 --> 01:05:31,830
We moved out ahead during the delegation.

775
01:05:32,050 --> 01:05:32,970
Oh, okay. Thank you.

776
01:05:32,970 --> 01:05:49,810
But thank you. It might be a little laggy. So I just realized that we didn't miss it as you said it. So any other questions from the president of the public in the room or online.

777
01:05:49,810 --> 01:05:51,530
All right.

778
01:05:51,890 --> 01:05:53,790
Hearing none.

779
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,120
Heritage arts and.

780
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:03,060
Very much.

781
01:06:03,140 --> 01:06:05,920
I'd like to open heritage arts community program.

782
01:06:06,740 --> 01:06:07,780
Programs committee.

783
01:06:08,460 --> 01:06:09,860
No correspondence.

784
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:11,100
We have one report.

785
01:06:12,020 --> 01:06:14,820
8.2.1.

786
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:15,960
Report.

787
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:17,920
DS 1325.

788
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:22,820
of Jake Locke for the bill that he's a senior building.

789
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:27,500
This has to do with

790
01:06:27,500 --> 01:06:38,300
the designation by the law. Right, you know, church at 1,800 Regional Road. This was, this came

791
01:06:38,300 --> 01:06:50,560
through the Heritage Committee and the Udora United Church, it was by their request and we had no

792
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:55,300
But the opposing this, they're thrilled that this is the

793
01:07:02,660 --> 01:07:03,400
case.

794
01:07:13,700 --> 01:07:17,060
I grew up in Udora, this was our community

795
01:07:17,060 --> 01:07:18,520
to church, my brother got married there.

796
01:07:19,420 --> 01:07:22,800
Certainly half my dad's out of the family's

797
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:25,700
nodding area was once called Stodden's Corner.

798
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:31,480
So certainly lots of my family's history in that facility.

799
01:07:33,580 --> 01:07:36,360
As a Udorian, I would say, thank you.

800
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:45,260
Yeah, just again, a thank you to Jake for the work done on this file, but a little amount of work.

801
01:07:46,780 --> 01:07:48,160
I think he's been on the file.

802
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:53,520
Well, off for us, as you said, it has been a file ongoing for a while.

803
01:07:54,420 --> 01:07:58,260
So a great step forward for preserving architectural heritage in Oxbridge.

804
01:08:01,170 --> 01:08:03,470
I would have a motion to receive a move.

805
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:06,520
Any other questions?

806
01:08:08,300 --> 01:08:09,280
Those in favor.

807
01:08:10,060 --> 01:08:11,020
Thank you.

808
01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:20,600
Is there any unfinished business? Any other business? Questions from the press?

809
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:32,000
I spoke to me to get a brief summary of.

810
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:47,560
Yes. Deb would it be you? Deb would be able to give you that information, Roger.

811
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:52,940
Thank you. You're very welcome. Any questions or comments from the public?

812
01:08:52,940 --> 01:08:58,600
there being none, I would like to hear it teach.

813
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:12,980
Yes, thank you very much Councillor Beech to open the parks facilities and tourism committee.

814
01:09:13,820 --> 01:09:20,400
There is no correspondence today but we do have a report which comes from Caitlin Jones,

815
01:09:20,540 --> 01:09:24,460
our manager of cultural services. What would we like to do with that report today?

816
01:09:31,440 --> 01:09:37,220
Yeah, I'm happy to move the recommendations but also Caitlin, thanks for all you're doing

817
01:09:37,220 --> 01:09:44,920
on this file. I know you you also wear a lot many hats and we get an awful lot of bank for a

818
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:49,820
buck for my tourism perspective and it's just going to increase when you think of the

819
01:09:51,340 --> 01:09:57,340
where we're going to go in the future especially as we add assets like the new urban provincial park

820
01:09:57,340 --> 01:10:03,560
and and other items like that our downtown is going to get better. There will be more reason to come

821
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,940
And thank you for looking at

822
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:11,780
that comment.

823
01:10:13,380 --> 01:10:17,980
We're seeing more of it now that there's some turmoil to the

824
01:10:17,980 --> 01:10:18,600
faith of us.

825
01:10:18,820 --> 01:10:22,040
And so Canadians are choosing not only to support local

826
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:24,280
through their purchases at grocery stores and their

827
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:28,160
shops, but they're trying to decide where they're going to head.

828
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:31,020
And there was a recent article that came out last week

829
01:10:31,020 --> 01:10:32,800
from another blog article.

830
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:35,280
Quite a few are coming out that named

831
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:40,280
And I think it was number three of the top five cute towns to visit in Ontario.

832
01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:42,420
So you're starting to see more of that happened.

833
01:10:43,140 --> 01:10:47,680
And anecdotally, my wife works downtown at the bridge and she's seeing a lot more folks

834
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:48,160
come through.

835
01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:52,860
A couple came from Hamilton recently and decided to stay in at the bridge.

836
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:57,640
So we're wanting to do more of a tour of this part of our community and it's always great

837
01:10:57,640 --> 01:10:59,960
to go visit Skuevog and Brock as well.

838
01:11:00,480 --> 01:11:04,380
But they had enough assets and enough things to do here in town where they made a day

839
01:11:04,380 --> 01:11:10,960
of it. And so, to your point, Mayor, we're, we're tourism ready. That matters. And so just

840
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,000
thank you so much to Caitlin and her team.

841
01:11:16,970 --> 01:11:21,530
And I'm not sure, Councilor Baker, if it goes to you or perhaps to Caitlin, I love that

842
01:11:21,530 --> 01:11:23,390
magazine that got put out recently.

843
01:11:24,110 --> 01:11:32,590
It's cold, doesn't matter. But did a great job of promoting the assets that we have, including

844
01:11:32,590 --> 01:11:34,370
for those folks that came for visits from Hamilton.

845
01:11:36,450 --> 01:11:37,870
Then when I look at the statistics

846
01:11:37,870 --> 01:11:39,830
about the number of visitors that we have

847
01:11:39,830 --> 01:11:43,350
that are within 40 kilometers versus beyond 40 kilometers away,

848
01:11:43,910 --> 01:11:47,830
how do we get that magazine further from home

849
01:11:47,830 --> 01:11:51,430
so that people pick it up wherever they gather those things,

850
01:11:51,710 --> 01:11:54,050
maybe travel Ontario, those type of sites

851
01:11:54,050 --> 01:11:56,350
to see it and go, wow, I want to go to Oxbridge.

852
01:11:57,010 --> 01:11:58,790
I'm not sure, Kate, can I aim that to you?

853
01:11:58,790 --> 01:11:59,110
or

854
01:12:04,420 --> 01:12:11,120
Caitlin's coming to the mic. That's one of the soft results. And so I'm looking at marketing

855
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:12,060
from

856
01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:15,660
the hard work that you do.

857
01:12:17,900 --> 01:12:21,940
Publications wanting to pick up the new story and start to share it.

858
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:27,700
Caitlin's doing more hard work on that and she'll be able to touch on that, but the benefits of this

859
01:12:27,700 --> 01:12:35,640
group regularly coming together. Not only in charge of tourism, I'm sitting on our BIA and leading

860
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:41,440
I agree we're able to quickly identify what's working well and what is going to play well with

861
01:12:41,440 --> 01:12:50,040
the Toronto Publications. That's the that's the soft ability. Morning everyone. So a couple things

862
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:55,340
that we've done to target over 40 kilometers away with this guide is I just received an email

863
01:12:55,340 --> 01:13:00,980
from Ontario Travel Guides asking for all of our publications like this morning. So that will be

864
01:13:00,980 --> 01:13:06,440
going out shortly. We do have like 48 boxes of the guide currently at the museum so they're ready

865
01:13:06,440 --> 01:13:12,280
to go. I just need to mail them out. We also offer it online this year so it's able to be sent

866
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:17,760
digitally to everybody. It's available on Discover Experge as well as the Township website and then we

867
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:24,020
also worked on a Discover Experge billboard that went up in Toronto through the Globe and Mail and

868
01:13:24,020 --> 01:13:25,440
and a print ad in the global mail.

869
01:13:32,550 --> 01:13:35,570
Prism has come a long way since I've been on count.

870
01:13:36,670 --> 01:13:39,770
And I mean, in the first two terms,

871
01:13:39,970 --> 01:13:42,090
I had the privilege of being on tourism.

872
01:13:42,730 --> 01:13:45,790
And central counties did so much for us

873
01:13:45,790 --> 01:13:50,030
to help to be able to learn how to do the catchment data,

874
01:13:50,710 --> 01:13:54,570
to be able to, you know, the geofencing

875
01:13:55,050 --> 01:13:57,530
that really brings in so much more data

876
01:13:57,530 --> 01:14:05,970
that we really know what's going on and it is so exciting what's happening and the amount of

877
01:14:05,970 --> 01:14:14,090
people that are recognizing like even they call and you know looking at so many different items

878
01:14:14,090 --> 01:14:24,130
within it the you know the type of sponsor partners cross visitation just gathering all the information

879
01:14:24,130 --> 01:14:30,530
even when you compare and look at the charts for the coffee shops, et cetera, et cetera,

880
01:14:30,830 --> 01:14:39,710
this is so much further ahead than it was 10 years ago. And I'm so proud to, well, I'm a

881
01:14:39,710 --> 01:14:49,870
lifer here. And to see the expansion and the enthusiasm for tourism and what it can bring

882
01:14:49,870 --> 01:14:57,850
to, you know, to this municipality and in the future having places for people to stay.

883
01:14:58,250 --> 01:14:59,830
That's going to be a ground.

884
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,960
I'm breaking difference for this municipality. Thank you. Again, I'm just thinking back onto some conversations that we've had when I were in this room and the rest of you weren't. But we talked for half an hour, I think at one point, arguing about whether or not a logo or a snippet of video that had our only brewery in town at the time in it.

885
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:33,100
whether it should be pulled from a video that was being sent out.

886
01:15:33,860 --> 01:15:36,940
What we now know, and what this council knows,

887
01:15:37,220 --> 01:15:39,860
is that people don't necessarily come to Oxford

888
01:15:39,860 --> 01:15:42,580
to walk down one of our streets.

889
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:47,140
They come here to see the Blue Heron bookstore,

890
01:15:47,700 --> 01:15:50,100
or maybe to buy their shoes of Johns,

891
01:15:50,420 --> 01:15:53,220
or to go to noon nine by ten,

892
01:15:54,940 --> 01:15:57,760
or the second wedge, or slab town,

893
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:06,640
But our tourism has to do with our businesses and yeah, we might not highlight every

894
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:16,600
a station, but but we will highlight those unique businesses that become and we all know

895
01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:22,600
that now and and again, this council sees tourism as an asset in our future more than

896
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:24,400
any other council that I can remember.

897
01:16:24,780 --> 01:16:25,880
Thank you.

898
01:16:26,660 --> 01:16:35,840
Thanks again for that. So box first. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mary. Counselor Snuts. Yeah, just again another example of great work and leadership in the devil.

899
01:16:43,260 --> 01:16:44,180
Okay. Thank you.

900
01:16:44,660 --> 01:16:55,680
Any one else. Thank you. Great report. Thank you very much. So do we have a motion? Yeah. Great. And all in favor. All right. That's great. Thank you very much.

901
01:16:57,100 --> 01:16:58,560
Any unfinished business?

902
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:01,600
Any other business?

903
01:17:03,860 --> 01:17:06,640
Any questions from the media or those in attendance?

904
01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:16,620
Just for the folks online, thank you.

905
01:17:32,380 --> 01:17:39,500
I have no skin in this game at all but I'm not representing anybody other than the fact that I live in the neighborhood.

906
01:17:40,380 --> 01:17:42,880
Where is council's concern? What's the status of the hotel?

907
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:43,640
Yeah,

908
01:17:47,050 --> 01:17:57,350
so, so this council in a fairly quickly approved the zoning change for the hotel, we are waiting for, I think the site plan.

909
01:17:58,290 --> 01:18:02,750
First to approve it, but we, we approved that 18 months ago.

910
01:18:02,950 --> 01:18:06,630
And again, I don't have the data, but it's a long, long time ago that we approved it.

911
01:18:06,810 --> 01:18:12,230
It then goes back to the owner of the land who then decides what we do next.

912
01:18:12,230 --> 01:18:17,250
But we have, we approved it in record time unanimously

913
01:18:18,710 --> 01:18:20,570
to make sure that that was a go.

914
01:18:21,070 --> 01:18:22,610
Too bad we can't transfer so.

915
01:18:24,740 --> 01:18:28,760
I think it's easy for us to put up our hands.

916
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:32,340
It is maybe harder to find people to fund it.

917
01:18:34,260 --> 01:18:36,800
So the last thing we want to do is slow down.

918
01:18:39,660 --> 01:18:43,200
You want to go closer to the mic just to make sure you get caught.

919
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:49,160
It appears to me as certainly in our neighborhood as it's local the reactions of the hotel

920
01:18:54,350 --> 01:18:56,450
ever a hole in the

921
01:18:59,040 --> 01:18:59,700
actor and

922
01:19:15,350 --> 01:19:23,610
that's a great point and I don't have the statistics with me, but there's a major impact to a community that doesn't have lodging.

923
01:19:24,170 --> 01:19:30,550
We've seen creative ways of trying to fix that, so wooden sticks having their cabins for

924
01:19:30,550 --> 01:19:31,750
examples, very popular.

925
01:19:32,370 --> 01:19:36,930
But yeah, anytime that you can have groups come and stay in your community, it changes

926
01:19:36,930 --> 01:19:41,530
things like the Hamilton couple that we had come out to Oxbridge, very glad that they

927
01:19:41,530 --> 01:19:42,930
were able to stay with us for the day.

928
01:19:43,450 --> 01:19:50,370
What would that impact look like if they were able to wake up and have breakfast at the golf

929
01:19:50,370 --> 01:19:51,650
course or at B&L?

930
01:19:51,650 --> 01:19:54,410
So I'm looking forward to those options, man.

931
01:19:54,830 --> 01:19:55,270
Yeah, thanks.

932
01:19:55,650 --> 01:19:57,790
Again, I'll just...

933
01:19:57,790 --> 01:20:01,310
I think my numbers might be off, but this is sort of the range.

934
01:20:02,010 --> 01:20:08,530
I think the average person who comes to a community like ours spends about $70 if they come for the day.

935
01:20:09,270 --> 01:20:14,470
If they spend the night, I think the number goes to $250 or more.

936
01:20:14,470 --> 01:20:23,110
So it gets up significantly, you'll also find that anytime while all kinds of municipalities

937
01:20:23,110 --> 01:20:28,650
are trying to shut down Airbnb's and things like that, for the most part, as long as they're

938
01:20:28,650 --> 01:20:33,850
the right type of Airbnb's, we are encouraging it. We want there to be places for people to stay,

939
01:20:34,330 --> 01:20:39,190
we don't want whole house parties because that's a little different situation, but we are looking for

940
01:20:39,190 --> 01:20:45,630
ways that people can come and stay in Oxbridge, especially when it comes to some of the more

941
01:20:45,630 --> 01:20:46,230
creative ways.

942
01:20:46,710 --> 01:20:46,990
What's that?

943
01:20:47,470 --> 01:20:48,650
When it comes to in-laws.

944
01:20:49,250 --> 01:20:49,710
100%.

945
01:20:49,710 --> 01:20:49,990
Yeah.

946
01:20:50,410 --> 01:20:51,790
Again, mine lives in my basement.

947
01:20:51,790 --> 01:20:52,330
So I don't know.

948
01:20:52,490 --> 01:20:52,650
Yeah.

949
01:20:53,810 --> 01:20:54,270
Right.

950
01:20:54,550 --> 01:20:54,670
Yeah.

951
01:20:55,090 --> 01:20:57,510
Mine are in Owen's sound listening right now, I'm sure.

952
01:20:57,850 --> 01:20:58,970
So, no.

953
01:20:59,110 --> 01:20:59,470
And that's it.

954
01:20:59,690 --> 01:21:06,330
And so the beauty of tourism is not only does it showcase what we've got here and provide

955
01:21:06,330 --> 01:21:10,370
support to our businesses, but it allows us to keep those businesses here in

956
01:21:10,370 --> 01:21:14,830
town. We're a relatively small population, and the more that we can support our

957
01:21:14,830 --> 01:21:18,670
businesses means that when we want to walk down to urban pantry and have a

958
01:21:18,670 --> 01:21:22,630
meal, they're still there. When we want to shop at one of the only independent

959
01:21:22,630 --> 01:21:27,610
bookstores in Southern Ontario, they're still there, and so the tourists help us

960
01:21:27,610 --> 01:21:31,630
enjoy our community a little bit more. Councilor Beach? You just made me think of

961
01:21:34,230 --> 01:21:38,250
is that even as residents, when we have families,

962
01:21:41,350 --> 01:21:43,550
I had a case where we had some family

963
01:21:43,550 --> 01:21:45,890
from a really a come down, they ended up,

964
01:21:54,480 --> 01:21:54,940
you know,

965
01:21:55,100 --> 01:21:58,620
like different things like that, family from Fergus,

966
01:21:59,300 --> 01:22:03,520
came to town, they visited a couple of different places

967
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:06,500
while they were here, restaurants and other places.

968
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:11,620
But we as Oxbridge residents can promote

969
01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:18,520
Relatives, when they come, do not only see us go out and enjoy the work.

970
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:31,660
Thank you very much. Any other comments from Council before we turn it back over? Any other comments from either folks in as or online?

971
01:22:33,820 --> 01:22:36,140
Seeing and hearing none. Any questions from the media today?

972
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:47,100
Any seeing and hearing none? I would now like to close the Parks Facilities and Tourism Committee and hand it over to the environment and sustainability committee.

973
01:22:47,100 --> 01:22:47,520
Thank you.

974
01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:08,700
Thank you, Councillor Pickering and I'll open environment and sustainability

975
01:23:09,260 --> 01:23:15,700
for today. Oh, correspondence and point two, no reports to committee.

976
01:23:18,700 --> 01:23:19,540
One finished business.

977
01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:23,200
Is there any other business? Sorry, I'm skipping through.

978
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:31,540
Yeah, I've got a piece, Councillor, if I may. Just doing a walk through of Ward 3 is beautiful.

979
01:23:31,540 --> 01:23:40,100
Now that we've got spring to start to see some of the green spaces that are starting to pop up with all the hard work that have been put in over the fall in winter.

980
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:45,820
So just a thank you to the environmental groups that helped support that across Ward 3.

981
01:23:46,420 --> 01:23:53,820
And then we also saw a bird friendly conversation that took place at the bridge social last week last Monday I believe.

982
01:23:54,340 --> 01:24:00,580
And so just really nice to see that committee supporting a lot of the different initiatives that are happening across.

983
01:24:00,580 --> 01:24:02,800
Just specifically, Ward 3.

984
01:24:03,020 --> 01:24:03,680
Thank you.

985
01:24:05,100 --> 01:24:05,680
Thank you.

986
01:24:05,780 --> 01:24:05,880
Yeah.

987
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:09,080
That is very encouraging in the environment sustainability committee.

988
01:24:09,300 --> 01:24:12,200
It does a lot of great work as we've recently been seeing.

989
01:24:13,020 --> 01:24:14,360
And I'm terrific.

990
01:24:14,540 --> 01:24:16,300
I'm so happy to be involved in that.

991
01:24:16,480 --> 01:24:17,700
This is the only all of you like.

992
01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:21,840
Is there are there any questions from the press?

993
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:24,960
Questions from the public today?

994
01:24:27,270 --> 01:24:28,070
Hearing none.

995
01:24:28,150 --> 01:24:29,870
I'd like to pass this over to public works.

996
01:24:30,370 --> 01:24:32,090
Active transportation committee.

997
01:24:32,090 --> 01:24:39,650
Thank you. I'll open public works and active transportation. Our first item is 11.1.1 from the town of

998
01:24:39,650 --> 01:24:45,390
Whitby, correspondence with regards to removal of tolls on Highway 407 East. If you've been down

999
01:24:45,390 --> 01:24:51,670
that way and try to get anywhere during rush hour, you'll find that you're very blocked up and

1000
01:24:51,670 --> 01:24:57,110
it's becoming an impediment to get into where you need to go. Looking to my southern traveling

1001
01:24:59,690 --> 01:25:09,910
I'll give you a motion. It was, it was supported by, um, the premier and our, our, our MPP minister

1002
01:25:09,910 --> 01:25:17,390
Beth and Falvey, that they will be moving those tools on, on, or seven East. Um, so this

1003
01:25:17,390 --> 01:25:24,870
is very welcome. They haven't actually sat yet. So I, I would expect to see that. I did have

1004
01:25:24,870 --> 01:25:28,910
of a brief conversation with Pravmeet Sakarya,

1005
01:25:29,090 --> 01:25:30,990
who's a Minister of Transportation,

1006
01:25:31,710 --> 01:25:33,530
but that didn't come up on the chat.

1007
01:25:34,390 --> 01:25:35,330
I expect to see it.

1008
01:25:36,190 --> 01:25:37,610
It'd be really interesting because they're

1009
01:25:37,610 --> 01:25:41,530
doing some signature action on Winchester Road,

1010
01:25:41,530 --> 01:25:44,690
and they want that to use that as well.

1011
01:25:45,610 --> 01:25:47,530
Hard to get the comments from you.

1012
01:25:49,910 --> 01:25:52,230
So the action on this point, Mary Dave,

1013
01:25:52,230 --> 01:25:53,150
what would you like to motion?

1014
01:25:53,310 --> 01:25:54,730
I think just a motion to receive those.

1015
01:25:55,290 --> 01:25:56,650
Thank you, any questions or comments

1016
01:25:56,650 --> 01:26:02,850
on Meredith's motion, all in favor. That is carried. Thank you. The next item we have is

1017
01:26:02,850 --> 01:26:09,310
report from Ben Kester with regards to a draft parking study. Questions or comments from committee?

1018
01:26:13,580 --> 01:26:17,600
I guess I'll start off certainly. I know you'll have some comments as well

1019
01:26:40,540 --> 01:26:49,640
So, I think it's important that we make sure that the study fulfills itself.

1020
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:52,760
They've done a great amount of work.

1021
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:53,520
work on it.

1022
01:26:55,540 --> 01:26:56,160
I think we do.

1023
01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:09,480
Certainly one of the things that stood out to me is that they mentioned

1024
01:27:09,480 --> 01:27:15,580
was the more accessible parking. All short in this area within the study, so I wanted to just

1025
01:27:15,580 --> 01:27:23,210
make sure that we highlight the proof that. And I think that is too fold. I think it's certainly

1026
01:27:23,210 --> 01:27:27,610
we this has gone to the accessibility committee and I think it certainly has to stay with them

1027
01:27:28,170 --> 01:27:34,270
going forward as well because what I would consider or what I think they would consider

1028
01:27:35,930 --> 01:27:38,250
accessible parking isn't just putting

1029
01:27:38,850 --> 01:27:41,950
stamp on the ground pit.

1030
01:27:43,780 --> 01:27:46,760
Have the curb cuts and whatnot in order for those people

1031
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:51,680
get out effectively. I think that aspect of it needs to be built

1032
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:56,120
make sure it's captured and within the study for those spaces.

1033
01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:01,720
It does mention stuff and a part of it does mention

1034
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:05,280
in regards to the size of the parking spaces and whatnot. So I think they're sure

1035
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:10,140
Maybe some more further clarification on what that means in certain areas is a different

1036
01:28:10,140 --> 01:28:20,230
size is based on, you know, a capital for pickup trucks but certainly a lot of pickup

1037
01:28:20,230 --> 01:28:27,190
trucks based on being a farming community and certainly the size of parking spaces may

1038
01:28:27,190 --> 01:28:32,330
be needed different in certain areas that maybe just needs to be flushed out a little better.

1039
01:28:33,790 --> 01:28:39,750
The cash in lieu of, it does speak to that, which is great, the increase that's required

1040
01:28:39,750 --> 01:28:40,130
there.

1041
01:28:45,100 --> 01:28:49,420
And I'm just going to fire out of these just so that they get captured for food of thought

1042
01:28:49,420 --> 01:28:50,500
going forward.

1043
01:28:51,300 --> 01:28:57,180
The on-street parking fees, the possible ability of that type of aspect, maybe consideration

1044
01:28:57,180 --> 01:29:05,480
to the fact that don't focus on our thoughts, but on the on-street for when it would ever

1045
01:29:05,480 --> 01:29:11,940
go to paid parking. That way it will hopefully direct people to those lots. And then of course,

1046
01:29:11,940 --> 01:29:20,040
wait finding online with that technology wise so people can easily find where those lots are

1047
01:29:20,040 --> 01:29:24,080
because I think a lot of people don't realize where they are, especially those coming from out of town

1048
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:31,260
that live here. Evie charging, obviously we're still looking to make that happen. And I think

1049
01:29:31,260 --> 01:29:34,180
on the focus areas, again, the municipal lots,

1050
01:29:42,890 --> 01:29:43,030
Greg.

1051
01:29:43,550 --> 01:29:47,870
So little things like that, I think there's a key focus

1052
01:29:47,870 --> 01:29:50,050
that needs to be added in regards to cycling,

1053
01:29:50,570 --> 01:29:51,650
that facility parking.

1054
01:29:54,220 --> 01:29:55,480
Actually not addressed at all.

1055
01:29:59,040 --> 01:29:59,980
That needs to be added.

1056
01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:13,760
I think we are moving a little bit more towards a proactive approach on parking, and I think that needs to continue as opposed to reactive.

1057
01:30:18,660 --> 01:30:28,640
Proactive aspect going forward. Of course, it does direct. Keep focus to the angle parking issues that we all know.

1058
01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:37,580
Address not only from a safety standpoint, but also from just a street escaping and moving forward.

1059
01:30:39,870 --> 01:30:42,850
aspect to active transportation through the, I mean,

1060
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:51,480
that is sort of the, the ramble that I have for the moment, but certainly I think it's a great first.

1061
01:30:52,520 --> 01:30:59,820
I wouldn't call it a final draft, but it's certainly a really good solid draft that just has a couple areas that need refocusing and I think.

1062
01:31:00,780 --> 01:31:07,920
I thought maybe I'll address some of those as well further to our downtown revitalization project itself specifically.

1063
01:31:08,740 --> 01:31:12,600
Thank you, Chancellor Snooks. Any other comments? Mayor Dave, please.

1064
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:17,700
What we learned in this is that we have a lot of parking.

1065
01:31:19,480 --> 01:31:25,880
The kind of proof is that it's not often you have to drive very far to find a car.

1066
01:31:39,430 --> 01:31:43,410
They're trying to find a parking spot in Oxbridge compared to finding the

1067
01:31:50,450 --> 01:31:52,670
people a lot of work to do.

1068
01:32:07,740 --> 01:32:13,020
Okay. Any other questions or comments from committee? I'll provide a couple more comments

1069
01:32:13,020 --> 01:32:20,140
and then we can vote on Mayor Dave's motion. So I do agree with Councillor Stokes on

1070
01:32:20,140 --> 01:32:28,900
most items and I won't talk to some of them again. The accessibility piece is one that I think

1071
01:32:28,900 --> 01:32:34,740
that the accessibility committee has been noting for a while, I think, well, and it's a complex,

1072
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:41,420
not complex, but it's a situation where we look to our partners who supported us in the

1073
01:32:41,420 --> 01:32:46,360
downtown revitalization. I'm referring to the region of Durham, and this was also funded

1074
01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:52,140
through downtown revitalization for the study as well in the 1% levy that we did a couple

1075
01:32:52,140 --> 01:32:57,560
years back. So we will have to talk to the region as it relates to accessible parking.

1076
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:03,460
the report does flag AODA requirements are not being met.

1077
01:33:03,620 --> 01:33:07,180
Perhaps we could get a little more depth on that with what that might look like.

1078
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:11,740
And I think the Accessibility Committee would be appreciative to understand that a little bit better.

1079
01:33:12,820 --> 01:33:15,280
The other thing that I would say is as we looked at,

1080
01:33:15,700 --> 01:33:18,560
this was an important report as Mayor Dave alluded to,

1081
01:33:19,060 --> 01:33:24,220
as was the Centennial Park Ecos day that we needed to get down at the same time.

1082
01:33:24,220 --> 01:33:29,760
I think as we look at Centennial Park and what we were looking to as a goal, we were

1083
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:33,400
looking to perhaps have that more as a destination as one of our districts.

1084
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:37,340
And I think this one is still referring to pushing some of the parking that would be

1085
01:33:37,740 --> 01:33:44,180
at the northeast corner in our parking lot there behind the aforementioned coffee time

1086
01:33:44,180 --> 01:33:46,000
circle K into that space.

1087
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:50,800
So I'm not sure if the report is rarely marrying up to where we're casted.

1088
01:33:50,800 --> 01:34:02,440
And then the other piece to that is that we are looking to partner with Metrolinx if we look back a couple years and I know that this is hard for, you know, a contractor is looking

1089
01:34:05,100 --> 01:34:08,900
to work in association with Metrolinx and perhaps have a parking lot.

1090
01:34:10,060 --> 01:34:21,180
So to Mayor Dave's point as we look at future thought and we do have parking I think some of the we don't have parking feelings is because people want to park directly in front of certain locations.

1091
01:34:25,140 --> 01:34:29,240
The Heritage District and Metro Links is one that we have to look at as we look at our

1092
01:34:29,240 --> 01:34:34,940
partnership moving forward and then, you know, it's point. I think we did have some funding

1093
01:34:34,940 --> 01:34:40,200
for EV, the ways back that we haven't really put in place. I think largely because that

1094
01:34:46,060 --> 01:34:53,320
covers the most of the pieces around Centennial Park and if we do have a change into more

1095
01:34:53,320 --> 01:35:01,940
in other municipal lots around town, I'm not going to go back into the other pieces.

1096
01:35:03,700 --> 01:35:09,520
So, if we're looking for comments from that, I think that we could keep overall, I think

1097
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:11,740
that it's generally well done. There's just a few.

1098
01:35:15,060 --> 01:35:19,300
Any other comments? We do have a motion on the floor from there, Dave.

1099
01:35:19,300 --> 01:35:20,280
question

1100
01:35:24,950 --> 01:35:30,150
through you for you and to and to Mayor Dave in regards to the

1101
01:35:30,150 --> 01:35:40,920
recommendation to enough to have further feedback from those two main

1102
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:46,160
aspects that you're speaking to that you spoke to as to Metrolinx and that area

1103
01:35:46,160 --> 01:35:53,620
as well as Centennial Park or should we actually add in a little bird aspect to

1104
01:35:53,620 --> 01:35:56,680
to sort of focus in on those two areas specifically.

1105
01:36:04,300 --> 01:36:06,140
Maybe, maybe go ahead, Mary-Dade.

1106
01:36:06,340 --> 01:36:06,640
Yeah, thanks.

1107
01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:09,200
So certainly we will take the opportunity

1108
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:11,740
to work with Metrolinx and get some additional parking

1109
01:36:12,500 --> 01:36:13,380
where it makes sense.

1110
01:36:15,700 --> 01:36:17,660
Obviously things are changing there.

1111
01:36:20,320 --> 01:36:24,080
And then from an accessibility standpoint,

1112
01:36:24,220 --> 01:36:25,540
let's get their feedback.

1113
01:36:26,920 --> 01:36:28,920
But we also need to make sure

1114
01:36:28,920 --> 01:36:32,960
so that we continue to move as quickly as we can to getting our downtown built out.

1115
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:41,060
So I think we can continue to move with this study while we work on the next steps

1116
01:36:41,060 --> 01:36:41,680
of our art.

1117
01:36:41,760 --> 01:36:41,860
Yeah.

1118
01:36:44,970 --> 01:36:47,470
And I think that's a fair comment that Mayor Day is providing.

1119
01:36:47,710 --> 01:36:55,050
The accessibility needs committee meets as soon as the document with them ask them to provide

1120
01:36:55,050 --> 01:36:55,690
some feedback.

1121
01:36:55,690 --> 01:37:00,270
I think we can reach out to stakeholders at the region,

1122
01:37:00,690 --> 01:37:02,810
share this with them and show them where they're at,

1123
01:37:02,930 --> 01:37:05,110
as it relates to the accessible divide.

1124
01:37:05,930 --> 01:37:09,090
My perspective is I think a lot of the parking ask

1125
01:37:09,090 --> 01:37:11,610
is with regard to regional roads

1126
01:37:12,270 --> 01:37:14,430
because that is most directly involved

1127
01:37:14,430 --> 01:37:16,450
with most of the public park.

1128
01:37:17,070 --> 01:37:19,150
And I can think of in front of,

1129
01:37:28,460 --> 01:37:30,640
again, I think we need to find out from Lee

1130
01:37:30,640 --> 01:37:38,480
what are where we're deficient and the accessibility.

1131
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:59,080
I think so. We also need to be watching our accessible spots and making sure that they're actually being used appropriately.

1132
01:37:59,700 --> 01:38:05,340
Certainly this winter we had cars parked in our accessible spots for peaks.

1133
01:38:05,340 --> 01:38:12,400
right? And I don't know if that's the intent of our accessible spots. So we do need

1134
01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:19,060
to think about how we do this going forward. We also need to change the perspective that

1135
01:38:20,520 --> 01:38:27,320
so you won't always be able to park 10 steps from the business that you want to go to. I think

1136
01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:32,060
there was an interesting staff that somebody put out when you look at the difference between

1137
01:38:32,060 --> 01:38:38,440
shopping in a big box location to shopping in a downtown core, typically you park

1138
01:38:39,620 --> 01:38:44,540
further from the business that you go to, you walk further in the location and we all seem

1139
01:38:44,540 --> 01:38:50,700
to accept that very willingly, that we walk, you know, 100 meters when we go to theirs or more,

1140
01:38:51,340 --> 01:38:57,640
but we won't walk 30 meters when we shop in a downtown version. So we just need to kind of

1141
01:38:57,640 --> 01:39:04,460
change your shift the way that we think and from an accessibility standpoint we

1142
01:39:04,460 --> 01:39:09,900
need to really think about make sure that we have the appropriate spots in

1143
01:39:09,900 --> 01:39:17,800
the appropriate places but that we don't have spots that don't make sense as

1144
01:39:17,800 --> 01:39:27,080
well, because quite often, you walk by 10, you know, and

1145
01:39:27,080 --> 01:39:31,680
accessible spots as you're walking to a location. So it just

1146
01:39:31,680 --> 01:39:34,580
has to be appropriate. That's my taking. You're asking for

1147
01:39:34,580 --> 01:39:40,320
the right mix. And if you could just maybe jump up to the

1148
01:39:40,320 --> 01:39:43,300
mic for a moment here, Councillor Snook's question, it was a

1149
01:39:43,300 --> 01:39:46,640
little bit back now, but just as your hand delivering this back

1150
01:39:46,640 --> 01:39:52,360
to Lee and Councillor Schluix's question about do we have everything we need? Is there

1151
01:39:52,360 --> 01:39:56,720
anything else that you see that we should speak to here today on?

1152
01:40:44,380 --> 01:40:49,520
Thank you. Thank you very much, Ben. Okay. Any further questions or comments about Mayor

1153
01:40:49,520 --> 01:40:57,700
Dave's motion? Hearing and seeing none all in favor. That is carried. Thank you. Is there

1154
01:40:57,700 --> 01:41:07,480
Any unfinished business? Is there any other business during and seeing none? Is there any questions from the media? Mr. Varley, please.

1155
01:41:09,120 --> 01:41:15,240
Thank you, Councillor. My question is not about what's just appeared on the agenda.

1156
01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:19,720
Questions about the accessibility meeting.

1157
01:41:20,200 --> 01:41:20,380
I

1158
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:32,630
don't think it'll be held here. I think it's held in the boardroom, but it is open to the public.

1159
01:41:34,490 --> 01:41:41,890
3.30 is yeah so our deputy clerk is our staff person on that so 3.30 is our

1160
01:41:41,890 --> 01:41:44,270
time 3.30 to 5 is it? I

1161
01:41:46,990 --> 01:41:47,830
will be able to come up.

1162
01:41:50,340 --> 01:41:52,120
Any other questions? Any

1163
01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:53,340
questions from the public?

1164
01:41:55,480 --> 01:41:58,160
Hearing and seeing none all in favor or sorry my

1165
01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:02,560
apologies we already voted. I will close public works in active transportation

1166
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:08,540
and hand the mic to planning and economic development. Thank you very much. I

1167
01:42:08,540 --> 01:42:10,500
I will open planning and economic development.

1168
01:42:11,140 --> 01:42:14,700
I have three corresponding correspondence letters.

1169
01:42:15,480 --> 01:42:18,200
The first one, 12.1.1 from Durham Region

1170
01:42:18,200 --> 01:42:19,800
in regards to smart mobility,

1171
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:24,340
the 2024 annual report in the 2025 work plan.

1172
01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:27,020
Do we have any questions, comments on that?

1173
01:42:32,180 --> 01:42:33,500
Demoted, back down.

1174
01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:37,880
I don't think my suggestion was gonna be

1175
01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:45,040
and Councillor Poppa, I'll look to you. Should it be referred to the AT committee and ask them

1176
01:42:45,040 --> 01:42:48,580
to come back? I know Phil's tied in with the regional AT committee.

1177
01:42:49,380 --> 01:42:52,400
Up your reasonable approaching. Get a report back from AT.

1178
01:42:53,140 --> 01:42:57,760
I think it makes sense. We haven't heard anything on this subject yet at our meetings.

1179
01:42:58,660 --> 01:43:03,100
So I think just forwarding it there and then Phil's been out of the country for a little bit.

1180
01:43:03,100 --> 01:43:06,340
So he recently got back. I think it's I

1181
01:43:09,120 --> 01:43:12,280
don't think we have further action for it. I think he would probably reach back up

1182
01:43:12,280 --> 01:43:15,340
But if there was some I'm just saying that we don't have to bring any

1183
01:43:22,680 --> 01:43:23,160
Perfect,

1184
01:43:31,530 --> 01:43:32,130
that sounds good

1185
01:43:32,670 --> 01:43:34,390
It's the notes I had as well, so

1186
01:43:35,750 --> 01:43:37,130
All in favor of that motion

1187
01:43:38,070 --> 01:43:39,510
That passes. Thank you

1188
01:43:40,050 --> 01:43:43,770
second 12.1.2 from the township of

1189
01:43:48,490 --> 01:43:52,810
Angela, Angela is in silent.

1190
01:43:55,460 --> 01:44:01,280
Thank you. What she said, it's in regards to additional

1191
01:44:01,280 --> 01:44:06,260
residential units in the Oak Ridge's Marine. So any questions, comments, or what we would

1192
01:44:06,260 --> 01:44:13,580
like to do with that. Okay, thank you. Let's forward this to our planning department and see

1193
01:44:13,580 --> 01:44:18,640
if they want us to do something similar. We've sort of found creative ways to do this, but

1194
01:44:18,640 --> 01:44:26,080
That's, there might be another way that can help us build out some of our rural properties appropriately.

1195
01:44:27,640 --> 01:44:30,800
Okay, that sounds good. Anyone else with comments or thoughts on that?

1196
01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:33,100
All in favor of that motion.

1197
01:44:34,360 --> 01:44:36,100
That passes. Thank you.

1198
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:42,300
12.1.3 from the town of Whitby. Again, we've had a number of these over the past couple of months,

1199
01:44:42,500 --> 01:44:47,500
but impacts in regards to the international student program changes to local post-secondary programs.

1200
01:44:47,500 --> 01:44:51,300
Any comments, questions, or thoughts on what we should do with this course?

1201
01:44:56,080 --> 01:44:58,020
Oh, sorry. Councillor Popp.

1202
01:44:58,740 --> 01:44:59,600
Thank you.

1203
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:22,980
The President of Durham College is a clarinet in this morning doing a delegation on exactly this. This is an interesting subject we already did have received. I believe the initial resolution from Ajax, and I believe it was Ajax and would be following suit with the right now. I spoke to it at the time when it came to us on our previous agenda.

1204
01:45:28,860 --> 01:45:33,220
It's going to have a significant impact. And if we look at it, as when it was forward,

1205
01:45:33,220 --> 01:45:40,820
Durham College has 116,000 alumni, 70% of them remain rent within the region of Durham.

1206
01:45:41,260 --> 01:45:50,100
They continue to provide work as to the area. And one third of their current curriculum is my

1207
01:45:50,100 --> 01:45:54,900
understanding will allow people to stay in the country if they choose to work.

1208
01:46:01,220 --> 01:46:02,740
So I'm not going to

1209
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:08,920
ask for any action on this part, but these are some stats that I thought would share. I think

1210
01:46:08,920 --> 01:46:15,200
if we look at some of the, you know, some of the businesses as well

1211
01:46:18,150 --> 01:46:19,010
as some of the people

1212
01:46:19,010 --> 01:46:26,670
who reside here but work there. So it is going to impact us moving forward. And in the presentation,

1213
01:46:26,830 --> 01:46:32,990
obviously it's easy for me because my wife is the president. There is going to be a further impact

1214
01:46:32,990 --> 01:46:37,710
to the college movement which could further diminish the amount of

1215
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:41,540
our one of the biggest drivers

1216
01:46:41,540 --> 01:46:42,940
is in the region of Durham, is it?

1217
01:47:00,320 --> 01:47:02,960
Yeah, I think I'll just jump in and say, obviously,

1218
01:47:03,380 --> 01:47:06,980
not only Durham College, but Ontario Tech, Trent University,

1219
01:47:07,220 --> 01:47:10,920
and multiple others have an impact, significant.

1220
01:47:14,060 --> 01:47:17,600
The federal government decided to meet foreign students

1221
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:19,100
because we had a housing crisis.

1222
01:47:19,440 --> 01:47:22,160
It's like all of these things make sense.

1223
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:24,020
You just have to figure out how they all work together.

1224
01:47:24,020 --> 01:47:27,400
So we're in the middle of a federal election.

1225
01:47:28,260 --> 01:47:30,380
I'm guessing we're going to see some changes with that.

1226
01:47:30,820 --> 01:47:33,400
We also are in the middle of a trade war that

1227
01:47:33,400 --> 01:47:38,740
is having impacts across the country and in Ontario as well.

1228
01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:41,400
So that's just a guy.

1229
01:47:42,440 --> 01:47:45,520
I just want to make sure we're really strategically

1230
01:47:45,520 --> 01:47:47,500
using our voice where it makes sense.

1231
01:47:47,740 --> 01:47:49,780
We typically focus on experts only.

1232
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:53,700
And this will have an expert only impact.

1233
01:47:53,700 --> 01:48:05,840
I just don't know if more pressure is better in this case on how we do this. I just want to think about that, but I don't, I'm not, I spoke, but I don't necessarily have direction.

1234
01:48:08,030 --> 01:48:08,470
Thank you, Meredith.

1235
01:48:09,530 --> 01:48:10,270
Councillor Pickering.

1236
01:48:10,750 --> 01:48:10,950
Yes.

1237
01:48:11,350 --> 01:48:13,030
So thank you.

1238
01:48:14,150 --> 01:48:16,190
There is an impact to our bridge.

1239
01:48:16,990 --> 01:48:19,270
We know that students are funneling through.

1240
01:48:19,270 --> 01:48:28,070
We're working on building a hospital, so other opportunities to find qualified folks to come over proud graduate of Durham College.

1241
01:48:29,290 --> 01:48:43,890
I wonder if we receive and forward to our very bright CAO so that if there is an opportunity further down the line, we will have noted this and it will at least be on her desk and then we can maybe bring it back to staff.

1242
01:48:53,280 --> 01:48:58,360
Sorry, just one more thing to add, Mayor Davis correct that it was the federal government

1243
01:48:58,360 --> 01:49:04,580
that made the changes to the student population coming into the country.

1244
01:49:05,040 --> 01:49:10,520
It is the province that actually funds the colleges and universities too, and the funding

1245
01:49:10,520 --> 01:49:16,140
model has provided some interesting challenges to it as well.

1246
01:49:16,140 --> 01:49:22,600
So I'm just sharing that, and again, I'm not going to advocate strongly on it one way or the other.

1247
01:49:23,060 --> 01:49:34,040
I think when we have our opportunities to talk to things around our provincial representatives, we do that, and I think we do that in a positive light to share what it is.

1248
01:49:36,720 --> 01:49:39,420
That in mind, I'm not going to make a motion on that.

1249
01:49:45,220 --> 01:49:46,620
Yes, thank you, Councillor Popper.

1250
01:49:46,620 --> 01:49:52,140
So with that, there has been a motion by Aaron Pickering, all in favor.

1251
01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:54,880
And that passes. Thank you.

1252
01:49:55,040 --> 01:49:59,460
There are no currently any reports to committee, no public meetings at this time.

1253
01:49:59,980 --> 01:50:01,060
Hopefully we do have one next.

1254
01:50:02,500 --> 01:50:03,320
Unfinished business.

1255
01:50:04,660 --> 01:50:07,420
Bring in seeing none. Do we have any other business?

1256
01:50:08,920 --> 01:50:10,980
Hearing and seeing none, I will.

1257
01:50:12,200 --> 01:50:12,380
Yeah.

1258
01:50:19,600 --> 01:50:20,400
I will

1259
01:50:25,650 --> 01:50:31,870
open admin and special projects. We have a correspondence from the region of

1260
01:50:31,870 --> 01:50:41,290
Durham regarding at regional council about the use of swastikos and contents there about

1261
01:50:41,850 --> 01:50:48,110
rewarding that. If you're interested a little bit of context is that a number of communities

1262
01:50:48,110 --> 01:50:54,530
have been hit with these symbols of hate. The one councilor brought forward a motion to

1263
01:50:55,450 --> 01:51:01,850
banned the swastika and that got approved. Unfortunately there wasn't a lot of research

1264
01:51:01,850 --> 01:51:09,090
that went into that motion. So for the research indicated that the swastika on its own is not

1265
01:51:09,090 --> 01:51:16,870
a symbol of hate to some organizations. So they came back and I'll just say reworded it or softened it

1266
01:51:16,870 --> 01:51:22,350
perhaps because the member of the community that came forward made it very clear that in

1267
01:51:22,350 --> 01:51:26,590
his environment that it's not an all-assemble of hate.

1268
01:51:27,510 --> 01:51:32,670
So, our regional staff did a full dive into the background and the meeting of the Swastika

1269
01:51:32,670 --> 01:51:40,590
and really the intent of the regional council, the broad forward, the original motion, would

1270
01:51:40,590 --> 01:51:43,570
have been better worded if they talked about Nazi symbols of hate.

1271
01:51:43,570 --> 01:51:53,350
So we had a third's majority to revisit the issue and it's now placed as a reference to Nazi symbols of it.

1272
01:51:57,230 --> 01:52:04,750
There's really, in my opinion, there's no action locally to be taken, and this is actually being communicated up to the federal government.

1273
01:52:10,400 --> 01:52:14,400
Just to note that the previous council had made a move to ban.

1274
01:52:14,400 --> 01:52:15,320
and each

1275
01:52:20,820 --> 01:52:23,600
bridge at least had a similar bylaw.

1276
01:52:27,860 --> 01:52:30,880
Yeah, I'll give you a motion to receive this one.

1277
01:52:31,200 --> 01:52:33,420
And then we'll see what the federal government does with it.

1278
01:52:33,880 --> 01:52:36,460
But I'm really comfortable with where our by-law is.

1279
01:52:37,040 --> 01:52:40,660
And I think that gives us quite tools, hopefully.

1280
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:43,440
On favor?

1281
01:52:44,260 --> 01:52:45,220
That's Gary, thank you.

1282
01:52:45,780 --> 01:52:48,280
Next up is a communications from the town of Whitby

1283
01:52:48,280 --> 01:52:53,440
regarding the community care in this one-connect program.

1284
01:52:53,440 --> 01:52:56,000
I'll just provide a little context around that.

1285
01:52:56,720 --> 01:53:00,580
We did have a presentation at age friendly, and Pam, feel free to jump in here.

1286
01:53:01,500 --> 01:53:03,360
Um, regarding what's.

1287
01:53:04,920 --> 01:53:06,500
James Mulosh. Thank you.

1288
01:53:06,500 --> 01:53:09,620
I came in and talked about what he wants to do.

1289
01:53:09,820 --> 01:53:11,640
Pam, maybe I should throw it to you in fairness.

1290
01:53:12,520 --> 01:53:13,540
You and just fine.

1291
01:53:13,960 --> 01:53:14,060
Okay.

1292
01:53:14,240 --> 01:53:14,580
I'm.

1293
01:53:16,220 --> 01:53:16,700
Okay.

1294
01:53:16,940 --> 01:53:19,780
I'm the great intention.

1295
01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:21,860
The bottom line is.

1296
01:53:22,620 --> 01:53:28,200
community care, through this OneConnect program, would like to provide enhanced services

1297
01:53:28,200 --> 01:53:34,420
for seniors that are getting to a level where they need additional care, potentially,

1298
01:53:34,960 --> 01:53:41,180
the intent would be to provide these services to, in James's approach, to offload the need

1299
01:53:41,180 --> 01:53:43,560
for hospital care or long-term care.

1300
01:53:44,220 --> 01:53:49,280
So, it's proactive supports to turn it, and much less expensive to do that.

1301
01:53:49,280 --> 01:53:54,020
But James is going to all communities looking for support on this.

1302
01:53:54,120 --> 01:53:56,060
He's also meeting with the region this week.

1303
01:53:56,760 --> 01:53:59,920
And I spoke with the Commissioner of Social Services about it.

1304
01:54:00,660 --> 01:54:05,920
And she's supportive of it, not sure if it's financially or not, but it's in support of

1305
01:54:05,920 --> 01:54:07,340
providing his enhanced services.

1306
01:54:07,920 --> 01:54:13,060
I'd suggested to Mr. Mulosh that his timing is good, given that a new long-term care home

1307
01:54:13,060 --> 01:54:18,780
is on the cost of breaking ground, and that he might want to work with that operator to

1308
01:54:18,780 --> 01:54:24,840
establish a space to provide those services. There's also other spaces available on that campus

1309
01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:30,360
of care that he could establish shop as well. He wasn't aware of that and was thankful to have

1310
01:54:30,360 --> 01:54:37,460
the local information. I'm not sure at this point if he's looking to act or if he's currently in

1311
01:54:37,460 --> 01:54:40,040
the advocacy committee or advocacy state. I'm really sure.

1312
01:54:43,720 --> 01:54:47,080
I saw James briefly just after your

1313
01:54:47,080 --> 01:54:48,160
reading and stepping to see.

1314
01:54:51,060 --> 01:54:57,360
I think this is a wonderful opportunity to help to me like he was

1315
01:54:57,360 --> 01:55:00,720
in a bit of the advocacy stage. As you mentioned he's looking to

1316
01:55:02,830 --> 01:55:06,110
earner support to be you know

1317
01:55:06,110 --> 01:55:11,530
continue to be a strong community supporter in an area that is only I think

1318
01:55:15,500 --> 01:55:15,960
it's amazing.

1319
01:55:17,200 --> 01:55:20,640
Look at I think ideas like this bring better ideas for

1320
01:55:27,870 --> 01:55:29,990
everybody in motion to be

1321
01:55:36,290 --> 01:55:37,910
James it was

1322
01:55:37,910 --> 01:55:42,270
It was wonderful listening to him, and he was taught the

1323
01:55:54,140 --> 01:55:54,400
word.

1324
01:56:18,370 --> 01:56:21,770
My suggestion, if I can put a friendly, do you want to do a council process?

1325
01:56:22,370 --> 01:56:25,010
I would be that we support this.

1326
01:56:25,350 --> 01:56:33,510
It's really just supporting Mr. Blasch's advocacy, Whitby has done it.

1327
01:56:33,630 --> 01:56:36,030
I think Ajax initiated this some time ago.

1328
01:56:36,090 --> 01:56:37,690
I don't know about the other communities to the south.

1329
01:56:38,330 --> 01:56:41,830
So if council's okay with it, I would add a friendly to it.

1330
01:56:41,830 --> 01:56:44,930
if I can do that, procedurally, some of the questions.

1331
01:56:45,910 --> 01:56:48,550
To come back with a made-in-oxverage resolution,

1332
01:56:49,290 --> 01:56:51,110
and then refer to the appropriate

1333
01:56:51,570 --> 01:56:55,490
age-friendly advisory committee action plan,

1334
01:56:55,630 --> 01:56:57,330
because there's the 40 steps plan that we have,

1335
01:56:57,890 --> 01:57:00,390
which exact steps does it connect to

1336
01:57:00,390 --> 01:57:01,690
the way it would be did with theirs.

1337
01:57:02,710 --> 01:57:03,430
But yes.

1338
01:57:08,800 --> 01:57:09,720
I make that motion.

1339
01:57:09,880 --> 01:57:12,260
I did really, you'd think I'd learn after this many years,

1340
01:57:12,420 --> 01:57:15,180
but can you make that motion?

1341
01:57:15,180 --> 01:57:27,080
Thank you. Yes, absolutely. I appreciate it. Thank you. You think I know. Okay. Any questions about that? I appreciate the support on all in favor of Pam's motion. Then that's carried. Thank you.

1342
01:57:27,300 --> 01:57:32,180
Thank you. There are no reports to committee. Is there any unfinished or other business?

1343
01:57:34,500 --> 01:57:38,160
Questions from the media on that or from the public hearing

1344
01:57:40,750 --> 01:57:44,290
none. Then I will close it. Men and Mayor Barton. I'll hand it back to you.

1345
01:57:46,300 --> 01:57:47,380
Okay, thank you very much.

1346
01:57:48,520 --> 01:57:51,140
Deb, should we take a break before we do in camera or?

1347
01:57:54,140 --> 01:57:55,780
Oh, okay, so let's do those ones first.

1348
01:57:59,500 --> 01:58:01,640
But we'll do five minutes come back because we do have.

1349
01:58:07,150 --> 01:58:08,590
Oh, yeah, so let's.

1350
01:58:08,650 --> 01:58:12,550
Oh, I'm giving us motion to move in the camera on favor.

1351
01:58:12,970 --> 01:58:14,790
Yeah, and we'll take a break and come back.

1352
01:58:14,890 --> 01:58:15,050
Thanks.

1353
01:58:39,020 --> 01:58:40,220
Just nod when we're good to go.

1354
01:58:41,500 --> 01:58:43,180
But I think that's a nod saying you heard me.

1355
01:58:45,460 --> 01:58:45,820
All

1356
01:58:59,580 --> 01:59:01,280
right, can I get a motion to come out of camera?

1357
01:59:01,280 --> 01:59:10,020
move by Zed on favor. That's carried. And then we have I'm gonna need a motion and we'll do

1358
01:59:10,020 --> 01:59:17,200
these all at once. The first one is to move the recommendations as amended during council of

1359
01:59:17,200 --> 01:59:31,260
report CL 1725 report CL 1625 report confidential report 1.3 confidential report CL 1825

1360
01:59:32,940 --> 01:59:35,640
and the update in 1.5.

1361
01:59:37,700 --> 01:59:38,680
Can I get a motion for that?

1362
01:59:40,990 --> 01:59:41,810
Moved by Willie.

1363
01:59:42,770 --> 01:59:44,250
Questions or comments on any of that?

1364
01:59:44,890 --> 01:59:45,510
Okay, all in favor?

1365
01:59:46,130 --> 01:59:46,530
That's carried.

1366
01:59:46,690 --> 01:59:46,970
Thank you.

1367
01:59:48,650 --> 01:59:49,730
Motion to adjourn.

1368
01:59:50,350 --> 01:59:51,410
Moved by Zed all in favor?

1369
01:59:51,870 --> 01:59:52,570
Carried, thank you.

1370
01:59:56,130 --> 01:59:56,430
Okay.

1371
01:59:57,270 --> 01:59:57,870
Deb, thanks.

1372
01:59:57,870 --> 01:59:58,030
.

1373
01:59:58,030 --> 01:59:58,050
.