Grey County County Council Meeting Transcript — July 24, 2025

00:06:01 Speaker 01: now like to call to order

00:06:02 Speaker 01: this County Council meeting of July

00:06:04 Speaker 02: twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. At

00:06:06 Speaker 02: this point in time, as you

00:06:07 Speaker 02: are able, please join us in

00:06:09 Speaker 02: the standing and singing of O

00:06:10 Speaker 03: Canada. Our home and oh Canada,

00:06:25 Speaker 04: our home and native land. True

00:06:30 Speaker 04: patriot love in all of us

00:06:35 Speaker 04: command. With glowing hearts we. Owing

00:06:41 Speaker 05: hearts, we see thee rise, the

00:06:44 Speaker 05: true North, strong and free, from

00:06:49 Speaker 05: far and wide, O Canada, we

00:06:53 Speaker 05: stand on guard for thee. God

00:07:01 Speaker 05: keep our land, glorious and free,

00:07:08 Speaker 05: O Canada, we. stand on guard

00:07:15 Speaker 05: for thee. Oh, Canada, we stand

00:07:21 Speaker 05: on guard for thee. Thank you,

00:07:32 Speaker 05: Madam Clerk. Could you please conduct

00:07:37 Speaker 05: our roll call, Counselor Mackenzie?

00:07:40 Speaker 05: Councillor Mackie, Councillor McKay,

00:07:42 Speaker 05: Councillor Carleton, Councillor Pringle, Councillor McQueen

00:07:44 Speaker 05: is absent at this time.

00:07:48 Speaker 05: Councillor Nielsen, Councillor Patterson, Councillor

00:07:51 Speaker 05: Dickert, Councillor Kentner, Councillor Kieveny,

00:07:56 Speaker 05: Councillor Body, Councillor Gregg, Councillor

00:08:00 Speaker 05: Milne, Councillor Dobreen, Warden

00:08:05 Speaker 05: Matrosovs, Councillor Bourignon, Councillor. Eccles, I

00:08:07 Speaker 06: believe, is joining us shortly, and

00:08:11 Speaker 06: Councillor Hutchinson. Thank you. We have

00:08:12 Speaker 06: all members in attendance, with the

00:08:13 Speaker 06: exception of Councillors Eccles and McQueen.

00:08:18 Speaker 07: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let us

00:08:21 Speaker 07: begin by respectfully acknowledging that we

00:08:23 Speaker 07: are gathering on the traditional territory

00:08:25 Speaker 07: of the Niitsauk Nation, the people

00:08:27 Speaker 07: of the Three Fires, known as

00:08:29 Speaker 07: the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the

00:08:32 Speaker 07: Potawatomi Nations, and further, we give

00:08:34 Speaker 07: thanks to the. Chippewas of Sogeeen

00:08:36 Speaker 07: and the Chippewas of Nawash, known

00:08:39 Speaker 07: collectively as Sogeeen Ojibwe Nation, the

00:08:42 Speaker 07: traditional keepers of these lands and

00:08:45 Speaker 07: waters since time immemorial. In our

00:08:47 Speaker 07: south of our county lies the

00:08:48 Speaker 07: traditional territories of the Six Nations

00:08:50 Speaker 07: of the Grand River Haudenosaunee. We

00:08:54 Speaker 07: are dedicated to honouring Indigenous history

00:08:57 Speaker 07: and culture, and committed to moving

00:08:58 Speaker 07: forward in the spirit of truth,

00:09:02 Speaker 08: reconciliation, and friendship with all First.

00:09:04 Speaker 09: Nations, Métis, and Inuit people. At

00:09:09 Speaker 09: this point in time, I'd like

00:09:09 Speaker 09: to put a call out if

00:09:10 Speaker 09: there are any declarations of interest

00:09:13 Speaker 10: for this council agenda. And I

00:09:15 Speaker 10: am seeing no hands on, hands

00:09:17 Speaker 02: up, so we'll proceed. Item six

00:09:20 Speaker 02: is the adoption of the minutes.

00:09:22 Speaker 02: It's recommended that the minutes of

00:09:23 Speaker 02: County Council meeting and committee, the

00:09:25 Speaker 02: whole meeting dated July tenth, twenty

00:09:27 Speaker 02: twenty five, and the resolutions contained

00:09:29 Speaker 02: therein be adopted as presented. May

00:09:30 Speaker 02: I ask for a mover? May

00:09:32 Speaker 02: ask for a mover. Moved by

00:09:35 Speaker 02: the deputy warden and seconded by

00:09:38 Speaker 02: Councillor Hutchinson. Any discussion? All those

00:09:40 Speaker 02: in favour? And that motion is

00:09:42 Speaker 02: carried. Next, it's recommended that the

00:09:44 Speaker 02: closed session committee of the whole

00:09:46 Speaker 02: meet committee of the whole meeting

00:09:49 Speaker 02: minutes, dated July 10, 2025, be

00:09:51 Speaker 02: adopted as provided. May ask for

00:09:54 Speaker 02: a mover. Moved by Councillor Nielsen.

00:09:57 Speaker 02: Seconded by Councillor Kieveny. Any discussion?

00:10:01 Speaker 02: All those in favour? And that

00:10:03 Speaker 02: motion is carried. Item six C,

00:10:05 Speaker 02: with regards to our long term

00:10:07 Speaker 02: care committee, it's recommended that the

00:10:09 Speaker 02: long term care committee of the

00:10:12 Speaker 02: committee of management meeting minutes dated

00:10:15 Speaker 02: July third, twenty twenty five, be

00:10:17 Speaker 02: adopted as presented, and that the

00:10:21 Speaker 02: following resolutions contained therein be endorsed.

00:10:24 Speaker 02: Number one, that report LTCRCM ten

00:10:27 Speaker 02: twenty five regarding a long term

00:10:30 Speaker 02: care director update be received for

00:10:35 Speaker 02: information. Number two, that report LTCRCM

00:10:37 Speaker 02: eleven twenty five regarding a long

00:10:39 Speaker 02: term care operational report dated April

00:10:41 Speaker 02: fifteenth to June fourteenth, twenty twenty

00:10:43 Speaker 02: five, be received for information, and

00:10:47 Speaker 02: that the title the report titled

00:10:50 Speaker 02: LTCRCM twelve twenty five long term

00:10:51 Speaker 02: care financial update as as of

00:10:54 Speaker 02: April thirtieth be received for information.

00:10:55 Speaker 02: May ask for a mover

00:10:57 Speaker 02: and a seconder to move by

00:10:58 Speaker 02: Councillor Patterson, seconded by Councillor. Mackie,

00:11:00 Speaker 02: and with that, I'd like to

00:11:01 Speaker 02: invite Director Cornell to come to

00:11:07 Speaker 11: the lectern to speak to it.

00:11:11 Speaker 11: Thank you, Warden Matrosovs, and through

00:11:13 Speaker 11: you, good morning, County Council. I'll

00:11:14 Speaker 11: just provide a summary of the

00:11:16 Speaker 12: meeting, and I'm just going to

00:11:19 Speaker 12: highlight items that we haven't discussed

00:11:21 Speaker 12: before. So we started the meeting

00:11:22 Speaker 13: in a really great way, and

00:11:26 Speaker 13: we had a tour of the

00:11:30 Speaker 13: new Rockwood redevelopment, and. it was,

00:11:35 Speaker 13: it was really exciting. The the

00:11:36 Speaker 13: crew was actively craning structural pieces

00:11:38 Speaker 13: onto the building, and things are

00:11:41 Speaker 13: moving right along. So it's really

00:11:44 Speaker 13: exciting. In terms of an update

00:11:46 Speaker 13: from the meeting, some highlights of

00:11:50 Speaker 13: the director's update: there were some

00:11:51 Speaker 13: ministry updates, further information about items

00:11:53 Speaker 13: that we've already talked about in

00:11:56 Speaker 13: terms of legislation, and and it

00:11:59 Speaker 13: moving. through the process, we held

00:12:02 Speaker 13: our quarterly family virtual call. So

00:12:05 Speaker 13: we host these quarterly an opportunity

00:12:08 Speaker 13: to give an update to residents,

00:12:10 Speaker 13: families, caregivers, and there's an opportunity

00:12:12 Speaker 13: for a question and answer. So

00:12:14 Speaker 13: we hosted that. We had invited

00:12:17 Speaker 13: guests to that virtual meeting, Silver

00:12:19 Speaker 13: Fox Pharmacy, which is the the

00:12:21 Speaker 13: new pharmacy, and there was some

00:12:23 Speaker 13: really good engagement with family members

00:12:27 Speaker 13: on the call with some questions.

00:12:28 Speaker 13: Family members on the call, some

00:12:32 Speaker 13: questions about that change. We, I

00:12:33 Speaker 13: just want to highlight that we

00:12:35 Speaker 13: welcome back a number of students

00:12:38 Speaker 13: to that that provide support and

00:12:43 Speaker 13: work during the summer as team

00:12:46 Speaker 13: members. Many of them are actively

00:12:49 Speaker 13: in school taking their RN or

00:12:50 Speaker 13: RPN designations. We also partnered with

00:12:53 Speaker 13: Ontario Centres for Learning Research and

00:12:57 Speaker 13: Innovations, so CLRI, and Grey County

00:13:00 Speaker 13: to renew the. Gray County to

00:13:02 Speaker 13: renew the personal support worker education

00:13:04 Speaker 13: fund that offered a series of

00:13:06 Speaker 13: six education sessions to PSWs across

00:13:08 Speaker 13: the the Gray and Bruce regions.

00:13:10 Speaker 13: So we helped coordinate it, and

00:13:12 Speaker 13: it wasn't just limited to attendees

00:13:16 Speaker 13: from the Gray County or Bruce

00:13:18 Speaker 13: County homes, but it was to

00:13:20 Speaker 13: PSWs in all of the sixteen,

00:13:21 Speaker 13: seventeen long term care homes in

00:13:23 Speaker 13: Gray Bruce. I also wanted to

00:13:26 Speaker 13: highlight that Karen Kraus is the

00:13:28 Speaker 13: current. executive director at Rockwood Terrace.

00:13:33 Speaker 13: Has accepted a new role as

00:13:36 Speaker 14: project lead for operational readiness for

00:13:38 Speaker 14: the Rockwood Terrace redevelopment, where she

00:13:40 Speaker 14: will help the county and residents

00:13:42 Speaker 14: in the transition to the new

00:13:44 Speaker 14: location. And operational readiness—it doesn't even

00:13:46 Speaker 14: sound easy when you say it

00:13:48 Speaker 13: fast. There's a lot of work

00:13:51 Speaker 13: to be done to be ready

00:13:53 Speaker 13: to move into a new long-term

00:13:55 Speaker 13: care home to meet all of

00:13:58 Speaker 13: the the standards, to pass ministry

00:14:00 Speaker 13: inspections, etc., and so she will

00:14:02 Speaker 13: be taking on the lead for

00:14:05 Speaker 13: that work. And the report says

00:14:07 Speaker 13: that we were actively recruiting to

00:14:09 Speaker 13: backfill her position, but we were

00:14:11 Speaker 13: able to announce yesterday that Terry

00:14:14 Speaker 13: Fisher, who is the current resident

00:14:17 Speaker 13: family services manager at Rockwood Terrace,

00:14:18 Speaker 13: will be stepping into the role

00:14:20 Speaker 13: of executive director in September, and

00:14:24 Speaker 13: she'll be working in partnership with.

00:14:26 Speaker 13: Karen to get ready for the

00:14:28 Speaker 13: move, and then we'll be leading

00:14:29 Speaker 13: the home as the executive director

00:14:31 Speaker 13: going forward. So that was an

00:14:34 Speaker 13: exciting announcement to be able to

00:14:35 Speaker 13: share from the operational report. A

00:14:39 Speaker 13: couple of highlights: we had some

00:14:41 Speaker 13: really good discussion. Dana Leach, our

00:14:42 Speaker 13: clinical specialist, talked about end of

00:14:47 Speaker 13: life and palliative care practices. This

00:14:51 Speaker 13: is important because it's important to

00:14:52 Speaker 13: people's lives, and it's important because

00:14:55 Speaker 13: there's a legislative. Of encouragement and

00:14:58 Speaker 13: requirement to be implementing palliative care

00:15:00 Speaker 13: models within our long-term care homes,

00:15:02 Speaker 13: and so there was an update

00:15:05 Speaker 13: on the work happening in that

00:15:07 Speaker 13: area. Karen gave an update across

00:15:10 Speaker 13: the three homes regarding ministry inspections,

00:15:13 Speaker 13: and all three homes had visits

00:15:16 Speaker 13: from inspectors during the reporting period.

00:15:18 Speaker 13: And in addition to that, Rockwood

00:15:20 Speaker 13: Terrace had a proactive compliance inspection,

00:15:23 Speaker 13: and it used. to be called

00:15:25 Speaker 13: an RQI, a required quality inspection,

00:15:27 Speaker 13: but the name has has been

00:15:33 Speaker 13: updated to proactive compliance inspection, where

00:15:37 Speaker 13: two inspectors were on site for

00:15:39 Speaker 13: 12 days, just to give you

00:15:41 Speaker 13: a sense of how in depth

00:15:43 Speaker 13: those inspections are. Shannon gave an

00:15:47 Speaker 13: update around two emergency situations that

00:15:48 Speaker 13: happened during the reporting period, so

00:15:49 Speaker 13: both Gray Gables and Rock. So

00:15:52 Speaker 13: both Gray Gables and Rockwood Terrace

00:15:57 Speaker 13: experienced some an emergency. Gray Gables

00:15:59 Speaker 13: had an electrical fire, which resulted

00:16:01 Speaker 13: in the use of a of

00:16:03 Speaker 13: a fire extinguisher. All residents and

00:16:06 Speaker 13: staff were removed safely. Everything was

00:16:09 Speaker 13: contained. And Rockwood Terrace had the

00:16:11 Speaker 13: smell of an electrical smell, but

00:16:12 Speaker 13: the incident did not trip the

00:16:14 Speaker 13: fire alarm. and And staff followed

00:16:16 Speaker 13: the the evacuation process, and everyone

00:16:18 Speaker 13: was safe, and and everything was.

00:16:22 Speaker 13: managed and taken care of, and

00:16:23 Speaker 13: I want to just highlight that

00:16:26 Speaker 13: the training and practicing that we

00:16:28 Speaker 13: do every month, as required under

00:16:30 Speaker 13: a number of sets of legislation,

00:16:31 Speaker 13: came in handy and proved to

00:16:35 Speaker 13: be really effective. And the teams

00:16:37 Speaker 13: at both homes responded quickly, appropriately,

00:16:39 Speaker 13: and did all the right things.

00:16:41 Speaker 13: So I just wanted to do

00:16:45 Speaker 13: a well done to the team

00:16:48 Speaker 13: under very stressful situation. And finally,

00:16:50 Speaker 13: Tawlene Parkin, the executive director at

00:16:52 Speaker 13: Lee Manor. shared a colour at

00:16:55 Speaker 13: story, which we always highlight in

00:16:56 Speaker 13: our meetings. And this, this story

00:16:59 Speaker 13: that she shared was the above

00:17:02 Speaker 13: and beyond efforts that team members

00:17:05 Speaker 13: made to support a resident who

00:17:08 Speaker 13: had moved in where English they

00:17:09 Speaker 13: had lost their English skills and

00:17:11 Speaker 13: and were speaking in their native

00:17:12 Speaker 13: language. And team members stepped up.

00:17:18 Speaker 13: They used technology to learn words

00:17:21 Speaker 13: and phrases. and they even found

00:17:23 Speaker 13: a team member who was familiar

00:17:27 Speaker 13: with the language to be able

00:17:29 Speaker 13: to support that resident in a

00:17:31 Speaker 13: really difficult transition. Marcus Hanco, the

00:17:34 Speaker 13: the long term care financial manager,

00:17:37 Speaker 13: provided an up a financial update

00:17:39 Speaker 13: as of April 30th. It's it's

00:17:41 Speaker 13: important to note that April is

00:17:43 Speaker 13: still quite early to be able

00:17:46 Speaker 13: to give a really solid projection

00:17:48 Speaker 13: of where things are going. it's

00:17:51 Speaker 13: before the summer season, where people

00:17:54 Speaker 13: are on vacation, where we may

00:17:58 Speaker 13: have some staffing challenges, that kind

00:18:00 Speaker 13: of thing in terms of staffing.

00:18:03 Speaker 13: But just to highlight, at that

00:18:06 Speaker 13: time, Gray Gables was presenting to

00:18:08 Speaker 13: be over budget by 122,000. That's

00:18:10 Speaker 13: related to directly to snow removal.

00:18:12 Speaker 13: Last winter was a quite a

00:18:14 Speaker 13: harsh winter. Lee Manor is currently

00:18:16 Speaker 13: under budget. of eighty six thousand,

00:18:19 Speaker 13: and Rockwood Terrace is under budget

00:18:20 Speaker 13: around one hundred and eighty five

00:18:22 Speaker 13: thousand. But again, it's a little

00:18:24 Speaker 13: early to make those projections. Just

00:18:25 Speaker 15: enough to be able to say,

00:18:30 Speaker 15: track. It's it's looking good, and

00:18:32 Speaker 15: and we're on top of it.

00:18:33 Speaker 16: We had closed meeting matters, and

00:18:38 Speaker 16: then the meeting was adjourned. So

00:18:39 Speaker 16: thank you, and if there's any

00:18:40 Speaker 16: questions, happy to take those. Thank

00:18:41 Speaker 16: you very much. So with that,

00:18:43 Speaker 16: I'll put it out to council

00:18:44 Speaker 16: members if they have any questions.

00:18:46 Speaker 16: And a number of us were

00:18:48 Speaker 17: able to be on that tour,

00:18:51 Speaker 17: so thank you very much for

00:18:52 Speaker 17: that opportunity. It was wonderful to

00:18:54 Speaker 17: be able to actually see it

00:18:55 Speaker 18: coming to fruition after looking at

00:18:58 Speaker 19: it in many reports and many

00:19:02 Speaker 19: maps and diagrams. So with that,

00:19:04 Speaker 02: I don't see any further questions.

00:19:06 Speaker 02: Then, so thank you, Director Canal.

00:19:08 Speaker 02: I'll call the question. All those

00:19:11 Speaker 02: in favour? And that motion is

00:19:13 Speaker 02: carried. Thank you. We do have

00:19:15 Speaker 02: one more long-term care committee item.

00:19:17 Speaker 02: We it is recommended that the

00:19:20 Speaker 02: closed session of the long-term care

00:19:23 Speaker 02: committee management meeting minutes dated July

00:19:25 Speaker 02: 3rd, 2025, be adopted as provided.

00:19:26 Speaker 02: May I ask for a mover?

00:19:28 Speaker 02: Moved by Councillor Mackie, seconded by

00:19:30 Speaker 02: Councillor Dobrin. Any discussion? All those

00:19:33 Speaker 02: in favour? And that motion is

00:19:35 Speaker 02: carried. We do not have any

00:19:36 Speaker 02: closed matters to attend to this

00:19:39 Speaker 02: morning, nor reports. So we'll move

00:19:41 Speaker 02: on to the bylaws. It's recommended

00:19:43 Speaker 02: that bylaw fifty two forty three

00:19:44 Speaker 02: twenty five and fifty two forty

00:19:46 Speaker 02: four twenty five and fifty two

00:19:48 Speaker 02: forty five twenty five be introduced

00:19:50 Speaker 02: and and be taken as read

00:19:52 Speaker 02: a first second and third time

00:19:54 Speaker 02: finally passed. It's signed by the

00:19:55 Speaker 02: warden and the clerk, sealed with

00:19:58 Speaker 02: the seal of the corporation, and

00:20:01 Speaker 02: engrossed to the bylaw book. Number

00:20:04 Speaker 02: one fifty two forty three twenty

00:20:06 Speaker 02: five a bylaw to authorise the

00:20:10 Speaker 02: disposition of certain lands in the

00:20:11 Speaker 02: city of Owen Sound as described

00:20:14 Speaker 02: in Schedule A. number two, fifty-two

00:20:16 Speaker 02: forty-four twenty-five, a bylaw to amend

00:20:19 Speaker 02: Schedules D, G, H, O, and

00:20:20 Speaker 02: U of Bylaw four seven eight

00:20:22 Speaker 02: eight thirteen, being a bylaw to

00:20:23 Speaker 02: regulate traffic and parking on highways

00:20:26 Speaker 02: within Gray County, the Gray County

00:20:29 Speaker 02: Road System, and number three, fifty-two

00:20:31 Speaker 20: forty-five twenty-five, a bylaw to confirm

00:20:34 Speaker 20: all the actions and proceedings of

00:20:36 Speaker 20: the Council. May I ask for

00:20:37 Speaker 02: a mover? Moved by Councillor Dicker,

00:20:40 Speaker 02: seconded by Councillor. Hutchinson. Any discussion?

00:20:41 Speaker 02: All those in favour? And that

00:20:43 Speaker 02: motion is carried. All right. Well,

00:20:44 Speaker 02: we've already heard some excellent news

00:20:45 Speaker 02: from Director Cornell, and we don't

00:20:47 Speaker 02: have any other special staff announcements

00:20:49 Speaker 02: this morning because I think we've

00:20:53 Speaker 02: had so many good news stories

00:20:54 Speaker 21: in the last few council meetings.

00:21:00 Speaker 22: We're we're going to take a

00:21:04 Speaker 23: pause and open it out to

00:21:07 Speaker 24: our council members to share news

00:21:10 Speaker 25: and celebrations from our municipalities. Who

00:21:13 Speaker 26: would like to go first? We'll

00:21:16 Speaker 26: start with Councillor Councillor. Start with

00:21:18 Speaker 27: council, council body. Well, this one,

00:21:21 Speaker 28: Ron. Okay, I don't know what

00:21:23 Speaker 28: that other button is. Exciting to

00:21:24 Speaker 28: share some some pretty good good

00:21:26 Speaker 29: news. On Sound Northstar's girls field

00:21:28 Speaker 29: lacrosse team, under fifteen U fifteen

00:21:29 Speaker 30: team, won the gold medal in

00:21:34 Speaker 30: the B division of the provincial

00:21:36 Speaker 30: championship. And 100 years ago, I

00:21:38 Speaker 30: bunched coached a bunch. Go a

00:21:39 Speaker 30: bunch coached a bunch of kids

00:21:43 Speaker 30: and we got to I think

00:21:49 Speaker 30: the top four and it's really

00:21:52 Speaker 30: difficult to win the provincials so

00:21:55 Speaker 30: that's pretty impressive. Also, the U19

00:21:56 Speaker 30: girls field lacrosse team won the

00:22:00 Speaker 31: bronze in the B division. So

00:22:04 Speaker 31: congratulations to both those teams. That's

00:22:07 Speaker 31: it's really impressive. Coming up is

00:22:08 Speaker 31: the On Sound Emancipation Picnic or

00:22:10 Speaker 31: Festival, 163rd year. So it's the

00:22:11 Speaker 30: longest. and continuously running emancipation event

00:22:14 Speaker 32: in North America. Probably one of

00:22:18 Speaker 33: the longest running events. That's Saturday

00:22:21 Speaker 34: of the long weekend. It's going

00:22:24 Speaker 34: to be August second at Harrison

00:22:25 Speaker 34: Park. It's a really neat event.

00:22:26 Speaker 34: It's great music, and all the

00:22:29 Speaker 34: families come back from all over.

00:22:31 Speaker 34: And it's it's pretty interesting to

00:22:34 Speaker 34: be there. Thanks. Thank you, and

00:22:36 Speaker 34: we'll go to Councillor Kibany. Thank

00:22:38 Speaker 34: you, Warden Matrousovs, and good morning,

00:22:40 Speaker 34: everyone. Just want to share a

00:22:43 Speaker 34: couple of events that are happening

00:22:45 Speaker 34: in Meaford this Saturday, the 26th,

00:22:47 Speaker 34: is the Pet Expo, and this

00:22:49 Speaker 34: is a huge pet-friendly event with

00:22:51 Speaker 34: over 100 vendors at our community

00:22:53 Speaker 34: centre, and there will be lots

00:22:54 Speaker 34: of food and games and a

00:22:57 Speaker 34: full family event there. And the

00:22:58 Speaker 34: following weekend, from August the 1st

00:23:00 Speaker 34: to the 3rd, is our fourth

00:23:02 Speaker 34: annual Summerfest, and that is the

00:23:03 Speaker 34: Poutine. Fest, where a number of

00:23:05 Speaker 34: our restaurants are participating. Everybody makes

00:23:06 Speaker 34: a different type of poutine, so

00:23:08 Speaker 34: you'll want to try those out.

00:23:10 Speaker 34: Friday is Movie Under the Stars.

00:23:11 Speaker 35: It's going to be The Goonies,

00:23:16 Speaker 35: so family friendly and lots of

00:23:18 Speaker 36: fun. And there will be vendors

00:23:22 Speaker 36: in the Market Square. Over seventy

00:23:24 Speaker 36: vendors will be in the Market

00:23:32 Speaker 36: Square with live music all day

00:23:33 Speaker 36: Saturday and Sunday. So, as I

00:23:35 Speaker 36: always say, Meerschaum is a place

00:23:35 Speaker 36: to be. Thank you. Thank you.

00:23:37 Speaker 36: And around the council table, looking

00:23:40 Speaker 37: for. any others. Okay, not seeing

00:23:44 Speaker 37: any further hands up, so we'll

00:23:45 Speaker 37: move on to adjournment. And that

00:23:46 Speaker 38: important. Okay, so with that, then

00:23:56 Speaker 38: we'll just do a motion to

00:23:57 Speaker 38: adjourn. May I ask for a

00:23:59 Speaker 38: mover? Moved by Councillor McQueen, seconded

00:24:01 Speaker 38: by Councillor McKay. Any discussion? All

00:24:03 Speaker 38: those in favour? And that motion

00:24:04 Speaker 39: is carried. Okay, we'll just give

00:24:07 Speaker 39: a few moments to switch over.

00:24:09 Speaker 39: to the Committee of the Whole.

00:24:12 Speaker 39: Thank you. So I'll now proceed

00:24:13 Speaker 39: with the Committee of the Whole

00:24:15 Speaker 39: of July twenty fourth, twenty twenty

00:24:17 Speaker 39: five. I'll call to order this

00:24:19 Speaker 39: business and ask if there are

00:24:21 Speaker 39: any declarations of interest. See no

00:24:23 Speaker 03: hands go up. We can proceed.

00:24:36 Speaker 03: We do not have any business

00:24:38 Speaker 03: arising for minutes, and with that,

00:24:39 Speaker 40: we have one delegation. So this.

00:24:42 Speaker 41: morning, I'm going to first invite

00:24:45 Speaker 41: Ms. Buckton, as our senior policy

00:24:47 Speaker 41: planner, to come up and make

00:24:49 Speaker 42: introductions before we get into the

00:24:51 Speaker 42: archaeological management plan deputation. Wonderful, thank

00:24:53 Speaker 42: you very much. I'm really excited

00:24:56 Speaker 42: to be here today and to

00:24:58 Speaker 43: have some staff from Team HC

00:25:01 Speaker 44: Consulting joining us for presentation. so

00:25:03 Speaker 44: I'll just do a very brief

00:25:05 Speaker 44: introduction before we turn that

00:25:07 Speaker 42: over. This morning we will have

00:25:09 Speaker 42: two representatives from TMC Inc. joining

00:25:11 Speaker 42: us to present regarding the archaeological

00:25:12 Speaker 45: potential model that they've prepared for

00:25:15 Speaker 45: us in relation to the archaeological

00:25:17 Speaker 42: management plan. Joining us today is

00:25:21 Speaker 42: Dr. Holly Martell. Holly is a

00:25:24 Speaker 42: principal with TMC, a skilled archaeologist,

00:25:26 Speaker 42: project manager, and relationship builder, and

00:25:28 Speaker 42: we've been so very fortunate to

00:25:31 Speaker 42: have her as project. lead for

00:25:34 Speaker 42: the model preparation component of the

00:25:36 Speaker 42: app project. Holly is joined today

00:25:39 Speaker 42: by Dr. John Moody, Team HC's

00:25:41 Speaker 42: digital applications manager and the GIS

00:25:44 Speaker 42: lead for the project. John has

00:25:46 Speaker 42: over fifteen years of experience working

00:25:48 Speaker 42: on various facets of archaeology projects

00:25:49 Speaker 42: and is an innovator in his

00:25:50 Speaker 42: field relating to data collection, management,

00:25:53 Speaker 42: and presentation through technology. And certainly,

00:25:55 Speaker 42: we benefited from John's expertise. as

00:25:57 Speaker 42: well in preparation of the JS-based

00:25:59 Speaker 42: model as they'll present to you

00:26:00 Speaker 42: today. So I think the intention

00:26:01 Speaker 42: is this one being related to

00:26:03 Speaker 46: the project will be a little

00:26:06 Speaker 46: bit longer than our usual delegation.

00:26:06 Speaker 46: So they've got lots of information

00:26:08 Speaker 47: to share with us today. We'll

00:26:11 Speaker 47: have an opportunity for some questions,

00:26:14 Speaker 02: and then we'll also be presenting

00:26:16 Speaker 02: the staff report just a little

00:26:18 Speaker 02: bit later. So there'll be some

00:26:20 Speaker 02: further discussion opportunity then. But I

00:26:22 Speaker 02: won't take up any more time.

00:26:23 Speaker 02: I'll just pass that along to

00:26:24 Speaker 02: NHC. To Team HC, thank you

00:26:26 Speaker 02: so much. Okay, thank you. So,

00:26:28 Speaker 02: welcome, Ms. Martell and Mr. Moody,

00:26:37 Speaker 02: for for your presentation this morning.

00:26:39 Speaker 02: And Council will listen, and then

00:26:41 Speaker 02: we'll ask questions of clarification to

00:26:44 Speaker 02: you while you're here. And then,

00:26:46 Speaker 02: of course, we'll have a

00:26:48 Speaker 48: further discussion when the actual report

00:26:53 Speaker 48: comes forward later in the agenda.

00:26:54 Speaker 48: So, with that, welcome, and the

00:26:55 Speaker 48: floor is yours. Thank you. so

00:26:57 Speaker 48: much, Warden and Council, and Liz

00:26:58 Speaker 49: for inviting us to come and

00:27:00 Speaker 49: present to you today on the

00:27:02 Speaker 49: progress and findings of the preparation

00:27:04 Speaker 50: of the archaeological management plan for

00:27:07 Speaker 50: Gray County. Just to give you

00:27:10 Speaker 50: a little bit of an overview

00:27:11 Speaker 50: of what we're going to talk

00:27:13 Speaker 50: about today, we wanted to give

00:27:16 Speaker 50: sort of a high level summary

00:27:17 Speaker 50: of archaeology in Gray County. Talk

00:27:19 Speaker 50: a little bit about the goals

00:27:21 Speaker 51: of the archaeological management plan. discuss

00:27:27 Speaker 51: how we've developed the archaeological potential

00:27:31 Speaker 51: model or that planning layer that's

00:27:33 Speaker 51: used in a planning context. What

00:27:35 Speaker 51: the methodology was for data collection,

00:27:36 Speaker 50: how we've compiled that layer, how

00:27:39 Speaker 50: it will be used in the

00:27:41 Speaker 50: planning context going forward, and current

00:27:43 Speaker 50: status of the project, and

00:27:46 Speaker 50: discuss some next steps. Yeah, archaeology

00:27:48 Speaker 50: in Gray County is something that

00:27:50 Speaker 50: is a lot of community

00:27:53 Speaker 50: members are very passionate about. There

00:27:56 Speaker 50: is a high level of archaeological

00:27:58 Speaker 50: significance throughout various areas in Grey

00:28:01 Speaker 50: County, and the county actually contains

00:28:03 Speaker 50: some of the oldest and most

00:28:07 Speaker 50: significant known archaeological sites in Ontario,

00:28:10 Speaker 50: dating back over ten thousand years

00:28:11 Speaker 50: old. To date, one hundred ninety-nine

00:28:13 Speaker 50: registered archaeological exists in the archaeological

00:28:17 Speaker 50: sites exist in the county, and

00:28:20 Speaker 50: those include both Indigenous and historic

00:28:23 Speaker 50: settler sites. Ninety-one of those

00:28:26 Speaker 50: are Indigenous. villages, camps, and burial

00:28:28 Speaker 50: sites, which all together offer evidence

00:28:31 Speaker 50: of continuous indigenous presence in the

00:28:37 Speaker 50: county from at least the end

00:28:40 Speaker 50: of the last ice age

00:28:43 Speaker 50: to the present day. Early efforts

00:28:46 Speaker 50: at archaeological conservation in Gregg County

00:28:50 Speaker 50: really came at the hands of

00:28:51 Speaker 50: really passionate individuals, researchers like Peter

00:28:54 Speaker 50: Stork, for example, and Dr. William

00:28:57 Speaker 50: Fitzgerald, who are very interested. in

00:28:59 Speaker 50: understanding past Indigenous life in the

00:29:01 Speaker 50: county, and we're undertaking research

00:29:04 Speaker 50: alongside avocationalists and concerned citizens

00:29:06 Speaker 50: who were watching out for very

00:29:09 Speaker 50: precious archaeological resources and trying to

00:29:10 Speaker 50: take efforts to make sure they

00:29:13 Speaker 50: were documented and protected in threat

00:29:16 Speaker 50: of ensuing development. A lot of

00:29:18 Speaker 50: early efforts were concentrated in the

00:29:20 Speaker 50: nineteen. were concentrated in the 1980s

00:29:22 Speaker 50: under the umbrella of a provincial

00:29:24 Speaker 50: ministry responsible for archaeology. There was

00:29:28 Speaker 50: an archaeological conservation programme, and folks

00:29:31 Speaker 50: like Charlie and Ella Garrard, you

00:29:33 Speaker 50: might be familiar with, with their

00:29:36 Speaker 50: names, and Mike and Christine Kirby,

00:29:38 Speaker 50: worked tirelessly on on weekends and

00:29:41 Speaker 50: and evenings to go out and

00:29:43 Speaker 50: document sites and make sure they're

00:29:45 Speaker 50: identified and protected. And at that

00:29:47 Speaker 50: time, there was no municipal or

00:29:49 Speaker 50: planning framework to to really address.

00:29:52 Speaker 50: the conservation of archaeological resources, and

00:29:53 Speaker 50: no legislation to support that, or

00:29:55 Speaker 50: a requirement for archaeological assessments to

00:29:57 Speaker 50: be undertaken at that time, so

00:30:00 Speaker 50: their efforts were really important. Today,

00:30:02 Speaker 50: what we know about archaeology in

00:30:04 Speaker 50: Gray County really stems back to

00:30:09 Speaker 50: their work. A lot of those

00:30:11 Speaker 50: register sites we know about are

00:30:13 Speaker 50: comprised of the bulk of registered

00:30:14 Speaker 50: sites still unknown about in Gray

00:30:17 Speaker 50: County. But when we look at

00:30:19 Speaker 50: the number of sites in the

00:30:21 Speaker 50: county in relation to the land

00:30:24 Speaker 50: mass. Gray counties, you know, got

00:30:25 Speaker 50: this Van Lats land mass of

00:30:27 Speaker 50: 4,500 square kilometres. The 199 sites

00:30:30 Speaker 50: is really, really a very small

00:30:32 Speaker 50: number, and is not representative in

00:30:34 Speaker 50: any way of the number of

00:30:37 Speaker 50: sites that are actually out there.

00:30:41 Speaker 50: When we look in comparison

00:30:43 Speaker 50: to, say, a smaller municipality like

00:30:48 Speaker 50: the city of London, for example,

00:30:49 Speaker 50: which is a tenth of the

00:30:51 Speaker 50: size. of Gray County. There are

00:30:54 Speaker 50: over 500 registered sites known there

00:30:55 Speaker 50: now, and a lot of that

00:30:57 Speaker 50: dates back to the early development

00:30:59 Speaker 50: of an archaeological management plan in

00:31:01 Speaker 50: the mid 90s and sort of

00:31:04 Speaker 50: rigorous implementation of archaeological conservation within

00:31:06 Speaker 50: the planning context. When we look

00:31:08 Speaker 50: also at the registered sites, here's

00:31:11 Speaker 50: a map on the right that

00:31:12 Speaker 50: shows where they're distributed across. the

00:31:15 Speaker 50: county, you can see that there's

00:31:18 Speaker 50: quite a bit of difference. Many

00:31:20 Speaker 50: of the sites we know about

00:31:23 Speaker 50: are concentrated in the areas where

00:31:26 Speaker 50: those researchers have looked in

00:31:29 Speaker 50: the historic territories of the Payton,

00:31:32 Speaker 50: for example, in the Beaver Valley,

00:31:34 Speaker 50: or they're concentrated in municipalities and

00:31:36 Speaker 50: those areas that have witnessed a

00:31:39 Speaker 50: lot of land development. For example,

00:31:43 Speaker 50: along Highway 26 and those lakeside

00:31:45 Speaker 50: areas where the county has witnessed

00:31:47 Speaker 50: a lot of residential. and commercial

00:31:50 Speaker 50: development, a lot of roadworks to

00:31:53 Speaker 52: improve transportation and infrastructure networks. We

00:31:55 Speaker 52: also have sites documented in areas

00:31:57 Speaker 50: that have been subject to survey

00:32:00 Speaker 50: for some of those aggregate pits

00:32:02 Speaker 50: that, you know, delving into the

00:32:05 Speaker 50: the rich aggregate resources in the

00:32:07 Speaker 50: county. But for the most part,

00:32:09 Speaker 50: the the sites are are being

00:32:12 Speaker 50: found where we've been looking, but

00:32:14 Speaker 50: we're not necessarily. identifying potential in

00:32:16 Speaker 50: all areas of the county. If

00:32:17 Speaker 50: you can see on the map

00:32:20 Speaker 50: too that many of the lower

00:32:23 Speaker 50: tier municipalities, some of the historic

00:32:24 Speaker 50: township, have no or very few

00:32:27 Speaker 50: archaeological sites recorded so far, and

00:32:33 Speaker 50: that is often a reflection of

00:32:34 Speaker 50: a lack of survey and assessment

00:32:39 Speaker 50: that's been done. Some related to

00:32:42 Speaker 50: the fact that those areas

00:32:46 Speaker 50: just don't see much in the

00:32:50 Speaker 50: way of land development, but

00:32:51 Speaker 50: in other cases. it's a product

00:32:53 Speaker 50: of the planning context and some

00:32:56 Speaker 50: uncertainty around how and when

00:32:59 Speaker 50: an archaeological assessment should be undertaken.

00:33:03 Speaker 50: Today, there is legislation, and since

00:33:05 Speaker 50: the 1990s, there is a

00:33:08 Speaker 50: legislation and policy and regulatory framework

00:33:11 Speaker 50: that makes municipalities in Ontario

00:33:16 Speaker 50: responsible for archaeological conservation. The provincial

00:33:19 Speaker 50: planning statement, in particular. requires that

00:33:21 Speaker 50: planning authorities shall not permit development

00:33:24 Speaker 50: and site alteration on lands

00:33:26 Speaker 50: containing archaeological resources or areas of

00:33:28 Speaker 50: archaeological potential unless the significant archaeological

00:33:31 Speaker 50: resources have been conserved. The Planning

00:33:33 Speaker 50: Act calls for recognition of archaeological

00:33:36 Speaker 50: resources, and the Ontario Heritage Act

00:33:38 Speaker 50: offers protection for registered archaeological sites

00:33:41 Speaker 50: in the province. Municipalities across Ontario,

00:33:43 Speaker 50: Grey County being one of them,

00:33:45 Speaker 50: have often been challenged to manage

00:33:48 Speaker 50: archaeology and these archaeological interests and

00:33:51 Speaker 50: meet those provincial requirements. And there's

00:33:54 Speaker 50: a number of reasons for that.

00:33:55 Speaker 50: Identifying those areas of concern or

00:33:57 Speaker 50: interest where archaeological sites might be,

00:34:00 Speaker 50: where there is archaeological potential, is

00:34:02 Speaker 50: not an easy thing to do.

00:34:05 Speaker 50: The information to make those evaluations

00:34:09 Speaker 50: is very hard to access. It's

00:34:12 Speaker 50: not consistently updated or not consolidated

00:34:16 Speaker 50: in one place. There's often uncertainty

00:34:18 Speaker 50: about when and where to require

00:34:21 Speaker 50: archaeological assessment, and it can

00:34:24 Speaker 50: be approached differently by different planners

00:34:27 Speaker 50: at various tiers, lower and upper,

00:34:29 Speaker 50: and it can vary based on

00:34:31 Speaker 50: the type of application being put

00:34:36 Speaker 50: forth in a planning context or

00:34:39 Speaker 50: the legislative requirements. But noting that

00:34:41 Speaker 50: the consequences for not identifying archaeological

00:34:44 Speaker 50: interests, as we all know, with

00:34:46 Speaker 50: recent press findings across Ontario can

00:34:48 Speaker 50: be very difficult to navigate. Particularly

00:34:51 Speaker 50: as Indigenous communities are expecting more

00:34:53 Speaker 50: and asserting their treaty and

00:34:56 Speaker 53: territorial rights and interests with respect

00:34:58 Speaker 53: to their archaeological heritage. So the

00:35:01 Speaker 53: goals of the archaeological management plan,

00:35:02 Speaker 53: or AMP, for short, is

00:35:05 Speaker 50: to help. a municipality, or in

00:35:08 Speaker 50: this case, help Grey County, meet

00:35:12 Speaker 50: their responsibilities under the Planning Act

00:35:14 Speaker 50: and provincial policy statement. And it

00:35:17 Speaker 50: can an AMP can help develop

00:35:19 Speaker 50: a good understanding of where archaeological

00:35:21 Speaker 50: resources are, or are currently known

00:35:24 Speaker 50: within the county, or might be

00:35:26 Speaker 50: located. Can create a clear process

00:35:31 Speaker 50: for addressing archaeological interests in the

00:35:33 Speaker 50: planning context. Can help establish a

00:35:36 Speaker 50: consistent and transparent. Distant and transparent

00:35:38 Speaker 50: process for requiring archaeological assessments as

00:35:41 Speaker 50: part of the Planning Act and

00:35:44 Speaker 50: other municipal projects and approvals, and

00:35:47 Speaker 50: define a better process for

00:35:49 Speaker 50: engaging Indigenous communities when and

00:35:53 Speaker 50: where their heritage is affected by

00:35:59 Speaker 50: land use changes approved by the

00:36:01 Speaker 50: county. It's also acknowledged that an

00:36:04 Speaker 50: AMP can help address Indigenous interests

00:36:07 Speaker 50: in archaeology, and and again going

00:36:09 Speaker 50: back to the provincial planning

00:36:13 Speaker 50: statement. it suggests or or requires

00:36:16 Speaker 50: planning authorities shall engage early with

00:36:19 Speaker 50: indigenous communities and ensure their interests

00:36:22 Speaker 50: are considered when identifying, protecting and

00:36:28 Speaker 50: managing archaeological resources, built heritage resources

00:36:31 Speaker 50: and cultural heritage landscapes. So what

00:36:32 Speaker 50: is an archaeological management plan? It's

00:36:34 Speaker 50: essentially a planning tool for municipalities

00:36:38 Speaker 50: to use to manage, in other.

00:36:41 Speaker 50: words, to identify, to conserve, and

00:36:45 Speaker 50: protect archaeological resources within their jurisdiction.

00:36:48 Speaker 50: It really helps establish a

00:36:50 Speaker 50: clear planning framework to plan for

00:36:53 Speaker 50: the the better conservation of archaeological

00:36:57 Speaker 50: resources. An AMP is essentially a

00:36:59 Speaker 50: very collabourative process. We don't do

00:37:01 Speaker 50: this on our own. We take

00:37:04 Speaker 50: into account the information, the expertise,

00:37:08 Speaker 50: the. experience, that a variety of

00:37:11 Speaker 50: planners, both at the county level

00:37:13 Speaker 50: and private private planners, developers, individuals

00:37:15 Speaker 50: who interact with archaeology and archaeological

00:37:18 Speaker 50: assessment requirements on a daily basis,

00:37:20 Speaker 50: the city is or the

00:37:24 Speaker 50: county has developed a technical advisory

00:37:27 Speaker 50: committee, which has helped us along

00:37:29 Speaker 50: the way within this process.

00:37:31 Speaker 50: We've engaged with indigenous and descendant

00:37:34 Speaker 50: communities. including Saugeen Ojibway Nation, who

00:37:37 Speaker 50: have had a leading role, historic

00:37:40 Speaker 50: Saugeen Métis Six Nations, many of

00:37:44 Speaker 50: those communities that were identified in

00:37:47 Speaker 50: your land acknowledgement today. We've been

00:37:50 Speaker 50: working with the local Black heritage

00:37:53 Speaker 50: communities as well, stakeholders, museums throughout

00:37:55 Speaker 50: the county or beyond the county

00:37:57 Speaker 50: that may have information about archaeological

00:37:59 Speaker 50: resources and collections from Grey County.

00:38:02 Speaker 50: Gray County, local historical and archaeological

00:38:03 Speaker 50: organisations, community groups, and of course

00:38:06 Speaker 50: local archaeologists with expertise in this

00:38:09 Speaker 50: area. There are two components

00:38:12 Speaker 50: essentially of the archaeological management plan.

00:38:15 Speaker 50: One is the archaeological potential model,

00:38:18 Speaker 50: which is essentially a GIS-based map

00:38:20 Speaker 50: or planning layer or planning layers

00:38:23 Speaker 50: and data that informs those layers.

00:38:28 Speaker 50: In the compilation of that, has

00:38:29 Speaker 50: been the responsibility of T. Responsibility

00:38:32 Speaker 50: of TMHC, and that's what we're

00:38:34 Speaker 50: going to talk most about today.

00:38:38 Speaker 50: Alongside that, the Gray County Planning

00:38:41 Speaker 50: Department is preparing policy, planning, and

00:38:42 Speaker 50: implementation framework, which will develop the

00:38:44 Speaker 50: procedures and approach for utilising that

00:38:46 Speaker 50: GIS map or planning layer, that

00:38:47 Speaker 50: archaeological potential model, addressing how that

00:38:50 Speaker 50: will be used within making planning

00:38:52 Speaker 50: decisions. So today, as I said,

00:38:55 Speaker 50: we're going to speak to the

00:38:57 Speaker 50: archaeological potential model and our methodology

00:39:00 Speaker 50: for establishing that model and planning

00:39:02 Speaker 50: tool. Building the model, we have

00:39:04 Speaker 50: used a series of steps. They're

00:39:06 Speaker 50: kind of a logical set of

00:39:10 Speaker 50: steps that we've taken to create

00:39:12 Speaker 50: a number of layers that we

00:39:15 Speaker 50: can then compile into an overall

00:39:18 Speaker 50: planning tool or a composite layer

00:39:20 Speaker 50: to be used by planning staff.

00:39:22 Speaker 50: The first step is to map

00:39:24 Speaker 50: the archaeological sets. sites in the

00:39:27 Speaker 50: county, so we wanted to

00:39:29 Speaker 50: gather all that data on the

00:39:31 Speaker 50: registered archaeological sites that are known

00:39:33 Speaker 50: within the county. Registered sites

00:39:37 Speaker 50: are kept in an inventory that

00:39:40 Speaker 50: is maintained by the Ministry of

00:39:43 Speaker 50: Citizenship and Multiculturalism within a provincial

00:39:45 Speaker 50: registry or database. So we've collected

00:39:48 Speaker 50: that information, but we also wanted

00:39:50 Speaker 50: to supplement that, knowing that there

00:39:52 Speaker 50: has been sort of, you know,

00:39:56 Speaker 50: relatively. little archaeological assessment done, particularly

00:39:57 Speaker 50: in certain parts of Gray County.

00:40:00 Speaker 50: So we wanted to supplement those

00:40:02 Speaker 50: registered sites' information with information that

00:40:05 Speaker 50: suggests that archaeological sites have been

00:40:08 Speaker 50: found, potentially not registered, or may

00:40:10 Speaker 50: exist in other areas but have

00:40:12 Speaker 54: not been confirmed by an archaeologist.

00:40:16 Speaker 54: So the map of archaeological sites,

00:40:18 Speaker 54: then our whole data set of

00:40:20 Speaker 50: of known archaeological findings, comes from.

00:40:23 Speaker 50: sites that have been confirmed and

00:40:24 Speaker 50: identified by archaeologists, but others that

00:40:27 Speaker 50: have just been reported with in

00:40:30 Speaker 50: historical documents, whether those be maps,

00:40:32 Speaker 50: newspapers, accounts, some oral histories, or

00:40:34 Speaker 50: other information, museum collections that suggest

00:40:37 Speaker 50: that sites could be present on

00:40:41 Speaker 50: lands within the county. To give

00:40:43 Speaker 50: you a summary, the map on

00:40:46 Speaker 50: the right shows the locations of

00:40:48 Speaker 50: the archaeological sites that we've included

00:40:51 Speaker 50: in our model that. we are

00:40:52 Speaker 50: aware of, as I said, 199

00:40:55 Speaker 50: of those are registered. We've we've

00:40:58 Speaker 50: got sites that came directly from

00:41:01 Speaker 50: the database and the ministry source

00:41:03 Speaker 50: directly. We've done through further investigation

00:41:05 Speaker 50: found an additional 40 registered sites

00:41:06 Speaker 50: there, bringing the total to 199.

00:41:08 Speaker 50: As I said earlier, about half,

00:41:14 Speaker 50: almost half of those have an

00:41:16 Speaker 50: indigenous component to them, and the

00:41:19 Speaker 50: other half relating to sort of

00:41:20 Speaker 50: historic settler sites, the sites that

00:41:24 Speaker 50: we've supplemented, those sites that are

00:41:27 Speaker 50: unregistered in the present provincial database,

00:41:29 Speaker 50: and those may be fine spots

00:41:31 Speaker 50: of single artifacts that archaeologists have

00:41:33 Speaker 50: found over the years, but might

00:41:37 Speaker 50: have not have met the threshold

00:41:40 Speaker 50: for provincial registration. Fine spots, including

00:41:42 Speaker 50: historical references or site leads, areas

00:41:45 Speaker 50: where sites may be known to

00:41:46 Speaker 50: have existed but have not yet

00:41:48 Speaker 50: been confirmed. by an archaeologist. We

00:41:52 Speaker 50: also, as part of this compilation

00:41:55 Speaker 50: of this map, verified the site

00:41:57 Speaker 50: locations through comparison with reports and

00:42:00 Speaker 50: make sure that the data was

00:42:04 Speaker 50: highly accurate. The second step

00:42:07 Speaker 50: of building the archaeological model

00:42:10 Speaker 50: was then to map areas of

00:42:13 Speaker 50: archaeological potential. So, where are those

00:42:15 Speaker 50: areas where sites that maybe have

00:42:18 Speaker 50: not yet been found,

00:42:21 Speaker 50: but there is potential for sites

00:42:24 Speaker 50: to exist? that process is

00:42:27 Speaker 50: very much guided by standards and

00:42:31 Speaker 50: guidelines that are established by the

00:42:34 Speaker 50: Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism, who

00:42:36 Speaker 50: provide some baseline criteria for predicting

00:42:38 Speaker 50: where archaeological sites might exist and

00:42:40 Speaker 50: evaluating, evaluating or identifying archaeological potential.

00:42:42 Speaker 50: Some of the example criteria that

00:42:44 Speaker 50: are used to signal archaeological potential

00:42:47 Speaker 50: include the presence of watercourses, wetlands,

00:42:50 Speaker 50: glacial shorelines, historic settlement features like

00:42:53 Speaker 50: churches or mapped buildings, transportation routes

00:42:54 Speaker 50: like early roadways or trails, portages,

00:42:56 Speaker 50: and resource areas. And we know

00:43:00 Speaker 50: for we know that Grey County

00:43:02 Speaker 50: has one of the primary sources

00:43:03 Speaker 50: for Indigenous toolstone in all of

00:43:06 Speaker 50: the province, used throughout the Great

00:43:08 Speaker 50: Lakes, and it's a very important

00:43:10 Speaker 50: part of that Indigenous. history in

00:43:16 Speaker 50: Gray County. So to prepare a

00:43:18 Speaker 50: map of archaeological potential, basically we

00:43:21 Speaker 50: and John have spent a lot

00:43:23 Speaker 50: of time doing this, identifying the

00:43:25 Speaker 50: various physical features, historic features from

00:43:27 Speaker 50: historic maps and so on, put

00:43:30 Speaker 50: those in a into a GIS

00:43:33 Speaker 50: map and a database, and from

00:43:35 Speaker 50: those features we establish a distance

00:43:39 Speaker 50: buffer around those features

00:43:43 Speaker 50: and create an area of archaeological

00:43:46 Speaker 50: potential. Within the model, we've created

00:43:49 Speaker 50: two key layers of archaeological potential.

00:43:52 Speaker 50: One of those is an indigenous

00:43:56 Speaker 50: archaeological potential layer. The other is

00:43:59 Speaker 50: a historic or a municipal settlement

00:44:02 Speaker 50: period or settlement area map of

00:44:06 Speaker 50: potential. We map these separately because

00:44:09 Speaker 50: they are very much tied to

00:44:11 Speaker 50: traditional land uses, different systems of

00:44:13 Speaker 50: land management, resource resource utilization, where

00:44:16 Speaker 50: indigenous. archaeological potential is very much

00:44:18 Speaker 50: tied to traditional knowledge and land

00:44:20 Speaker 50: use, oriented around seasonal cycles, hunting,

00:44:24 Speaker 50: fishing, the gathering of traditional resources

00:44:26 Speaker 50: like medicines and edible plants, very

00:44:28 Speaker 50: much heavily heavily centreed on water.

00:44:31 Speaker 50: Water is life, of course, to

00:44:37 Speaker 50: indigenous communities. The historic or municipal

00:44:41 Speaker 50: settlement era potential is really much

00:44:44 Speaker 50: geared to or or based on

00:44:47 Speaker 50: a colonial land-based management system, so

00:44:48 Speaker 50: we look at settlement lots and

00:44:51 Speaker 50: early buildings and industries. It's heavily

00:44:53 Speaker 50: centreed on transportation routes because those

00:44:55 Speaker 50: are are what encouraged settlement to

00:44:58 Speaker 50: occur in the first place. And

00:45:00 Speaker 50: of course, we look at the

00:45:03 Speaker 50: registered sites relating to both indigenous

00:45:05 Speaker 50: and historic settlement when we develop

00:45:07 Speaker 50: those mapping layers. The third step

00:45:10 Speaker 50: of building the archaeological potential map

00:45:12 Speaker 50: is to also map all of

00:45:15 Speaker 50: those areas that's been previously studied.

00:45:17 Speaker 50: One of the challenges to know

00:45:20 Speaker 50: where and when an archaeological assessment

00:45:21 Speaker 50: has been taken place has taken

00:45:24 Speaker 50: place in the past, and also

00:45:27 Speaker 50: what its status is. So, archaeological

00:45:29 Speaker 50: assessments are done in various stages,

00:45:32 Speaker 50: and sometimes there's only a background

00:45:36 Speaker 50: study that's done. Sometimes there's an

00:45:39 Speaker 50: intensive survey. Sometimes lands are cleared

00:45:41 Speaker 50: of archaeological concern, and sometimes there's

00:45:43 Speaker 50: still some lingering interest. Maybe some

00:45:47 Speaker 50: sites have been registered and not

00:45:48 Speaker 50: yet fully mitigated. So, for a

00:45:51 Speaker 50: planner to evaluate and know the

00:45:52 Speaker 50: status of archaeological interests on a

00:45:56 Speaker 50: particular property is critical, and that

00:46:00 Speaker 50: information is hard to collect in

00:46:04 Speaker 50: the current system without sort of

00:46:07 Speaker 50: comprehensive mapping of these areas of

00:46:08 Speaker 50: previous assessment. and backup data that

00:46:10 Speaker 50: indicate what the particular status of

00:46:13 Speaker 50: archaeological interests on a specific land

00:46:14 Speaker 50: parcel are. So, in terms of

00:46:17 Speaker 50: that, we've created a map of

00:46:20 Speaker 50: all the archaeological assessments and studies

00:46:21 Speaker 50: that we were able to identify.

00:46:24 Speaker 50: We did identify 567 in Gray

00:46:26 Speaker 50: County. We were able to obtain

00:46:29 Speaker 50: 551 of those reports. We could

00:46:33 Speaker 50: not. obtain sixteen. Most of those

00:46:35 Speaker 50: are very old, and nobody seems

00:46:38 Speaker 50: to be able to find

00:46:41 Speaker 50: them anymore. The reports, many of

00:46:44 Speaker 50: them, are stored in a provincial

00:46:46 Speaker 50: database managed by that ministry. Again,

00:46:49 Speaker 50: but they can often get lost.

00:46:52 Speaker 50: Some of the old records are

00:46:54 Speaker 50: particularly hard to find. Tracking the

00:46:57 Speaker 50: status can also be challenging with

00:47:00 Speaker 50: changes in the ministry administration as

00:47:02 Speaker 50: well. We note that close to

00:47:04 Speaker 50: half of those. Almost a half

00:47:06 Speaker 50: of those reports were completed prior

00:47:09 Speaker 50: to the contemporary standards and guidelines

00:47:12 Speaker 50: for consultant archaeologists, which were passed

00:47:13 Speaker 50: in 2011. And those are both

00:47:19 Speaker 50: the best practice and regulatory standards

00:47:22 Speaker 50: that that are required to be

00:47:25 Speaker 50: met for archaeological interests to be

00:47:26 Speaker 50: considered in the province. So

00:47:28 Speaker 50: we have tagged all of those

00:47:30 Speaker 50: reports, noting that some of those

00:47:32 Speaker 50: older reports done prior to the

00:47:34 Speaker 50: contemporary Courts done prior to the

00:47:39 Speaker 50: contemporary standards may need a second

00:47:41 Speaker 50: look. May need some engagement with

00:47:42 Speaker 50: indigenous communities. May need some further

00:47:46 Speaker 50: clarification before it can be determined

00:47:50 Speaker 50: that lands are clear of archaeological

00:47:55 Speaker 50: concern. Finally, the last step, kind

00:47:57 Speaker 50: of in in, are building the

00:47:58 Speaker 50: archaeological map, is to map and

00:48:00 Speaker 50: remove areas where there is no

00:48:03 Speaker 50: further archaeological interest, either because they've

00:48:06 Speaker 50: been cleared by previous studies or

00:48:07 Speaker 50: where. there's deep land impacts that

00:48:09 Speaker 50: have removed the possibility of archaeological

00:48:12 Speaker 50: resources to be present, and the

00:48:15 Speaker 50: map on the right again shows

00:48:18 Speaker 50: areas that we have mapped that

00:48:22 Speaker 50: no longer have integrity or no

00:48:24 Speaker 50: longer have archaeological interest because they

00:48:27 Speaker 50: have been falsely studied. So when

00:48:30 Speaker 50: we developed this layer, again

00:48:32 Speaker 50: we looked at those all of

00:48:35 Speaker 50: those previous studies. All of those

00:48:37 Speaker 50: previous assessments, and we've been able

00:48:41 Speaker 50: to tag where archaeological concerns have

00:48:43 Speaker 50: been fully addressed. That would mean

00:48:46 Speaker 50: that those areas could then be

00:48:48 Speaker 50: removed from the archaeological potential layer

00:48:50 Speaker 50: and that planning tool to not

00:48:53 Speaker 50: require an archaeological assessment again. We've

00:48:55 Speaker 50: also done an evaluation, a high-level

00:48:56 Speaker 50: evaluation of integrity that's been focused

00:48:59 Speaker 50: on some key areas in the

00:49:00 Speaker 50: county to evaluate or identify. areas

00:49:03 Speaker 50: where there is no longer potential

00:49:07 Speaker 50: for finding archaeological resources intact. So

00:49:09 Speaker 50: those areas that have been very

00:49:12 Speaker 50: deeply and very extensively disturbed. Providing

00:49:15 Speaker 50: a bit of an example here

00:49:17 Speaker 50: and more discussion about how we've

00:49:23 Speaker 50: evaluated integrity. It's not an easy

00:49:26 Speaker 50: process to do based on a

00:49:30 Speaker 50: desk a desktop review only,

00:49:33 Speaker 50: without going out to a site

00:49:35 Speaker 50: and spending a lot of time

00:49:38 Speaker 50: researching the prior land. use on

00:49:39 Speaker 50: a property, but we are still

00:49:42 Speaker 50: able to do, I think, a

00:49:43 Speaker 50: good high-level evaluation in various areas

00:49:47 Speaker 50: through careful analysis of aerial imagery.

00:49:49 Speaker 50: We look at contemporary conditions. We

00:49:53 Speaker 50: look at historical aerial imagery that

00:49:56 Speaker 50: demonstrates and can demonstrate the degree

00:49:57 Speaker 50: of prior extensive disturbance. We targeted

00:49:59 Speaker 50: in this case some obvious areas.

00:50:01 Speaker 50: where, for example, aggregate extraction has

00:50:04 Speaker 50: happened, some major subdivision developments that

00:50:06 Speaker 50: have involved, you know, extents of

00:50:09 Speaker 50: land clearing and disturbance. We've looked

00:50:10 Speaker 50: at a lot of the urban

00:50:12 Speaker 50: lands outside of the historic settlement

00:50:15 Speaker 50: areas where there there might be

00:50:16 Speaker 50: some interest in historic archaeological resources.

00:50:18 Speaker 50: So we were able to remove

00:50:20 Speaker 50: a significant number of of land

00:50:26 Speaker 50: parcels from the archaeological potential model

00:50:28 Speaker 50: in that way. The map on

00:50:30 Speaker 50: the left there is just an

00:50:32 Speaker 50: example of areas that have been

00:50:34 Speaker 50: removed of archaeological potential. Those areas

00:50:37 Speaker 50: in orange there have been removed

00:50:38 Speaker 50: because they were previously assessed and

00:50:40 Speaker 50: all the archaeological concerns have been

00:50:42 Speaker 50: addressed in those parcels. The area

00:50:44 Speaker 50: that's in the green has been

00:50:46 Speaker 50: removed because we were able to

00:50:49 Speaker 50: determine through the aerial imagery that

00:50:52 Speaker 50: those areas have been very

00:50:55 Speaker 50: extensively disturbed and there's no further

00:50:58 Speaker 50: archaeological. concern there. So, with all

00:51:00 Speaker 50: those steps taken and those mapping

00:51:02 Speaker 50: layers developed, we are then able

00:51:05 Speaker 50: to kind of compile them

00:51:07 Speaker 50: together to create that composite

00:51:09 Speaker 50: archaeological potential model or map that

00:51:12 Speaker 50: can be used in a planning

00:51:13 Speaker 50: context. So, this slide is just

00:51:16 Speaker 50: giving a general summary of what

00:51:18 Speaker 50: those layers are and how we've

00:51:21 Speaker 50: combined them. So, we create a

00:51:23 Speaker 55: map of indigenous archaeological potential, as

00:51:26 Speaker 55: I said. combine that with

00:51:29 Speaker 55: a layer denoting the historic archaeological

00:51:31 Speaker 55: potential. Both of those layers add

00:51:32 Speaker 55: potential to the mapping layer, and

00:51:34 Speaker 50: then we remove from those the

00:51:36 Speaker 50: integrity—the places where there's no longer

00:51:38 Speaker 50: integrity, where archaeological assessments have

00:51:40 Speaker 50: been undertaken and removed archaeological concern—and

00:51:46 Speaker 50: then we've also then removed areas

00:51:47 Speaker 50: that are outside of the county

00:51:49 Speaker 50: jurisdiction. So that would be all

00:51:50 Speaker 50: of those federal lands and provincial

00:51:52 Speaker 50: lands. for which the county does

00:51:53 Speaker 50: not make any planning decisions for.

00:51:56 Speaker 50: The final outcome would be that

00:52:00 Speaker 50: composite archaeological potential layer, and that's

00:52:03 Speaker 50: the layer that would be used

00:52:06 Speaker 50: by planning staff when determining

00:52:08 Speaker 50: whether or not an archaeological assessment

00:52:11 Speaker 50: will be required as part of

00:52:14 Speaker 50: the approval of a planning application

00:52:18 Speaker 50: or doing during municipal infrastructure and

00:52:21 Speaker 50: development projects. So, I want to

00:52:23 Speaker 50: talk a little bit more. to

00:52:26 Speaker 50: about that planning tool, give you

00:52:29 Speaker 50: an idea of what it looks

00:52:31 Speaker 50: like a little bit more close

00:52:32 Speaker 50: up, and kind of give some

00:52:38 Speaker 50: kind of analysis and explanation about

00:52:41 Speaker 50: its effectiveness and what we've arrived

00:52:43 Speaker 50: at. So the composite map, as

00:52:47 Speaker 50: you see here in high level,

00:52:49 Speaker 50: indicates where archaeological assessment should happen

00:52:52 Speaker 50: to fulfil provincial those provincial requirements

00:52:56 Speaker 50: to manage, identify, conserve archaeological resources.

00:52:59 Speaker 50: Serve archaeological resources. We have tested

00:53:01 Speaker 50: the effectiveness of that model, and

00:53:02 Speaker 50: we've done that by comparison comparing

00:53:05 Speaker 50: the areas of archaeological potential mapped

00:53:08 Speaker 50: in this model to the registered

00:53:11 Speaker 50: and known archaeological sites that sample

00:53:14 Speaker 50: we talked about earlier in the

00:53:17 Speaker 50: presentation. When we do that, this

00:53:20 Speaker 50: particular model that we've developed it

00:53:25 Speaker 50: captures ninety two of the ninety

00:53:26 Speaker 50: six indigenous. archaeological sites and find

00:53:30 Speaker 50: spots that we've identified. So it

00:53:32 Speaker 50: captures ninety-six percent of those. That's

00:53:33 Speaker 50: an excellent capture for this type

00:53:35 Speaker 50: of modelling. For the historic era

00:53:37 Speaker 50: sites, it captures ninety percent of

00:53:40 Speaker 50: those sites, which again is a

00:53:41 Speaker 50: very high capture. And when combined,

00:53:43 Speaker 50: the model captures ninety-three percent of

00:53:46 Speaker 50: the total archaeological sites in our

00:53:47 Speaker 50: sample that is available to. us.

00:53:50 Speaker 50: In total, the composite archaeological map

00:53:52 Speaker 50: captures seventy-two percent of the county

00:53:54 Speaker 50: landmass, which, again, in comparison to

00:53:57 Speaker 50: other AMPs, is a is a

00:53:58 Speaker 50: pretty reasonable target. Wanting to also

00:54:01 Speaker 50: qualify, I mean, it can often

00:54:04 Speaker 50: seem like this is a very

00:54:05 Speaker 50: dense map, and there's a lot,

00:54:07 Speaker 50: high percentage of of area of

00:54:10 Speaker 50: archaeological potential in the county. But

00:54:12 Speaker 50: wanted to speak to how it

00:54:15 Speaker 50: actually. kind of gets triggered

00:54:18 Speaker 50: and used in a planning

00:54:21 Speaker 50: context. So, a large percentage of

00:54:23 Speaker 50: lands with archaeological potential, as shown

00:54:25 Speaker 50: on this map, will likely never

00:54:28 Speaker 50: see development. That that is, they

00:54:29 Speaker 50: are rural farmlands and natural or

00:54:31 Speaker 50: conservation lands that are well away

00:54:33 Speaker 50: from settlement areas. You know, there

00:54:35 Speaker 50: there's very limited likelihood that they

00:54:37 Speaker 50: would ever be developed in a

00:54:40 Speaker 50: way that would require the county

00:54:42 Speaker 50: to trigger an archaeological assessment or

00:54:45 Speaker 50: that a planning. application

00:54:47 Speaker 50: would be submitted. The map is

00:54:50 Speaker 50: really specifically applicable to those circumstances

00:54:51 Speaker 50: and applications where, within a planning

00:54:53 Speaker 50: context, archaeological assessments are triggered. So,

00:54:56 Speaker 50: to give some example on that,

00:55:00 Speaker 50: it would never. These areas of

00:55:02 Speaker 50: archaeological potential would never, for example,

00:55:05 Speaker 50: be zoned on to private lands

00:55:08 Speaker 50: or be applicable to, say, a

00:55:13 Speaker 50: farmer who wants to do some

00:55:14 Speaker 50: landscaping. It would never apply there.

00:55:16 Speaker 50: If that farmer wanted to. build

00:55:18 Speaker 50: a barn and a building

00:55:20 Speaker 50: permit was required, for example, unless

00:55:21 Speaker 50: the Gray County planning context requires

00:55:25 Speaker 50: archaeological assessments for building permits, it

00:55:27 Speaker 50: would it would not trigger an

00:55:29 Speaker 50: archaeological assessment. But in on that

00:55:31 Speaker 50: same land parcel, if a farmer

00:55:34 Speaker 50: wanted to several multiple lots build

00:55:36 Speaker 50: houses or redevelop their property entirely

00:55:38 Speaker 50: as a residential subdivision, then an

00:55:40 Speaker 50: archaeological assessment would be triggered. through

00:55:42 Speaker 50: the use of this planning tool.

00:55:44 Speaker 50: Some more detail just about what

00:55:46 Speaker 50: the planning tool might look like,

00:55:48 Speaker 50: and I—it's hard to show kind

00:55:50 Speaker 50: of the different representations of information

00:55:51 Speaker 50: here. But this is kind of

00:55:54 Speaker 56: a two-dimensional representation of what the

00:55:56 Speaker 56: planning layer would look like. Noting

00:55:58 Speaker 56: that behind this, for any planner,

00:55:59 Speaker 50: would be more details about what

00:56:03 Speaker 50: the features of archaeological potential are.

00:56:05 Speaker 50: If there's, say, a registered site,

00:56:07 Speaker 50: what that site is. There's a

00:56:10 Speaker 50: lot of information that would be

00:56:14 Speaker 50: in the in the data layer

00:56:17 Speaker 50: that would allow a planner to

00:56:20 Speaker 50: have much more information than just

00:56:24 Speaker 50: see this map. So the model

00:56:26 Speaker 50: itself is not just a map;

00:56:29 Speaker 50: it is also the data that

00:56:32 Speaker 50: goes with it that informs it.

00:56:34 Speaker 50: So the planning tool itself is

00:56:35 Speaker 50: both the map and data layers

00:56:38 Speaker 50: that are consulted when a planning

00:56:40 Speaker 50: application is received or municipal project

00:56:43 Speaker 50: is planned. If the proposal includes

00:56:46 Speaker 50: an area of archaeological potential, an

00:56:48 Speaker 50: archaeological assessment should be planned or

00:56:50 Speaker 50: triggered. The underlying data also alerts

00:56:53 Speaker 50: planners to the presence of archaeological

00:56:55 Speaker 50: sites immediately, to pass along to

00:56:59 Speaker 50: the proponent or to whoever is

00:57:01 Speaker 50: is coordinating a project to assist

00:57:03 Speaker 50: in planning. So it really allows

00:57:05 Speaker 50: very early planning in terms of

00:57:08 Speaker 50: you know. what is going to

00:57:10 Speaker 50: happen on a property and

00:57:12 Speaker 50: gives a little bit additional planning

00:57:18 Speaker 50: guidance even at a pre consultation

00:57:20 Speaker 50: stage to a proponent or planning

00:57:23 Speaker 50: for a municipal project for example.

00:57:25 Speaker 50: So the layer, as you can

00:57:31 Speaker 50: see in the image on the

00:57:33 Speaker 50: right, shows some features of archaeological

00:57:34 Speaker 50: potential. There, there's some historic buildings

00:57:36 Speaker 50: and roadways, water courses, a registered

00:57:39 Speaker 50: archaeological site. All of that green

00:57:43 Speaker 50: is buffering a. Green is buffering

00:57:46 Speaker 50: around those features of archaeological potential.

00:57:51 Speaker 50: Any project that would or planning

00:57:52 Speaker 50: application that would occur within or

00:57:55 Speaker 50: or just you know clip any

00:57:57 Speaker 50: portion of archaeological potential would require

00:58:00 Speaker 50: an archaeological assessment, as also informed

00:58:02 Speaker 50: by the planning and implementation process.

00:58:04 Speaker 50: And any area that fell outside

00:58:06 Speaker 50: of that green space would not

00:58:08 Speaker 50: require an archaeological assessment. So, in

00:58:11 Speaker 50: terms of our next steps from

00:58:12 Speaker 50: the potential model, so where we

00:58:14 Speaker 50: are at, we have developed this.

00:58:17 Speaker 50: We are pretty close to finalizing

00:58:20 Speaker 50: it. The model and its data

00:58:22 Speaker 50: layers are currently being reviewed by

00:58:26 Speaker 50: indigenous communities and stakeholders, and we

00:58:27 Speaker 50: are just kind of wrapping up,

00:58:30 Speaker 50: receiving feedback on that, and we'll

00:58:33 Speaker 50: be kind of completing that phase

00:58:35 Speaker 50: of. the project very shortly. We

00:58:38 Speaker 57: will also TMHC will be making

00:58:43 Speaker 50: recommendations for a process and a

00:58:47 Speaker 50: time period for updating the data

00:58:49 Speaker 50: that's within the model and for

00:58:51 Speaker 50: keeping the information current. And it's

00:58:53 Speaker 50: really important that the model and

00:58:56 Speaker 50: the mapping layer is considered to

00:58:58 Speaker 50: be a dynamic tool. There are

00:59:00 Speaker 50: archaeological sites registered every day. There

00:59:02 Speaker 50: are archaeological assessments and new planning

00:59:04 Speaker 50: applications coming in constantly, and the

00:59:06 Speaker 50: data is the. really critical piece

00:59:09 Speaker 50: here in in managing the

00:59:13 Speaker 50: county's risk. So it's really

00:59:15 Speaker 50: important that that we kind of

00:59:19 Speaker 50: position the model and the

00:59:21 Speaker 50: AMP in that very dynamic way.

00:59:24 Speaker 50: Aligned with the completion of the

00:59:26 Speaker 50: archaeological potential layer, that planning layer,

00:59:27 Speaker 50: the potential model is the development

00:59:29 Speaker 50: of the policy planning and implementation

00:59:31 Speaker 50: framework that is currently under the

00:59:33 Speaker 50: county's. Under the county scope, that

00:59:36 Speaker 50: framework will establish a process for

00:59:38 Speaker 50: how that map is going to

00:59:40 Speaker 50: be used within the planning context.

00:59:43 Speaker 50: What types of projects and planning

00:59:45 Speaker 50: application it is used for? For

00:59:48 Speaker 50: example, just for plans of subdivision,

00:59:49 Speaker 50: rezoning, severances, other applications. When indigenous

00:59:52 Speaker 50: and descendant community engagement is required,

00:59:56 Speaker 50: what and how requirements for archaeological

00:59:58 Speaker 50: assessment are communicated back to proponents.

01:00:01 Speaker 50: It will also set out

01:00:04 Speaker 50: a plan for training

01:00:06 Speaker 50: staff on the use of

01:00:09 Speaker 50: the model and understanding the data

01:00:11 Speaker 50: layers and what's behind that. It

01:00:13 Speaker 50: will also help establish a process

01:00:15 Speaker 50: for addressing inadvertent discoveries. We we

01:00:19 Speaker 50: hear about these in the news

01:00:21 Speaker 50: all the time, and and helping

01:00:22 Speaker 50: the county manage those and and

01:00:27 Speaker 50: helping components manage those as well.

01:00:29 Speaker 50: We'll also establish a process for

01:00:32 Speaker 50: maintaining the database of sites and

01:00:34 Speaker 50: reports, as I mentioned, for incorporating

01:00:35 Speaker 50: new finds. and new information, some

01:00:37 Speaker 50: of the benefits to having an

01:00:41 Speaker 50: A.m.P. really is to increase the

01:00:42 Speaker 50: efficiency, consistency, and predictability of the

01:00:44 Speaker 50: archaeological process, or identifying archaeological concerns

01:00:48 Speaker 50: within the planning process. The current

01:00:50 Speaker 50: process right now can be

01:00:52 Speaker 50: very subjective. It's very

01:00:55 Speaker 50: ad hoc. There's a lot of

01:00:57 Speaker 58: uncertainty in the in the in

01:01:01 Speaker 50: the process about decision making. when,

01:01:04 Speaker 50: why, and how. Who should we

01:01:05 Speaker 50: contact? The process will be established

01:01:08 Speaker 50: to keep information current and inaccurate,

01:01:10 Speaker 50: which I said is very important.

01:01:11 Speaker 50: Ultimately, though, the biggest benefit is

01:01:13 Speaker 50: that it will help reduce risks

01:01:15 Speaker 50: to the county. It will ensure

01:01:18 Speaker 50: the requirements and responsibilities are met,

01:01:19 Speaker 50: as they may not have been

01:01:22 Speaker 50: met in the most

01:01:24 Speaker 50: fulsome way in the past. It

01:01:26 Speaker 50: will. It's important to acknowledge. that

01:01:28 Speaker 50: these requirements for addressing archaeological interests

01:01:30 Speaker 50: and conserving archaeological resources exist, whether

01:01:32 Speaker 50: or not an AMP is in

01:01:34 Speaker 50: place. The AMP can certainly help

01:01:36 Speaker 50: reduce delays and uncertainty to, on

01:01:38 Speaker 50: behalf of the proponents, but also

01:01:41 Speaker 50: for municipal projects. If, if the

01:01:44 Speaker 50: expectations are set out and they

01:01:48 Speaker 50: are very clear from the beginning,

01:01:49 Speaker 50: I think it will help all

01:01:51 Speaker 50: parties move forward in a good

01:01:55 Speaker 50: way. An AMP can also reduce

01:01:59 Speaker 50: the number and likelihood of unanticipated

01:02:00 Speaker 50: finds and work stoppages where archaeological

01:02:03 Speaker 50: assessment or Indigenous engagement was not

01:02:09 Speaker 50: done in advance. And there are

01:02:10 Speaker 50: several examples within Gray County where