Council Meeting

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Council do hereby approve the agenda as circulated.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Council do hereby adopt the minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council held on October 2, 2024 as circulated.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Council receive and approve the 2024 Township of Amaranth Asset Management Plan, and; That Council consider the 2024 Asset Management Plan during annual budget deliberations, and; That the plan be updated as required and as the Townships priorities change.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: WHEREAS official statistics from the Government of Ontario confirm that rural roads are inherently more dangerous than other roads; AND WHEREAS, despite only having 17% of the population, 55% of the road fatalities occur on rural roads; AND WHEREAS, rural, northern, and remote municipalities are fiscally strained by maintaining extensive road networks on a smaller tax base; AND WHEREAS, preventing crashes reduces the burden on Ontario’s already strained rural strained health care system; AND WHEREAS, roadway collisions and associated lawsuits are significant factors in runaway municipal insurance premiums. Preventing crashes can have a significant impact in improving municipal risk profiles; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Township of Amaranth requests that the Government of Ontario take action to implement the rural road safety program that Good Roads has committed to lead. It will allow Ontario's rural municipalities to make the critical investments needed to reduce the high number of people being killed and seriously injured on Ontario’s rural roads; and FURTHER THAT a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Premier Doug Ford, Hon. Prabmeet Sarkaria, Minister of Transportation, Hon. King Surma, Minister of Infrastructure, Hon. Rob Flack, Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Lisa Thompson, Minister of Rural Affairs, Hon. Trevor Jones, Associate Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Response, and Hon. Sylvia Jones, Minister of Health, and Good Roads; and FU

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Council direct staff to include the position of Deputy Treasurer in the 1 st Draft Budget to be presented in November.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The Township of Amaranth does hereby proclaim November 25 th as The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Whereas November is Woman Abuse Prevention Month and November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women; and Whereas violence is the greatest gender inequality rights issue for women, girls and gender-diverse individuals. Our community is committed to ending femicide and all forms of gender-based violence; and Whereas Femicide rates are on the rise in Ontario, with over 49 femicides in Ontario since November 26th, 2023; and Whereas last year in Ontario, on average every 6 days a woman or child

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Leave be given to introduce a by-law to amend By-law 2-2009, as amended, by rezoning the lands described legally as Lot 12, Plan 7M-45, Township of Amaranth, County of Dufferin and known municipally as 24 Country Meadows Drive, from Estate Residential (ER) to Estate Residential Exception (ER-8); and it be given the necessary readings and be passed and numbered as the next sequential number.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Leave be given to introduce a by-law to confirm the Regular Meeting of Council of the Township of Amaranth for October 16, 2024; and that it be given the necessary readings and be passed and numbered as the next sequential number.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Council do now adjourn to meet again for the Regular Meeting of Council on November 6, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. or at the call of the Mayor.