Committee and Council Meeting

by: Councillor Constable THAT the minutes of the Committee/Council Meeting held on April 5, 2023 be adopted as circulated.

by: Councillor Blower THAT the Council for the Corporation of the Municipality of McDougall has no objections to the approval of the revised Consent Application No. B22/2022 (McD), as applied for by 3744515 Canada Inc. (Fagan), being Part of Lot, Concession 11, in the Geographic Township of McDougall, now the Municipality of McDougall, subject to the following conditions; Payment of parkland dedication fees satisfactory to the Municipality; Conveying any portion of Long Lake Estates Road from the centre of the travelled road controlled by the applicant to the Municipality; Approval of driveway location to the satisfaction of the Municipality's Director of Operations; Receiving adequate 911 addressing for the new lot; and Payment of any applicable planning fees.

by: Councillor Ryman THAT the attached lists of Accounts Payable for April 20, 2023 in the amount of $294,601.60, and payroll for April 20, 2023 in the amount of $60,726.34 be approved for payment.

by: Councillor Hamer WHEREAS, Enbridge recently made an announcement of their intention to begin charging third-party contractors and other utilities $200 CAD (plus applicable taxes) for utility locates where a field locate is required; AND WHEREAS, third-party contractors include Ontario municipalities; AND WHEREAS, these locate requests are only required as Ontario municipalities have allowed utilities to use municipal right of ways at no charge to the utilities; AND WHEREAS, this announcement of new downloaded costs will negatively impact the budgets of Ontario municipalities which are already burdened; AND WHEREAS, if Enbridge is successful in implementing this new charge, a precedence is set for other utility companies to also begin charging for locates; THEREFORE IT BE RESOLVED, that the Council for the Corporation of the Municipality of McDougall strongly opposes these utility locate costs being downloaded to Ontario municipalities by Enbridge Gas or other utilities; AND THAT, the Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery make it clear that these costs must be borne by the utilities themselves; AND THAT, this decision be forwarded to Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery Kaleed Rasheed, Minister of Infrastructure Kinga Surma, Minister of Energy Todd Smith, Premier Doug Ford, Graydon Smith MPP, the Association of Ontario Road Supervisors and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.

by: Councillor Blower THAT the Council for the Corporation of the Municipality of McDougall supports the attached resolution of the Town of Essex, regarding The Reinstatement of Legislation Permitting a Municipality to Retain Surplus Proceeds from Tax Sales; and FURTHER THAT this resolution be forwarded to all relevant taxation bodies, including the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, MPP Graydon Smith, and the Association of the Municipalities of Ontario.

by: Councillor Hamer BE IT RESOLVED that the next portion of the meeting be closed to the public at 7:59 p.m. in order to address a matter pertaining to: personal matters about an identifiable individual, including municipal employees or local board employees; a proposed or pending acquisition or disposition of land by the municipality or local board; labour relations or employee negotiations; the receiving of advice which is subject to solicitor/client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose;

by: Councillor Hamer THAT Council reconvene in Open Session at 8:27 p.m.

by: Councillor Ryman THAT we do now adjourn at 8:29 p.m.