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1:00:03with something further for us to consider. Go ahead. Yeah. So I think we can,

1:00:08this is a third one, like you have one and two. So I don't know if everybody wants to vote on that

1:00:13first or and then I'll do nine member three. Yep. Great. So you're willing to move the first?

1:00:18Yeah. Yeah.

1:00:20Cron willing. Thank you. Cron, your award meet is seconding that.

1:00:24So is there anything on those two before I call the vote only on those two?

1:00:28Doesn't look like it. Okay. I'll call the vote on that. So is anyone not in favour of those recommendations?

1:00:35Again, no one's not in favour. So that's unanimous as well. I'll go to you for the third motion you're

1:00:39presenting. Okay. So I would ask if the clerks could put up the motion and this is the heritage

1:00:46motion that I had been talking about a few times to that I was going to bring forward

1:00:52from the surplus. So it's not necessarily from the surplus. It's gone in and now it's coming out.

1:00:57So the 500,000 be approved for PL 076 heritage initiatives and be funded from the Grocery

1:01:05Reserve Fund number 156 to expedite the timing of the Ward West Cultural Heritage Study and assist

1:01:12with heritage initiatives tied to the changes to the Heritage Act and associated deadlines

1:01:17contained in Bill 23. I think Councillor Caron wanted to second it. Okay. So I'm going to start out by

1:01:27saying something positive about the provincial government. You might be surprised.

1:01:35Have a heart. But I think they actually recognise that heritage is significant, is important in

1:01:43Ontario and it's important to this council. I mean, one of the things that when we brought

1:01:48forward the OR, we wanted to do the whole cultural heritage action plan, they said yes. Okay. Go ahead

1:01:54and do that. And they asked us what did we think was a good heritage asset? When we got the changes

1:02:01back from OP 80, they maintained sight lines to the Basilica of Our Lady. They didn't just take

1:02:08those out. And I would say too that in Bill 23, like a number of other things, they could have just

1:02:14implemented the elimination of the register completely immediately. And they did. They said,

1:02:22okay, councils, you have two years to get your Heritage Act in order. Pun intended. So I would

1:02:31say that's positive. They're recognising that heritage is something important for us to preserve

1:02:38and to consider as we look to build out. So many have been asking me, many in the public and on

1:02:45council actually, now that I'm on Heritage 12, what can we do with this two-year deadline? How can

1:02:51we deal with that deadline of the individual designations and to expedite that? Because in

1:03:00reality, we're probably only going to be able to get with the current capacity about 10 to 15

1:03:05designations done before that deadline's done. And that leaves a lot of heritage assets in the

1:03:11city vulnerable. But doing cultural heritage landscapes sort of covers off doing more than

1:03:17that. You get more done. So we have the OR, the downtown, old part of the downtown being done. And

1:03:23we had paused Ward West to do the Ontario Reformatory because the province asked us

1:03:30what was important there. So this motion reinitiates that process and moves it forward from

1:03:36the original 2024 time that we were looking at doing that. We had paused it. And

1:03:46that way we'll be able to cover off more properties rather than looking at things

1:03:51one by one. Also, I want to point out that these are done in phases. The study is done first to

1:03:56determine what would be heritage assets in Ward West. Not everything probably will be. And then

1:04:03there's guidelines around how to create some predictability in there for development.

1:04:10That doesn't mean there can't be demolition, can't be infill. I live in a heritage district.

1:04:14We've had infill houses. We've got tiny houses in backyards going in. Lots is happening in our

1:04:19neighbourhood. And recently the town of Erin has used their 2022 surplus to do heritage work

1:04:26due to Bill 23. So I think this is probably, and that's all I've read about, I think this is

1:04:31probably happening across the province. People trying to, councils trying to find innovative

1:04:35ways to sort of deal with that two year deadline. So the Ward West is a priority in the downtown

1:04:42secondary plan. That did not change with the amendments to Bill 80, OP80. The Ward West is

1:04:50a priority in the cultural heritage action plan. The 400,000 would be up to 400,000 to do the

1:04:57heritage study. And then the $100,000 to have a contract staff person. And the contract person,

1:05:08my understanding from in discussions with staff would be used to do the public engagements,

1:05:14actually for all three projects, for the downtown, for the Ward West, and then for the plan for the

1:05:19OR, because we already did the study. That frees up our planning, our heritage staff's expertise to

1:05:25deal with the designations that need to be done. Because if they have to do the public engagement

1:05:31parts for all of those, they don't have time to do designations. So that sort of frees that up.

1:05:36So it's sort of a bigger bang for our buck. And moving it all forward, after our deadlines,

1:05:41then I'm not quite sure what we're going to be able to do with heritage, but you know, probably

1:05:46more heritage districts, but what that's down the road to consider. So I did want to say that I

1:05:53couldn't bring it to heritage wealth, because our meeting in May was, was council, there wasn't

1:05:59anything completed to put on the agenda. But I have, I did email the, the chair and the rest of

1:06:06the, the committee members, and I had a very positive response for this motion to move forward.

1:06:13There already is a motion on the books from heritage wealth when we pause the Ontario

1:06:19Reformatory, when we pause the Ward West before to do the Ontario Reformatory that they would

1:06:26actually have liked us to have done the Ward West concurrently with the Reformatory. So basically

1:06:32heritage wealth has already sort of approved this before, and they also approved the, the work that's

1:06:38been done. So those are my comments. And yeah, so that's that's it. So I'm looking at any questions

1:06:49and I think staff would ever be here to answer anything else about my rollout.

1:06:54Hey, thank you. I, I think you've explained it quite well. So thank you. Is there any questions?

1:07:00Do we need any questions from staff? Doesn't look like it. Okay. Any comments needed here? Or can I

1:07:07just call the vote? Go to, go to call the vote. All those not in favour raise your hand. It's

1:07:18unanimous. Easy peasy. Thank you very much. We're going to move on to the Councillor Goller,