City Council Meeting Agenda

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Council Chambers, City Hall
500 George Street North

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1.
Call to Order

 

2.
Land Acknowledgement

 

3.
Thirty Seconds of Reflection

 

4.
National Anthem

 

5.
Constitution Statement

 

6.
Ceremonial Presentation

 

Kinsmen Club of Peterborough 

7.
Approval of Minutes

 

8.
Disclosure of Pecuniary Interest

 

9.
Registered Delegations 

 

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10.
Consent Items: Reports to be approved under one motion 

 

11.a, 11.b, 11.c, 11.d, 11.e, 11.f, 11.g, 11.h

11.
Recommendations from General Committee Meeting of January 6, 2025

 

11.a
Provincial Legislation, Report LSOCS25-002

 

  • That Council approve the recommendation outlined in Report LSOCS25-002 dated January 6, 2025 of the City Solicitor as follows:

    That Council consider Closed Session Report LSOCS25-002 dated January 6, 2025 of the City Solicitor respecting Bill 242, Safer Municipalities Act, 2024.

11.b
Agreement, Report FCSFS25-002

 

  • That Council approve the recommendation outlined in Report FCSFS25-002, dated January 6, 2025 of the Commissioner, Finance and Corporate Support Services as follows:

    That Council authorize staff to proceed as outlined in Closed Session Report FCSFS25-002 dated January 6, 2025, of the Commissioner, Finance and Corporate Support Services, respecting an agreement between the City of Peterborough and the County of Peterborough for consolidated municipal services.

11.c
Proposed Property Acquisition

 

  • That the information provided by the Commissioner of Community Services and the City Solicitor respecting a proposed property acquisition be received.

11.d
Nine Ships 1825 Presentation, Report LSCLK25-001

This item has attachments. 
1.Nine Ships 1825 Presentation, Report LSCLK25-001.pdf

  • That Council approve the recommendation outlined in Report LSCLK25-001, dated January 6, 2025, of the City Clerk as follows:

    That the presentation by Nine Ships 1825, the Peter Robinson Irish Emigration 200th Anniversary Commemoration Committee be received for information.

11.e
Tax Adjustments under Section 356 and Tax Appeals under Sections 357, 358 and 359 of the Municipal Act, 2001, Report FCSFS25-001

This item has attachments. 
1.FCSFS25-001, Tax Adjustments under Section 356 and Tax Appeals under Sections 357, 358 and 359 of the Municipal Act, 2001.pdf
2.Appendix A - Tax Appeals under Section 357, 358, and 359 of the Municipal Act.pdf

  • That Council approve the recommendations outlined in Report FCSFS25-001, dated January 6, 2025 of the Commissioner, Finance & Corporate Support Services as follows:

    a) That tax reductions in the amount of $187,971.83 calculated in accordance with Sections 357, 358 and 359 of the Municipal Act, 2001 and attached to report FCSFS25-001 as Appendix A be received.

    b) That land apportionments under Section 356 of the Municipal Act, 2001 be received.

11.f
Incorporation of a Municipal Services Corporation as an Eligible Tourism Entity, Report LSOCS25-001

This item has attachments. 
1.LSOCS25-001 - MSC Business Plan.pdf
2.Appendix A Business Case Study.pdf

  • That Council approve the recommendation outlined in Report LSOCS25-001 dated January 6, 2025 of the Commissioner, Legislative Services as follows:

    That Council adopt the proposed business case study in the form comprising Appendix A to Report LSOCS25-001 respecting the establishment of a municipal services corporation as an eligible tourism entity.

11.g
Service Manager Consents for Community Housing Amalgamation, Report CSSS25-001

This item has attachments. 
1.CSSS25-001 Service Manager Consents for Community Housing Amalgamation.pdf

  • That Council approve the recommendations outlined in Report CSSS25-001, dated January 6, 2025 of the Commissioner of Community Services as follows:

    a) That Council, acting as the Service Manager under the Housing Services Act, S.O. 2011, c. 6, Sched. 1, approve the amalgamation of Thrive Housing and Support with Northminster Court under the name of Thrive Housing and Support; and

    b) That Council, acting as Service Manager, delegate to the Commissioner of Community Services authority to give consent for future amalgamations of community housing providers, under the Housing Services Act, 2011, and that the Commissioner of Community Services be delegated authority to execute such documents as are necessary to give effect to the foregoing terms and in forms acceptable to the City Solicitor.

11.h
Motion re Bill 242

 

  • Whereas:

    1. A municipality’s parks and open spaces are critical infrastructure that support a strong community, and the public’s shared and safe use of the municipality’s parks and open spaces is integral to ensuring that support.
    2. Ontario’s municipalities are struggling to maintain their parks and open spaces for their shared and safe use by the public as a result of the increasing proliferation of encampments and illicit activities related thereto.
    3. Municipalities that enforce their standards regulating or prohibiting encampments in their parks and open spaces must have regard to the availability of shelter space for those who need shelter.
    4. On January 27, 2023, Justice Valente of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice rendered his judgment in Waterloo (Regional Municipality) v. Persons Unknown and to be Ascertained (2023), [2023] O.J. No. 417 (Waterloo Decision) which declared that the municipality’s by-law violated section 7 of the Charter and was therefore inoperative insofar as it applied to prevent encampment residents from erecting temporary shelters on a site when the number of homeless individuals in the region exceeded the number of accessible shelter beds.
    5. The Waterloo Decision’s analysis of the adequacy of shelter beds suggests an unworkable and unclear standard that goes beyond the number of shelter spaces and that includes the requirement to provide shelter spaces that must accommodate illicit drug use and other activities that could put shelter residents, workers and volunteers at risk. The result is that municipalities are impaired in their enforcement of their standards and have lost or are losing control of their parks and open spaces.
    6. On December 12, 2024, the Honourable Paul Calandra, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, introduced Bill 242, Safer Municipalities Act, 2024. Among its various initiatives, Bill 242 proposes to amend section 2 of the Trespass to Property Act by adding aggravating factors that must be considered in the court’s determination of a penalty under that section. However, the key challenge is that a municipality’s exercise of its rights at common law and under section 9 of the Trespass to Property Act to remove encampments from the municipality’s parks and open spaces remains potentially subject to the unworkable and unclear standard for the adequacy of shelter space suggested by the Waterloo Decision.
    7. In these circumstances, municipalities need provincial legislation that clearly defines a workable standard for shelter space for the purposes of a municipality’s jurisdiction to enforce its standards regulating or prohibiting encampments in its parks and open spaces.

    Now therefore, be it resolved:

    1. That the provincial government be respectfully requested to amend Bill 242 to clearly define a workable standard for shelter space for the purposes of a municipality’s jurisdiction to enforce its standards regulating or prohibiting encampments in its parks and open spaces.
    2. That, without limitation, Bill 242 provides that a municipality will have met the standard for shelter space for the purposes of the municipality’s jurisdiction to enforce its standards regulating or prohibiting encampments in its parks and open spaces:
      a) despite the establishment and enforcement of shelter rules including rules that prohibit drug use and other activities that could put shelter residents, workers and volunteers at risk; and
      b) if an official designated by the municipality is satisfied that the number of available shelter spaces is at least equal to the aggregate of the number of individuals actually seeking shelter and the number of individuals against whom the municipality is planning to enforce its standards regulating or prohibiting encampments in its parks and open spaces.
    3. That a copy of this resolution be sent to:
      a) Peterborough - Kawartha MPP Dave Smith;
      b)      Honourable Doug Ford, Premier;
      c) Honourable Paul Calandra, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing;
      d) Honourable Doug Downey, Attorney General;
      e) Association of Municipalities of Ontario; and to
      f) Councils of each of Ontario’s municipalities.

12.
Notice of Motion

 

13.
Approval of By-laws

 

14.
Other Business

 

15.
Confirmation By-law

 

16.
Adjournment

 
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