Owen Sound Council Meeting - Regular Meeting Transcript — July 7, 2025

00:01:50 Speaker 01: I am calling the meeting to order.

00:01:53 Speaker 01: Starting off with a recognition, which everybody in the world knows that we're going to do: I think City of Oceanside is saddened to learn of the passing of former Councillor Jan Chamberlain,

00:02:06 Speaker 01: a passionate and dedicated community leader.

00:02:09 Speaker 01: Jan served on Oceanside City Council from two thousand and ten to two thousand and fourteen, and her commitment to the community extended far beyond her time in office.

00:02:18 Speaker 01: She was a dedicated member of several key committees, including those focused on housing, health care.

00:02:22 Speaker 01: On housing, healthcare, tourism, community development, Jan also played an instrumental role in the milestone celebrations, such as the city's homecoming in one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-seven, and then again in two thousand and seven,

00:02:39 Speaker 01: and then I think in two thousand and fifteen was a Harrison Park anniversary.

00:02:45 Speaker 01: I think it was hundredth that she was involved with.

00:02:48 Speaker 01: She was named Volunteer of the Year in two thousand and eight, and Senior of the Year in 2021; her decades of service reflected her deep love for One Sound.

00:02:58 Speaker 01: She had a gift for bringing people together and bringing lasting community support for causes she cared about.

00:03:05 Speaker 01: Earlier this year, Jan received the King Charles III or the third coronation medal for her significant lifelong community service contributions.

00:03:15 Speaker 01: Jan's devotion to our city inspires us all.

00:03:18 Speaker 01: I don't think in my lifetime anyway there's ever been anybody that volunteered more hours or put in more ideas to more community groups to make Huntsound a better place to live.

00:03:30 Speaker 01: And she will be deeply missed.

00:03:33 Speaker 01: Flags at City Hall will be lowered on Monday, August eighteenth, to coincide with a public event celebrating her life and legacy.

00:03:41 Speaker 01: So I ask you to join me in a moment of silence, reflection, and prayer for Jan Chamberlain.

00:04:15 Speaker 01: And I thank you.

00:04:23 Speaker 01: So, calling it to order, Council.

00:04:25 Speaker 01: Looking for additional business.

00:04:29 Speaker 01: None.

00:04:29 Speaker 01: I will have some additional business of things that have gone on in the city over the last couple of weeks.

00:04:39 Speaker 01: Confirmation of the council minutes, starting with for a going to Councillor Capkey.

00:04:46 Speaker 02: Thank you.

00:04:46 Speaker 02: Worship.

00:04:46 Speaker 02: Moved by myself, seconded by Councillor Kukreja, that the minutes of the following council meetings be adopted as printed: the closed session of the regular council meeting held on May 26, 2025;

00:04:58 Speaker 02: the closed session of the regular council meeting held on June 2, 2025; the regular council meeting held on June 16, 2025; special council meeting held on June 23, 2025;

00:05:11 Speaker 02: and the special council meeting held on June 30, 2025.

00:05:13 Speaker 02: On June thirtieth, two thousand and twenty-five, and all those in favour, so it is carried.

00:05:20 Speaker 01: I'm going to continue with number four, and I realize I or someone helped me realize I missed number three.

00:05:29 Speaker 01: Councillor Dodd, have you got the rest of them, or do you have all of them?

00:05:37 Speaker 01: Okay, so the minutes would be: we did all four.

00:05:45 Speaker 01: Okay, I thought we were just doing one of those, and then we're going back to Travis for the rest.

00:05:50 Speaker 01: Though I had explained it.

00:05:51 Speaker 01: Okay, so that completes four.

00:05:53 Speaker 01: Now we can go back to declarations of interest that I jumped over.

00:05:56 Speaker 01: Are there any?

00:05:58 Speaker 01: Seeing none.

00:06:01 Speaker 01: I note in the consent agenda at item eleven there is a matter and update respecting Ontario Land Tribunal decision.

00:06:08 Speaker 01: In the past, I've declared an interest because I had a client who had an interest in the lands.

00:06:13 Speaker 01: He no longer has an interest, and I therefore no longer have an interest.

00:06:23 Speaker 01: So down to five.

00:06:26 Speaker 03: Thank you, Your Worship.

00:06:26 Speaker 03: Moved by myself, seconded by Deputy Mayor Greig: that City Council now move into Committee of the Whole to consider public meetings, deputations, and presentations, public forum matters arising from correspondence, reports of city staff,

00:06:37 Speaker 03: consent agenda, committee minutes, matters postponed, motions for which notice was previously given, and additional business.

00:06:43 Speaker 03: And all in favour, and that is carried.

00:06:46 Speaker 03: Thank you.

00:06:47 Speaker 03: So we're in Committee of the Whole.

00:06:49 Speaker 01: At number six, we have no public meetings.

00:06:52 Speaker 01: In number seven, we have no deputations and presentations.

00:06:56 Speaker 01: At number eight is a public forum.

00:06:58 Speaker 01: This is a chance for the public to go to the microphone and ask a question or give us an opinion on something.

00:07:07 Speaker 01: Get you to state your name and the municipality that you reside.

00:07:15 Speaker 01: On Romero and Councillors, my name is David Walton.

00:07:18 Speaker 01: I live in Owen Sound.

00:07:20 Speaker 04: I'm here representing Palestinian Solidarity Gravers, and as you know, we've been demonstrating on a weekly basis since shortly after October seventh, two thousand and twenty-three.

00:07:30 Speaker 04: PSGB wants to promote peace everywhere, but our main focus is on the genocide that is ongoing in the Gaza Strip, and is now expanding to the West Bank.

00:07:40 Speaker 04: This is against international law and has escalated to using starvation as a method of war, because all food and other essentials have not been allowed to enter the Strip since March second,

00:07:52 Speaker 04: except for the token spectacle of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

00:07:57 Speaker 04: Israeli government officials, including Benjamin Netanyahu, aren't even hiding their intent to take over the whole area and expel.

00:08:05 Speaker 04: Excuse me.

00:08:05 Speaker 04: Sorry.

00:08:06 Speaker 04: Hold on.

00:08:07 Speaker 04: I see a hand going up.

00:08:08 Speaker 04: Go ahead.

00:08:14 Speaker 05: I'm requesting that we call this out of order.

00:08:18 Speaker 05: Point of order, because at this point in time, our focus is on municipal concerns, and right now, our constituents consist of those who come from all over the world.

00:08:33 Speaker 05: I believe that everyone has a right to speak.

00:08:37 Speaker 05: I don't believe that this is the proper forum for this conversation because it is one presentation and does not represent all.

00:08:47 Speaker 05: I am concerned when we start to talk Israel, Palestine.

00:08:53 Speaker 05: I have a significant concern within this council chamber.

00:08:58 Speaker 05: I do believe you have a right to speak, but this is city business, and I would respectfully ask that we choose a different forum.

00:09:09 Speaker 05: Just a moment.

00:09:14 Speaker 01: What do our rules say on public forum?

00:09:33 Speaker 06: Through your Worship, public forum outlined in our procedural bylaw provides that a person may speak to provide comments on any matter during the public forum portion of a meeting, subject to the following:

00:09:44 Speaker 06: Speakers will be heard at the public microphone on a first come, first serve basis.

00:09:48 Speaker 06: Speakers must provide their name and municipality in which they reside.

00:09:52 Speaker 06: Each speaker is limited to a time period of three minutes.

00:09:54 Speaker 06: The chair may curtail any comments that are repetitive and may curtail any speaker for disorder.

00:09:59 Speaker 06: Any other breach of this bylaw, members will hear comments, and the chair will respond if appropriate.

00:10:05 Speaker 06: Members will not enter into discussion or debate, either with other members or members of the public.

00:10:11 Speaker 06: And the total time allotted is 15 minutes.

00:10:14 Speaker 07: Good, thank you.

00:10:15 Speaker 07: In the circumstances, I don't think under our rules that I can really rule as you would seek.

00:10:20 Speaker 07: I hear you, but I don't think our rules really limit it to that.

00:10:27 Speaker 07: So go ahead.

00:10:27 Speaker 07: Too bad.

00:10:27 Speaker 07: So go ahead.

00:10:34 Speaker 04: Okay, in Canada, the Constitution protects free speech and freedom of assembly, and this is one of the foundations of our democracy.

00:10:41 Speaker 04: Last year, the Mississauga mayor enacted a bubble zone bylaw.

00:10:45 Speaker 04: The intent of this bylaw is to ensure public safety, and I think we can all agree that public safety is important.

00:10:51 Speaker 04: The bylaw restricts protests within certain distances from institutions such as places of worship, schools, daycare centres, long care homes, and possibly others.

00:11:01 Speaker 04: Bylaws such as the one passed in Vaughan and proposed in other cities are totally unnecessary and have the effect of suppressing our constitutional rights.

00:11:10 Speaker 04: If violent incidents are happening at a demonstration that endanger public safety, police already have the power to intervene and deal with the perpetrators.

00:11:19 Speaker 04: Rallies sometimes are loud, and our municipality has already noise bylaws to deal with that kind of situation.

00:11:26 Speaker 04: These bubble zone bylaw measures were introduced after public demonstrations exposed the sale of properties in illegal Israeli settlements, actions that violate Canadian and international law.

00:11:39 Speaker 04: Instead of addressing those violations, officials choose to silence those demanding accountability.

00:11:45 Speaker 04: Now, municipalities across the country are considering similar repressive bylaws.

00:11:51 Speaker 04: Bubble zone bylaw bans to restrict zones bylaw bans to restrict where and how people can protest.

00:11:56 Speaker 04: If enacted, these laws would severely limit demonstrations and shrink civic space, suppressing movements that challenge injustice and advocate for human rights.

00:12:06 Speaker 04: No government should have the power to decide when and where the public can demand accountability.

00:12:12 Speaker 04: I will give you a letter that was sent to the Brampton City Council last November by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

00:12:19 Speaker 04: This letter explains in detail why such bylaws are unnecessarily and unconstitutional.

00:12:25 Speaker 04: So I would respectfully ask this council not to enact any similar bubble zone bylaw.

00:12:31 Speaker 04: And I was having technical difficulties, or I would have emailed this.

00:12:35 Speaker 04: So I will hand a paper copy to the Clerk.

00:12:39 Speaker 04: Thank you.

00:12:42 Speaker 07: Thank you.

00:12:43 Speaker 07: Is there anyone else that wishes to say anything during Public Forum?

00:12:54 Speaker 07: I'll get you to push the button and then state your name, municipality you're in.

00:13:03 Speaker 07: My name is Michelle Began.

00:13:05 Speaker 07: I am a retired correctional manager from the Owen Sound Jail.

00:13:11 Speaker 07: I have lived here for over thirty years.

00:13:15 Speaker 07: When everybody else went to other places, we decided that we would build our dream home and our final home here.

00:13:27 Speaker 07: I live at 2065 Eighth Avenue East, at the junction of Twenty-First Street.

00:13:34 Speaker 08: I believe that there is a matter on the docket tonight about that.

00:13:42 Speaker 08: I just like to tell you that we have gone through a grow-op next door.

00:13:51 Speaker 08: We've gone through people committing suicide down the street.

00:13:58 Speaker 08: We've gone through drug ops right under our nose.

00:14:07 Speaker 08: We've had coyotes and bears running through our property.

00:14:12 Speaker 08: But I'll tell you the worst thing that has ever happened to us was just in the last couple of weeks.

00:14:21 Speaker 08: I was out in the back of my property, which I have spent thousands of dollars keeping up to a nice, beautiful place to live.

00:14:33 Speaker 08: I'm sitting out in the back, and I see this man standing in my hedge, and I said, "Excuse me, but who are you?"

00:14:43 Speaker 08: My name's Barry.

00:14:46 Speaker 08: I said, "Barry, yes, I own this property, and I'm looking for the peg."

00:14:53 Speaker 08: Oh, you're Gary Castlebrink.

00:14:56 Speaker 08: He affirmed, "Yes, that he was."

00:14:58 Speaker 08: He says, "I'm the person that everybody hates right now."

00:15:04 Speaker 08: And I thought, "Okay, well, that's fine."

00:15:08 Speaker 08: And I said, "So, what are you planning to do?

00:15:12 Speaker 08: I want to build a great big four-story apartment building here, and I'm going to rip out all these hedges that you have spent thirty years trimming on both sides of the property.

00:15:27 Speaker 08: I'm going to take them all out.

00:15:31 Speaker 08: I'm going to build a privacy wall of six feet.

00:15:36 Speaker 08: A six-foot wall does nothing.

00:15:40 Speaker 08: That's a four-story building."

00:15:42 Speaker 08: He's talking about.

00:15:44 Speaker 08: We have cut the grass.

00:15:45 Speaker 08: We have moved the snow on the road allowance between our house and Faye, who's here.

00:15:55 Speaker 08: Yeah.

00:15:59 Speaker 08: And I just say we've been doing all this for thirty years, and to have a man come to me and say, "Well, since you're so up on the neighbourhood,

00:16:09 Speaker 08: why didn't I just put a little gate right here on the side where your trellis is, and you can become my new assistant manager,

00:16:20 Speaker 08: and you can report to me the things that need to be done?"

00:16:25 Speaker 08: Thank you very much.

00:16:26 Speaker 08: Now you can see why we're all upset.

00:16:29 Speaker 08: Thank you.

00:16:40 Speaker 08: Oops!

00:16:40 Speaker 08: Sorry.

00:16:42 Speaker 08: Is there anyone else?

00:16:43 Speaker 07: My microphone wasn't on with a different topic.

00:16:47 Speaker 07: Not seeing anyone coming to the microphone, so I'll move on with our agenda.

00:16:51 Speaker 07: At number nine, we have no correspondence.

00:16:54 Speaker 07: At number ten, we have a report from staff and the Director of Community Services.

00:16:58 Speaker 07: We'll stop up and close and declare surplus part of the Twenty-First Street East road allowance.

00:17:09 Speaker 07: Thank you, Your Worship.

00:17:10 Speaker 09: Barry's Construction and Insulation is proposing to construct a four-story, thirty-five-unit residential apartment building on lands in addition to an existing three-story, twenty-three-unit building.

00:17:23 Speaker 09: There would be fifty-eight residential units in total.

00:17:26 Speaker 09: To support the development on lands owned by the applicant that are adjacent, the developer has requested the City sell a portion of the unopened 21st Street road allowance.

00:17:40 Speaker 09: The unopened road allowance contains a 1.5-metre pedestrian path, stormwater infrastructure, as well as sanitary sewer.

00:17:50 Speaker 09: Only the sanitary sewer lies within the southerly two-thirds or 12 metres that is being considered for sale.

00:18:01 Speaker 09: At your May 12th Council meeting, Council considered a report and directed that notice be given of the intention to stop up and close and declare surplus.

00:18:11 Speaker 09: This was provided on June 10th, and this report provides the feedback that has been received through that process.

00:18:20 Speaker 09: So, at the time of writing the report, five letters had been received from property owners within the adjacent neighbourhood.

00:18:29 Speaker 09: These comments are summarised in the chart as part of the report, and I'll just run through them briefly.

00:18:37 Speaker 09: The first request was for a fence along the property line with the homes up front onto Eighth Avenue, and this can be accomplished through the site plan approval process.

00:18:48 Speaker 09: Next, comments note that a four-story building will infringe on privacy of abutting uses.

00:18:55 Speaker 09: The R5 zone has a maximum height of 12 metres, and the concept plan proposes fourteen metres.

00:19:03 Speaker 09: It also proposes a reduced rear yard setback, where seven-and-a-half metres would normally be required; four metres is proposed.

00:19:12 Speaker 09: I would note that under the Planning Act, a minor variance would be required, which would require notice and a public process through the Committee of Adjustment.

00:19:25 Speaker 09: I would note that recent changes to the Planning Act that are awaiting OREGS regulations may impact the City's ability to require studies such as a shadow study.

00:19:36 Speaker 09: As well, there are regulations respecting as-of-right variances to certain zoning requirements.

00:19:44 Speaker 09: I would note that a buffer would be developed to the west along the boundary with those homes.

00:19:53 Speaker 09: Next, drainage issues that were caused by the development on Eighth Avenue.

00:19:57 Speaker 09: On Eighth Avenue, there was an infilling development that were addressed partly by the development of a ditch on the adjacent properties, where the apartment building is proposed.

00:20:11 Speaker 09: Attachment four does show the swale across that private property, and through site plan control, the grading, drainage, and stormwater management plan will account for and address this historic drainage.

00:20:24 Speaker 09: In terms of the removal of the trees, the grading and drainage plan, as well as the photos, attempt to show the location of the trees on the subject property.

00:20:36 Speaker 09: There is a large maple in the rear of 2065 that should be retained.

00:20:43 Speaker 09: However, many of the existing cedar trees that run north-south along the west side of the existing property would need to be removed, as to facilitate the development.

00:20:54 Speaker 09: Those trees are on private property.

00:20:58 Speaker 09: Several trees are also existing along and north of that walkway, which would not be impacted by the area being considered for sale.

00:21:09 Speaker 09: The comments noted that the walkway is used by children and other people, and that it sort of forms an extension of the rear yards for the townhouses at 2150 Bayfield Landing.

00:21:24 Speaker 09: Attachment four shows some site photos of that walkway, and eight metres or 26 feet will remain with that walkway on the north side.

00:21:36 Speaker 09: Only the south portion is proposed for sale, and there would certainly be space remaining to continue to provide for that walkway and amenity space adjacent to it,

00:21:47 Speaker 09: as well as retaining the trees through that area.

00:21:52 Speaker 09: There was a comment about reduction of speed and a four-way stop at Eighth Avenue, and it's outside of the matter before Council this evening with respect to the sale of the land.

00:22:04 Speaker 09: But it would be referred to Operations.

00:22:08 Speaker 09: There was a concern on increased traffic, and the traffic through the pre-consultation, the number of units being proposed did not trigger a traffic impact study.

00:22:20 Speaker 09: Ninth Avenue is a future arterial road designed to carry larger volumes of traffic, and the traffic wouldn't be on Eighth Avenue.

00:22:29 Speaker 09: And the entrance and exit would be along Ninth Avenue.

00:22:34 Speaker 09: Concerns with the density of development: the Official Plan does permit a range of residential uses at low, medium, and high density.

00:22:45 Speaker 09: This development would be fifty-eight units, and represent one hundred and twenty units per hectare, which would be considered high density.

00:22:54 Speaker 09: The Official Plan criteria to be evaluated as part of any future site plan process will look at the criteria for the location of higher density residential development.

00:23:07 Speaker 09: I would note that lot coverage is slightly less proposed than the maximum forty per cent that's permitted; it's proposed at thirty per cent, and the Floor Space Index,

00:23:18 Speaker 09: which is the amount of building on the land, is just slightly over 1.0 at 1.07.

00:23:22 Speaker 09: The loss of green space, I've already spoken to as well as the shadow.

00:23:34 Speaker 09: I did provide some clarification to On Sound Municipal Nonprofit Housing, and have reached out to Sherry Huber to talk about that.

00:23:44 Speaker 09: If Council is to sell these lands, a fence would be required on the north side of the parking area, as well, to make sure that those residences to the north would be buffered.

00:23:58 Speaker 09: The recommendation, your worship, is considering the report and the request by Barry's Construction and Insulation to purchase a portion of the Twenty-First Street East road allowance, west of Ninth Avenue.

00:24:10 Speaker 09: Council directs staff to bring forward a bylaw to stop up and close the southern two-thirds of a portion of Twenty-First Street East, west of Ninth Avenue,

00:24:20 Speaker 09: and declare surplus the southerly two-thirds of the portion of Twenty-First Street East, west of Ninth Avenue.

00:24:27 Speaker 09: Good, thank you, Council.

00:24:31 Speaker 09: Motions, questions, go ahead.

00:24:33 Speaker 10: Well, I have questions to ask, and I do thank the Director for having answered some of my questions, which I submitted to her earlier.

00:24:43 Speaker 10: Could you just again go over the zoning setback requirements, which are in place now, and the setbacks which are proposed, as well?

00:24:53 Speaker 10: I have a question there.

00:24:54 Speaker 10: Does the setback include the patio extension, or is the setback to the building perimetre?

00:25:01 Speaker 10: I guess if you want to just actually, I'll piggyback on that.

00:25:05 Speaker 10: Yet, as well as the lot coverage requirements in the bylaw, so required you stated as forty percent.

00:25:11 Speaker 10: Required, you stated, is forty percent.

00:25:13 Speaker 10: Proposed is less than that.

00:25:14 Speaker 10: Is that just on this development application, or is that on the lot as a whole, and does it include parking lots?

00:25:28 Speaker 10: Thank you for those questions.

00:25:32 Speaker 11: It is expected if Council was to sell a portion of the road allowance, the land that contains the existing apartment building and the land that contains the proposed apartment building,

00:25:45 Speaker 11: that those lands would be merged, or if they are separated, that there would be legal rights of way so that one property would have the ability to travel over the others.

00:25:57 Speaker 11: The analysis that staff have completed on the conceptual site plan that's provided looks at the sort of consolidated land with the existing apartment and the proposed vacant lot today; minimum lot frontage is met.

00:26:19 Speaker 11: Lot area is sufficient.

00:26:21 Speaker 11: Lot coverage is permitted at 40%, and the proposed is 30.5%.

00:26:27 Speaker 11: The minimum front yard exceeds that requirement.

00:26:32 Speaker 11: The rear yard is required at 7.5 metres, and it's proposed at 4 m.

00:26:35 Speaker 11: So it's four, so it's deficient, and it's 2.48 m from the balcony.

00:26:44 Speaker 11: Balconies, which are porches and decks, are permitted to encroach into a required yard.

00:26:52 Speaker 11: The exterior side yard on the north side, abutting what would be the remnant, is required to be three metres.

00:27:02 Speaker 11: And if the lands were merged, that north exterior side yard would be sufficient.

00:27:08 Speaker 11: The minimum interior side yard is to be 1.2 m on one side and 4 m on the other.

00:27:15 Speaker 11: If we assume on the south side that's the south interior side yard, it's proposed at 3.93 m, so just a little bit deficient there.

00:27:25 Speaker 11: The maximum height permitted in zoning is 12 metres, and proposed is 14 m.

00:27:30 Speaker 11: As I mentioned in the presentation, the floor space index, which is the amount of building multiplied by the lot area that is permitted, has a max of one, and it's proposed at 1.07.

00:27:45 Speaker 11: So there are some site and building regulations in the City's zoning bylaw that would, if the concept goes forward as it's proposed, require a minor variance through the Committee of Adjustment.

00:28:02 Speaker 11: The Committee of Adjustment, as you know, follows the prescribed process in the Planning Act, which would include a notice and public meeting.

00:28:13 Speaker 10: Next question, and thank you for that response.

00:28:15 Speaker 10: Next question is regarding servicing.

00:28:17 Speaker 10: We put on our forthcoming capital plan.

00:28:21 Speaker 10: We've been fortunate to receive a substantial grant in terms of servicing and reconstruction on Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue East, and this is approximately nine million dollars in work.

00:28:34 Speaker 10: And I'm wondering: the sanitary sewer which runs through that road allowance—is it something that is suitable?

00:28:42 Speaker 10: Will not be touched?

00:28:43 Speaker 10: Is it something that's part of that capital plan reconstruction at that time that we know is forthcoming?

00:28:53 Speaker 12: To Deputy Mayor Greig, through your Worship, that sewer is reinforced concrete so it's in fairly good condition despite being from 1960.

00:29:06 Speaker 12: So we don't anticipate that it's going to be required to be excavated in the near future.

00:29:12 Speaker 12: That being said, with what we've proposed with comments to this application, we're proposing that six metres of width of the strip of land that's being appropriated by the applicant be designated as an easement,

00:29:32 Speaker 12: so that's plenty of space for us to be able to dig it up if need be.

00:29:39 Speaker 10: Thank you for that.

00:29:39 Speaker 10: I just would hate to dig something up that's just been freshly paved again.

00:29:43 Speaker 10: I guess I have concerns with this proposal.

00:29:49 Speaker 10: This seems to be a lot of trying to ensure that a square peg is going to fit into a round hole.

00:29:58 Speaker 10: It's not a proposal that's coming forward that is compliant.

00:30:02 Speaker 10: It needs consents and adjustments to the prescribed rules, which we already have in place, and I think those are in place for a reason.

00:30:13 Speaker 10: I can support, and this is direction from the province in terms of increasing density, increasing height on arterial roadways.

00:30:21 Speaker 10: Ninth Avenue is one.

00:30:23 Speaker 10: That's not just relevant to Owen Sound.

00:30:26 Speaker 10: That's provincially something that needs to be adopted.

00:30:31 Speaker 10: So I can get in support of that, but I do find there are certainly some components of this proposal that are troublesome.

00:30:39 Speaker 10: And you know, you can do a very cursory search.

00:30:42 Speaker 10: One of the best things to do in terms of making your lots look better for privacy is trees.

00:30:48 Speaker 10: But a general distance from your house is a minimum of ten feet, with a very cursory review in terms of tree planting, and even something as simple as planting trees.

00:31:03 Speaker 10: The setbacks are proposed here really don't even facilitate that.

00:31:06 Speaker 10: So I do find components to this plan troublesome.

00:31:10 Speaker 10: Thanks.

00:31:12 Speaker 10: Others?

00:31:14 Speaker 03: Okay, not seeing any hands go up.

00:31:16 Speaker 03: Last, Travis.

00:31:19 Speaker 03: Thank you, Your Worship, and maybe just going back to the Director for a quick comment on this.

00:31:24 Speaker 03: What is being presented today is just solely based off the fact of whether Council is willing to stop up and close and remediate some of that unclosed road allowance.

00:31:36 Speaker 03: What would be the next steps, or would there be next steps?

00:31:39 Speaker 03: Or with this approval today, would that be in sense Council approving the site plan that's been provided to us today,

00:31:46 Speaker 03: or can you provide a little bit of the outline of what the next steps would be?

00:31:52 Speaker 03: If the Councillor made some comments about having some discomfort with some of those setbacks, where are we on that stage with discussions with the developer?

00:32:00 Speaker 03: If this did move forward, or are we kind of set in concrete?

00:32:03 Speaker 03: Of the approval today would be the approval of what we're seeing.

00:32:08 Speaker 11: Through your Worship, the next steps would be as part of this process.

00:32:13 Speaker 11: If Council moves forward with the sale, Council would have a subsequent report on an agreement of purchase and sale with all of those details.

00:32:23 Speaker 11: Director Widdifield spoke about the condition on the easement.

00:32:27 Speaker 11: We had talked earlier about a requirement for them to camera the sanitary sewer before and after construction.

00:32:34 Speaker 11: No actual buildings on that sanitary sewer.

00:32:38 Speaker 11: Apart from the sale process, the next steps in terms of the development of the lands: the developer has undertaken a pre-consultation on the site plan that was attached to the Mayor's June report,

00:32:56 Speaker 11: so the next steps would be to undertake an application for a minor variance and have that heard through the Committee of Adjustment, and then also make an application for site plan approval.

00:33:06 Speaker 11: Certainly, through that process, there may be opportunities for adjustments to the site plan that's proposed.

00:33:14 Speaker 11: But each of those applications would be evaluated on their own merits.

00:33:19 Speaker 11: Tried to make it clear that the decision to sell land doesn't presuppose or pre-approve any of the other planning requirements that will run separate and sort of parallel.

00:33:36 Speaker 03: Thank you, Worship, and I appreciate those comments because I think sometimes you know we see what we see and we expect that's what it's going to look like.

00:33:43 Speaker 03: And I've heard many times in these chambers that the plans or the original site or the pre-consultation documents sometimes differ greatly from what the end result actually truly is,

00:33:56 Speaker 03: and for me again we have stop up and closing.

00:34:01 Speaker 03: What's in front of us today is about stop up and closing and declaring surplus two-thirds of a portion of Twenty-First Street East,

00:34:08 Speaker 03: not the approval of an end result of a facility or a development that comes as we heard would come from a next piece of the story,

00:34:18 Speaker 03: and that's when we'd say through site plan staff and public comment through Committee of Adjustment would allow for further comment to discuss whether or not two metres three is an appropriate amount,

00:34:31 Speaker 03: or should that plan change?

00:34:34 Speaker 03: In my perspective, right now we're looking at one item, and that's whether we're going to stop up and close the severally two-thirds.

00:34:41 Speaker 03: Close the southerly two-thirds portion of Twenty-First Street East, and declare that property surplus.

00:34:46 Speaker 03: Outside of that, we're not discussing what the end development will look like, and that's where I would say if Council does move forward with this option,

00:34:58 Speaker 03: that end development piece would still have to come through staff and a follow-up report about what that would look like, and also after the Committee of Adjustment.

00:35:04 Speaker 03: So I just want to get some clarity on what we're actually doing today.

00:35:08 Speaker 03: So thank you.

00:35:09 Speaker 07: I think you've twigged something for clarity.

00:35:12 Speaker 07: I'm going to read the recommendation: the consideration of staff report CS-25-067 respecting a request by Barry's Construction to purchase a portion of 21st Street East unopened road allowance west of Ninth Avenue East.

00:35:29 Speaker 07: City Council directs staff to bring forward a bylaw to stop up and close the southerly two-thirds of the portion of 21st Street East west of Ninth Avenue,

00:35:39 Speaker 07: and declare surplus the southerly two-thirds of the portion of Twenty-First Street East, west of Ninth Avenue.

00:35:46 Speaker 07: It's got nothing to do with selling.

00:35:47 Speaker 07: It's got nothing to do with anything else.

00:35:49 Speaker 07: It's just a motion in front of us to stop up and close those sections of the street.

00:35:54 Speaker 07: So, is there a motion?

00:35:57 Speaker 07: Councillor Koepke?

00:35:59 Speaker 02: Thank you, Worship.

00:36:00 Speaker 02: I will move the recommendation regarding the stop up and closing and declaring surplus the portion of Twenty-First Street East.

00:36:09 Speaker 02: Thank you.

00:36:10 Speaker 02: Any other discussion?

00:36:11 Speaker 02: Go ahead.

00:36:13 Speaker 10: I will vote against that motion on the floor because I think what's occurring here is the motion demonstrates intent by indicating the southerly two-thirds of a portion.

00:36:26 Speaker 10: There's not discussion about the northerly.

00:36:28 Speaker 10: It's a road allowance.

00:36:29 Speaker 10: We could equally, and I certainly appreciate Councillor Dodd's comments, but we could equally approach Owen Town Housing Authority, which is adjoining a budding landowner to the north, and such action has never been done.

00:36:43 Speaker 10: So this, by the direction here indicating specifically the southerly two-thirds, I think it's demonstrating the intent to proceed.

00:36:52 Speaker 10: And as we are all familiar with, once you advance into site plan, councils have no authority and will not see those types of documents back before them.

00:37:00 Speaker 10: Okay.

00:37:01 Speaker 10: Well, Councillor Middlebro', I think.

00:37:02 Speaker 10: Councillor Middlebro' or nothing?

00:37:04 Speaker 10: You wanted to add?

00:37:08 Speaker 10: No, I'm good, thanks.

00:37:10 Speaker 10: Okay, go ahead.

00:37:13 Speaker 10: Sorry, go ahead, Councillor Koepke.

00:37:15 Speaker 02: Thank you, Worship.

00:37:16 Speaker 02: I believe it's usually customary for stop-up and close-out, and offer-for-sale to take place when there's a request.

00:37:24 Speaker 02: I don't know that we just do it because we want to do it, and in this case, there has been a request.

00:37:31 Speaker 02: Yeah, good point.

00:37:32 Speaker 02: I'm going to call the question.

00:37:33 Speaker 02: All in favour?

00:37:35 Speaker 07: One, two, three.

00:37:37 Speaker 07: Councillor Metcalfe is voting for.

00:37:41 Speaker 07: So that's a majority.

00:37:42 Speaker 07: So that carries.

00:37:51 Speaker 07: Next at 10B is a report from Senior Planner.

00:37:55 Speaker 07: I assume we're going back to Ms. Coulter with regard to recommendation report Zoning Bylaw Amendment Number 55 for 1115 Tenth Street East.

00:38:10 Speaker 09: Thank you, Your Worship.

00:38:11 Speaker 09: A complete application for zoning bylaw amendment has been received through Ron Davidson Land Use Planning on behalf of Dr. Abu for a two-acre parcel located on the south side of Tenth Street East east of

00:38:24 Speaker 09: Ninth Avenue.

00:38:26 Speaker 09: It's described as 1115 Tenth Street East.

00:38:29 Speaker 09: The effect of the zoning bylaw amendment is to rezone the lands from Institutional to General Residential R-5.

00:38:37 Speaker 09: The purpose is to permit the conversion of the former Georgian Heights nursing home building,

00:38:42 Speaker 09: as well as to permit an addition to that building to create a total of 36 residential apartments that are identified at this point to be one and two-bedroom units.

00:38:53 Speaker 09: The proposal through future site plan approval process also proposes to maintain the existing driveway, while adding a new pedestrian sidewalk to connect to the existing sidewalk located on the south side of Tenth Street,

00:39:07 Speaker 09: as well as to provide access to the bus stop located on Tenth Street East.

00:39:15 Speaker 09: It would maintain the existing parking and add additional parking in the southern portion of the site, including barrier-free spaces, as well as provide bike parking.

00:39:26 Speaker 09: To support the zoning bylaw amendment application, a number of studies and plans were submitted as part of a complete application.

00:39:33 Speaker 09: They're listed on page five, and they were also available on the City's website.

00:39:38 Speaker 09: They included studies like a planning justification report, solar study, stormwater management report, preliminary servicing and grading.

00:39:47 Speaker 09: The public meeting was held at your Council meeting on June 16th.

00:39:53 Speaker 09: The Planning Act and the City's Official Plan establish the criteria for evaluating a zoning bylaw amendment.

00:40:00 Speaker 09: You must consider matters of provincial interest and ensure your decision is consistent with the Provincial Planning Statement.

00:40:06 Speaker 09: As well, the zoning bylaw must be consistent with the Official Plan policies, including the goals and objectives.

00:40:13 Speaker 09: This report clarifies the effect of the rezoning request.

00:40:17 Speaker 09: It includes a chart and it compares the current permitted uses and site and building requirements for the Institutional zone with the permitted uses and site and building requirements for the R-5 zone.

00:40:30 Speaker 09: The uses vary, but there's no change in the maximum height.

00:40:34 Speaker 09: Both are proposed at 12 metres.

00:40:37 Speaker 09: The FSI or Floor Space Index is 1.5 in the Institutional I zone versus 1.0 for a residential use in the R-5 zone,

00:40:47 Speaker 09: which means we can have less building area in the proposed scenario with the property zoned R-5.

00:40:55 Speaker 09: With the R-5 zone, the building can be located one metre closer to the street than it would be in the Institutional zone,

00:41:02 Speaker 09: and the rear yard is two metres in the Institutional zone as it exists versus 7.5 metres in the R-5 zone for a residential zone.

00:41:16 Speaker 09: So the building would be located much further from the rear yard than would be permitted today.

00:41:23 Speaker 09: In terms of the PPS, the proposed development represents intensification on lands designated Residential within a settlement area having access to full municipal services, public service facilities, parks, active transportation, and transit,

00:41:38 Speaker 09: and will add to the range and mix of housing.

00:41:41 Speaker 09: The proposal is considered consistent with the Provincial Planning Statement.

00:41:46 Speaker 09: In terms of the City's Official Plan, the lands are designated Residential according to Schedule A of the Official Plan, and Schedule C, the Transportation Plan, notes that Tenth Street is a collector road.

00:41:59 Speaker 09: The goals and objectives.

00:42:00 Speaker 09: The zoning bylaw amendment is to consider the goals and objectives of the plan.

00:42:05 Speaker 09: The goals and objectives include promoting growth and development that supports the quality of life for all residents, support a compact urban form, support intensification and redevelopment where appropriate, and a safe pedestrian environment.

00:42:22 Speaker 09: As I've mentioned, the lands are designated Residential, and the predominant use of lands is to be Residential and related uses, including apartments at low, medium, and high densities.

00:42:34 Speaker 09: This development at 45 units per hectare is considered a medium-density development.

00:42:41 Speaker 09: Density is to be allocated in residential areas where lands have access to hard services, parks, schools, and transit, and medium and high density uses are to have direct access to collector or arterial roads.

00:42:54 Speaker 09: As I've mentioned, the subject lands are located on an identified collector within walking distance to neighbourhood parks, schools, with access to hard services and transit, which satisfy this criteria.

00:43:07 Speaker 09: The policies of the Residential designation support innovative residential development that meets the City's housing objectives and generally supports intensification, infill, and conversion of non-residential buildings, subject to criteria outlined in the plan.

00:43:22 Speaker 09: The first criteria are the locational criteria, which we've spoken about.

00:43:27 Speaker 09: The next is the type, size, and scale of the proposed development is to be compatible with adjacent development.

00:43:34 Speaker 09: As I've mentioned, the maximum height is 12 metres in this zone.

00:43:38 Speaker 09: This property benefits from the change in grade because the max grade because the maximum height is measured at the midpoint.

00:43:47 Speaker 09: There was a solar study that does demonstrate that the proposed building does have an acceptable impact by noon.

00:43:55 Speaker 09: There's no shadow on property located to the west, and I would note that through site plan approval, fencing will be required to buffer those adjacent properties.

00:44:06 Speaker 09: Next, the criteria look at existing infrastructure, including sewer and water services.

00:44:12 Speaker 09: Servicing feasibility, preliminary servicing as well as stormwater plan were submitted in support of the rezoning.

00:44:18 Speaker 09: I would note that the stormwater plan will require some updating and changes as part of that site plan approval process.

00:44:27 Speaker 09: But engineering services had no issue with proceeding.

00:44:31 Speaker 09: I would mention that under the current scenario, in a five-year storm, with the addition, there will be less water getting to Tenth Street than currently.

00:44:43 Speaker 09: The next criteria speaks to existing community and recreational facilities such as schools and parks, and we've mentioned the proximity to parks like Ed Taylor East Ridge Community School, Georgian College,

00:44:55 Speaker 09: and Julie MacArthur Regional Rec Centre is within walking distance as well.

00:45:00 Speaker 09: Required parking can be accommodated on site.

00:45:04 Speaker 09: Next speaks to the local road network, and again a traffic impact study wasn't required given the number of units proposed.

00:45:13 Speaker 09: However, I would note that 10th Street is a collector road.

00:45:18 Speaker 09: We find that the proposed zoning amendment conforms to the policies of the Official Plan.

00:45:24 Speaker 09: The public presented its comments at Council's meeting, and as well as provided some written correspondence.

00:45:32 Speaker 09: We've summarised those inputs in themes beginning on page 20 in the report.

00:45:35 Speaker 09: Twenty in the report, the first item noted was around tenure and affordability, and we've provided an excerpt here for Council from the Ontario Human Rights Code with respect to equal treatment.

00:45:50 Speaker 09: Next were concerns regarding height of the building, shade, and light pollution, and I've noted there is no request to increase height here.

00:45:58 Speaker 09: But we did have the benefit of a solar study that does go to the impact of the height of the building.

00:46:04 Speaker 09: I would note also through site plan approval, we'll be ensuring that lighting on site in the expanded parking area is dark sky compliant,

00:46:13 Speaker 09: and noted several times that any parking areas would require a fence buffer where it abuts residential uses.

00:46:21 Speaker 09: In terms of concerns regarding disturbed peace and quiet, new development of any kind does result in noise.

00:46:28 Speaker 09: The City does have a noise control bylaw enacted to safeguard these types of concerns.

00:46:36 Speaker 09: In terms of privacy to the neighbouring properties, there's been a there was a submission about a three-metre or ten-foot fence.

00:46:46 Speaker 09: Typically, privacy fencing is five to six feet in height, 1.5 metres, which is required by the zoning bylaw.

00:46:56 Speaker 09: Concerns regarding water runoff and stormwater, as I mentioned, the impact the water will not be direct.

00:47:01 Speaker 09: The water will not be directed toward those adjacent and neighbouring residential properties.

00:47:09 Speaker 09: Concerns in terms of increased traffic and the slope of the driveway.

00:47:15 Speaker 09: Tenth Street is a collector road designed to carry those types of volumes of traffic.

00:47:21 Speaker 09: The new sidewalk along the entrance to the property should also improve pedestrian access and connectivity to the street and also to the bus stop.

00:47:31 Speaker 09: There was concern regarding proximity to Tenth Street, and there is no variance or change to the zoning proposed.

00:47:38 Speaker 09: But I would note that often, where the building is located close to the street, it will benefit the perceived security for pedestrians along that sidewalk, as well as people waiting at the bus stop.

00:47:51 Speaker 09: And citing a building closer to the street, sometimes referred to as visual narrowing, may reduce the traffic speed that has been an issue along Tenth Street East.

00:48:05 Speaker 09: With that, your worship, in considering the report, the recommendation is, with respect to zoning amendment fifty-five,

00:48:12 Speaker 09: to rezone the property to permit the conversion of and an existing addition to the existing building to create thirty-six residential apartment dwellings on lands described as 1115 Tenth Street East.

00:48:29 Speaker 09: In considering staff reports, recommendations, the technical reports, oral and written submissions, including the public and agency comments, that Council finds the application is consistent with the provincial and Surrey planning statement,

00:48:43 Speaker 09: confirms to the goals and objectives of the City's Official Plan and represents good planning, and that you would ask staff to bring forward a bylaw to pass amendment number 55 to the City's zoning bylaw.

00:48:56 Speaker 07: There we go.

00:48:57 Speaker 07: And there's the recommendation.

00:48:58 Speaker 07: Council, go ahead.

00:49:01 Speaker 10: I'll move the recommendation, and I'd like to thank staff or commend staff for your efforts in bringing this back so quickly.

00:49:07 Speaker 10: It's a thorough document.

00:49:08 Speaker 10: There's an abundance of reports contained within it, and I certainly agree that it does represent good planning at the City,

00:49:16 Speaker 10: and both from the proponent looking to make best use of what's been a vacant property, underutilised property.

00:49:23 Speaker 10: Lives property and it's conforming quite well, and a small setback.

00:49:30 Speaker 10: Very variance in the front yard, but if you go down Ten Street downtown, it's much, much greater setback than a lot of properties which currently exist along Ten Street at this time.

00:49:42 Speaker 10: So happy to move the recommendation, and hopefully the proponent is able to progress quite quickly and enhance the existing building and move people in to support the need for housing in the community.

00:49:57 Speaker 07: Any other comments?

00:49:59 Speaker 07: Seeing none, I will call the question.

00:50:01 Speaker 07: All in favour?

00:50:03 Speaker 07: It's carried.

00:50:04 Speaker 07: And Councillor Middlebrooks voting in favour as well.

00:50:06 Speaker 07: Carried.

00:50:08 Speaker 07: Ten C report from Deputy Mayor from Grey County Council.

00:50:16 Speaker 13: Thank you, Mayor, and through you, I'd like to report that County Council received a report regarding the strategic priorities at Queens Park for the Western Ontario Wardens Caucus.

00:50:26 Speaker 13: These three-year strategic plan priorities consist of infrastructure development funding to support growth pressures and replace aging infrastructure for new projects essential to future development.

00:50:36 Speaker 13: Secondly, is housing affordability and availability advocacy for accelerated development approvals and to implement innovative financing models appropriately scaled for rural and mid-sized communities.

00:50:48 Speaker 13: Third is workforce development and preservation.

00:50:49 Speaker 13: Forest development and preservation.

00:50:51 Speaker 13: Western Ontario's Wardens Caucus is emphasizing the need for strategic investments in regional training opportunities, transportation infrastructure, and digital connectivity.

00:51:01 Speaker 13: And the fourth is mental health services and support, calling on the province for a coordinated,

00:51:06 Speaker 13: well-funded provincial approach to provide sustainable funding and wraparound supports that address root causes and relieve local governments of disproportionate financial burdens.

00:51:16 Speaker 13: I will then proceed to some updates from the Community Services Committee, which Council adopted at the meeting.

00:51:25 Speaker 13: Contained within was information showing the provincially funded short-term transitional housing project; the Ninth Avenue East Hotel purchase is a large component of this.

00:51:35 Speaker 13: Provided 12,664 nights of accommodation, stayed of 418 unique adults, 58 children under 16.

00:51:45 Speaker 13: The average length of stay was 24 days.

00:51:48 Speaker 13: And there was an average of four point eight three requests per day turned away.

00:51:56 Speaker 13: And Council was updated on the Rockview Fire Restoration Project on Seventh Avenue East in Owen Sound.

00:52:02 Speaker 13: If you are not familiar with this building, it is east of Sixth Street, east on top of the hill, and was damaged by a fire approximately a year ago.

00:52:13 Speaker 13: Fire renovations are continuing, targeting November completion for residents to move back in; the completed building will also support an employee in the building, funded through CMHA, to provide enhanced supports to residents.

00:52:25 Speaker 13: And I welcome any questions.

00:52:27 Speaker 13: As for Council's adoption of the verbal report, thanks.

00:52:32 Speaker 13: And any questions?

00:52:35 Speaker 07: Seeing none, so adopting the motion to adopt.

00:52:38 Speaker 07: All in favour?

00:52:40 Speaker 07: That is carried.

00:52:41 Speaker 07: Councillor Middlebrooks is voting in favour on screen.

00:52:44 Speaker 07: So that gets us through ten, number eleven, the consent agenda, Miss Bloomfield.

00:52:52 Speaker 06: Through your worship, on the consent agenda this evening is a report respecting a development charges deferral agreement for 1615 Second Ave East,

00:52:59 Speaker 06: a report to award the City component of the Great County joint tender for milling and hot mix asphalt paving,

00:53:05 Speaker 06: a report to award the City component of the Great County joint tender for the supply and delivery of various fuel products,

00:53:11 Speaker 06: a report on the extension request for a draft plan of subdivision for Greystone Village Flato,

00:53:16 Speaker 06: and a report on the Ontario Land Tribunal decision regarding zoning bylaw amendment number forty-four for Telfer Creek Square and zoning bylaw amendment number forty-eight for Heritage Grove.

00:53:27 Speaker 06: There are minutes for receipt from Community Safety and Wellbeing Advisory Committee and the Police Services Board.

00:53:32 Speaker 06: The last item on the consent agenda is the information package.

00:53:35 Speaker 06: A full listing is available at eleven H. Thank you, Councillor Dodd.

00:53:41 Speaker 06: Motion.

00:53:43 Speaker 03: Thank you, Worship.

00:53:44 Speaker 03: Moved by myself that, in consideration of the items listed on July seventh, twenty twenty-five, consent agenda, City Council receives items eleven A to eleven H,

00:53:52 Speaker 03: and approves recommendations contained in items eleven A to eleven E. Thank you.

00:53:57 Speaker 03: All in favour?

00:53:58 Speaker 07: That is carried.

00:54:00 Speaker 07: Councillor Metabroils voting in favour on screen.

00:54:02 Speaker 07: If I can go back, I think going to our Police Services Board meeting, May twenty-ninth.

00:54:08 Speaker 07: Councillor Merton.

00:54:09 Speaker 14: Through your worship, in addition to the minutes of the May 29, 2025, Owen Sound Police Service Board meeting, included in our regular Council agenda package, I wish to highlight the following.

00:54:25 Speaker 14: As mentioned under additional business in the previous Council meeting by the Mayor, but our board chair, also John Thompson, congratulated Police Chief Ambrose on receiving the King Charles Medal,

00:54:38 Speaker 14: as well as the Order of Merit of the Police Services, and Chief Ambrose presented Inspector Bishop with the Order of Merit of the Police Services.

00:54:47 Speaker 14: Of particular note, this Order of Merit of the Police Services is a fellowship of honour based on the highest qualities of citizenship, service to Canada, to the police community, and to humanity at large.

00:55:01 Speaker 14: Through their activities, members, officers, and commanders of the order bring distinct distinction to policing, and support the concept of police cooperation in public service.

00:55:13 Speaker 14: Congratulations to both.

00:55:16 Speaker 14: Statistics, excuse me.

00:55:18 Speaker 14: Statistics related to dispatch year to year, date to the end of April last year compared to 2025, has increased by nineteen point one percent,

00:55:31 Speaker 14: with an average daily dispatch rate at one hundred and eighty-eight events per day.

00:55:36 Speaker 14: The most significant increase is from police, with an average of twenty-five more calls of police dispatch per day compared to the same time frame last year.

00:55:49 Speaker 14: The police service is currently collabourating with Hyper AI on a pilot project funded through a grant around the introduction of AI for non-emergency call handling.

00:56:01 Speaker 14: A demonstration is to be presented at a date in the future, and the go-live date is yet to be established.

00:56:08 Speaker 14: Thank you.

00:56:11 Speaker 01: Thank you.

00:56:12 Speaker 01: The only other one that I see that we would have reports on is the minutes of boards and committees from Community Safety and Well-Being, and the council representative isn't there.

00:56:25 Speaker 01: I think I rushed that at the start.

00:56:27 Speaker 01: Were you there?

00:56:31 Speaker 01: I'll get to him in a minute.

00:56:38 Speaker 01: Start of the council meeting.

00:56:39 Speaker 01: I was thinking about Jan.

00:56:41 Speaker 01: I failed to point out; Councillor Farmer is not in attendance.

00:56:45 Speaker 01: He's on parental leave for July and August.

00:56:48 Speaker 01: Councillor Hamley had to fly out for a work commitment today.

00:56:53 Speaker 01: Councillor Middlebrooks is on screen.

00:56:55 Speaker 01: I think I missed all of that to go.

00:56:58 Speaker 01: So now I can go to Deputy Mayor Greig.

00:57:02 Speaker 10: Thank you, and through you, Mayor Boddy.

00:57:04 Speaker 10: I just want to speak to some correspondence item received under 11H.

00:57:09 Speaker 10: This was sent to the Mayor and Council,

00:57:12 Speaker 10: and I would just like to lead by saying it was a great pleasure of mine to be able to serve alongside these members of the Steering Committee for the Strategic Plan,

00:57:22 Speaker 10: and we'll be speaking to the Strategic Plan later in the meeting.

00:57:25 Speaker 10: But I was alongside a former CEO of CMHA, founder of a flourishing downtown business, and the individual still works and lives downtown with her subsequent business.

00:57:38 Speaker 10: A member owning a consultancy business and bringing forward Indigenous insights and perspectives.

00:57:44 Speaker 10: A member well established in the Owen Sound business community and currently chairing the board of governors of Georgian College, an integral strategic partner to the community for a long time and for the long future.

00:57:58 Speaker 10: In front of us.

00:58:00 Speaker 10: I hope a councillor who has, for a very long time, given extensively to community groups in the city, a councillor who decidedly settled here, enriching our community in doing so,

00:58:11 Speaker 10: and a mayor long embodied in the city.

00:58:14 Speaker 10: We had a meeting last in June, our last meeting, where there was language introduced to these chambers, which was starting to border on discriminatory.

00:58:26 Speaker 10: Or very troublesome and injurious to individuals, and there is dialogueueueueueueueue in this letter.

00:58:34 Speaker 10: And I'm very thankful to the author for their time and efforts expended contributing to the development of the plan.

00:58:44 Speaker 10: However, language such as "small town thinking" is defined as an inflated sense of self stemming from growing up and/or having a large or having a large reputation in a predominantly white,

00:58:57 Speaker 10: closed-minded small town unwelcoming to new ideas and beliefs, goes on forward to another paragraph of small town thinking.

00:59:05 Speaker 10: I do have a question for staff.

00:59:07 Speaker 10: When there's a request and Council gets emails to the Mayor and Council frequently, not all of them go on the council agenda.

00:59:15 Speaker 10: And coming off the heels of the last meeting, with the language I heard and how this language could be interpreted as injurious and purposeful, and I don't think it belongs in these chambers.

00:59:32 Speaker 10: Things in these chambers should be complementary, beneficial, move the business of the corporation forward, but they shouldn't be injurious to any participants to the city.

00:59:46 Speaker 10: So I'm just wondering, what's the lens that staff exercise to be placing?

00:59:50 Speaker 10: Through your worship to Deputy Mayor Greig, this item was sent directly to me, and it was also requested that it be added to the council agenda.

01:00:07 Speaker 06: So that's typically the way something would get added when it's sent directly to me and requested.

01:00:14 Speaker 06: There are provisions in our procedural bylaw to withhold items that are inappropriate or offensive in nature.

01:00:19 Speaker 06: Okay, just on that, I get emails addressed to Mayor and Council that I try and get to the Clerk every time.

01:00:34 Speaker 07: But when you get such a volume of emails, and sometimes they're advertising, and sometimes there's somebody selling us a product that I'll send directly to staff to follow up on if they wish.

01:00:45 Speaker 07: It may be something we're in the market for; it might not be for, but.

01:00:48 Speaker 07: Be four, but we used to get snail mail only.

01:00:52 Speaker 07: It was pretty easy to decide where it goes to.

01:00:54 Speaker 07: There's sometimes emails that do get lost, but we try and get anything that's addressed to Mayor Council to the Clerk and into this correspondence list in front of us.

01:01:06 Speaker 07: So, okay, so are we done with the consent agenda?

01:01:11 Speaker 07: Good.

01:01:12 Speaker 07: Okay, if I can move on to number twelve, which is the committee minutes with recommendations for approval.

01:01:19 Speaker 07: I will pass the gavel to Deputy Mayor Greig.

01:01:26 Speaker 13: Thank you, Mayor Boddy.

01:01:27 Speaker 13: And under item twelve, the first committee minutes to be introduced are amendments to the Strategic Planning Ad Hoc Committee meeting held on June eighteenth, two thousand twenty-five.

01:01:36 Speaker 13: Over here.

01:01:37 Speaker 07: So yes, as chair of the Strategic Planning Ad Hoc Committee, we held a meeting on June eighteenth, two thousand twenty-five.

01:01:46 Speaker 07: Staff presented the two thousand and fifty vision document and the initial implementation plan.

01:01:53 Speaker 07: Work to create the two thousand and fifty vision document has included robust public engagement from across the community.

01:02:02 Speaker 07: Questions were raised by the committee related to identifying metrics for success for the priorities.

01:02:09 Speaker 07: Committee reviewed or sorry received the report and directed staff to bring forward an additional report respecting Vision Two Thousand and Fifty, and the initial implementation plan, which incorporates the committee's feedback.

01:02:22 Speaker 07: A meeting will be scheduled, or has been scheduled, for September twenty-fourth to follow up on that.

01:02:29 Speaker 07: There's lots of questions, lots of discussions, lots of ideas that came out of the committee,

01:02:36 Speaker 07: and at the basis of everything about the Two Thousand and Fifty Vision document is the public engagement and that will continue to inform and be the centre part of how we move forward and how

01:02:50 Speaker 07: we build out the action plans,

01:02:53 Speaker 07: etc. How staff build them out and present them to us.

01:02:56 Speaker 07: So, with that, I move approval of the minutes and recommendations contained therein.

01:03:02 Speaker 10: Okay, thank you, Mayor Boddy.

01:03:03 Speaker 10: Any questions from council?

01:03:06 Speaker 10: Not seeing any.

01:03:08 Speaker 10: All those in favour of that being approved?

01:03:10 Speaker 10: Oh, I should have said sorry, Councillor Miller.

01:03:11 Speaker 10: Sorry, Councillor Middlebrooke, you're on the screen.

01:03:12 Speaker 10: I didn't look.

01:03:13 Speaker 10: Did you have any questions?

01:03:17 Speaker 10: I do not.

01:03:18 Speaker 10: Thank you.

01:03:20 Speaker 10: Thank you.

01:03:20 Speaker 10: And oh, Councillor Merton, go ahead.

01:03:23 Speaker 10: Through you.

01:03:25 Speaker 05: So the report that will come back on the twenty-fourth of September will have the staff presenting to the committee around an actual implementation plan.

01:03:40 Speaker 05: Correct?

01:03:41 Speaker 05: Like that will be sort of the fuel behind the whole impetus moving forward.

01:03:47 Speaker 05: Do I do I understand that correctly?

01:03:51 Speaker 10: I'll go directly to the City Manager for a response, there, Councillor Merton.

01:03:57 Speaker 15: Through you, Mayor, to Councillor Merton.

01:03:59 Speaker 15: Yeah.

01:03:59 Speaker 15: So the idea is to present back to committee.

01:04:02 Speaker 15: They'll be working on identifying metrics and other implementation actions in the report back.

01:04:10 Speaker 15: Anything further, Council?

01:04:12 Speaker 13: Okay.

01:04:13 Speaker 13: Not seeing any further questions.

01:04:15 Speaker 13: All those in favour of that motion, carrying.

01:04:18 Speaker 13: And that is carried unanimously.

01:04:20 Speaker 13: Thank you very much, Mayor Boddy, and the gavel is back in your hands.

01:04:25 Speaker 13: Great.

01:04:25 Speaker 07: Thank you, Deputy Mayor Greig.

01:04:32 Speaker 07: At 12:06 minutes of Community Services Committee meeting held on June twenty-fifth, two thousand twenty-five, and I think that's Councillor Koepke.

01:04:40 Speaker 02: Thank you, Your Worship.

01:04:42 Speaker 02: At the Community Services Committee meeting of June 25th, members received a presentation from the Owen Sound Cricket team seeking a location for a cricket pitch in Owen Sound.

01:04:53 Speaker 02: J.S. Parmer provided a history of the game and noted the rise in popularity of the sport locally.

01:04:59 Speaker 02: It was noted that a staff report will be brought forward respecting the cost to develop a space to the capital budget in the fall.

01:05:08 Speaker 02: A deputation was received from Christine Hempel, who provided a presentation entitled "Upzoning Strategies for Affordable Housing Development."

01:05:17 Speaker 02: She highlighted the development process, local examples, common zoning barriers, and improvement opportunities for the zoning bylaw and official plan.

01:05:27 Speaker 02: Miss Hempel presented.

01:05:29 Speaker 02: Sorry, Miss Hempel's presentation will be included as part of the public feedback for the official plan and zoning bylaw process.

01:05:37 Speaker 02: A report from staff was received regarding a request to rename Ryerson Park.

01:05:43 Speaker 02: In 2021, council approved a policy regarding the naming and renaming of city parks and facilities, which defines the criteria and procedures aiming for consistency in the naming processes.

01:05:55 Speaker 02: Following a request to rename Ryerson Park, a detailed review and consideration will be followed in accordance with the policy.

01:06:03 Speaker 02: A working group has been formed who will establish the consultation, particularly with the Indigenous community, and make recommendations to the Community Services Committee, who will then advise council,

01:06:16 Speaker 02: who will make the final decision on the renaming without consideration at that time of a new name.

01:06:24 Speaker 02: The Manager, Parks and Open Spaces, presented the design elements for the Owen Heights and Comrade Park playgrounds.

01:06:32 Speaker 02: The design of these playgrounds has been shaped based on community feedback and include accessible play components, exterior paths for travel, a playground access ramp, seating areas and picnic space, drainage, engineered wood, wood fiber,

01:06:49 Speaker 02: protective surface, and curb edging.

01:06:52 Speaker 02: Further, the design which adheres to the AODA and integrated accessibility standards for the design of public spaces and incorporates sensory and active play components.

01:07:05 Speaker 02: This will be presented to the Grey County Joint Accessibility Advisory Committee on July 17, 2025.

01:07:11 Speaker 02: Members received a mid-year update from the Community and Business Development Advisor, noting the advancement of the city's priorities in three key areas: economic development, community relations, and government relations.

01:07:27 Speaker 02: It was noted the collabourative process used to develop the new community profile, which was released in April 2025, has resulted in strong working relationships with key stakeholders and community members.

01:07:43 Speaker 02: Special projects and initiatives involving interdepartmental and intergovernmental collabourations have been successfully executed, and work is ongoing to advance the city's priorities.

01:07:57 Speaker 02: Highlights from the May 2025 development update include that construction value amounted to just over $16 million, and 37 building permits were issued, collecting nearly $14,500.

01:08:09 Speaker 02: A motion considered under additional business was passed to direct staff to bring forward a report to the September 2025 Community Services Committee meeting regarding Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act.

01:08:28 Speaker 02: With that, Your Worship, I'm happy to answer questions and move the approval of the Community Services Committee meeting minutes of June 25 and the recommendations contained therein.

01:08:39 Speaker 02: Thank you.

01:08:39 Speaker 02: Any questions?

01:08:42 Speaker 07: Seeing none, call the question.

01:08:44 Speaker 07: All in favour?

01:08:47 Speaker 07: Councillor Metcalfe is voting in favour as well, so those are carried, as did everyone else in the room.

01:08:52 Speaker 07: I guess I better put that in the record.

01:08:54 Speaker 07: Minutes of the Operations Committee from June twenty-six.

01:08:56 Speaker 07: Deputy Mayor Greig.

01:08:58 Speaker 10: Thank you, Mayor Boddy, and I had a drink of water to get ready for these minutes because this was a long meeting and there's a lot of information contained within.

01:09:06 Speaker 10: So committee received a deputation from GSS Engineering regarding the Sixteenth Avenue East sanitary sewer replacement from Seventeenth Street to Twentieth Street.

01:09:16 Speaker 10: The existing structure has deteriorated, and in replacing, will be sized to accommodate area development.

01:09:22 Speaker 10: The total cost estimate is one million eight hundred thousand plus approximately one hundred thousand for engineering.

01:09:28 Speaker 10: Replacement work will be focused on the west side of the avenue, opposed to full road reconstruction.

01:09:34 Speaker 10: The tender closes today, and we expect a construction window following Civic Day weekend until late October.

01:09:42 Speaker 10: Committee received the transit ridership dashboard showing 81,242 riders since January 1st.

01:09:49 Speaker 10: A decrease of 2,572 from last year.

01:09:52 Speaker 10: The East Bayshore route sees 36.5 percent of the rider distribution.

01:09:57 Speaker 10: Committee asked council to approve a funding agreement for an approximate $11,000 grant with the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, which will fund participating in shoreline clean up on September 28.

01:10:10 Speaker 10: The city looks to partner with the Georgian Bay Folk Society and will clean shoreline from the Bayshore to the wastewater treatment plant and at Castle Beach at Nawash Park.

01:10:20 Speaker 10: Committee received a report back on road condition assessments.

01:10:23 Speaker 10: Condition assessments done in 2024 showed a decrease in the PCI or the pavement condition index for all city roads of 58.8, which decreased from 66.6 in 2021.

01:10:36 Speaker 10: In reviewing the data, staff feel that the discrepancy is likely due to differences in the type of system, data collection methods, and calculations by different service providers.

01:10:46 Speaker 10: Staff recommend utilising one service provider over the next three-year cycle period, starting in two thousand twenty-six, for enhanced consistency.

01:10:55 Speaker 10: Committee recommends to council the following amendments to the traffic bylaw: prohibit parking on Sixteenth Street West, both sides of the street, from Fifth Avenue to Eighth Avenue, also known as the Hill;

01:11:06 Speaker 10: prohibit parking on Ninth Avenue East, from Twenty-Third Street to Twenty-Fifth Street, both sides of the street.

01:11:12 Speaker 10: This has been the problematic oddity along Ninth Avenue where it extends to four lanes and back to two;

01:11:20 Speaker 10: prohibit stopping on Fifth Street East from Eighth Avenue to Ninth Avenue in the south side from eight a.m. to five on school days.

01:11:29 Speaker 10: That is from the T intersection at Alexander School to Ninth Avenue.

01:11:34 Speaker 10: Removal of an on-street stall on Ninth Street East westerly of the TD Bank driveway.

01:11:40 Speaker 10: Implementation of two-hour parking limits for the perpendicular parking on the west side of First Avenue, east north of Twelfth Street, so that's effectively in front of the dog park.

01:11:53 Speaker 10: Eliminate a loading unloading stall on Tenth Street, which was missed in a previous update.

01:12:01 Speaker 10: Amend Eighth Street East parking to remove the prohibition of on-street parking from Fourth Avenue to Fifth Avenue on the south side,

01:12:09 Speaker 10: and to revise the schedule prohibiting parking both sides of Eighth Street from Fifth Ave.

01:12:12 Speaker 10: Of Eighth Street from Fifth Avenue East to Twenty-Eighth Street, so that's effectively from the bottom of Eighth Street Hill, former Ryerson Park, all the way to the T intersection on Eighth Street,

01:12:24 Speaker 10: and alter the bylaw schedule for Seventh Avenue East south of Sixth Street to prohibit parking any time on the east side to a point sixty-three metres southerly, southerly,

01:12:34 Speaker 10: and on the west side to a point two hundred six metres southerly from the intersection.

01:12:38 Speaker 10: Committee was not supportive of adding a new regulation to prohibit the parking of a vehicle in the yard of a residential property, except within a constructed driveway or parking area,

01:12:48 Speaker 10: adding which would have allowed a set fine and ticket issuance opposed to the current regulatory system contained within the zoning bylaw.

01:12:58 Speaker 10: Committee received for information a report outlining winter control operations.

01:13:01 Speaker 10: There is a significant amount of information contained within that report.

01:13:07 Speaker 10: Some highlights are that since 2012/13, average sand salt purchases have been $614,000 approximate per year, and financial implications from winter maintenance related works in 2025 was $1.864 million.

01:13:23 Speaker 10: And lastly, committee recommends council to bring forward a water management bylaw.

01:13:32 Speaker 10: This bylaw responds to the need for access to private buildings to inspect, retrofit, or replace water metres.

01:13:39 Speaker 10: The new bylaw will cease to accept applications for water bill adjustments at the staff level.

01:13:46 Speaker 10: Going forward, if the water has passed through the metre, the property owner will be responsible for the charges.

01:13:52 Speaker 10: The opportunity would still exist for an individual to provide a deputation to council for consideration of an adjustment.

01:13:59 Speaker 10: The draft bylaw also addresses the issue of tenant accounts.

01:14:03 Speaker 10: Going forward, no new tenant accounts will be established without being underwritten by the property owner.

01:14:10 Speaker 10: If the account were to fall into arrears, the owner is ultimately responsible for the charges via the tax roll.

01:14:16 Speaker 10: Regarding financial implications, it is noted that this is an effort to reflect current processes in a more official and effective manner.

01:14:23 Speaker 10: I welcome any questions and ask for council support of the recommendations contained within.

01:14:28 Speaker 10: Any questions?

01:14:30 Speaker 07: Seeing none, I will call the question.

01:14:32 Speaker 07: All in favour?

01:14:35 Speaker 07: That is carried in the room.

01:14:36 Speaker 07: Councillor Middlebrooks is in favour as well, so that gets us through twelve.

01:14:42 Speaker 07: Our committee minutes.

01:14:44 Speaker 07: We're at number thirteen on our agenda.

01:14:46 Speaker 07: We have no postponed matters.

01:14:49 Speaker 07: Number fourteen, we have no motions for which notice was previously given.

01:14:56 Speaker 07: At number fifteen is additional business, and I think I was the only one.

01:15:02 Speaker 07: Last month on Saturday, June twenty-first was a Saturday, June 21st, was a banner day for our harbourfront and river district with a number of events.

01:15:09 Speaker 07: The sunrise ceremony for Indigenous Peoples' Day kicked off in the morning, thanks to Rebecca Smith and Trish Nadjuan Meekins, who jointly conducted the ceremony.

01:15:21 Speaker 07: Robert Rice or Bob, who was the firekeeper, and to the Kichiname M'Wikwedong Reconciliation Garden Committee for organising the event each year and keeping the park so beautiful.

01:15:32 Speaker 07: The garden is so beautiful, thanks to Marianne Thomas and volunteers and all who are involved in organising the annual Art Walk, which helps bring many people to the River District and downtown.

01:15:46 Speaker 07: Doors open the annual celebration of local heritage, invited visitors to more than 20 venues, including churches, museums, and galleries, and it was a success.

01:15:58 Speaker 07: And this year the inaugural Pride Block Party transformed Ninth Street East into a colourful celebration of community and connection, bringing residents and visitors to enjoy our vibrant River District.

01:16:11 Speaker 07: Congratulations to business owners Joanna Ellenwood and Maxine Kittle, and to the volunteer organising committee, including Joshua Malik, Rachel Patterson, Nicole Corrado, Philly Markowitz, and Sarah Pickford,

01:16:27 Speaker 07: as well as city staff who facilitated and expedited approval process, and work with the organisers to ensure that the event could proceed safely.

01:16:37 Speaker 07: Next, thanks to our staff lead, led by Jen Wright, all the sponsors, volunteers, performers, foods and craft vendors, and the entire community that attended the Canada Day celebration at Naiwash Park.

01:16:51 Speaker 07: It's very well attended all day long and into the evening.

01:16:56 Speaker 07: Got rave reviews on the fireworks from various people from around the city.

01:17:01 Speaker 07: It's great to see our community come together from various parts of the world and different cultural backgrounds, etc., that all now call Canada, Grey Bruce, and Owen Sound home.

01:17:12 Speaker 07: And just one of the volunteer groups that, for a little bit of money for the organisation, the Suddenham Sportsmen's Club came down and cleaned up the park after and did a great job.

01:17:25 Speaker 07: That's just one example.

01:17:27 Speaker 07: Congratulations to the Junior B Northstars team who finished the season with I think three or four wins just to make the playoffs, and then took the first place team, which was Orangeville,

01:17:39 Speaker 07: to Game Five of their five-game series.

01:17:42 Speaker 07: Orangeville had gone 19 and one during the season, were 20 points ahead.

01:17:49 Speaker 07: Given that the Junior B team lost a coach, etc., and all the things, it's great that they came together.

01:17:56 Speaker 07: They're playing out of Durham.

01:17:58 Speaker 07: It's not even in their home arena, so they had a pretty successful year.

01:18:02 Speaker 07: Tonight, starting in a few minutes, starting at seven thirty, the Owen Sound City Band celebrated their one hundred fifth year.

01:18:12 Speaker 07: Celebrates their one hundred fifth year with a free summer concert series at Harrison Park Bandstand.

01:18:18 Speaker 07: Tonight's performance is the first of a series of summer concerts by the city band at Harrison Park that happen every Monday night.

01:18:24 Speaker 07: Well, not every Monday night, but Monday nights throughout July and August.

01:18:28 Speaker 07: So we encourage people to go down and pull up a lawn chair and enjoy it.

01:18:32 Speaker 07: Off the cuff, I've got a very excited wife at home about the green bin and the way it's working.

01:18:40 Speaker 07: She's putting it out weekly.

01:18:41 Speaker 07: She's noting that there's no smell in the garage.

01:18:45 Speaker 07: It's just working great.

01:18:46 Speaker 07: It has cut down our garbage that's going out, and the bag tags like we don't even have to put out something every two weeks if we don't want to.

01:18:54 Speaker 07: And having weekly pick up on that is pretty good.

01:18:59 Speaker 07: At my office, somebody came in and changed the water metre on Monday, and it was minutes.

01:19:06 Speaker 07: I don't know, twenty minutes, half an hour, maybe.

01:19:08 Speaker 07: It was pretty slick.

01:19:09 Speaker 07: They're in, changed it, and gone.

01:19:11 Speaker 07: So that went really well.

01:19:13 Speaker 07: Just some positive feedback for staff on that.

01:19:17 Speaker 07: And with that, yep, go ahead, Marion.

01:19:19 Speaker 07: Go ahead, Mary.

01:19:21 Speaker 02: Thank you for indulging.

01:19:22 Speaker 02: I did forget an item, in additional business.

01:19:26 Speaker 02: This Saturday is going to be another busy Saturday in the River District.

01:19:30 Speaker 02: It's the hottest street sale under the sun, and if you've never been there, you're in for a real treat.

01:19:36 Speaker 02: It's an amazing display of everything that's in the River District, and I just encourage people to attend.

01:19:47 Speaker 07: Thank you for that.

01:19:48 Speaker 07: I missed that one.

01:19:50 Speaker 07: Sunday night concerts are ongoing.

01:19:54 Speaker 07: Wednesday night concerts are moving around and can be found, and they're having great attendance as well.

01:20:00 Speaker 07: I'm hearing so things are lots to do in Owen Sound.

01:20:05 Speaker 07: Next is back to Councillor Dodd.

01:20:07 Speaker 07: Motion that the committee, the whole rise and report.

01:20:10 Speaker 07: Thank you, Worship.

01:20:11 Speaker 07: Moved by myself that the committee, the whole rise and report.

01:20:14 Speaker 07: All in favour?

01:20:16 Speaker 07: That is carried.

01:20:18 Speaker 07: That included Councillor Middlebro' in favour, number seventeen.

01:20:22 Speaker 07: Thank you, Worship.

01:20:23 Speaker 03: Moved by myself, second by Deputy Mayor Greig, that the action taken in Committee of the Whole in considering public meetings, deputations, and presentations, public forum matters arising from correspondence, reports of city staff, consent agenda,

01:20:34 Speaker 03: committee minutes, matters postponed, motions for which notice was previously given, additional business be confirmed by this Council.

01:20:41 Speaker 03: Thank you, and all in favour.

01:20:43 Speaker 01: That is carried, and Councillor Middlebro' is supporting that.

01:20:47 Speaker 01: Next at eighteen is notices of motion.

01:20:49 Speaker 01: I am going to hand the gavel over to Deputy Mayor Greig again.

01:20:56 Speaker 16: And are there any notices of motion to be presented this evening, Mayor Boddy?

01:21:01 Speaker 16: I'll recognize you.

01:21:02 Speaker 07: Thank you.

01:21:03 Speaker 07: Moved by myself, seconded by Councillor Kukreja.

01:21:05 Speaker 07: Then consideration on Owen Sound Council to be considered at the Owen Sound Council meeting on July twenty-first, twenty-twenty-five.

01:21:15 Speaker 07: Whereas Section sixty-three A of the Boards and Committees Bylaw sets out that the Ensign Place Services Board include the Mayor, be a City appointed member to serve the term of council,

01:21:27 Speaker 07: and whereas Section thirty-one sub-four sub-A of the Community Safety and Policing Act states that a municipal board that is composed of five members shall consist of the head of municipal council,

01:21:37 Speaker 07: or if the head chooses not to be, or is not eligible to be a member of the board, another member of the municipal council appointed by resolution of the council,

01:21:47 Speaker 07: and whereas the head of council, the City of Owen Sound, chooses not to continue to be a member of the Owen Sound Police Services Board, therefore,

01:21:54 Speaker 07: give notice that I will move at the regular council meeting on July twenty-first, twenty-twenty-five.

01:22:00 Speaker 07: The Council approves an amendment to the Boards and Committees Bylaw and appoint another member of Council to the Owen Sound Police Services Board for the remainder of the Council term, ending November fourteenth, twenty-twenty-six.

01:22:11 Speaker 07: Fourteenth, twenty-twenty-six, and do so in accordance with the Clerk's procedures.

01:22:16 Speaker 07: Thanks.

01:22:18 Speaker 07: Okay.

01:22:18 Speaker 16: Thank you.

01:22:18 Speaker 16: So that motion is recognized and be discussed at the.

01:22:22 Speaker 16: Oh, seconded by Councillor Kukreja.

01:22:25 Speaker 16: So the Chair will recognize that, and it will be discussed at the meeting.

01:22:30 Speaker 16: That the next meeting.

01:22:33 Speaker 16: Okay.

01:22:33 Speaker 16: And pass the gavel back to you, everybody.

01:22:38 Speaker 16: Good.

01:22:41 Speaker 07: Thank you.

01:22:41 Speaker 07: So next is the motion to move into closed session.

01:22:47 Speaker 03: Thank you, Your Worship.

01:22:48 Speaker 03: Moved by myself, seconded by Deputy Mayor Greig, that City Council now move into closed session to consider a minutes of the closed session of the regular council meeting held on June sixteen,

01:22:56 Speaker 03: two thousand and twenty-five, minutes of the closed session of the special council meeting held on June thirtieth, one matter regarding labour relations or employee negotiations and advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege,

01:23:07 Speaker 03: including communications necessary for that.

01:23:08 Speaker 03: Purpose respecting fire services, one matter regarding proposed or pending disposition of land by the municipality respecting property on Twenty-One Street East,

01:23:18 Speaker 03: one matter regarding position plan procedure criteria or instruction to be applied to negotiations respecting property on Second Avenue East, and one matter regarding personal matters about identifiable individuals respecting appointments to a city committee.

01:23:31 Speaker 03: Good.

01:23:31 Speaker 03: Thank you.

01:23:32 Speaker 03: All in favour?

01:23:34 Speaker 01: That is carried.

01:23:34 Speaker 01: Councillor Brock Hamley is supporting.

01:23:38 Speaker 01: Before we move into the closed session, I would like to note that if you are watching this meeting on Rogers Cable TV or Rogers TV website,

01:23:47 Speaker 01: their feed will not reconnect to the meeting when we return to the open session to report out of the closed session and review the bylaws.

01:23:54 Speaker 01: If you'd like to view the remainder of the open session, you can watch the live stream on the City Council and Committees website at www.Owen Sound.ca/meetings.

01:24:05 Speaker 01: The video recording of the meeting will also be posted on this website following the meeting.

01:24:12 Speaker 01: So, take us a minute to roll over.

02:33:34 Speaker 01: Okay, so we will report out of the closed session, which is required under number 20 in our agenda.

02:33:42 Speaker 01: It is now 8:02 p.m.

02:33:43 Speaker 01: City Council is returning to the open session.

02:33:46 Speaker 01: During the closed session, City Council reviewed minutes of the closed session of the regular council meeting held on June 16th, 2025.

02:33:53 Speaker 01: We five, we reviewed minutes of a closed session of a special council meeting held on June 30th, 2025.

02:34:00 Speaker 01: Discussed one matter regarding labour relations or employee negotiations, and advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose, respecting fire services, and no direction was provided.

02:34:16 Speaker 01: We discussed one matter regarding a proposed or pending disposition of land to the municipality, respecting property in Twenty-First Street East, direction was provided to the city solicitor.

02:34:28 Speaker 01: We discussed one matter regarding a position plan procedure criteria or instruction to be applied to negotiations respecting the property on Second Avenue East.

02:34:37 Speaker 01: Direction was provided to staff, and we discussed one matter regarding personal matters about identifiable individuals respecting appointments to a city committee, and direction was provided to staff.

02:34:52 Speaker 01: So, to number 20, the bylaws.

02:34:56 Speaker 06: Through your Worship, the bylaws listed for approval on tonight's agenda include the confirmatory bylaw,

02:35:00 Speaker 06: a bylaw to execute a letter of agreement with the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative respecting the 2025 Great Lakes Coastal Cleanup,

02:35:08 Speaker 06: a bylaw to execute a development charges deferral agreement with Mark Thompson respecting property at 1650 Second Avenue East, a bylaw to execute an agreement with Walker Construction Limited respecting milling and hot mix asphalt paving.

02:35:19 Speaker 06: In hot mix asphalt paving, a bylaw to execute an agreement with Midwest Cooperative Services respecting the supply and delivery of various fuel products,

02:35:28 Speaker 06: a bylaw to amend the flag flying proclamations and public awareness campaigns policy to address international flags at city facilities, and a bylaw to amend the zoning bylaw respecting lands at 115 Tenth Street East.

02:35:41 Speaker 06: Thank you, Travis.

02:35:43 Speaker 03: Thank you, Worship.

02:35:43 Speaker 03: Moved by myself, seconded by Deputy Mayor Greig, the bylaw number is 2025-069 through 2025-075 be passed and enacted.

02:35:53 Speaker 03: And all in favour?

02:35:54 Speaker 07: That's carried in the room.

02:35:55 Speaker 07: Councillor Mettler Bros in favour.

02:35:57 Speaker 07: So that bylaws all pass.

02:36:01 Speaker 07: That completes our business for tonight.

02:36:03 Speaker 07: It is 8:04.

02:36:04 Speaker 07: We're adjourned.

02:36:05 Speaker 07: Thanks.

02:36:06 Speaker 07: Oh, next meeting 21st.

02:36:10 Speaker 07: Ugly Shirt Day.

02:36:12 Speaker 07: Good.

02:36:12 Speaker 07: We forgot to do it.

02:36:14 Speaker 07: Thanks.