City Council · May 27, 2025 · Item 7.1
Giovanni De Sero, Carmen Loiselle, Janette Svehla, Judy Noonan…
Main motion under the agenda item May 2025 Public Appointments to Advisory Committees of Council, 2025-269
Carried (12 to 0)
12 in favour, 0 against — unanimous
What was voted on
The motion in its exact words, as recorded in the minutes.
That Giovanni De Sero, Carmen Loiselle, Janette Svehla, Judy Noonan, and Jacky Radmond be appointed to the Accessibility Advisory Committee for a term ending November 2026 or until such time as successors are appointed. That Banji Akande, ASM Easir Arafat, Eleni Bakopoulos, Steve Donnelly, Julia Grady, Madeleine Krucker, Scarlett Raczycki, Katie Saunders, and Andi Syme be appointed to the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee for a term ending November 2026 or until such time as successors are appointed. That Paul Fitzpatrick, Janet Goodfellow, Pamela Membreno, Naeem Mir, Jane Ross, James Smith, and Russell Speers be appointed to the Committee of Adjustment and Property Standards Committee for a term starting June 16, 2025 and ending November 2026 or until such time as successors are appointed. That Lucas Figueiredo, Paul Blackburn, Damien Smith, Kristel Manes, Anuradha Saxena, Steve Zago, Erin Phillips, and Dennis Voss be appointed to the Economic Development and Tourism Advisory Committee for a term ending November 2026 or until such time as successors are appointed. That Piper Boyd Bell, Liam Browne, Kelly Caldwell, David Cameletti, Kim Carroll, Sara Epp, Justin Grainger, Donald Mikel, and Hart Slater-Eddy be appointed to the Heritage Advisory Committee for a term ending November 2026 or until such time as successors are appointed. That Keren Bromberg, Claire Brooks Finoro, Bo Cheyne, Justin Luth, Gavin Maybury, Mike Puddister, Anieca Scott, Rajul Singh, Robert Forrest Smith, Shannon Turnbull, and Laura Verharghe be appointed to the Planning, Environment and Water Advisory Committee for a term ending November 2026 or until such time as successors are appointed. That June Baldwin, Susan Carey, Natalia Crewson, John Dale, Eldrich Rebello, Elham Heydarigharaei, Matthew Moore, Darren Shock, and Harry Young be appointed to the Transportation Advisory Committee for a term ending November 2026 or until such time as successors are appointed. That the City Clerk be directed to conduct further recruitment for any Advisory Committees of Council that have outstanding vacancies, as outlined in report 2025-269, dated May 27, 2025.
Moved by Councillor Goller, seconded by Councillor Richardson.
How the room voted
In favour (12)
- Allt
- Billings
- Busuttil
- Caron
- Caton
- Chew
- Downer
- Gibson
- Goller
- Guthrie
- Klassen
- Richardson
What council was given
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- May 2025 Public Appointments to Advisory Committees of Council - 2025-269.pdf
A procedural report tied to filling volunteer seats on Council's redesigned advisory committees. The actual appointment motions were to come forward after Council's closed-session discussion on May 27, 2025, with terms running to November 2026. Advertising through newsletters, mall kiosks, social media and other channels drew 90 applications, 61 per cent from new applicants and 36 per cent from current committee members.
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What was said
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1:18:11And that is in regards to the May 2025 public appointments for all the advisory committees of council. So Councillor Goller, looking to you, they'll be up on the screen and we don't need to read them all out, but they are there.
1:18:24And we can go through that there. But there are the names. Would you mind moving them for me? Thank you. And would someone move them into second? Richardson. Okay. Thank you.
1:18:37All right. Do you want to just put that up back up there? Just for a bit, I think some of our media partners and others were just trying to look at it a little bit more. Okay. There you go.
1:18:50Great. And so are there anything, excuse me, is there anything further on those items? On those appointments? Sure. Councillor Goller.
1:19:02Your worship. Just a question. When will those names be published on the city website so that the public sees them?
1:19:10Our clerk's department is the one that kind of manages making sure everyone knows that they've been successfully appointed. So I'll go to the clerk.
1:19:18Thank you, Mayor Guthrie. We'll begin now with council's approval to connect with those individuals and advise them. And they'll be live on the website in short order. Okay.
1:19:28Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I'll call the vote then. Thank you. Is anyone against all those appointments? Nobody. Thank you very much. That's great.
1:19:38Now we're going to the next one, which has delegations, which is addressing the gaps in daytime sheltering options for persons experiencing homelessness. We have one, two, three, four, five, six.
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