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Committee of the Whole Minutes

City of Peterborough

December 11, 2017

 

 

Minutes of the Committee of the Whole Meeting held on December 11, 2017, in the Council Chambers, City Hall.

 

The meeting of Committee of the Whole was called to order at 6:16 p.m. in the Council Chambers, City Hall.

 

Roll Call:

Councillor Baldwin

Councillor Beamer, Chair

Councillor Clarke

Councillor Haacke 

Councillor McWilliams

Councillor Pappas

Councillor Parnell

Councillor Riel

Councillor Therrien

Councillor Vassiliadis

Mayor Bennett

 

 

Disclosure of Pecuniary Interest

 

There were no disclosures of interest.

 

 

Mayor Daryl Bennett

Report COU17-002

Council Appointments

 

Moved by Councillor Clarke

 

That Council approve the recommendations outlined in Report COU17-002, dated December 11, 2017, as follows:

 

That the following appointments of members of Council be approved for a term ending November 30, 2018, with the appointments as follow:

 

a)            General Committee (all Members of Council)

 

Andrew Beamer, Chair

Dean Pappas, Vice Chair

b)           Planning Advisory Committee

 

Lesley Parnell

Dean Pappas (only to attend when the first Council appointee to the committee is unable to attend)

 

c)            Planning Portfolio

 

Lesley Parnell, Chair

Dean Pappas, Vice Chair

 

“CARRIED”

 

 

Director, Planning and Development Services

Report PLHD17-007

Municipal Incentives for Affordable Rental Housing

553-555 Bonaccord Street (McRae Building project) – additional incentives

 

Councillor Pappas declared an interest as his mother-in-law is a tennant of Woolen Mills.

 

Moved by Councillor Clarke

 

That Council approve the recommendations outlined in Report PLHD17-007 dated December 11, 2017, of the Director, Planning and Development Services, as follows:

a)         That the Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan application be approved for Peterborough Housing Corporation’s McRae Building project to include ten (10) additional units of affordable rental housing  at 553-555 Bonaccord Street, in accordance with Report PLHD17-007, in addition to the twenty-eight (28) affordable rental housing units approved in Report PLHD16-010 dated December 5, 2016;

 

b)        That the project be approved for $1,000,000 in additional capital funding for twenty-eight (28) units of affordable rental housing using the Investment in Affordable Housing 2014 Extension program funding;

c)         That as a housekeeping matter By-law 16-128 be repealed and replaced with a By-law authorizing City Council to designate up to 38 units of affordable housing at the McRae Building - Peterborough Housing Corporation Project at 553-555 Bonaccord Street as a Municipal Housing Facility, in accordance with By-law 12-094 and authorizing the Mayor and Clerk to sign legal agreements and other documents to provide Municipal Incentives and Capital Funding in accordance with Report PLHD17-007;

d)        That as a housekeeping matter By-law 16-129 be repealed and replaced with a
By-law exempting up to 38 units of affordable housing at the McRae Building - Peterborough Housing Corporation Project at 553-555 Bonaccord Street from taxation for Municipal and school purposes;

e)         That funding for the cost of the Building Permit for the entire Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan portion of the development at 553-555 Bonaccord Street be paid from the Partnership Reserve, in accordance with Report PLHD17-007 and all relevant program guidelines; and

f)          That staff be authorized to negotiate the specific terms and conditions of a legal agreement with Peterborough Housing Corporation to ensure affordable rents and adherence to program guidelines and City objectives, within the parameters set out in Report PLHD17-007.

 

“CARRIED”

 

 

Adjournment

 

Moved by Councillor Vasiliadis

 

That this meeting of Committee of the Whole adjourn at 6:17 p.m.

 

"CARRIED"

 

 

John Kennedy

City Clerk

 

 

Councillor Beamer

Chair

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