Regular Council

RECOMMENDATION: THAT the Regular Council Meeting Agenda for November 4, 2013 be approved as amended, adding Internal Posting Position to - In Camera Session, Item 13.2.

RECOMMENDATION: THAT the Regular Council Meeting Minutes of October 21, 2013 be approved as presented.

RECOMMENDATION: THAT the Roads, Property and Planning Committee Meeting Minutes of October 23, 2013 be approved as presented with the following recommendations: 1. THAT the Roads, Property and Planning Committee recommend Council support the Renfrew County Watershed Alliance - Collaborating for Resilience initiative. 2. THAT the Roads, Property and Planning Committee recommend Council approve severance application Number B73/13, as applied for, as a Limited Service Residential building lot, subject to the following: i) That the Applicants brush/remove the curve on the east side of Martin Recoskie Road – south of the proposed right-of-way to eliminate a traffic hazard in order to conform with Entrance By-Law #2007-58, prior to the issuance of Entrance Permit; and that the portion of land be acquired by the municipality as a road widening; and ii) That the subject lot to be severed be re-zoned to Limited Service Residential (LSR). 3. THAT the Roads, Property and Planning Committee recommend Council approve the ticket sales of the St. Matthews the Apostle Parish Supper Ticket Draw in the Township of Madawaska Valley. 4. THAT the Roads, Property and Planning Committee recommend Council accept the offer of funding from the Small, Rural and Northern Infrastructure Fund (SNFNIF), dated October 10, 2013, with the noted conditions for asset management planning, AND THAT a complete asset management plan will be publicly available no later than May 30, 2014. 5. THAT the Roads, Property

THAT Council withdraw the following recommendation from the Human Resource Committee Meeting Minutes of October 23, 2013: Regular Council - November 04, 2013 THAT the Human Resource Committee recommend Council approve paying for one individual to take the Executive Municipal Management Diploma Program.

RECOMMENDATION: THAT the Human Resource Committee Meeting Minutes of October 23, 2013 be approved as presented with the following recommendations: 1. THAT the Human Resource Committee recommend Council approve paying for one individual to take the Executive Municipal Management Diploma Program.

WHEREAS the federal government will look at how it handles public postal services with a review of the Canadian Postal Service Charter in 2014. WHEREAS Canada Post is preparing for the review by campaigning for major service cuts. WHEREAS Canada Post has already dramatically cut services by closing or downsizing public post offices, eliminating rural mailboxes delivery and removing street letter collection boxes. WHEREAS Canada Post and the federal government should be everything in its power to prevent additional cuts during the upcoming review, and instead deal with financial issues by adding revenue-generating services like many other post offices around the world, including lucrative financial services like bill payments, insurance and banking. BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Township of Madawaska Valley write a letter to the Minister responsible for Canada Post to request that the government consider innovative ways to generate postal revenue during the Charter review, including financial services like bill payments, insurance and banking. Regular Council - November 04, 2013

THAT the Township of Madawaska Valley proclaim November 6, 2013 as Community Social Service Worker Appreciation Day.

WHEREAS in 2009 the Province of Ontario shared two cents per litre from gas tax revenues with municipalities for public transit, providing $321 million to assist a total of 89 Ontario transit systems, serving 111 municipalities in Ontario; AND WHEREAS the Province of Ontario announced on July 8, 2013 that they are providing $324 million in gas funding to 96 municipal transit systems this year to assist municipalities in expanding and improving public transit infrastructure, increase accessibility, buy more conventional and specialized transit vehicles, add more routes and extend hours of service; AND WHEREAS the Ontario Government has committed to more than $2.6 billion in gas tax funding for public transit systems since 2004; AND WHEREAS the Province of Ontario as part of the 2013 budget made its Gas Tax Program permanent to help municipalities improve public transit, ease traffic congestion and reduce air pollution; AND WHEREAS 96 transit systems will share $324 million of Provincial gas tax revenues in fiscal 2013/14; NOW WHEREAS the Province of Ontario announced the infrastructure fund for small, rural and northern municipalities in the amount of $100 million; AND WHEREAS the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) has developed a funding allocation model for the $100 million which would see an urban municipality in western Ontario receiving $2.6 million in 2013 plus approximately $2 million in Ontario gas tax money while the small rural municipalities such as the

THAT the Meeting enter In-Camera Session at 7:40 p.m. to discuss matters pertaining to "personal matters about an identifiable individual, including municipal or local board employees", "litigation or potential litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the municipality or local board", and "advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communication necessary for that purpose", Ontario Municipal Act 2011, c.25, s.239 (2)(b)(e)(f). 1. Approval of Human Resource Committee Meeting Minutes - In-Camera Session - October 23, 2013 2. CAO/Clerk - Internal Posting Position.

THAT the Meeting return to Open Session at 8:16 p.m.

THAT By-Law 2013-92 Being a By-Law to confirm the proceedings of the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Madawaska Valley at a Regular Council Meeting of November 4th, 2013 be given first and second reading this 4th day of November 2013.