Mayor be directed to write a letter to the Premier of Ontario, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, the Minister of Transportation, AMO…

57:59uh announcements and or comments I have one from councillor uh clausen and then just one quick

58:07quick insight from myself so go ahead oh and from katin as well okay so you go first uh

58:16uh councillor Klassen yes thank you mr. mayor I've got two announcements both to do with

58:22uh downtown renewal so coming up um on october 2nd which is next wednesday we have um our

58:30downtown renewal open house um it's taking place right here at city hall so door is open at six and

58:37there is a presentation with a q and a happening at 6 30 uh which will be able which will be live

58:43streamed as well so people can tune in at home um and we'll be talking about uh some of the phasing

58:50and mitigation strategies um so that's the first one we hope you can all make it out to that one

58:57and then on october 17th um there's the next construction cafe and it's taking place at cornerstone

59:03and it's happening from 9 30 until 11 30 and we suggest that downtown businesses attend these

59:10to talk with staff about what's happening downtown uh and what what those mitigation strategies are

59:16going to be for those businesses so it's really important to come out and really get that face to

59:21face time thanks great thank you and katin please yes I had a motion that I sent out earlier today

59:35okay I I had asked if there's anything more on that item and you did not you did not jump in at

59:42that time frame for the downtown streetscape I said right after I called the vote I said is there

59:47anything more on that item so it was my understanding because it's not directly about the streetscape

59:53that it wasn't on that item so so it's just an added item yet because it's just topple to the

1:00:01item because it's about um the Ontario government and their bike lanes so it's a separate motion

1:00:14related to that because yes yeah and I I acknowledge that fully acknowledge that but I

1:00:20I asked at that point if if there's anything more on that item and then there wasn't so then we moved

1:00:26to the washrooms so that item is now technically closed so to bring it forward now would I have to

1:00:33do a notice of motion no well or you could find another spot for it or I could ask uh council

1:00:41to suspend the procedural bylaw I would need a vote of three just give me a minute everybody

1:00:47thanks I would need a vote of three you know a majority of council present to do that and then

1:00:54we could go back and look to actually table that as a third item something it's up to you

1:01:01I'm happy to do whichever one you feel is better in this situation well um

1:01:10all right I will ask for a motion for uh reconsider sorry to suspend the procedural

1:01:17bylaw I would imagine be the first step to the clerk am I right yeah through you mr mayor

1:01:23I think in this case you would want to suspend section 5.1 one of the procedural bylaw related

1:01:28to notice is a motion to allow a notice to be placed on an agenda without prior notice to the

1:01:32public or members of council it is in reference though to what item 7.2 was so like there's a

1:01:41little bit of a caveat there to give her credit right so okay so um I will I will ask that uh

1:01:49I I'm asking council to allow this okay because councillor caton did send it out earlier and

1:02:01there could be an onus here a little bit on me for not nudging at that moment other than asking

1:02:05is there anything more so I just I think it's only reasonable for me to be fair to her to allow her

1:02:12to at least bring that forward I that's just to me that's only fair okay so um with I just so

1:02:18procedurally I just got to do a couple little hurdles here to get back to 7.2 councillor caton

1:02:23to allow you to do that okay so just forgive me on that but who wouldn't be willing to move the

1:02:28suspension then for me goller and clausen will second okay um and so I'll call the vote on the

1:02:36suspension uh is there anyone against okay just one so that passes all right so to the clerks

1:02:46can I just now go back to that moment of 7.2 and look to add a third of course it's up to

1:02:52council to vote for it but can I just go back to that moment in time now through you mr mayor I

1:02:57don't know that we're going back to that moment in time but I think a motion can be placed on the

1:03:01floor at this point in the agenda in reference to 7.2 okay councillor caton sorry about that

1:03:07about the hurdles there but we did get through them pretty quick so I know that your intention

1:03:13was to speak directly to 7.2 which is like the downtown streetscapes it was it was launching off of

1:03:19that yes and it was in regards to sort of a third motion sort of a standalone motion in regards to

1:03:26that item so I'm going to turn the mic over to you but just make sure that you do have a

1:03:31seconder up front for this before you before you go on and on okay so I'll turn the mic over to you

1:03:37go ahead thank you and I apologize for the procedural snafus there um if clerks could

1:03:44put them motion on the screen please so through you mr mayor sorry we'll just need an extra moment

1:03:50to get that pulled back up and ready well we'll pull it up okay I can do my pre-talk while you're

1:03:55doing that so um this is in regards to um the provincial government's reports that they are

1:04:03going to be changing where we can put bike lanes so here's a thoughtful planning best practices and

1:04:10community engagement I've gone into our transportation master plan as well as our downtown uh infrastructure

1:04:17and streetscaping a wide micromanaging approach to where bike lanes should be simply doesn't work

1:04:24not all municipalities have side roads that run the length of their main roads

1:04:28legislation that's imagined for grid cities like Toronto forced on an entire province

1:04:32are going to cost us time money and ultimately lives as you heard um very recently Susan Bard a

1:04:39local community gardener volunteer and avid cyclist was killed after being struck by a vehicle on

1:04:44Victoria drive outside of a high school near a commercial center by Grange road on her 79th

1:04:49birthday Ford's legislation would make us unable to put bike lanes along Victoria drive

1:04:54Grange road and all other main roads currently lacking cycling infrastructure which could include

1:04:59wind up in downtown and council has agreed in the past that a safe active transportation network

1:05:04meets the needs of our climate change plan vision zero and gives people the infrastructure they need

1:05:09to live in newly mandated parking free developments imposed on us by uh bill 185 so we need to tell

1:05:17the government that this idea doesn't work for Guelph and instead to invest in public transportation

1:05:22to help relieve traffic congestion and so my motion would be that the mayor be directed to

1:05:29write a letter to the premier of Ontario minister of municipal affairs and housing minister of

1:05:33transportation amo obcm and mpp mike shriner on behalf of the city wealth council to oppose the

1:05:40media reported plan for provincial legislation to restrict municipal bike lane placement as

1:05:45counter to wealth division zero goals best practices and transportation management

1:05:50climate change initiatives cost management for future infrastructure maintenance

1:05:54bill 185 development goals and economic benefits to business further that the mayor requests the

1:05:59provincial government instead invest in public funding public transportation goals to reduce

1:06:05traffic congestion and aid future developments to be built with less parking and it's going to be

1:06:11seconded by councillor Goller okay thank you so much is there anything further on this item from any

1:06:19members of council okay well there is from me so the legislation is not even tabled yet

1:06:30so we're basing a motion on media i'm i'm not i'm not really down for that that's not how i'm

1:06:40going to move forward on deciding things so i will decide things once legislation is actually

1:06:45tabled um i so i will not be supporting this so any other comments at all okay goer thank you

1:06:55through your worship just to that point uh the reason i'm supporting this at this very early

1:07:00stage is that oftentimes when the province has asked for input from the municipalities

1:07:05they two days later they make it into law without even reading our comments so maybe if we act

1:07:12proactively uh and get our comments in before a common period it may have more of an impact

1:07:18thank you katin and karan uh through you mr mayor exactly what councillor Goller said

1:07:26we've noticed that there has been a pattern of pushing things through very quickly and so because

1:07:32this is now at the stage before it's being written i think it's the time to do our commentary so that

1:07:40they understand the impact it would have and then potentially we won't have to go through

1:07:44the large process so i'm trying to get in early so they can understand how this would impact

1:07:51the groups outside of toronto because sometimes um there's a toronto-centric view

1:07:59when they're creating legislation okay thank you and karan

1:08:04yeah i had similar comments i think copying our mpb a copying amo and other municipalities

1:08:11is key because if this input starts to create momentum they get province um early early out

1:08:23might uh nip this great thank you all right i'll call oh sorry councillor Downer

1:08:32well nothing's coming forward like the legislature i mean the premier is talking about it himself

1:08:40so um you know this he's saying it's coming forward i'm just reading quotes from him here

1:08:46from him saying that this is what he wants to do so i think we i don't see any problem with

1:08:52responding to his comments that's what he wants to do okay thank you all right um i'll call the vote

1:09:02is anyone against two richardson and guthrie okay that passes great sorry about the mess on how that

1:09:11got there uh katin but good that you got it done okay is there anything else before i move on

1:09:18okay for real this time okay you have six motions councillor clauson no you don't okay i i had mentioned

1:09:29during the mayor's announcement that i just wanted to say something and i meant to say this earlier so

1:09:33if if council could just give me a tiny bit of grace um it's just in regards actually it's an

1:09:40overall statement just in regards to correspondence um you know i just want to make sure that when we

1:09:45receive correspondence there correspondence is a flow through right it's directly from constituents

1:09:51right through our clerk's office and it lands on our desks as the elected officials the decision makers

1:09:57and it's important that that process of correspondence flowing from a constituent

1:10:02through the clerk's office it has a high standard of transparency of not editing or omitting and

1:10:09things like that and so i know that there was some friction in regards to one of the core pieces of

1:10:14correspondence from an earlier item and i just wanted to make sure that i addressed that um that

1:10:21there are sometimes things we may not like and in fact there was many things i did not like or nor

1:10:26agree with in some of the correspondence and that's that's the way it works there can be lots of

1:10:31correspondence or delegations or things like that that come forward where we may agree or not not

1:10:35not agree on certain certain things um but we have to be careful i think as as as we're i say this to

1:10:41citizens as as we sit as we write things in you know to be careful about what we are saying especially

1:10:46when we're addressing other people or other things like that as well so um but again the high standards

1:10:52of transparency and flow through to the decision makers as us as the elected officials um that's an

1:10:57important piece of democracy really and transparency of having that come through as unedited and

1:11:03unomitted of things as possible and so i just want to make sure that that was addressed because i know

1:11:09it was a little bit of a concern moving from committee the whole to here uh and uh thank you

1:11:13for allowing me just that moment for for addressing that issue um with that then i will ask for