and welcome to the Township of Whitewater Region's regular council
meeting for Wednesday, January 14th, and it is 3:03 p.m. And I just uh anybody
watching, I just want to thank you for your patience. It's been a very very
full day with a budget committee meeting to lead up to this council meeting and
therefore the the two-hour delay. And with that, we're going to we're going to
jump right into it. The first on our agenda is our national
anthem. So, if you could stand, please, and face the flea.
[music]
Oh Canada, [singing] [music]
our home and native land. [music]
True love [singing]
in all command [music and singing]
with all hearts we [music] see the rise the truth [singing]
of sorrow and free [music] from [singing] wide oh Canada [music] we
stand on guard for thee
[singing] people
glorious [music] and free. [singing]
Oh, can we [singing] stand on [music] God for thee?
[music]
We stand for [music]
thee.
And next is our land acknowledgement. Councelor White, please.
» As we gather, we would like to acknowledge on behalf of the township of
Whitewater region and our community that we are meeting on the traditional
territory of the Algangquin people. We thank the Algangquin people and express
our respect and support for their rich history and we are extremely grateful
for their many and continued displays of friendship. We also thank all the
generations of indigenous people who have taken care of this land for
thousands of years. >> Thanks, Councelor White. And the next
item is the adoption of the agenda. The recommendation is the council of
Township Way Region approved the January 14th, 2026 agenda. Can I get a mover in
a second, please? Deputy mayor and councelor Moore.
Uh just before I open it up to council for any changes or amendments, I'm just
going to recognize that it is as written is going to be a little bit
out of order. Item 6.1 I'll just highlight 6.1 is our public meeting
specific to two zoning amendments. And that public meeting will begin at 4:45
p.m. So, wherever we are at, we will either come back to that 6.1 or we'll
interrupt where we're at and go to that 6.1 at 4:45 p.m. And then, uh, you will
see in the report section 9.1 and 9.2, these are the actual resolutions. Is
that right, clerk? Resolutions. These are the two resolutions that are
specific to that public meeting. We can't hear those recommendations until
after the public meeting. We've had the opportunity to receive public input. So
9.1 and 9.2 will follow the public meeting at 4:45 p.m. So you
can see the agenda may get we may be going back and forth, but uh that's the
intent is just to make sure again it really comes back to we want to make
sure that the public has as much opportunity to attend. Therefore, public
meetings are 445 and the resolutions as a result will
have to follow afterwards. Good. With all that being said, clerk, was there
anything else I missed? >> No. No. So,
» good. Any changes or uh amendments of the council would like to make to the
agenda as presented? >> Good. I see none. We'll call for the
vote. All those in favor? Unanimous. Thank you, folks. The next is
the adoption of the minutes. We have a number of minutes here. Minutes. uh from
uh December 3rd, December 8th, and December 11th. Uh two special council
meetings and a regular council meeting. The recommendation is that the council
of township whitewater region approve the regular minutes of December 3rd,
2025. The special regular minutes of December 8th, 2025 and the special close
session of December 11th, 2025, understanding that they remain
confidential. The close this the close session
minutes. A mover and a seconder, please. Moved by the deputy mayor, seconded by
councelor Bell. Any errors, omissions? Again, if it's
anything to do with the closed portion, we'll have to go into closed in order to
hear those.
Good. I see none. I call for the vote. All those in favor? Unanimous. Thank
you. Uh I note that there are uh
a number of committees and boards minutes that are attached to the agenda
for your information and for the public's information. The first two are
budget committee meetings from December 8th and 11th.
The second is uh the Muskrat wershed council minutes from November 2025. And
I'll turn to the council lead for Muskrat wershed. Is there anything you
want to add or highlight? >> Uh nothing to highlight. I just want to
let people know um if you want to attend one of our Muskart watershed council
meetings uh the next one is January 15th but none of them all of our meetings are
now online due to weather. We can never tell if it's going to be good weather or
bad. So and we come from a large area so we have opted to go through online um
meetings only. So, you can contact me or if you know a member of the uh Muskart
wershed council, you can contact them for the information. But the next
meeting is Thursday, January 15th at 6:30 p.m.
» Excellent. Thank you so much. Uh, next item on our agenda is
disclosures of interest. Is there any disclosures that any member of council
has to make as a result of any of the items on the agenda?
Good. I see none. So that would lead us into six, which is
the presentations. As I mentioned earlier, we are going to jump 6.1 and
come back to it at 4:45. So that leads me into the mayor's
address, which is item number seven, and I emailed it to myself again.
I've received a lot of emails uh since uh this morning.
Okay, that's going to be interesting later.
[clears throat]
Okay, so welcome back to the council chambers even though you've already been
here for 3 hours and 10 minutes. Uh I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday
season and a happy new year to all. Uh it's been five weeks since our last
regular council meeting um uh and regular scheduled council meeting. And
while we've had a couple special meetings and budget committee meetings
during the time, this is really the first formal mayor's address that I've
been able to provide for a while. Uh first item I wanted to talk about was
just upcoming conference and the delegations. This weekend from Sunday to
Tuesday, four members of council will be attending the rural Ontario Municipal
Conference and Councelor White, myself, Councelor Olmstead, and councelor Trim.
Um, and we have several important delegations that have been scheduled by
our CEO. The first one is with the solicitor general. Here we'll discuss
the affordability of the rising OP policing costs and their impact on
municipal budgets. Even with the 11% annual increase cap that the solicitor
general has placed on the OP budget, the pressure will remain significant to
Whitewater region. And this meeting is going to include seven mayors that are
served by the Renfruit OP detachment. So you can imagine this is going to be a
very fun meeting with with seven very
uh speakative people. uh but we're going to have at it with the solicitor general
to make sure that he understands the impact that the OP budget is having on
rural communities. The second one is the Minister of Economic Development, job
creation and trade. And here we're advocating to support the market support
for marketing the former Taminko mine, the mine site and the lands that we're
proposing for class 3 uh industrial park. The third one is with Ministry of
Health and here uh we were very fortunate to be able to receive an
opportunity to request increased support for connectwell. ConnectWell is our
primary care provider uh here within our township to improve access to primary
care in Whitewater region and this is specifically with respect to
infrastructure. The next one is Ministry of
Infrastructure. I mentioned it in the committee meeting. I think this is our
seventh uh delegation this term and here we're continuing to push for funding for
rural water and wastewater systems and asset management in general.
The last one is Ministry of Transportation. Here we'll be addressing
safety concerns on Highway 17 from Cobden all the way through to CNL. will
be joined with Pemrook and Pedawa mayors uh to emphasize the urgency uh and just
as an example traffic through Cobden now exceeds 12,000 vehicles a day
and with projected increases that is only going to continue to rise. So those
are the uh upcoming uh delegations that we have booked at Roma. I'd also want to
recognize some community recognition that we will be receiving. Um, I'm
pleased to share that the ministry, Minister of Seniors and Accessibility,
Minister Cho, uh, will officially recognize Whitewater Region as an age
Ontario age friendly community on January 18th. So, I believe that's
Sunday evening as part of the conference. Uh, and it this is a
tremendous achievement uh, that will be recognized amongst a small group of
other municipalities across the province. And I just want to make sure
that we publicly acknowledge at this point the dedication of our volunteers,
our staff who have been managing this on the sides of their desk
and council. Um, and we look forward to being able to celebrate this milestone
upon our return. I'm looking at councelor Trimble with
that one. So, we'll come back to him. Uh, the next one is uh the budget and
financial planning. So, today we've been reviewing the 2026 budget. While
progress has been made on the 5-year capital forecast, a number of challenges
remain. We simply uh cannot raise taxes to cover the cost of maintaining all of
our existing assets. The continued uh we will continue budget committee work um
as an essential uh task to prioritize projects and develop a sustainable
capital plan. And in the weeks ahead, council will be reviewing service levels
for our asset management plan. We also are expected to receive the
transportation master plan which is going to be an interesting document. I
received the one from county. It is literally 4 in thick with the
appendixes. It is an incredible document. We'll see how good it is. Um
they are these two the asset management plan the transportation master plan are
critical projects that are going to shape our future and it's going to be a
busy winter and spring. So, I look forward to working through these
priorities together. And that ends my mayor's report. Any comments or
questions from members of council. Good.
And I don't know if our ceremony is going to be on Facebook.
Maybe we'll have to Facebook live it when we're there.
» We could attempt that. Yes, [laughter] absolutely. Yeah, we'll uh we'll
organize some at least some pictures for sure. Thanks.
» Excellent. Good. Good. Next is public comments. And I'll just ask the clerk,
did we receive any public comments about anything on the agenda?
» No. >> No.
» Excellent. Good. Next is the reports. And as I mentioned earlier, 9.1 and 9.2
are related to the public meeting. So, we're going to skip those two for now,
and we'll jump into 9.3, which is the library board appointments update. The
recommendation to council is that the council of the township whitewater
region enact a bylaw to update the members of the Whitewater region public
library board. A mover and a seconder, please. Moved by councelor White,
seconded by councelor Moore. This is going to CEO or manager community
services. >> Uh no, I'll go ahead and speak to it. In
the absence of our clerk, I'll have to present a few of the reports tonight. Um
the uh the this is a pretty straightforward report for members of
council. The library board appointment is a is a is a report you've seen
numerous times in the last number of years. Essentially the intent of this of
this report is to remove uh a member a long a no longer serving member Jamal is
the gentleman's name. Um so we'll be removing him from the bylaw as the
appointment bylaw. So who will stand is Monica Lrada Angela Butterworth Jim
Butterworth Sarah Low and Mary Clark and then councelor Connie White serves as
our council member board. Mistake in the report Tabert but White will get
corrected. Uh, so that's essentially all it is is a revised bylaw to remove that
appointee. That's it. Thanks so much. >> Excellent. Thank you, CEO. I'll go to my
mover first. Councelor White. >> I have nothing to add. Thank you,
» councelor Moore. >> Yeah, just one question. So, the way I
read this, they're only going to update their membership
on council um elections or I didn't see anything in
this time where they were bringing somebody on board. So they're going to
work with what they have until the next election and then try and bring more
members on. >> Yeah. So they they actually had an
exceedence of of min they were greater than the minimum number. So right now
the threshold of minimum number of of members they're meeting that
requirement. So they're not going to uh pursue the recruitment of a another
member at this point in time. The term of the library board uh aligns with the
term of council. Uh so it continues beyond the election. But um until we
could you know re re recruit new members of the same members. Uh so let that no
additional recruitment between now and the election and then we'll look at that
as part following the election. >> Thank you.
» Thank you. >> Any other questions from members of
council? Seeing none, we'll call for the vote. All those in favor? It's carried
unanimous. Thank you.
Next is 9.4. This is the emergency management annual program review. The
recommendation is the council of the township whitewater re region receive
this report for information purposes as it pertains to the annual emergency
management review 2025 and approve amendments to the emergency response
plan and amend and attachments. Move her please councelor white seconded by
councelor trim. Back to our CEO.
» Yeah, thank you. Thank you mayor. Um, so the the CEMC, the community emergency
management coordinator being our clerk. She also serves as the CMC for the
township. Uh, their their their role and responsibility is to facilitate and
implement a wide variety of initiatives and ongoing activities to strengthen our
emergency management program and preparedness. Uh, one of those
initiatives includes our emergency management plan. And that emergency
management plan is a legislated document that we need to prepare and review
annually and send it back up to the province
um and to the office of the fire marshall. We do that annually as they do
audits on all municipal emergency management programs in Ontario. So they
audit these things. So these are requirements from the province. We
establish CMC the programs the plans and we send it back up as annual audits. And
I guess we spoke about weather, how it's impacting our roads. I mean weather,
climate, I would say the weather uh is having effects on our ability to to
manage different different uh incidents. Um
the I will note the annual statement of compliance is must be submitted by the
CMC declaring that the municipality has met all of our annual requirements and
that has already occurred. Um and the intent of and purpose of this report is
to um to receive for information purposes together with approving
amendments to our emergency management plan. That long document attached to the
report um is the uh emergency management plan and it's together with the bylaw at
the end of the at the in the bylaw section of the agenda. Uh so just
highlighting a few more things. Uh so when we talk about emergency management
for a municipality there's sort of two groups our municipal emergency control
group and they are responsible for the direction and control
um of emergency response during an incident the MECG that's one group
incident happens we activate the MECG and then they sort of manage the
incident and and uh the response to the emergency and then we also have the uh
municipal emergency program committee and that
committee is different than the MECG MEPC. Uh they guide and oversee the
development implementation of the township's emergency management program.
So uh the committee has reviewed the changes to the emergency management plan
together with the additional uh cyber incident emergency plan and the HIRA.
The oh hyra what does that mean again? In any case, the Hyra, it reviews uh
critical infrastructure, an evaluation of different uh
emergencies that may happen. Um in any case, so the committee together with uh
the control group have reviewed these documents and they're essentially
accepting the changes and sort of recommending to council the approval. Um
the last thing to note here is that annually as part of this requirement
from the province, we have to hold a um a tabletop exercise to make sure that
all of our uh positions are ready to respond to emergencies. So that was held
on October 23rd and it was done uh in in in collaboration with the county of
Renfruit. It was a countywide communication out outage was a tabletop
exercise. So we responded quite well to that. uh there was a a debrief after and
uh and and we're working uh with the county and everybody on that. So, uh
we've met our compliance requirements and we're just proposing some some
additional uh appendices to the emergency response plan. Uh and that's
for members of council to consider. Hyra means exactly what, Merrick? I seen
you typing
» hazard identification and risk assessment.
Good. Thank you, CEO. That is a a very uh long attachment. Um Councelor White
is our council lead and chairs the and I've lost the name already because I
flipped over municipal emergency program committee. So, she has taken the lead in
um as part of this with the staff to propose these uh amendments uh to our
policies. So, with that, I'm going to go to her as our mover first. Is there any
comments or anything you want to add to the discussion?
» Um, if anyone wants to read the document and uh provide any updates, sure, go
ahead. We appreciate it. But, uh, um, Carmen, who does who's in who's our
» clerk? >> The clerk, but she's
» CMC. >> CMC.
» Sure. Anyway, she's a CMC and she's very good at at what she does and she's uh I
would never have thought of updating the cyber incident, but it's happened and so
now we've got that. So, but uh yeah, go read the document and give us a hand.
» Second is councelor Trim. Perfect. Good. I won't claim to have read all 180
pages, but I did skim through it and uh I noticed just some anomalies on page 36
and 37 uh where it says error bookmark not
uh defined. I don't know if that's just a program thing or what, but anyway,
it's just a note. Um I don't know what it means.
» Perfect. They're clerical. >> Absolutely.
» Mhm. >> Clerical uh issues. We'll get them
corrected. >> Okay.
» Yep. >> Good. Any other questions or feedback on
this? >> I'll just stress from uh
um I have somebody invading the CEO's
office right now. I can hear them in there. [laughter]
Um the importance of these policies are the
[laughter]
» Yeah, you step out. Good. These policies are important. If there is an emergency
and I get hit by a bus, the other staff are hit by the bus and the next person,
the deputy mayor in this situation would have to step in. The policy is what
guides you. You flip it open. You You don't go to page 34. You go to page one.
And it'll tell you these are the decisions you need to start to make. And
it's supposed to be able to the policy is supposed to give us that guiding so
that you don't have to worry about it and know everything.
Carmen and uh and councelor White do all the work up front to make sure that
that's produced. We approve it, but that's why the policy exists. Good. No
other comments from council. Okay, with that, we'll call for a vote.
All those in favor? It's carried unanimously. Good. You shouldn't have
let the manager of public works off the the hook here. Okay. Should have asked
him a whole bunch of questions. Um, good. The next item is 9.5, the
procedural bylaw amendments. Uh, and just to note, this is the one
that has been carried forward since our discussion in November. uh that council
the recommendation is that council of the township of whitewater region pass a
bylaw to amend the procedural bylaw to reflect changes including definitions
orders of business and regular meeting times. Uh mover and a seconder please.
Deputy mayor a seconder is going to be councelor white
back to the CEO. >> Yeah thanks so much. So as the mayor has
noted that this is the procedural bylaw that um that has been presented to
council I think about four times. This will be the fourth time perhaps. uh the
delegation of authority bylaw together with the procurement policy bylaw uh
were both adopted I think it was in December the early meeting in December.
What was the outstanding item was this procedural bylaw and ultimately the
reason why it was taken back to staff and and now returned back to council is
there was some housekeeping uh changes that needed to be reflected. So, I think
there was like a couple provisions that for some reason were got pulled out, but
now they've the version that's before you is the clean final version. I
believe the highlighted changes are in the one that's attached to your your
report and then the bylaw has the non- highlighted one. Maybe it is still
highlighted. I'm not sure, but this is the final version um for for your
consideration. Thanks so much. >> Excellent. Thanks, CEO. And I'll go to
uh Deputy Mayor first. >> Thank you. Yeah, I've I've perused this
so many times. Um I I I'm in favor of ready to move forward with this. Thank
you. >> Thank you, Councelor White.
» No, nothing to add. >> Excellent. You were the one who caught
the mistakes before, so I'm glad to see that they have been corrected to your
satisfaction. Good. Any other feedback from members of council? Uh oh. Council
Mort, >> someone refreshed my memory. This will
take effect um at the signing of this if we agree to it tonight,
meaning the next meeting will be at 1 p.m. instead of 4:45.
» CO. >> Yeah, that's correct. So, the uh the the
the proposed changes to the procedural bylaw before council right now has all
of the meetings commencing at 1 p.m. Um yes. I mean, the next meeting is a is a
first meeting of the month, which would have been at 1 PM anyway, but they'll
all be starting at 1 p.m., correct? >> Okay. So, could that be discussed then
on the agenda at the next meeting so that people watching know that the the
second meeting of the month isn't at 4:45?
» Good. Yeah, we'll put a reminder in it. >> Yeah, I think we have a current going
out as well, so the current can also uh identify that change yet.
» Great. Thank you. >> Good. Thank you, councelor Moore. Any
other comments? >> Good. We'll call for a vote. All those
in favor? Unanimous. Thank you. [sighs]
Next is 9.6. A sale of land for an unopened road allowance on Colunge Lake.
Uh recommendation the council of township whitewater region one declare
the property legally described as road allowance between concession north front
D and concession one colunge lakefront westme part three of plan 49R210007
surplus to the township's needs and authorize its sale to Paul Jerva for the
purposes of lot addition and two enact a bylaw for the purposes of stopping up
and close stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop
stop stop stop stop stop stopping up and
closing the road allowance pursuant to The Municipal Act 2001 SO201C25
moved by councelor Trim, seconded by councelor Moore,
manager public works or CEO. Manager public works.
I I'll go ahead and present it. It's fine. [laughter] Thanks. Um if uh while
I I'll go through a bit of the text part, but if I'll ask the the uh acting
clerk if you could move to slide two or page 263 of your document or Yeah. or
click on the agenda package. Yeah, that'd be great. Uh so essentially what
this is is that uh it's another portion of the unopen road allowance uh that we
sold to a Mr. McBride a few months ago. He had purchased this unopened road
allowance that is near La Kul Kulange Lake Trail. Um when we did the surveying
we knew there was interest from an adjacent land owner, Mr. Jerv Paul Jerv.
Uh so we also surveyed that same road allowance at the waterfront portion of
his property. Uh so we we connected back with Mr. Jerv and he continues to show
interest and he he's requested that we proceed to council for approval. Um, so
the uh uh the same terms apply to Mr. Dur that applied to the neighbor. Uh,
that being that they're prepared to pray pay a sales price of uh of f in this
case it's $5,514.50. It's it's a little bit larger than Mr.
McBride's property and we use M Mr. McBride's property as the basis of the
value per square meter or or acre. Uh so just just over $5,500. Uh Mr. D will be
responsible for a proportional share of the costing so of the surveying rather
and he'll pay for his own legal. So um the uh the actual money generated uh
will be $5,500 plus a bit plus a portion of surveying and he'll pay for his own
legal. So uh staff are fully supportive of this and uh and we're prepared to
move forward
and we're almost there. Third page. Thanks. I can There you go. Uh, so here
we have it. Part three is the one in question.
Uh, part two is like a strip of land that we will retain because there's this
block 23 that is owned by a corporation and and Mr. McBride's trying to purchase
it. And if he purchases that block 23, that little strip, then he might
approach us to buy part two to add to his land. And in part one is the
property that we have already sold to Mr. McBride. In fact, the transfers
occurred. we've received payment for it. So part one's been sold to Mr. McBride.
Part two is pending uh some some some matter on block 23 that strip and then
block three is the portion to Mr. Jerv. Um if this is approved it it probably in
the next two or three weeks it'll be finalized.
The only thing I would add is that we don't uh we we have in the budget under
revenue sale of land and we we collect that money and we put it in that budget
line. Uh I'm not it goes against the operating costs I think. Yeah, against
operating. So that's kind of where the money will end up. Thanks.
» Good. Thank you. CEO mover was uh councelor Trim. Yes. [clears throat] Um
this uh we have also uh a policy that we do not sell uh roads leading to water.
Now this is a very big exception. Uh if you can see in your mind's eye, this uh
is would be Nikolai Road. So it runs uh north from the Gore line to the Ottawa
River, but before it gets right into the Ottawa River, it goes in and out of the
water. And that's what's happening here. And so it's it's not useful. It's it's
not like other road allowances going to water. This one goes in and out. And so
it is a good it it it's a good sale. It's not it would never be useful to to
uh the council uh to the township. And so as the CEO has said, part one has
been sold and and uh it ends up in the water and part three is going to be sold
after we approve and it ends up in the water. Now, part two, I think uh and the
planner or uh CEO could correct me. I think it's it's been put there as access
to the lots above in this map that you don't see that don't have access to the
water. And so, I don't know if Mr. McBride is able to buy uh block 23.
That'd be fine. However, I think if we are going if he wants to buy part two
from us, we should offer half of part two to Mr. Jerva.
» Uh, in fairness, >> he may not want it, but I think that
that should be offered. Um, but anyway, that's all I have to uh uh offer on
that. I think it's a a very good I'd be I moved it and I'm going to be happy to
uh vote in favor of this motion. Thank you. All right.
And our secondary is councelor Moore. >> Uh [clears throat] the last time we
discussed this and there was a different map up. I understood the parameters of
of the said property and I have no problems with the sale.
» Perfect. Any other comments from members of council? Councelor White.
» Just a question here. When I look at this, I see part two and then there's a
block 24. How does that person get to block 24 if part two is sold?
I could provide some some clarifications if you want. Yes, please. So, is it
block 24 or block 23? >> 23.
» 23. Okay. >> No.
» Oh, block 24 there. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, block 24.
» It's the bigger part close to the Ottawa River there.
» Bottom left corner. If you look up on your screen, councelor Trim, you'll be
able >> essentially it's shoreline.
[snorts] >> Yeah. So block block 23 as it stands
presently is held by this corporation who also owns block 24. It's like the
past owners. It's like an estate of the subdivision that exist that was
developed numbers of years ago. Uh so 23 right now is a point of access to block
24 and to the water. But there's also another strip of land
in the subdivision that also accesses block 24 and the beach and the water
that residents are currently using. So I mean for the purposes of the discussion
today when we come back with part the reference to part two and block 23 and
block like we'll clarify that a bit more. Um, but your question is why would
he buy buy part three if he has to go over block 24 to get to the water? Is
that the question? >> No. How is Okay, so block 24 is owned by
somebody. Part two is going to be owned by somebody. And how does the person in
block 24 get to their property? >> There's another point of access in the
subdivision further down Lac Kulange. There's another strip of land somewhere
else to get to block 24. There's two accesses and I think there's a
willingness to sell one of the two access.
» Thank you. >> Thanks.
» Good. And we would just note that uh when this comes back to council for
discussion on 23 block 23, we'll just need a bigger map that kind of gives us
a bigger picture. [clears throat] That'll be sufficient. But just to
remind we're we're focusing on part three uh for our decision today.
» Yeah. Good. Any other questions from members of
council? Okay, I see none. So, I'm going to call
for a vote. All those in favor? It's carried unanimously. Thank you. Next
item is 9.7. So, this is the 2026 operating capital and user fee budget.
The schedules to be added once finalized.
Okay. We'll have to cover that point when we first Yeah, bring it up now.
» Yeah. The schedules have been attached to the revised agenda and they're
attached they were attached to the original agenda as the bylaw. So it's
all been updated on the website and uh and if you could access it through your
iPad, it's there. Thanks. >> Perfect. Okay, good. So the
recommendation is that the council township of whitewater region support
the recommendations from the budget committee as presented. Receive the
mayor's 2026 operating capital and user fee budgets as finalized by the budget
committee. And three, enact the bylaws to adopt the mayor's 2026 budget as
presented. A mover. No. Yeah, I need a mover and a second here, please. Moved
by the deputy mayor, seconded by councelor bill.
Good. And just be when uh who's going to speak to this? Treasurers just if you
could lead with um the language is being supported through the strong mayor's
legisl we're meeting the legislative requirements through this language.
» Sure. Um so yeah, so this report just is to actually bring the budget uh into
council. So the through the strong mayor's powers, the mayor's budget is to
be created. Uh a little bit of a change here, the fact that we have a committee
uh to do it. So council's already seen it, but this is the formal introduction
to council. Um council then has a period of 30 days to amend that bylaw or that
uh that proposed budget. Uh bring amendments forward and then get try to
pass those. and then the mayor has a period to in order to veto those those
said changes and we can go back and forth until it's finally approved and
passed and when the budget is settled out. Um, so the the mayor has already
through his uh direction or mayoral direction shortened his veto period down
to 10 days. Uh, off the top of my head I do not Oh, zero days. That's right. From
10 days. Thank you. Um, so he's not going to veto. So now there if there's
any changes to be made by council, the period starts today. The proposed piece
today is that we've brought forward the uh full uh agenda or the full package uh
with a bylaw. So in being deemed adopted today by adopting the bylaw or approving
the bylaw um it is then deemed approved by the mayor and adopted by council. So
the 30 days is gone. There's no more room for amendments all that. It is it
is finalized. The is the end of the process. Um the main part of the budget
has not changed from the the core elements of the municipal act which is
where the funds need to be generated and created uh to fund the the operations of
the township. So we still meet all those guidelines. Uh it's just that new piece
that was implemented in for the 2026 year with the strong mayor powers that
created this change of how the process of the budget actually goes through. Um
so the start of my report just talks about the same thing we've talked about
before which is a synopsis of the the mayor's directions uh the 4.2% overall
for uh for capital overall upset limit of 7% for the entire budget 3.4%. Uh so
we've settled it set at 5.8% 8% as current uh as put by the committees. Uh
the committee we met met uh three times to deliberate the budget then had a
public meeting with the f fourth fourth meeting being today um uh prior to this
meeting. So you'll see uh the following recommendations were developed uh so
that the mayor uh 2026 budget uh for capital operating and user fees be
presented and finalized by the budget committee amend uh and adopt or and
review the uh following policies which was the reserve policy debenture policy
tangible capital asset policy investment policy and surplus equipment disposal
policy and then continue the development of the 10-year capital plan based on
funding for the 2026 asset management plan. Uh I'm just bringing those back
into um this report as this is the formal uh part where council can support
those those recommendations. Um so the engagement was through uh the
senior management team and senior leadership team which compiled the data
and then presented to the budget committee. Uh the details came from such
things as the strategic plan, the strategic direction, our water
wastewater study for 2025, uh the 2022 asset management plan, and then all of
the building condition assessments that have been completed by the township. Uh
so the final uh number that the the committee has u had approved and
recommended to council is 5.8% total levy increase, 1.6% for operating net
growth, 4.2% 2% for the general capital levy,
5% for water and 4% for sanitary wastewater. And then you'll note that
the uh attached to the report is the schedules uh but you've already been
provided them as paper form attached to the bylaws. Uh the schedule A is your
operating capital budget which is the consolidated one. Um then schedule B is
water, schedule C is wastewater, and then schedule D is the actual capital
project listing as well as where they're funded from. um like their funding
allocations uh and the indicating if it's debentures or unfunded or alike.
Any questions?
» Thank you, treasurer. And I'll just I just want to thank staff for all the
work that went into not just the budget part. We already talked about the budget
committee, but just, you know, taking the new legislation with the strong
mayor powers and ensuring that we could exercise the most democratic process we
could think of, still abide by the legislation, but achieve as much um
interoperability amongst uh council members to come up with the best budget.
So, thank you for that. With that, I'll go to the deputy mayor
first. Any comments on the proposed budget?
No, I think everything is has been well covered, but I do want to add uh to you
uh mayor that uh you also have made a huge uh a lot of work and effort went
into this as well. So, I do just want to publicly say that you have done an
amazing job as well and uh appreciate everything that you have done and in
favor of your mayor powers. Thank you. [laughter]
» Thank you. Uh seconder
councelor Bell. He is happy. [laughter]
Success. Good. Is there any other comments or
questions from any other members of council?
Okay. 3 hours and 10 minutes in a committee budget meeting. We obviously
were successful. So, uh good. Anything any final comments from staff? With
that, I will call for the vote. All those in favor? And it's carried. Thank
you. Unanimous. >> Chuch-ching. Chuch-ching. Good. Next
item is uh notices of motion. And we have one notice on the agenda. Uh
unfortunately, our councelor Olmstead, it is motion that's been proposed by
councelor Mstead. He's not available today to do some other commitment that
has just came up unforcasted. So the clerk has advised me that we can just
postpone that to the next agenda. No, no resolution or or vote required. Good.
Excellent. Next item, uh correspondence number 11,
requiring direction. We have noninformation items. We have four and
we'll just highlight uh we have a couple things that we want to
talk about. First one is the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus
uh newsletter. If there's any questions,
it's good. This is different than the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus advocacy
note that I sent you. So, the advocacy note that they are um advocating for at
Roma. Um but this is just their December newsletter. The second one is the real
estate market activity. Again, for your information, just to get an idea of days
on the market, um average sale prices, etc.
C, which is the 2025 uh county council year in review. This
is a new initiative that uh the CEO Craig Kelly has done up. Think of it uh
think of what our CEO does in a quarterly his quarterly reports back to
council. Same idea except the county did it as a whole year. So in there, very
informative. If you have a chance or an interest level, get through it. Uh, the
one that I will bring up to you that I'm I I'm proud of and will hopefully see
ground cut next year is the new Whitewater paramedic base that'll be
coming in. So, the property has been transferred. So, the new paramedic base
will you should start to see construction as soon as the frost is out
of the ground and of course the building permits are authorized by staff.
U, but if there's any questions or any issues that you have going through that,
please don't hesitate to bring them up to me. It is a lengthy document. I'm not
going to go through it in detail. The last one is the Eorn update, the Eastern
Ontario Regional Network update. Uh, now I do have uh something I want to add and
I just asked
for it to be put on the screen. So, >> he's got No, he put it up. Yeah. Uh, can
you blow it up? >> Enlarge.
» Yeah, enlarge. Yeah. Then the next one down. Yeah.
Okay. So, Eorn, which is the Eastern Ontario Regional Network, their mission
uh in life for the last number of years has been to install cell towers to
increase connectivity, cellular connectivity across eastern Ontario. So,
they provided this map to us of exactly where the cell towers are in Whitewater
region. And you can see there are two, four, six, eight towers. The orange ones
are new. The two green ones were existing prior to the project. So all
they did with the green ones is they updated those towers. They put updated
hardware on the existing towers. The orange ones are all new builds. And at
the time that they provided this update to me, there was five live.
Those are the ones with the black around the orange star. And the last one to go
live was the one I want to say curline and intersection of curr and magnesium.
Uh and over the Christmas holidays curr and magnesium went live. So as of 2026
all eight of our towers are now live and operating.
And someone says to me, someone has said they've looked at the map and said, "Oh,
what about the guys on the other side?" There are towers in every municipality.
I just they didn't include them in this map.
The unique thing and what you will get phone calls about and I just want to
reiterate it again for the public uh because even councelor White and I had a
conversation already. These are Rogers towers with Rogers systems on it. They
installed these with a $300 million grant. 150 of it $300 million was the
cost to put all of the towers in across Eastern Ontario. 150 came from Rogers,
140 Yeah. 140 came from the provincial and federal governments and then 10 came
from the counties. So they are Rogers assets, which means
they have Rogers systems on them. So if you've got a Bell
or Telus system, you're not going to get they're like
these towers are like they don't exist except for one purpose and that's 911
access. Any tower of any system will take a 911
call. So in terms of emergency access in Whitewater, 100% there. You can dial 911
from wherever and you're going to hit one of these cell towers.
But if you're not Rogers or one of Rogers subsidiaries, I can't remember.
Photo and Chatter I think are the two, you can't use it for cell data.
So residents will have the choice. They can either advocate to their own company
and say, "Hey, you got to put a tower in my community. You got to put a system on
the Rogers tower or I'm switching providers." Or they switch providers.
That's how this is going to happen going forward. the agreements that were it's
part of the Eorn construction of these towers is one they will accept other
businesses to put systems on their towers at a cost and two we also have
the ability to put other assets on these towers. So county road network radio
system, fire radio system, ambulance radio systems, they can all manage off
of these towers. So, it is a plus and it's incredible to see this $300 million
project finally come to fruition. I live at the very point
» where there's nothing >> where there was nothing before. So, I'm
very very happy as as I expect most of my neighbors are. So, good. Does anybody
have any questions on that? Because you will get as you know people drive by the
tower and get no bars, you're going to get a phone call. Councelor Trim,
» I I don't have a question really [clears throat] because I think this was
all you did a good job of explaining to us over time and so yes, there are uh
questions in the community, but people are understanding what's happening now.
But I have just an interesting thought and that is I'm wondering if these
towers that we finally have gotten over many years in some ways may be obsolete
because Rogers and I know Bell is working on it too. Satellite system for
cell phones uh where you don't need towers. So it it's just interesting. I
think that satellite system for cell phones would be more expensive
initially. Uh but um uh recently Rogers want invited you to try it for a month
for free using any phone just uh just use it. So I mean that's an interesting
development I think but it's just a comment Mr. Mayor.
» Yeah good councelor Moore >> I am on a sister company pho therefore I
receive a service. So I was quite excited to get three bars instead of
none. And then as soon as I got three bars, I started getting the phone calls
for me to upgrade. So, but I haven't. I'm quite happy with the service I have,
but um it just seems kind of funny that now, okay, the push has gone to
something different. Thank you. Good. Any other comments? I I will
highlight there is actually a ninth tower in Whitewater region. There is a
bell tower and if you drive out past Homesteads here, you'll see it.
» That is a bell tower. So Bell owns it and has other hardware on it supporting
other systems. So uh we are well supported in in this area for Bell as
well. Good. Thank you so much for putting that
up on the screen, Sean. Uh excellent. Uh next we'll get into announcements.
Deputy Mayor.
» Uh no I have nothing at this time. Thank you.
» Good. Councelor Bell. Nothing for me. Councelor White. Any announcements?
[laughter] >> We were just discussing who's going to
talk about what. Um, yes, the Foresters Falls Winter Carnival is on the 24th of
January. Uh, so don't forget about that. Mark your calendars.
And the third annual chili contest is being hosted by the Beach Lions Club on
Saturday the 31st from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. And uh, it's at the Beach Hall, not the
Beachber Lions Club. That's all I have.
» Perfect. I'm going back and forth here. Council Moore.
» Nothing. She took my thunder. [laughter]
» Okay. Councilor Trim. >> Uh pub night in West M. Uh check uh the
municipal calendar uh this Friday. Uh I think it is Friday.
» Yeah. 16th. >> Yeah. Um pub night. um uh with uh more
than snacks. Uh it's going to be real pub food. And so um uh and uh darts and
cards and uh whatever comes with a pub night.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Good. And this is where I would ask our
clerk if they had anything to add, but uh you don't have any announcements?
» No, I don't. [laughter]
Excellent. Okay. So, uh clerk, your advice. Should I pause here and then
come back and do bylaws after we do 9.1 and 9.2?
» I will. >> Yes.
» Okay. With that, uh we are going to we are going to uh take a pause. It's 3:54.
The public meeting will start we'll probably go live at 3:40 so that we're
ready to go at 3:45 and can start the public portion of the meeting.
» Sorry. 4:45. So, less than an hour away. Thank you for that correction, folks.
and welcome back to the Township of Whitewater Region's regular council
meeting for Wednesday, January 14th. It uh is now 4:44
p.m. and we're going to just call ourselves back into order. We had a a
recess. Uh today is a bit of a convoluted um agenda just because we
have included a public meeting and uh what we had done before when we started
the meeting at 3 p.m. is that we went through all the all the possible agenda
items that could be addressed before uh 4:45 which is our scheduled commencement
of our public meeting and we're going to come back to that now. So, um,
this point we're going to do item 6.1 in the agenda, which is a public meeting.
And to remind those folks that might be watching, a public meeting is a
requirement under the planning act. We insert it as as its own meeting within
our regular council meeting. Uh therefore, we'll be calling the public
meeting to order here at 4:45 p.m. And it's to hear comments
and receive information from the public regarding two proposed applications
to amend the township of whitewater region zoning bylaw in accordance with
the planning act. The motions respect with respect to these two applications
are posted in the report section at 9.1 and 9.2. 2, but they will not be
discussed until after the public meeting is has been completed and we received
any and all feedback from the public on these two applications.
At this point in time, I will hand the public meeting over to our planner, Mr.
Baird. Um, so as per the planning act, if any
person or public body body does not make an oral submission at the public meeting
or make written submissions to the township of whitewater region before the
bylaw is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the
decision of council of the township of Whitewater Region to the Ontario Land
Tribunal. The person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing
of an appeal before the tribunal unless in the opinion of the tribunal there are
reasonable grounds to do so. Under section 34 subsection 11 of the planning
act, if council decides to refuse an application or refuses or
neglects to make a decision on an application within 120 days of the
municipal clerk receiving the application, the applicant or the
minister of municipal affairs and housing may appeal to the tribunal by
filing an appeal with the clerk of the municipality.
Section 34 subsection 19 of the planning act states that not later than 20 days
after giving not giving of notice of passing of the bylaw, the applicant, any
person or public body who made oral submissions at the public meeting or
made a written submission to council before the bylaw was passed or the
minister of municipal affairs and housing may appeal to the Ontario Land
Tribunal by filing an appeal with the clerk of the municipality.
» Excellent. Thank you for the fine print planner. uh an important aspects and if
there are questions about that the public we please encourage you to speak
with the planner he and and another members of the staff can give you the
detail on on what that might mean in your specific circumstance. So with that
we are going to move on to the the first of our two zoning amendment
applications. The first one is zoning amendment D14
218 and the address in question is 622stead Jeffrey Lake Road. and I'll ask
the planner to give us an overview of the proposal.
» Um, so the present application has been
submitted by JP2G Consultants on behalf of Donald Parsons for the property known
as 622 West Me Road. The purpose of the application is to seek a zoning bylaw
amendment to reszone portions of the lands from rural to three sight spec
specific zones being a rural exemption 79, rural exemption 70, rural exemption
80, and rural exemption 81 zoning. At the October 16th, 2025 committee of
adjustment meeting, consents D10245 and D10246
were approved for two not two new lot creations on the property. Uh condition
of the approved consent was that the property owner undergo a zoning bylaw
amendment in order to establish rear yard setbacks to protect nearby natural
heritage features as was recommended in the environmental impact study prepared
for the property. Uh the zone the present application is to fulfill those
conditions. [sighs] Uh the proposed zoning bylaw amendment
is consistent with the provincial planning statement 2024. uh section 4.1
subsection 8 of the PPS prohibits development or site alteration on lands
adjacent to natural heritage features including in this case proincially
significant wetlands unless it has been demonstrated that there will be no
negative impacts on the wetland andor the ecological functions of the wetland.
The applicant underwent an environmental impact study as noted before that found
within the development constraints being opposed by the zoning bylaw amendment
and the identified building area, there would be no negative impacts.
The official >> Sorry, planner, just to interrupt before
you mark your spot there. Don't lose it. Which um we just want to make sure we
get the map up while you're talking. >> It's the Mstead Jeffrey map, right? Or
this >> uh this is the correct map.
» Perfect. Okay. You said, >> "Yeah, I thought I'd said N uh
» was >> Yeah, the
» the uh the script has it >> the agenda order was
» was mixed up. >> Okay. So, just to clarify then,
» sorry, thank you for Let's stop that. is the uh the zoning amendment that we're
talking about is D14 217 >> 216
» 216 so we are talking about D14 216 at 622 West me road
» okay good we've corrected that please continue
uh under the county of Renfruit official plan the lands are designated rural
which encourages lowdensity residential development. Uh the lot size meets the
encouraged 4,000 square meter minimum lot size recommended in that section. Uh
the official plan section 8.3 subsection 5B uh requires development adjacent to a
proincially significant wetland undergo an environmental impact study um to
demonstrate no negative impacts on the natural features or ecological functions
of the land. As noted, the applicant has undertaken the study and within the
recommended building area, um, as will be marked by the zoning bylaw amendment,
there are no anticipated negative impacts. Uh, there were other
recommendations made in the environmental impact study to ensure
that no negative impacts um will occur and those will be enforced through a
development agreement. That was another required condition of the approved
consent. Uh the town zoning bylaw um the property
is zoned rural and environmental protection. The rural zoning allows for
residential uses. Uh the location of the proposed lots or of the proposed
building envelope is entirely within the rural designation. The environmental
protection is not anticipated to be impacted. Um the required rear yard
setback in the rural zone is typically 7.5 m. However, in order to minimize
those negative impacts um and ensure ecological functions remain intact, the
zoning bylaw amendment is produ proposing a significantly reduced rear
yard setback on the lots. Um for the committee of adjustment meeting, that
point was to be set 100 m from the front lot line on the property as demonstrated
on the map. Um so the purple line on the two lots denotes where the rear yard
setback would be located and on the third lot it would be the yellow line.
In this case one of the lots um being zoned to the rural exemption 79 zoning
would maintain that 100 meter setback. The second lot uh which is the rural
exemption 80 uh would be an 80 meter line and the third lot which is the
rural exemption 81 would be an 80 m setback and a 30 m setback from the
water course on the property. Um all these in order to maintain those
ecological functions. Uh while these aren't exactly what was proposed at the
committee of adjustment the proposed differences are more restrictive than
what was initially proposed. So the township is still supportive of these
setbacks. Um
so the application complies with it meets all the requirements of the
provincial planning statement county of Renfruit official plan and meets the
intent of the township of whitewater region zoning bylaw. Thus it is
planning's recommendation that the application be approved.
And I'm happy to answer any questions.
» Excellent. Thank you. Thank you so much, planner. So, uh, first off, we want to,
uh, confirm if the applicant would like to speak on the behalf of their
application. We understand that the applicant has JP2G,
um, hired to act on in their position and we have them present today. So, I'll
just confirm. Would you like to speak on behalf of the applicant?
None. Okay. Excellent. Next item is uh, any comments from the public? And I'll
look over to the clerk and to Sean. Anybody logged [clears throat] in to
speak on behalf of this. >> No comments.
» No comments received. >> Perfect. And the last question goes to
back to our planner. Do we receive any comments or questions from members of
the public in writing to you before the meeting?
» We have not received any correspondence from the public.
» Excellent. And final is just council acknowledging that we will still have
this as a resolution later on after the public meeting. But at this point in
time, is there any questions you'd like to ask the planner with respect to the
file?
Good. I see none. So we will have deemed uh all public uh comments received in
accordance with uh a zoning amendment application D14216 at 622 West Meow.
And with that, I'll ask the planner to carry on to the next zoning amendment
proposal, D14-217, Ross concession 4N, part 21, RP 49R
20880, part one, Homemstead Jeffrey Lake Road.
» Uh, thank you through your worship. Um, so the present zoning bylaw amend
amendment application was submitted by R. Bruce Leech on behalf of Wade
Patterson uh for the property. Uh the purpose of
the application is to seek a zoning bylaw amendment to reszone portions of
the land from the rural RU zoning to a sightsp specific rural exemption 82
zone. Uh at the August 15, 2024 committee of adjustment meeting, consent
D-10-238 was approved for one new lot creation on
this property. A condition of the approved consent was that the owner
undergo a zoning bylaw amendment in order to reduce the required setback
from an extractive industrial reserve sand and gravel um EMR-SG
zone from 300 m to 0 m. Uh the zoning bylaw amendment is to fulfill that
condition. Uh so the provincial planning statement outlines that mineral
aggregate resources shall be protected for long-term use. However, development
on known deposits on aggregate of aggregate resources and adjacent lands
uh which would preclude or hinder the establishment of new operations or
access to resources may be permitted if the resource use is not feasible.
Under the county official plan, the property is designated as rural which
supports low density residential use. The current property
uh both the severed and retained lands are adjacent to lands designated mineral
aggrait in the official plan and implementing the PL provincial planning
statement policy. The OP requires that proposed development in or within 300
meters of an area designated for future extraction must be supported by a
favorable mineral aggregate impact study that confirms development will not
preclude or hinder future aggregate extraction.
uh in support of this requirement with the consent application uh a land use
compatibility and aggreate impact study were prepared for the consent
application. The report concluded that the adjacent lands have limited to no
potential of being developed for future aggregate extraction primarily due to
the proximity of the lake and the existing residential uses along said
lake. Uh in other words, the proposed
severance is not anticipated to have an impact on future sand and gravel
extraction as this is the potential has already been reduced by long-standing
existing development. So the consent uh would not impact the ability to extract.
Uh in the township of Whitewater region zoning bylaw, the severed and retained
parcels are both zoned rural. The rural zone permits a single detached dwelling
with a minimum lot area of 4,000 square meters and a minimum frontage of 45 m.
Uh the proposed lot uh meets the provisions of the royal zoning. Uh
section 3.32B
of the zoning bylaw requires a 300 meter separation distance between landzoned uh
EMR-G and new residential development. As the
severed lands are j the severed lands are adjacent to the property with the
EMR sorry um as the severed lands are within
300 mters of the EMRSG zone. However, the study has found that there is
limited potential for those lands to be extracted. Um the
the condition of consent was that the severed lands be placed in a rural
exemption zone to reduce the separation distant requirements and thus bring the
law into compliance with the zoning bylaw. Um the application complies with
and meets all the requirements of the PPS the county of Renfruit official plan
and meets the intent of the township of Whitewater region zoning bylaw and thus
it is planning's opinion that this application be approved.
» Excellent. Thank you planner. Uh and with that we will confirm if the
applicant is uh present I'm assuming virtual if they would like to speak on
behalf of their application. I'm getting confirmation that no, the applicant is
not present. Uh, and with that, I'll ask the clerk and Sean, is there anybody
that would like to make public comment >> virtually? Good. So, no comments from
the public and the last one back out to the planner. Did you receive any
comments in uh prior to the meeting in writing or verbally?
» Uh, to the best of my knowledge, we've received no written correspondence on
the application. >> Excellent. And with that, I'll ask
council. Is there any points that you wish to bring up feedback from other
community members? None. I have one question for the
planner. >> Yes.
» And when I was [snorts] going through the map and you were talking about the
extraction zone, it made me think of the land set aside for the future twinning
of the 417. And could you place this property uh
in relation to those lands which are designated for uh that future 20?
» I can I would just need to bring up the official plan.
» Take a few minutes. >> Just one moment.
» The this was part of the survey plans from
50 50 years ago.
» 70 years ago.
» [clears throat and cough] >> So further down man magnesium
between there and the mine site. >> Yeah, I think the [clears throat]
was there reference to it there? >> Yes. Uh sorry. In the previous consent
report, the MTO was uh circulated on the application and they had um no formal
comments on the time and no concerns at the time. Uh and then they have not
provided any comments since and they were recirculated. Uh them and the
Ministry of Energy and Mines were both recirculated on this zoning and we did
not receive comment. >> Perfect. And for the in response to the
question of where it will be located, it's the proposed realignment of Highway
17 is directly between this uh magnesium road like right in the
middle of it's going to come up right through the middle of this green line
and black line on your screen and then just follows the back side of Homestead
Jeffrey Lake. Does that help?
It would be over the subject lands but not over the proposed consent.
» Yeah. Perfect. Okay. And and it's just interesting. Uh
I I wanted to make sure that I I could appreciate why there wasn't further
expansion of other properties in that area and it makes sense now. Yeah. Okay.
Good. Thank you for taking the time to just confirm that. I appreciate it. Any
other comments from council or questions?
Good. Uh, and any final comments from planner on um either of these two
proposed applications? >> I have no further comments. Thank you.
» Excellent. And with that, we will adjourn the public meeting at 5:03 p.m.
Having received all the public comment relating to these two applications and
duly considered it. We will now go to item 9.1 in our report which is the
actual zoning bylaw amendment D14216 at 622 Westme Road. The recommendation
is that the council of the township of Whitewater region approve an amendment
to the comprehensive zoning bylaw number 24-01-1655
for portions of the property known as 622 Westme Road from the rural zoning to
three sight specific zonings. Those being the rural exception 79, rural
exception 80, and rural exception 81 zoning. A mover and a seconder, please.
Moved by councelor Trim, seconded by councelor Bell.
We have just heard the presentation from the planner as part of the public
meeting. So, I will not ask the planner to repeat
his presentation of this file unless there is a member of council who would
really like the planner to repeat what he just said. None.
Good. Is there any Sorry, I'll go just to confirm formally. Councelor Trim is
the mover. Any points or questions you want to raise? Good. And the second is
councelor Bell. Good. Anything else from other members of council? With that, we
will call for a vote. All those in favor? Unanimous. carried
one for one planner. Next item is 9.2 which is a zoning bylaw
amendment D14-27.
Applicant is Patterson formstead Jeffrey Lake Road. The recommendation is that
the council of the town of Whitewater region approve an amendment to the
comprehensive zoning bylaw number 24-01-1655
for portions of the property known as Ross Concession for
North Pot 21 RP 49R 20880 part onestead Jeffrey
Lake Road from the rural zoning to a sightspecific rural exception 82 zoning.
A mover in a seconder, please. Mover, councelor Trim, seconded by deputy
mayor. And again, I will not ask the planner to repeat his presentation. And
I'll simply go to the mover, which is councelor trim. Any additional comments
or points? None. And the second deputy mayor. None. Any from anything else from
council? I see none. We call for the vote. All those in favor? Carried
unanimously. Thank you so much. Good. And with that, we are going to skip the
items that we have previously discussed discussed
and made decisions on at council. And we are going to item number 13 on the
agenda, which is our bylaws. We have a number of bylaws listed on
this agenda, January 14th agenda. I am counting one, two, three,
four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 10 bylaws plus the confirmatory bylaw.
The recommendation be it resolved that the bylaws listed on the January 14th
agenda be taken as read and passed. I need a mover, please. Moved by the
deputy mayor, seconded by councelor White. This is the final opportunity for
council to make comment or question the proposed bylaws listed on this agenda.
Is there anything not from our mover? No, not from our seconder and not from
anyone else. With that, we will call for a vote. All
those in favor? Unanimous. Thank you. And I can confirm there is no close
session >> unless the clerk.
No. >> No. Clerk said no.
Uh item 15 on the agenda is uh
I'm going to take as a misprint. Can I do that, clerk? Because that can't take
a place until the confirmatory until that procedural bylaw is amended. Okay.
So 15 is a is voided which takes us to item number 16 which
is the adjournment and we are adjourned at 5:07 p.m. Thank you so much for all
your time today.